David Gray - Song To A Siren

[wipers86]

this crowed are a bunch of morons do they know there only making it harder for him to concentrate

[malibumut]

that was superb... even above the crowd, who are majorly excited.. brilliant version...

[gartentomaten]

:)Freu...amazing

[TRMDYLE666]

what the fuck. shit audience is shit audience.

[matartan]

Better than most can imagine!!!!!

[gartentomaten]

amazing beautifull voice:)))

[razzamanaz79]

Spoilt by the audience, I wasnt really a david gray fan, but man can he sing that song, but nothing beats the original

[gazbazza]

The definitive version of the song ruined by a moronic audience.

[wsjacole]

@gazbazza agree

[justplayfm]

This video was just added to a music playlist at JustPlay.fm

[sharonshanks1886]

cried watchin this on lovely bones xx

[FatBlackFrancis]

Whilst contemplating his thoughts in the moonlit gardens of Gethsemene, knowing that the israelites would approach at dawn to arrest him for heresy, Jesus Christ scrolled through his media list and settled on David Gray's cover of Song to the Siren. He had only bought his iPhone 8 hours previously and was mighty pissed.

[bagariddum]

STF audience U

[Larro20]

This has to be an American audience?

[LuanaSousa17]

I cried a lot listening to this song when I was watching the movie The Lovely Bones

[pruplemango]

I saw David this past winter.. it was FANTASTIC..except for all the morons in the audience! Screaming and whooping was just out of control :( Ruined a lot of the music for me.

[ktdsound]

David Gray is the man. I think I almost cried several times at one of his concerts, and I don't do that sort of thing. He is amazing to see live.

[eob1985]

He puts his heart n soul into this, if the muppets shouting and wooing did the same....... must be in Eh-merica

[GUSCRAWF0RD]

audiences are ok when they clap and sing along and build, but these people are DRUNK

[paulpcttorode]

wos up wiv the audience they, they act like there at a katy perry concert.

[LuanaSousa17]

this song touches my heart too ....

Unexplainable the feeling it brings when I hear ...

[lewars1912]

Very strange audience, especially during such a beautiful song.

[plptypscp]

@lewars1912 evidently the people screaming in the audience are drunk. Near the beginning of the video I could hear clanging of bear bottles.

[macmac760]

You know, as an Englishman maybe the audience buzzes him on (it would me) not everyone likes the reserved way the english celebrate things.

I think the whooping is a bit daft but if i was a performer there is nothing i would like to hear more.

Different cultures celebrate things in their own way.

Peace out, UK.

[bspeers24]

You've really gotta love folks that feel they have the right to have ANY sort of opinion about America. Hey fatbill717, this song...written by AN AMERICAN! Its not David Grays. Tim Buckley is the songs writer and was american.

[balmainguy]

@bspeers24 Yeah, too right, but not everyone out there feels that way. And nothing can detract from the fact that more people are lined up for entry to the US than any other country. Speaks volumes, in itself.

I hope you noticed that at the end of this spectacular rendition, David finished by saying "And thank you Tim Buckley" Giving credit where credit is due....

[esellori]

To all the Euro's bitchin' about the American audience,you don't really want me to post a list of Euro concerts where the EXACT same thing is going on,in a lot of cases much worse.After all,you're the bunch that gobbed at groups-REMEMBER?

I like the sound at :59 seconds,a bartender gathering a bunch of empty longnecks.

[fatbill717]

Fucking stupid rednecks don't deserve to get decent music.

Duelling banjos is about the limit.

[ProjektLament]

@fatbill717 One could say you need to have the common sense to play to your audience. This is Ohio (200 miles away from bluegrass country), so I don't know why you are bringing banjos into this. You must be pretty culturally retarded to make such comparisons. And if you've ever been to a bluegrass concert everyone sits rather quietly. So lets leave the redneck rhetoric and bluegrass references out of this. PS Bluegrass is phenomenal music that requires awesome talent.

[milkwhitedark]

Yes you they do pay there wages but about 90% of the audience didn't wool and were trying to listen to the music. Yes woop but not to this sort of song thats just plan rude would you talk in the cinema no. Would you woop during a play no. It's just plan rude.

[majorsnag]

ya got to laugh at the audience i reckon they though they was going to a barn dance..whoopin' it up...haha

[sombs]

Man...American audiences are so damn loud. Listen to the farking music!

