suede - shipbuilding

[xtstevie]

Totally awesome cover & up there with best ever versions of this classic.

[anuskaev]

Spain loves you, Brett <3

[jeremiah2880]

best version of this song.

[deadplanet22]

This would have been great on DMS! I wish they wrote this.

[mikeybunny]

love this version but check out the hue and cry version!!

[PerignonPop]

Well, I ask you...

[wernice]

BRILLIANT. JUST BRILLIANT

[SivEdable]

Brilliant recording, to be fair to the previous artists, the technology shows in this version, I think Robert Wyatt and Elvis Costello would have sounded much nicer if recorded in a modern studio. It's not that sort of song though. Timeless. All versions good.

[cftp]

Sounds well tranny.

[xurxootero]

Por culpa das Opos 2010 aisleime do mundo e voume perder un concerto

na Praza da Quintana que pode ser moi interesante: Diana Krall e Elvis Costello...

Damn it !!!! En homenaxe a Mr.Costelo eiquí deixo unha versión que me gusta

dun das miñas bandas favoritas: Suede.

[johlufc]

not bad

[fabios66]

loved suede

[canis77]

This was covered for the Warchild" charity album if I remember correctly.

[twistedviewlabs]

@canis77 you are correct.

[fogboys03]

awesome

[walker44444]

I like Suede, but what a rotten version this is. Just listen to Robert Wyatt. Perfect.

[Isolar]

Beautiful.

[4kisch]

Brilliant version of a brilliant song ! Thanks for posting, I didn't know it existed until today !

Brett is beautiful and so is his voice.

[Alejjjjo]

DIvino...

[MrSmiths1]

Who wrote this song please?

[mugui]

"Shipbuilding" is a song written by singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and producer Clive Langer. Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics discuss the contradiction of the war bringing back prosperity to traditional shipbuilding areas of ... to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war, whilst also sending off the sons of these areas to fight and, potentially, lose their lives in those same ships.

wiki

[theeldergoth]

Thanks for posting! What a great band. My favorite.

[losghost]

Ugg, this version sounds like someone running their fingernails down a chalk board. Take the soft voice of Robert Wyatt or the smokey voice of Elvis Costello and replace it with this nasal whiny singing... ok got to turn this off now.

[crawzaphod]

I completely agree. (Wyatt's version, altough he didn't write it, is still the best despite Chet's amazing contribution on the Costello song).

[age08visa]

best version. I think!!!!

[BlueSmurf10]

Stunning version.

[dbvalentine]

suede shouldnt have touched this song

[BambamxEmilee]

Seconded.

[Omnomfischesuppe]

Agreed.

[moviesireland]

amazing

[seanreillyireland]

this isn't shit, its really brilliant, in my opinion. regarding criticism of blur and oasis, oasis were truly as albarns teeshirt said, quoasis... nothing wrong with that, but not worth 1/10 of the hype... while blur were always rubbish in my opinion. but suede had something, they were special. again all in my opinion as a humble listener, we all are entitled to that much.

[vintagezigg]

Classy performance Sean ! I never paid any attention to these guys until you turned me on to them recently. Actually I never heard any thing until now. The singer's got an amazing voice. Thanks man.

[ohgimemo]

It's really too bad that this song didn't stand out more than it did in 1995. It was unfortunately and unfairly overshadowed by Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller's crap version of "Come Together" and a Seymour (Blur) instrumental wank.

[evgad87]

i love suede but why dump on blur and oasis? blur was brilliant and while its justifiably cool to shit on oasis now, their first album was something special.

[peskypesky]

sorry, but this version sucks.

[ALostPilot]

great version. alwyas found the orignal(s) a bit stop-starty compared to this.

[drylaundry]

agree. a lot smoother here.

[Stevelittlefingers]

This song is from Robert Wyatt, actually Elvis Costello's version was a cover.

[art4life4me]

No, Clive Langer and Costello wrote this for Robert Wyatt. Good song.

[tommy10inch]

Its about shipbuilding in BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND.

[jjbeake]

You mean CUMBRIA. At least, since the 70's anyway...

[fastrover]

This brings me back so beautiful memories.

One of the nicest songs i've ever heard even better the the Costello's original.

Thanks so much for posting it here.

[restalez]

This is a good case of a cover being better than the origional, imo. Anderson's voice just brings something extra to the song.Beautiful.

[Gaz2k07]

it was originally a song wrote by elvis costello an anti war song for the falklands war not very popular sentiment for the time but a classic all the same

[h100170]

Great to find this on YouTube! Didn't they do this for a charity CD, for Bosnia or something?

[magicjoef]

Yeah, it was for the Help album in 1995.

[ilovesuede]

beautiful. It's so soulful, brett's voice is fantastic in this. wonderful.

[mackietwostar]

Never knew suede covered this, wonderful stuff