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At the point where you look at the video/ old film footage/record or CD sleeve of the song performed by the original artists and think either: "Were they really that young?" or "Did everybody really dress like that?"
One of the few examples where a cover is better than the original.
They're both wonderful, and really quite different. Buckley's TV performance (above) is gorgeous, but the recorded version – from several years later – is, for me, spoiled by studio phasing and other assorted gimmicks.
This Mortal Coil, has a totally different vibe, more sonic less dependent on the lyrics. Which in the Buckley version have come to have real resonance given that both he and later his son, Jeff, died by drowning. Which is basically what the song is about.
When I'm not listening to heavy-as-balls shit, I've got my cooking playlist for when I'm in the kitchen and these are three old music bangers on there.
Michael Jackson - Get on the Floor
Fleetwood Mac - Family Man
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
This was number 1 in the Egyptian charts 3,500 years ago. Well you said old music. Always been one of my faves, through many incarnations. What, are you calling me a lyre? It's lovely.
This was number 1 in the Egyptian charts 3,500 years ago. Well you said old music. Always been one of my faves, through many incarnations. What, are you calling me a lyre? It's lovely.
They're both wonderful, and really quite different. Buckley's TV performance (above) is gorgeous, but the recorded version – from several years later – is, for me, spoiled by studio phasing and other assorted gimmicks.
This Mortal Coil, has a totally different vibe, more sonic less dependent on the lyrics. Which in the Buckley version have come to have real resonance given that both he and later his son, Jeff, died by drowning. Which is basically what the song is about.
I knew the This Mortal Coil cover before I knew the Tim Buckley original.
Agree that the original brings out the lyrics more. It's a poetry song. The This Mortal Coil version brings out the mystical side.
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