[kariminns]

This is the BEST cover ever!!! David is simply BRILLIANT in every thing he does!!!

[joergenml]

somebody knock out the theeth of the drunk bitches screaming....

[zacman182]

They WOULD yell all over a good performance in Cincinnati.

[TheJohndoe63]

fkin sake its the audiences  that pay the wages..assholeslittle andmarie,,wot you about ???

[milkwhitedark]

That is so rude when people shout there is a time and place and a song and that was not it fucking idiots. Well done David was ace wish I was there to headbutt them fucxs so we could hear you lovely voice.

[TheJohndoe63]

its wannabe

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

Well done David Gray, bravo that was a great version. Quite a powerful voice.

[bs98ful1]

1.put your hand on yo chest

2.think of someone ya like

3.tomorrow that person will ask u out or say i luv u

4.put this on five videos in an hour or it wont work

[arenasification]

@bs98ful1 and did it happen???

[esellori]

164ItsAllAboutMe164-Yeah,it was us Texans,we love to go all the way to Cincinnati,OH,just to f*** up all their concerts.Rock on WOOOOOO!!! We're going to a David Lee Roth concert in Spokane next!!!

Perry,thrust,and a win for esel.

[BJWoodcock]

let him sing for fucks sake!

[barbaricyawper14]

@BJWoodcock No shit! Damn, that's some rude bastards there in Cinci

[164ItsAllAboutMe164]

Audience must be full of Texans.

"WOO! DEM DAR TALIBAN! WOO! MOUNTAIN DEW IS THE BEST SODA EVER!

[164ItsAllAboutMe164]

Audience must be full of Texans.

"WOO! DEM DAR TALIBAN! WOO! MOUNTAIN DEW IS THE BEST SODA EVERRR!

[PeterOzanne]

Love David Gray, but this is not great.

He's also following the harmonies of Cocteau Twins cover, which omits the fall to the minor chord at the end of verse. That chord is vital in echoing the "doomy" feeling in the lyrics.

Also, though I love Liz Fraser's later stuff, her cover overdoes the ornamentation.

[someonetosaveyou]

does anyone know where I can downlad this version?

[pinsnpoppies]

Beautiful. I know this is actually sacrilege, but since mr. Gray saved my life at least a dozen times, I can easily forgive him :)

Although my favourite version remains the one by This Mortail Coil and not only because Lost Highway is my favourite movie. I think the original just misses something (like mr. Buckley has said himself).

[darrenleeherr]

david grey did an awsume job

[darrenleeherr]

david grey did an awsume job on this song.

[esellori]

For those who complain about the American audience cheering,etc.

So,does this mean if I went to a concert in the U.K.,the audience would be like the stone army created by China's first emperor Ying Zheng and stand there in complete silence ?

I've already seen concert footage from Britain,that shows the same thing happening.

We like to show the artist appreciation,some 'hammered' individuals do go a bit far.

But,I've seen the same thing in viddys shot in Britain.

[carltl1304]

esellori - there is a thing known as timing, and American or not, this audience is not just off with the timing, there is just far too much of it, it turns from appreciation to annoying.... 2 much screeching...anyways, its put me right off this video lol

[super69princess]

thank you...

[shuzbuttocks]

Why the need for comparison people? Each version stands on its own. This isn't American Karaoke...these are real artists who have been touched by a beautifully written song. And other than some drunken silly screaming throughout this version...I think David Gray did an awesome job of capturing the spirit of the song.

[chiyochan84]

love this song. seems like every one who covers it rewrites the lyrics a little bit.

[MrMoonrazor]

@ danzxr and anyone else who would call this "crap".

This is not a Cocteau Twins (Liz Frazer) song, its a song from 1970 by Tim Buckley. Personally I think the best version is John Frusciante's off "The Empyrean" (2009)...but this is how the song was written to sound, acoustic guitar and vocals..not the Liz Frazer crap.

[skrason]

@MrMoonrazor: Hey, David's rendition is quite good. But you absolutely cannot place the words "Liz Fraser" and "crap" in the same sentence. Period. If you do, you are either 1) a dumb-ass or 3) too young to realize how brilliant the Cocteau Twins were. Period. No discussion.

[ALB1937]

@skrason I second-that, about Liz Fraser!

[skrason]

@ALB1937: Ya can't mess with Elizabeth Fraser. She possesses, most likely, the greatest female voice in the history of rock and roll. Sorry Janis.

