Well well.... I have to say a absolutely love it, i think its brilliant, a complete wtf moment when I heard it- It made my eyes go glassy and gave me goosebumps, I always thought J Cash(s) music kinda all sounded too similar (I do like some of his stuff)- I know he has die hard fans and my dad likes him, but when you listen to the original, then this, for me it was a proper wow moment, like they turned that song into gold

Scottbloodyfrazer wrote:

---

It reminds me of Relaxed Muscle. I must say, I DONT like it.

---

Good point, I am also picking up a bit of Relaxed Muscle in there. 

It's quite interesting how Jarvis' feelings towards cover versions have changed. I remember him saying during a Black Session once, something along the lines of "We're going to play a cover version because it's a condition of appearing on this show but I don't like doing them". Then of course they released a song called "Bad Cover Version". Did he mellow during his solo career when cover versions often featured in the live set?

What's good about this release is that they are hungry for even more recording. Good news i'd say, means they want to do another album :)

Yeah, think that was a one-off for a TV recording.

Private Dancer live with Chilly Gonzalez last year will forever be iconic. Must have watched it on YouTube a hundred times.

Let's not forget he also did a full album of french covers...

JohnWayne wrote:

---

A tv show could have chosen not to do if he disliked covers.

---

 I never said (I was deep) that he disliked covers. Just that The Hack approached him. The director, who did the "controversial" Netflix show Adolescence this year, appeared on Question Time a couple of months ago saying Jarvis was his hero growing-up as a "weird kid".

I liked his vocals on the one he did of Chelsea Hotel for the Leonard Cohen tribute circa 2006 too.

Don't know why YouTube videos don't embed for me but see Pete Doherty's recollection of that appearance from 14mins 30secs. Quite sweet really.

-- Edited by Ian on Wednesday 26th of November 2025 07:28:46 PM

Eamonn wrote:

---

Private Dancer live with Chilly Gonzalez last year will forever be iconic. Must have watched it on YouTube a hundred times.

---

Hadn't seen that before, so thanks for that. Nice to watch it on Tina's birthday too (STB).

Today, coincidentally, happened to have Shaken & Stirred on the hi-fi, with Pulp's cover of All Time High.

inspirit wrote:

---

Eamonn wrote:

---

Private Dancer live with Chilly Gonzalez last year will forever be iconic. Must have watched it on YouTube a hundred times.

---

Hadn't seen that before, so thanks for that. Nice to watch it on Tina's birthday too (STB).

Today, coincidentally, happened to have Shaken & Stirred on the hi-fi, with Pulp's cover of All Time High.

---

 

This is great cover, i love it, in fact i bought the album in 1997 just for that song. The wait for TIH was loooong.

Anyway, here is another cover great cover, the studio version of Paper Thin Hotel. Too bad it was never released. 

-- Edited by andy on Thursday 27th of November 2025 08:43:48 AM

-- Edited by andy on Thursday 27th of November 2025 08:44:10 AM

Revisiting the Relaxed muscle album. But, it's... fantastic. Just missing bass i'd say

Eamonn wrote:

---

It's interesting that of his two big heroes, Leonard and Scott, he covered the former more often. I was at the BBC Prom Scott Walker night in 2017. Jarvis did Plastic Palace People but unfortunately, next to stronger voices like John Grant that night, the inevitable comparisons didn't reflect great on Jarvis.

And of course at the 2000 Meltdown when Pulp hired Walker to produce WLL, Jarvis did tackle On Your Own Again saying that the original singer might want to leave the room! That was a decent effort. Scott's voice was liquid gold though, always s tricky one to emulate when you're doing a straight cover.

---

I have just had a listen to "Plastic Palace People" and I agree with you. I don't think he does an outright bad job of it but as you say, someone else who performed on that night may have been more appropriate. Strangely enough, I think that a cover of this song, with all its strings and backing vocals, would have fit in quite well on "More" (not that I'm advocating including cover versions on albums). There are a couple of other links to this song: Jarvis chose it for a NME compilation in the early 2000s (this is how I discovered Scott Walker) and he also made a video for it in 1989, a few seconds of which can be seen here (from 8 minutes):

He also performed a cover of "Cossacks Are" in 2008. I think that it works really well, almost the kind of song Pulp would perform in the mid-1980s that never made it onto an album (i.e. Nights of Suburbia / My First Wife v2 / Didn't Feel a Thing).

Finally, Jarvis performed "The Old Man's Back Again" with Air in 2010. It's an interesting version because it was given a more electronic feel by Air and, therefore, sounded a bit different to a straightforward Walker cover: