[kj] suggs ect/ covers

[Alexander Smith]

Get *YOUR* facts right, PW, it's not the Cocteaus -- it's This Mortal 
Coil.

Alex in NYC




On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 07:23 PM, peter.west410 wrote:

> I think you are being very unfair on the original.Its almost an 
> accappella
> with his voice adequately replacing the instruments.It's incredible the
> amount of emotion and feeling that he can put into one song,Almost to 
> the
> point of over doing it,almost like he did nt care, just a release pure
> emotion .
>      Whilst in comparison the Cocteau Twins version does come across as
> verging on  techno-babble,Although it does stand up as a song in its 
> own
> right.
>         PW
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>>
>> Compared to the This Mortal Coil's cover of "Song to the Siren," Tim
>> Buckley's original sounds like a constipated bull walrus painfully
>> evacuating its bowels.
>>
>> Alex in NYC
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