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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.