Passionate Kisses!!!

[evilthesaurus]

this album won a fucking grammy.

[JohnnyCxviii]

I like MCC's cover very much, but I always side with the songwriter's version when rating my preference--this is no exception.

[Poppypoil3]

Great!! Like a Rose ..Barwon Mental Health Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Diana code,

[Ltolda]

I love Lucinda's version but Mary's is better, in my opinion.

[mechashiva2]

thanks for uploading

[tits569]

nice ditty. She's under-rated.

[pointlessfailure]

I passionate kissed my girlfriend with my fist

[AmandaEWright21]

I think I was like 5 when this song came out

[PhunkRockGirl]

Lucinda is my spirit animal! :*

great song. everything a pop song needs. so well written and she just kicks ass in general. i used to cover her songs. right on.

[PhunkRockGirl]

Lucinda is my spirit animal! :*

great song. everything a pop song needs. so well written and she just kicks ass in general. i used to cover her songs. right on.

[yangfilo]

One of her best is "I envy the Wind"

[MarkBlemish]

beautiful

[travis7310]

I grew up hearing Mary Chapin Carpenter's version of this song, and her version will always remain my favorite. I thought she was the first person who sang this song.

[LaSombraFilm]

She is one of the great singer/songwriters. This song is a classic.

[order57]

Got this 45 the day it came out and never stopped buyin' her records.

[ColdOasisU2]

love it....the guitar jangles were influenced from The Byrds guitarits Roger McGuinn

[Tutone66]

Where does it say you must like only one version of a song? I love Williams original and Carpenters cover. Both brilliant.

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk like what, crack, junk, meth, + 3 hots and a cot?

[TheSarahfran]

leangk:grow up, listen to a song, read the lyrics, etc, instead of just looking at the pic-

tures...[REALLY not a good way to judge music] do you even know the definition of the word 'MUSIC'? did you know it is the same all over the universe?didnt think so, but humans, birds, whales and everything else on the planet that makes noise makes noise to the same universal rythm, guess ur the only one who cant hear it.

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk YOU LIE,you just arent capable of appreciating really good music, stick to your ghetto songs, dont ever have to think about them, do you?

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk YOU ARE TRULY IGNORANT ABOUT MUSIC. ALL MUSIC , BY DEFINITION IS REPITIVE, otherwise noone would remember it, dance to it, or sing along. Your comments on this page ARE REPITIVE AND CRAPPY

IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND MUSIC GET THE FREAK OFF GO LISTEN TO YOUR HIPPITY-HOP TRASH AND

HOW UNREPITIVE IT IS, I COULD WRITE ONE NOW: THEY'RE HOS, THEY OWE ME, if they dont pay up, i'll just kill them or send them to jail, make them put on sexy? costumes and sing about how much they miss me, THE PIMP.

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk you still havent listened to the song in the spirit it was intended, thats a common problem in people who are musically retarded.

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk HOW ABOUT, SHE LOVES YOU YEAH, YEAH, YEAH?

[TheSarahfran]

@leangk This was written by the Master, Willie Nelson, good luck finding a recording of him singing it. You won't.

But he was always a much better writer than singer, and really, it makes more sense coming from a female voice

MCC's versions relied way too much on her back-up singers, just at the wrong times. Lucinda is the first to really do justice to the spirit of the song. Dont get the lyrics? Talk to Willie!!!

[TheSarahfran]

Lucinda is the Woman, without a doubt the best recording of this classic ever, her original stuff rivals Willie's and everyone else's too.

[lalalasocks]

@leangk Yes, because there are no crappy or repetitive rap songs.

[katydy98]

Added tomy favorites and i-pod. Maybe the best of Lucinda's Passionate Kisses videos on YouTube.

[mentalist007coldplay]

...is she high?

[TheSarahfran]

@mentalist007coldplay who gives a flyin freak? SHE'S BRILLIANT!!!!

[mentalist007coldplay]

@TheSarahfran haha ooookkkk.....

[fishfuxors]

Hyeech.. steady, stomach. hurrr

[UnofficialGagaHaus]

Amazing. James would love it!

