Do you remember a year ago when I posted Joe Tex's cover of the Stones LEt's Spend the Night Together and challenged anyone to come up with a cover that kept some of the lyrics but pretty much ignored the music of the original. This would've qualified.
Having said that, I love this. A moody rumination inspired by the original. Nice one.
Yeah, Cale takes it in a whole different musical direction, but communicates the meaning of the lyrics with admirable depth, and his arrangement works pretty well.
When I was in elementary school, we didn't have a TV but would visit my aunt, uncle and cousins and watch their TV. My mother once mentioned later something which I had no memory of, that one evening when we kiddies were watching the TV, the grown-ups came in and commandeered the TV because they wanted to find out what the deal was about this Elvis guy, and we kiddies left the room probably because we couldn't imagine enjoying grown-up TV shows. When I heard her mention this, I mourned missing that Elvis experience when he was still untamed, because I didn't discover rock 'n' roll until "All Shook Up" (1957) after its hottest period had peaked at "Hound Dog," or so I imagined, and now I realized I coulda seen it but hadn't known not to leave the room. This is the performance they probably saw.
i've always liked the moodiness in John Cale's performances and it's very pronounced here. it never ceases to fascinate how the meaning of songs, or words, tend to change when the delivery changes.
i saw Cale in a smaller Pukkelpop-like festival after a whole day of sampling beers in a Belgian city. suffice it to say i couldn't remember what he played but the trip was psychedelic.
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Do you remember a year ago when I posted Joe Tex's cover of the Stones LEt's Spend the Night Together and challenged anyone to come up with a cover that kept some of the lyrics but pretty much ignored the music of the original. This would've qualified.
Having said that, I love this. A moody rumination inspired by the original. Nice one.
It sure beats Elvis.
Yeah, Cale takes it in a whole different musical direction, but communicates the meaning of the lyrics with admirable depth, and his arrangement works pretty well.
When I was in elementary school, we didn't have a TV but would visit my aunt, uncle and cousins and watch their TV. My mother once mentioned later something which I had no memory of, that one evening when we kiddies were watching the TV, the grown-ups came in and commandeered the TV because they wanted to find out what the deal was about this Elvis guy, and we kiddies left the room probably because we couldn't imagine enjoying grown-up TV shows. When I heard her mention this, I mourned missing that Elvis experience when he was still untamed, because I didn't discover rock 'n' roll until "All Shook Up" (1957) after its hottest period had peaked at "Hound Dog," or so I imagined, and now I realized I coulda seen it but hadn't known not to leave the room. This is the performance they probably saw.
That was a great listen. Slow and sultry and ripe with emotion.
i've always liked the moodiness in John Cale's performances and it's very pronounced here. it never ceases to fascinate how the meaning of songs, or words, tend to change when the delivery changes.
i saw Cale in a smaller Pukkelpop-like festival after a whole day of sampling beers in a Belgian city. suffice it to say i couldn't remember what he played but the trip was psychedelic.