Wow, great work! Yes, I really enjoyed their cover at the Room 29 show at the Barbican a few years ago. It made me get the sheet music and have a go of it on the piano.
It's always weird hearing the studio version of a Jarvis vocal after hearing it live first. As if his vocal is a little more affected and less natural. But then hearing the studio takes of a Jarvis song first, the vocal usually feels pretty natural (or naturally Jarvis)!
Loving Chilly's little piano rolls at the end of certain phrases on this, too.
Not Pulp, nor a clip, but it is extremely rare so I felt I had to share in case any other Cohen-heads in here have loved this cover as much as I do. Some of you may remember this being played as the encore on the Room 29 tour in 2017 - I've long prayed for a studio version, and it turns out one exists! Just don't ask how I got it. Enjoy!
Wow, great work! Yes, I really enjoyed their cover at the Room 29 show at the Barbican a few years ago. It made me get the sheet music and have a go of it on the piano.
It's always weird hearing the studio version of a Jarvis vocal after hearing it live first. As if his vocal is a little more affected and less natural. But then hearing the studio takes of a Jarvis song first, the vocal usually feels pretty natural (or naturally Jarvis)!
Loving Chilly's little piano rolls at the end of certain phrases on this, too.
Interesting thoughts about the live vocal! The version I've gotten to know best was the live recording from Hamburg uploaded by alicecoopacabana on Youtube and there's something so (?) energised and very heartfelt about it compared to the studio one I've got now. Not moaning!! They're just different. Both remarkable. The song is just feeding off the live audience in Hamburg in a way you probably cannot capture in a studio. The whistling is a nice touch on the studio one, and I definitely wouldn't really be able to walk around town with the low-quality Hamburg audio in headphones.
Best thing about the post-everything ("Irony is over....buh-bye") culture (also as in "post everything you can think of!!!") is that there are some very funny, mostly young and talented people that post the most random Pulp-content to social-media, some of whom are dear Bar Italians, cough-cough.
I just stumbled across this person bastardising popular US adult cartoons with their obscure Pulp love and it deserves a lorra lolz.
Back in the day, a friend of mine got a kick out of how much I used to go on about how awful the song ''Silence" was. He had no real interest in Pulp but he was a DJ and would try and teach me how to cue and mix songs on his decks. He'd always threaten to do it with Silence ("Play that song 'Hang The DJ' by Morrissey and then at the end, we can have Jarvis saying "Goodbye" from the end of 'Silence'. That can be your closing song for an indie club!!")
So these silly clips tickled me...
Family Guy - love how he even managed to re-voice, presumably the name "Lois" to "Jarvis"
The choice to use a quick cut of Candida with her fingers down on a chord is perfect here...
And, finally, an excellent megaphone-redistribution on another obscurity here:
Wow, great work! Yes, I really enjoyed their cover at the Room 29 show at the Barbican a few years ago. It made me get the sheet music and have a go of it on the piano.
It's always weird hearing the studio version of a Jarvis vocal after hearing it live first. As if his vocal is a little more affected and less natural. But then hearing the studio takes of a Jarvis song first, the vocal usually feels pretty natural (or naturally Jarvis)!
Loving Chilly's little piano rolls at the end of certain phrases on this, too.
Interesting thoughts about the live vocal! The version I've gotten to know best was the live recording from Hamburg uploaded by alicecoopacabana on Youtube and there's something so (?) energised and very heartfelt about it compared to the studio one I've got now. Not moaning!! They're just different. Both remarkable. The song is just feeding off the live audience in Hamburg in a way you probably cannot capture in a studio. The whistling is a nice touch on the studio one, and I definitely wouldn't really be able to walk around town with the low-quality Hamburg audio in headphones.
Just listened again and the whistley bit that you mention from the harmony of the song - I wonder was that (sub)consciously lifted for Help The Aged (very similar melody on the second-lines of the verses of the Pulp song - "one time they were just like you"... "don't just put them in a home").
-- Edited by Eamonn on Sunday 28th of January 2024 07:36:47 PM