[xxxfarrell]

This is a beautiful song and something we have all felt.

[claudfield]

Great. Thanks for uploading this, Paradoxical200, but where's the rest of the album?

I lost mine many years ago and haven't been able to get a copy. I would love to find out where I could buy the original Rough Trade CD - or just listen to the tracks .

[MrDavidKuffa]

Lu's All Time Best! Maybe Essence is 2nd.

[countrynuno]

love both versions

[Sonnenradikal]

1:20 and 1:48 MISFITS!

[cinelover]

LUCINDA WILLIAMS COME TO BRAZIL COME TO BRAZIL COME TO BRAZIL.

[lyonslaforet]

It heralds the perfection of Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998). Shame her debut album is so hard to find in France!

[maida1982a]

when lu was at her best (this album, SOW and C Wheels), few were better songwriters.

[ulihedi]

"shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all of this...?"

yes indeed, we all should have this!! :o)

...love this song so much...

[TexasLia]

mary chapin carpenter could never do justice to lucinda williams. love this video.

[TristanandIsolt]

@TexasLia This is a million times better than the drunken live version of Lucinda Williams doing this song. She is a great songwriter but anyone being honest with themselves knows that MCC sings it better.

[TexasLia]

@TristanandIsolt i find carpenter very boring, so i'm honest when i say that she doesn't do justice in covering williams. now someone like patty loveless, there's a singer that can convey the emotion that lucinda writes in her music, i like her cover of "the night's too long".

[TristanandIsolt]

@TexasLia You must be thinking of Karen Carpenter because MCC is about the opposite of boring. She is a great singer but more than that she has great style. As for Patty Loveless she is also very good. My favorite Pattly Loveless song is "Nothing but the Wheel". Very underrated.

[TristanandIsolt]

@TexasLia I give props to Lucinda for writing this great song, but MCC is the only reason anybody knows it. She did this fa better than Lucinda and made Lucinda a lot of money.

[tishhead]

i heard she got married recently, so she must have dumped the lizard.

[sugarmarie1980]

@tishhead Yep. She married her prince.

[svenyargs]

A friend of mine told me years ago that he went into a roadside dive bar off a state highway in southeastern California "to ask directions," and the waitress got up on a little 10-by-6 stage and sang this song a capella--and broke his heart. I imagine her with Lucinda Williams' face and voice: tired and fierce and utterly true. This isn't a song that you'd smile while singing if you were that waitress in that bar.

[thepassion10]

Didn't Mary Chapin Carpenter write this?

[Aivanhov100]

@thepassion10 Actually, Lucinda wrote it, and Mary Chapin Carpenter covered it.

[TimmytheGeek2009]

@thepassion10

NO! MCC had a hit with it, but Lucinda wrote it and does it best. 

[8rockyruta]

q temaaassoooo!!!!!!! x favor q voz

[afficionado2004]

Great song!

[visaman]

I've seen her in concert 3 times since 2002, including her ill fated Las Vegas appearance at the Hard Rock Casino Resort, in 2002.

[Bunzypoo]

There's nothing like a passionate kiss.

[krxifox11]

@Bunzypoo...alas...we might be the only two people in the world who think that way.

pj

[journeythruthepast]

This is a really solid country pop tune but when it didn't catch on despite being a real commercial overture, it was a sign that Lucinda was never destined to be a huge selling phenom. But her songs are so good that they can be hits in the hands of someone more marketable and mainstream, hence why Mary Chapin Carpenter got this awards, big sales, etc. I wish more country people would cover her stuff. Even if Taylor Swift churns out a shit cover, it gets Lucinda's writing out there. Oh well.

[tishhead]

@journeythruthepast it's funny, i love mary chapin carpenter now but this song kept me from exploring her music for a long time. i had heard the buzz and when i listened to her version of "passionate kisses," it turned me off because it felt so lifeless compared to lucinda's. then i heard "stones in the road," and went, "ah, now i get it."

[TheSarahfran]

@journeythruthepast DO YOU STILL STAND BEHIND THAT COMMENT, AFTER HER GRAMMY WIN, CAR

WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, AND WEST?