[Pawsy29]

I also think John's version is the best. He brings it to a whole other-worldly level.

[danzxr]

Want to hear a proper version? Listen to the Cocteau Twins (Liz Frazer) one. Not this crap.

[skrason]

@danzxr @MrMoonrazor: This isn't a bad version. But you cannot place the words "Liz Fraser" and "crap" in the same sentence. Period. I respect well-informed opinions. Having said that, as much as I love Mr. Buckley's original, no one will ever, EVER top This Mortal Coil's rendition of Song To The Siren. Nobody. You're more than welcome to keep trying, but it's a hopeless cause.

[latetag]

i get chills down my spine when this song is playing. love it.

[paldengyatsosfriend]

2 words....KILLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nat00ben06]

David Gray very mediocre in annuals of popular singers. The best out of Ireland is not Damien Rice either another poser. I guess U2 head and shoulders above anything else out of there and maybe Sinead O' Connor.

[jatrius]

Don't you just love American audiences' respect for the artist and the material?

[henryhaven]

cocteau twins had more style this version is shite suppose he got put off alot by reatrd american crowd

[littleguernseygirl]

Great song, shame its ruined by the audiance whooping at the time.

[anonbeliever1]

Don't you mean, shame its ruined by this dickhead?

[Wargoat6]

@littleguernseygirl Some bootlegged Rush videos were tanked by the dumbasses around.

[nahojgrooc]

@littleguernseygirl absolutely agree... God the audience pssies me off. David Gray does a good job at this song - check out the very best version (in my opinion) by This Mortal Coil

[iliketrains84]

ti les twra? apisteyto? pataei stis grammes tis diaskeuis twn "this mortal coil" alla einai apisteyto.. thanks!

[afrodwarf]

David Gray is fantastic...i love this song!!!!!

[solcambs]

Wow ... tear in my eye - not quite the flood of tears that come with Tim's original ... but wow this is awesome.

[existmarky]

Its very rarely u will ever find a cover thats better than the origonal i can count on 1 hand (coz thats all i got lol) how many songs iv heard being covered and i think dave makes it his own song an does Tim's song justice!

MUSIC IS POWER

EXIST

[watsty]

agreed :D

[hanstsoa]

Have you listened to John Frusciantes cover? For me that one is the most beautiful. But all credits to Tim, writing such a beautiful and touching song.

[liakospanos]

awful version. Even George michaels' version is better

[watsty]

Frusciante's version is great and very haunting, but he can't be compared to the vocal brilliance of David Gray. This is a phenomenal cover of a song that is lyrically majestic.

[54spiritedwill54]

Fantastic Voice

[eddie1frusciante]

check out john frusciante's version of this song

[Crijevo]

David Gray is brilliant on this one but one thing that's truly annoying here is the audience - turning this beautifully melancholic ballad into cheering pathetic rally, impatient of the very performance!

[TyHayward]

Looks average, and sounds average, so why's he popular? Hype? I've seen better playing down my local!

[snivellusfriend]

I think fans identify with his lyrics and the fact that his voice is "average:" his parents were divorced; he's been through challenging relationships, himself; a friend of his commited suicide; he saw his father die, and he's now married-he's written about all of these things in his songs.

[videovix7]

americans r stupid cuz they talk trash about each other

[odinfellow]

You can totally tell this was performed somewhere in the Midwest, i.e. Ohio just by all the morons screaming in complete amazement in a man with one of the GEE TARS! Fucking savages.

[mariellenm]

audiences ruin everything.

[raggedy]

that's why there's something deeply satisfying about the artists who stop playing and tell the loud mouths to "shut the fuck up."

[snivellusfriend]

I wonder whether they might've been drunk. My parents went to a David Gray concert and said that the theater had an open bar and that people kept coming and going for drinks.

[misslanvin]

@mariellenm Yes, they are to a concert what a DJ is to the radio. Ugh.

[survival4ever]

@mariellenm I'm with you

[thesource213]

i don't like this version at all. love tim buckley and i think that no man can beat the original or the monkey show. Tim Rules at voice and emotion!! R.I.P.

[EricaEAn]

Goooood !

[dallasc85]

ew this is why david never comes to the US anymore. im american and these people ruin the song

[FucklyDuckly]

too loud singing for this song i think... and some point it sounds like some shit from american idol or something...

