i just read that Happy New Year Baby was meant to be the b-side for Bad Cover Version back in 2000 on PulpWiki. for some reason, i find this song to be really infectious. am i alone on that one?
-- Edited by Frisko2000 on Tuesday 5th of January 2010 12:06:35 AM
I only know Richard Hawley's version of the song: "Naked in Pitsmoor". Have you ever heard the Hawley/Cocker live version? Can't find it on Youtube...
Anyway "Naked in Pitsmoor" sounds very much like the other Pulp-around-2000-stuff like "Grandfather's Nursery", "After You" or "Forever in my Dreams". Simple but beautiful.
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I've been singing it a bit to myself over the last couple of days.
The original (?) version with Jarvis' vocals and his own lyrics was performed live at Hawley's Albert Hall gig in May '08. A recording is definitely in one of the baritalia yahoo accounts. Hawley's version, with different lyrics and vocal melody, is on his first, self-titled mini-album. It's interesting to compare them.
Frisko2000 wrote:Also, I always thought the lyric was, "Why kill time when I can kill myself?" Not "cure myself".
haha, me too. Oh god that would been so miserable.
Anyway listened to Hawley's version. Very,very typical song of him, quite good but i prefer "happy new year baby". Jarvis is a much better songwriter than Richard.
