like writing and recording a song 45 years ago and seeing it remodelled for a whole new audience. If you’re the writer it must bring a lump to your wallet. I love this song and I’m quite taken with this version, and its video.
Gifts that keep on giving …..
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Drat! that’s not the video I meant, with the videos sent in by fans of their favourite bright lights. Maybe this one?
Argh!… Raissa has a lovely voice, see her work with the Mummers but I had to turn that off – she’s been auto-tuned to near Cher levels.
Horrible.
Hard to believe it’s the same singer as on those lush Mummers tracks. I only clicked on it because it was her singing, but it could have been any of hundreds of female singer-clones.
Should have guessed that with Mark Ronson involved it would be crap. I lasted less than a minute.
Jesus. That auto-tune really repels me. In the psychotherapy world, polyvagal theory is big; it’s all to do with getting the vagus nerve active, so that our nervous systems are in better nick (ie so we’re not in fight-flight-freeze-flop mode too much). Along with a mirroring gaze and physical touch, a prosodic tone of voice is an important factor in getting the vagus nerve onboard. That bloody manufactured ‘voice’ has the opposite effect, causing subcortical panic as our survival systems desperately try to check whether it’s human and we’re safe or not. NB I do like a robotic voice, your Kraftwerks and all, but this is neither/nor. Nice that the Thomsons”ll get a few quid, mind.
Thank God there’s a thoroughgoing scientific analysis to back up my instinctive feelings of repulsion.
I was kicked off the research study group after 30 seconds. It doesn’t do for therapists to be murderous.
I hope RT makes a few quid from it, but I certainly don’t want to hear it again. Absolutely horrible. I lasted 5 seconds from the start of the warbling autotune.
That voice was awful!
And another “aargh … that voice” comment.
The bestest cover of this track was Julie Covington.
MOT’d it a bit, but she can holler like the best of them (and it features Mr R Thompson, covering his own track).
TH Cd includes her very fine cover of Alice Coopers’s Only Women Bleed
(File under: Unexpected things to find in my collection)
Whatever happened to The Mummers? Her voice was sublime in those songs!
Sadly, it didn’t end well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummers
Ron Kavana does an interesting spin on it:
yes great for Richard……but fuck me that is just awful
I think it depends on what “ears” you listen with. Probably younger people with ears more attuned to modern pop won’t hear anything unusual with the vocal. For me, it’s the lack of any life that’s the main thing – it sounds like all the breathes and natural sounds have been airbrushed out.