Just got sent a link to this – it’s a spine-tingling version of Higher Love from Lilly Winwood and her old man Stevie. Well worth four minutes of your time. (Heads up: if you stop the clip a few seconds before the end you’ll miss Chris Evans burbling in to ruin the vibe, man).
Higher Love – Steve & Lilly Winwood
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I knew this would be good – my non-musical colleague heard it on his morning commute and thought it good enough to mention.
Was Alice Cooper listening to a different song, do you think? Perhaps he had too many e-numbers in his breakfast.
Lovely version. It made me listen to the lyric for probably the first time. He’s a bit good, the old boy. And their voices blend nicely together.
Nice!
The album Back In The High Life always sounded over-80s-produced (or at least thats my memory of it)
Warren Zevon did a version of Back In The High Life which was much better than the SWs album version, and now Higher Love is shown to be a great song too
James Vincent McMorrow does a cracking cover of Higher Love. I wonder if the Winwoods were, um, covering that?
Always loved the original, one of my favourite songs of the time from a fellow Brummie. Back in the highlife is a fine album with a smattering of Nike Rodgers on it. Nice deconstruction too that, thanks for posting. Being over here I don’t often listen to Radio 2.
Maybe your use of “Old Man” differs from mine, Drakey, but Steve is Lilly’s dad not her paramour.
This might be a Three Counties (Beds, Herts & Bucks) thing.
I’m from nearby, and of similar vintage, to DG and it means father to me. I’ve heard older women use it to refer to their husbands, but not locally.
I refer the right honourable gentlemen to the words of the Member for Kilburn , Ian Dury.
It gets used in both senses around here in the suburban London area, but usually when older females use it, it’s only when referring to similarly-aged partners. Younger females don’t seem to use it at all in either sense.
“Old man” has always meant dad to me. The first use of it I ever heard to mean “male partner” was Joni Mitchell.
It’s American. Or, to put it another way. wrong.
I’m disappointed, Moose. There’s another alternative meaning of the phrase ‘old man’ (although, OK, it doesn’t make sense in this context). Even so, I’d have thought you’d have gone straight for the penis.
Oho! Judging me by your own standards, I see!
*folds arms*
I think you’re referring to Moose’s ‘old chap’, old girl.
Excuse the expression, but how did I get into this cul de sac? And more importantly, how do I get out?
A question Moose asks himself often.
No, I ask myself how I get in.
hurrr
I think what we need is a new thread: how many euphemisms for genitalia are there?
Tempted, but might drag Moose’n’Mini downmarket……
Wow! That’s a challenge. Your question has my head throbbing.
No, we don’t.
Just checked on euphemisms. Basically a shedload*
* Technical term.
In real-life my surname with a letter removed is a French slang term for the penis. *Thinks* Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
Sacre bleu, Monsieur Bellen!
May I refer my right Honourable friend to ‘my old man’s a dustman’? Pretty sure Lonnie Donnegan wasn’t making some of the earliest references to a same-sex civil partnership.
Now that is weird in the context @drakeygirl was pointing. What on earth could a “dustman” mean in the context of a penis? Hygiene, preference of, um, container, private activities or simply just meaning he/it has a great big black bag?
I was all over Carl’s context there. Nowhere near drakeygirl’s context at all. Didn’t touch it your honour.
My old man said follow the van, and don’t dilly dally on the way…
My gran liked a bit of Marie Lloyd.
(that Afterword, always up for the songs from ’17 – 1917)
Steve Winwood I always thought did a cracking job of ‘The 80s’ compared to a lot of his contemporaries. Valerie, Higher Love and Back in the High Life are absolute masterpieces and they all stand up now better than ever. It doesn’t sound forced, he doesn’t sound like he’s trying to be ‘hip’ -to my ears he sounds like he’s completely embracing electronic/80s pop production and putting his own spin on it and I remember when I was a kid I didn’t know his history but I could tell he was a bit cooler than some of his pals in the charts.
I heard this a lot in the late 80s. It was used on a corporate show I worked on for a long time and I can still see some of the images in my head when I listen.
Takes me straight back to college that one.