[journeythruthepast]

@TheSarahfran Well yes, I was referring to commercial acceptance. She isn't a household name or anything despite grammy wins, nominations and critical approval. Plus, why do you type in caps? lol

[TheSarahfran]

@journeythruthepast BECAUSE I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, AND MCC HAS ABSOLUTELY NO

SOUL WHICH IS WHY SHE IRRITATES ME SO MUCH!!

[steviegurash]

wouldn't you just die to drop this vocal only on her guitar and drop the rest of the background and backup singers? ! ? emmm...heaven

[chrisocony]

Great song from a really great record.

It sounds wicked at :09 when she sings the "to ask" with a bluesy rasp; and you hear that recur a few times in the song.

[abooboo4u]

Nice.....one of Her finest songs.....thanks for the post..........El Fat Boy Texcino

[driveoff88]

her voice is so alive when she sings this song...and even more real when you hear it live!

[wotrabbitfish]

this is the REAL experience that makes all so-called "country" music look like BS & bellybuttons...much as I love shania's bellybutton....

[orange105]

Why are we debating which version is better? They are both wonderful. And if you like one better than the other so be it. That is called taste in music and everyones is different.

[edditude09]

@orange105 Mary Chapin pays great gratitude towards Lucinda as they are very good friends. Alot of the women of Nashville country and rock records Lucinda's songs.

[Sonnyboy56]

Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all of this and . . .

[starrynight003]

Passionate kisses from YOU....wow, great song!

[mickeyl01]

My heart is bonkin' so hard right now.........

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

just lurve this song!!!!

[spazzy1alma]

AMAZING!

[deron25]

i love this song

[acusticadam]

not bad!!!!

[cphoover11]

shes awesome!

[paintedbird]

I love this song!

[TimmytheGeek2009]

she's great. this album and Carwheels are always finding their way into my CD player.

[smokes2468]

This is one of my favorite songs! She is really good with this song.

[feedbackfeedback]

I'm feelin it!

[wetinvan]

I find Lucinda's style more sincere and convincing than Mary's. After all, she is shouting out "give me what I DESERVE!" Beautiful!

[FXMAN66]

Agreed. That is why I prefer to hear the songwriter sing their own stories.

[erikabear87]

Actually, during that exact part, I find Mary's version more convincing. Mary puts emphasis on "Give me what I deserve," while Lucinda sings it in the same monotone voice. I don't hear her shouting "DESERVE" like you have quoted above.

[wetinvan]

You made me look! Mary actually sings an entirely different melody for those bars.

I love both versions, but am more moved by the authentic, honest, original expression.

[erikabear87]

I'm just saying I don't understand how that one particular line is more convincing when it's done in the same monotone voice. There's no special emphasis on it or anything.

[TheFriendlyGod]

Oh yes there is. It's subtle but it's powerful. Listen to the way she ends the note on "deserve" and the hoarseness on "night". Lucinda Williams perfectly fuses her physical voice and her lyrical voice, and it makes lines like "and warm clothes, and all that stuff," hit harder because she can sing the attitude behind the line. Carpenter sings it fine, but she sounds like she's performing the song from the outside. I find Williams's roughness more compelling than MCC's pure vocal power.

[erikabear87]

Maybe there's a difference when she does it live, but here? Nope. There's no special emphasis or special attitude on anything in the album version.

[TheFriendlyGod]

Well, I hear all kinds of nuance. It's not showy, but it's strong. If you don't hear it, fair enough. I'm not going to tell you your ears are bad or your opinion is wrong! =)

[spencerny]

you're full of shit

[jumblequeen]

i see a misfits shirt in there.

she's so hot in this vid. i love her.

i saw her play solo as opener for neil young and once as the main act. she's mind-blowing w/ the band backing her. seriously, she was on fire!

[crowldawg]

She's the bomb!!

[lalalasocks]

Why hasn't anyone commented on this?!

She's lovely.

[paradoxical200]

I know, right? Start commenting people!!!

[RealTime88]

@lalalasocks Love the song. Lucinda does it very well!!! But she sings so different from Mary would you agree? Signer/songwriter yes but Lucinda has a more rock sound!!