[maisondufromage]

Americans! Jeeez quite nice version but Cocteaus! that's another thing altogether

[Josh0889]

that's amazing

[guitarlawyer75]

Very beautiful singing. But nothing like the original, of course. Anyway, I didn't know this artist before. I liked him. I'll be looking for more stuff from David Gray's.

[redowen333]

Brilliant singing, stupid audience

[ProjektLament]

this audience is retarded. and obviously ignorant as to the tim buckley song or the content of its lyrics.

[carms44]

I tend to agree.

[Toritata]

worked for me nicely nicely x

[Dez3r]

You people are drunk... David Gray has a touch of magic!!!

[ratzman76]

who the fish is david gray? do I have to know him?

[juicekal]

Think its a great version. Dont like the original..

[spinesnapper]

Horrible. What the hell makes him think he has the right to do this?

Totally unacceptable. David Gray is 'music for people who dont like music, but need something to listen to'.

He has no idea what he is 'singing' about.

[herrhaeberle]

I totally agree. He destroyed Tim Buckleys (and Larry Becketts) beautiful song.

[lunarsiege]

its not so much that he soiled something sacred(to me) but that a petty musician like him chose this song,he doesnt put the emotion to it that say plant or cocteau twins(or others)do

[shunth3nonbeliever]

I used to absolutley loved David!

He was uber amazing to me, but now i just like him :)

He actually looks like my friend Matheww haha! :P

[OddsOnPhil]

This guy should get 20 years hard labour for murdering this beautiful song, whoever told him he could sing could share his cell.

[blinkandoverlook]

I love this version, but I do wish the crowd would just shut up when he's trying to speak (and certainly when he begins to sing!).

[ryangfilm]

I completely agree, blinkandoverlook. When they shout and cheer randomly when he's singing, I find that incredibly disrespectful......

[EkkisFraNorge]

Sounded like a "this mortal coil-cover"..

[erikap88]

i have heard many versions of this song and this is by far one of the best. i wish everyone would've shut up in the audience.

[PsiChoCybia]

LOL i agree with all who have said the audience really need to STFU

[1235788888]

blah.....the best fucking version of this song is by robert plant man.....

[ryangfilm]

I disagree.... I have to go with this guy's cover...

Plant's cover is awesome, but he and this guy have two different singing styles and I think Gray's voice better fit the song....

[jeffbuckleylover]

oi everyone, if you havent heard the tim buckley or elizabeth frazer version of this song then u should watch them NOW!!! they are outstanding

i dont really like this version, too overdone and crowded.... its a simple song that expresses such complicated emotion at heart

[walkingbear56]

Having just watched Tim Buckley sing this on YT..I have to say that David Gray needs to be taken out and shot for murdering such a beautiful song with his nasal whine ( the audience doesn't help)

but he sloshes on the emotion with too big a brush... I agree..go and watch Tim Buckley sing this or the Cocteaus.

I'll go and listen to Planties version too.. (just to make sure).

[walkingbear56]

Got through Robert Plants first 10 seconds and have to put it in the same box as Mr Gray.

Covers are better if you understand what the song is about and can interpret someone else's emotions with your own eyes voice and experiences.

The Buckley version on YT is the first live performance from the Monkees show in 1967 and has a rawness that transcends the words and the music.

Shame he died young.

[nomax102]

yeah i like it although they audience should really stfu

[tragic8ball]

There's always those mother fuckers that ruin it for everyone else.

Are all you yanks such a shower of loud mouthed dolts?

Why can you not just shut your fucking mouths for one minute?

No one wants to hear from you, and your whooping, fuckwits.

Would you do this in church? at the grave side? What is wrong with some of you?

[sweetcondition]

nationalism is stupid. and clearly you're a nationalist. take a sociological course. generalizing an entire group of people makes you a moron.

and it doesn't even matter that you're a brit! you're just a complete fucking idiot.

[xVampirePrince666x]

omg david absaloutly kills this song :(

Paula Arundell does a really nice version

[princessjezzica]

Yeah, although she misses a verse out, I prefer her version to anybodys :] It's very pretty.

[BoneWerks]

David Gray: "This is a....Tim Buckley song."

Some Dumb Bitch: "Who?"

[blubylly]

Fucking Audience shit eating mother fuckers...damn them to hell those tired Bridge and Tunnel Pieces of Shit...just had to fuck up this recording..hope they all get CANCER!!!

[grematron]

The best individual artist EVER!!! With a single song, he can alter anybodys mood, for better or worse. Thats when you know someone is good!

