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[thebitterguy]

Shatner Sings.

eyebeams, nottheterritory and I were subjected to the album on Saturday.

Sure, it's interesting. I can do without. But the song Common People is interesting, because I realized I listened to first verse, chorus, and just bopped to the rest, while there's actually a sort of narrative going on back there.

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[adders.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Pulp's original of Common People?

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for Justin but I know I've heard the original version of it several times, but the problem is, since I've heard it on the radio and similar accidental places, I don't really bother to parse out the lyrics after teh firs few lines (except, of course, the course). I knew broadly what it was about btu the Shatner version (and believe me, you have no idea how wierd it is to talk about Shatner this way) makes the lyrics really clear and you can hear some of the angry poetry in them that's lost under the wall of sound in the original.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Allow me to add, parenthetically, how mortified I am at the number of spelling mistakes I just made - ARGH! Why doesn't LJ allow you to edit your own previous posts?!?!

[thebitterguy]

It does now!

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, that's the one that I just listened to the first verse, chorus, and kinda bopped along to after that.

[noondaypaisley.livejournal.com]

Joe Jackson can make anyone sound good.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Actually mostly it made me want to listen to an all Joe Jackson cover of Common People.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Justin,

I picked up "Has Been" because of a strange coincidence. I have never heard of the original "Common People" until I found it on my Ipod after moving over a whole bunch of MP3s I had stored (don't ask). The *very* next day, while idly looking at the back of Shatner's new album, I was rivited to find that he had done a cover of Pulp's classic work.

Twelve bucks Canadian later, I was bopping along to a pretty decent cover in my car. Wow; I said, hitting replay several times on my drive home that day.

There are a few other interesting songs on the album, including the eponymous title track. My CD is a little buggered up now, so I may have to get it replaced.

::Brian::