Quentin S Crisp

Hand in Glove - good choice!

Thursday, 24. April 2008, 08:59:04

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dantesoft # 24. April 2008, 10:03

Until this morning I thought "Bigmouth strikes again" was a particularly good Placebo song.

In unrelated news, in the year 2000, fewer than 2.4 million Smiths lived in the US, down from nearly 3.4 million in 1984.

quentinscrisp # 24. April 2008, 11:32

Ah well, nice to know that this blog is occasionally educational. It also makes me feel my age slightly, as it's another example of me knowing 'the original'. I haven't always. I mean, there are still some songs I associate more with the people who did the cover version than with the original. Can't think of a good example now, though.

Oh... one example of the opposite, not from the world of music, but of films. The Wickerman to me, is definitely the original, set on a Scottish isle, and not the remake.

An example of me not knowing/preferring the original, also in the film world, is Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, which, to me, is the seventies version, with Donald Sutherland, and not the original fifties version. I believe there's also a nineties version, but I haven't seen it. It's bound to be rubbish.