[SorryLately]

the audience is very annoying

[pegerto]

why the people can´t stay in silence???

[trancefromheart]

great vocal skills from a great artist for such a great and never die tune. His vocal echo skills with the deep rock crying inside are coming from the heart..

[DingChavez959]

If I was in that moronic audience it would end up on the news the next day: "30 people die in concert massacre". "assailant rips off heads of screaming retard fans".

[lizaownstheworld]

i think he puts a little bit too much embellishment on this song. with all the bells and whistles the tune loses something.

i think in tim's original version a lot of the beauty of the song actually comes in from the sheer restraint of his vocals.

[leezer83]

what are u talkin about bufon u fool, david gray is a hugely talented singer/songwriter

[wrnchhead76]

RE: the audience, well this is filmed with a crappy camera from the audience, when you're there, the audience noise isn't a problem, a good recording of a song in concert isn't destroyed by the audience. We're lucky to get this at all...it sucks, but it's better than nothing.

[bufon63]

philistine pub rocker dares to cover a masterpiece.... appalling

[index1001]

Wat a sad git you are, Dave is one of the finest singer/songwriters of his generation the fact that he chooses to honour a legend is a credit to him. You my friend are a twat

[bufon63]

hahahaha! go back to your pub rock philistine

[index1001]

Like i said, you are a twat.

[clarissaburgess]

oh my gosh! thank you SO MUCH index1001!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you speak the gospel of david gray! you took the words right out of my mouth...bufon63, go home darling, and god help you

[pony9a]

bufon you need to change your name to buffoon...lol

[walkingbear56]

I think you put it very well.

[LT14LIFE]

I've heard Tim's version as well as Robert Plant's and Liz Frazer's, but David Gray's just sends chills through me. I wasn't around when Tim Buckley was famous and cannot fathom his emotions, but David Gray covers it so well I don't need to.

[jameswp266]

Go on his website, you can purchase a download of this song recorded live. stunning

[armlesscorps]

note to audience : STFU AND LISTEN YOU MORONS THEN GO DIE

[skulptivator]

this song gives me the shivers

[coffinshaker]

Anyone know what the effct on the guitar was?

[mikemosocw]

fuck off anorak!

[blzbug242]

...WOW...

[nomserlaserla]

He's amazing. the song works perfectly with his voice.

[thisIDsUnavailable]

No - have any of you heard how it should be done properly? (This Mortal Coil)

[IrishBog]

Actually the George Michael version is pretty chilling.... just saw the Tim Buckley acoustic version... what an amazing voice... I only ever knew the TMC version until recently...

[persona19]

You fucking idiots in the audience ruined it.

[livehighjive]

song to "the" siren

[ljubovna]

Oooh his voice is good w. this song...

[Gondivinho]

This is a good work from David Gray, and a fortunate choice because he really sings it very well...

But the main difference between the original Tim's song and the one from This Mortal Coil is simple.

This Mortail Coil made a very beautiful though too artificial version of Buckley's original.

In the original song i get dazzled!!!

[boredsun]

i disagree

this mortal coil did a very beautiful version

and not artificial

i actually like this mortal coils version a lot better than tim buckleys

[jedaaa]

i agree, from the david lynch film lost highway

[Stanwick1]

I agree I get goose bumps when Hearing Tim Buckley singing this song. Even this David Gray version is better than studio altered Mortal coil attempt

[boredsun]

obviously david gray likes the version "this mortal coil" did because hes doing it!

lol

oh.. i guess he has bad taste in music?

this mortal coil did a phenomonal job

u need to listen closer

[Stanwick1]

Have you heard the original version by Tim Buckley? I'll think you'll find this is closer to the original.

[boredsun]

youre right

im wrong

im sorry

the end.

[skyhook01]

I agree

[livehappy4ever]

wow i remember this concert. this was my first real concert i whent to with my dad. this video makes the place look bigger than it was lol. it is so small. what an amazing person.

[ytcarol]

He has the right voice to sing it - strong, wailing, bit of vibrato. Wish the audience would be quite, but can you blame them? Must have been thrilling. He's channeling the spirit of Tim Buckley but completely making it his own.

Great stuff!

[Sieist23Jahrealt]

listen to those fools,

"who?"

"who's Tim Buckley?"

idiots.

[puschi11111]

impressive!

[jameswp266]

Fantastic Voice