You know what I miss? Really good guy singers. I mean, there is nothing wrong with these "sofa voices", but thats all there is any more! The nineties made it not cool to "try". So now everybody does this.. and it's a bit boring. Where is a "Sting"? Or a "Billy Joel"? Or even "A-Ha"? Good guy singers are relegated to R+B, or pop-idol stuff, or metal maybe. But "alt" seems to mean "no trying to sing well" for guys (but girls are allowed). Meh.
@getkristan I have to disagree. Ben Folds has a fantastic singing voice imo and there are many others in alternative music who do too. Rufus Wainwright, Adam Green, Colin Meloy, Patrick Watson, Fleet Foxes...there are plenty. The 'unstable' voice thing is just probably more common in indie/alt music, as it's more about conveying a feeling than striving for technical perfection. Just the thing many pop-singers are lacking these days: Feeling!
@NoekieB Rufus and Patrick have good voices (not great IMHO).. but Adam Green and Colin Meloy are pretty much exactly what I mean. If you heard them with a guitar busking and you didn't know them you'd go.. "meh". I mean .. there used to be Dylans, Johnny Cashs and Lou Reeds too (ie not great singers) but there was *also* Freddy Mercury, Hall and Oates, George Michaels, Jeff Buckley, Morrissey, Duran Duran, y'know? .. and feeling? C'mon.. Adam Green is more emotionless than T-Pain.
I wish there was a separate comment section for arguments. I can't even say how much I enjoyed this without feeling like my comment will just get lost in all the mesh.
@pigreenk07 i totally agree. i never bother commenting on youtube for that reason. shitheads ruin it for everyone. i LOVE this song, by the way. it's done perfectly.
@fiko - American Idol was never created for making big stars out of people who could sing... It's always been about making money... That's why none of them really ever turn out too successful give or take a few...
@Postullio13 American Idol winners yes, but some of the actual contestants who got weeded out because they didn't adhere to the tastes of popular music (like country) could actually sing.
Wow. I realize the singer wasn't 100% perfectly in tune, but that's actually what I like about it. They put their own little bit into this awesome song and made it their own. No slick polish. Just raw. Love it.
I think it's great, and I read loads of comments about modern music not being as great as the Classic stuff. Well, I was there for the Classic stuff, and it Was great, Is great......but great music is still being made today, and here is a prime example.
I'm 53 years old and DO remember when artists worked hour after hour perfecting their craft, so they COULD sing with nearly perfect pitch WITHOUT the use of artificial devices to keep them in pitch.. Artistic interpretation aside, it's a great cover, but a little too off key for my ear.
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BFF has some great songs, but this video shows how a really bad singer sounds when he doesn't have pitch correctors and tone enhancers. Sounds like one of my daughters High School productions... OK, I'm being too kind... This vocal is terrible.
@shinberg This is not BFF. The Bens is a collaboration of three different musicians. Ben Kewller's music is typically infectiously raw and unedited and he's the one singing this piece.
@shinberg The reason you think these vocals are "bad" is probably because you are SO young, that you can't remember a time when popular music hadn't become the flat, soul-less, auto-tuned American-Idol style overproduced CRAP that is spoonfed (or shoved down the throat of) to the Masses by the dinosaur record companies. I feel sorry for you. "Perfection is stagnation."
@LeshaAnn WOW you said that extremely well. I think the waver in his voice brings more legitimacy to the song and a real sense of true feeling. I really love this version of "Wicked Little Town" , and screw it if someone can't see where this was coming from.
@LeshaAnn I'm a little pissed about how pretentious you sound but I'll try to keep this response civil. His voice is bad because it lacks depth and sounds like a 15 year old trying to enunciate like Bob Dylan. The only thing remotely interesting about his voice is that he managed to make a career with it.
@VoidLS Check the thumbs-up count of my comment versus yours. Obviously musical tastes are subjective in the extreme, but yours is clearly in the minority among people who really know music, who feel it to their core and live or die by it. It's the youthful, plaintive nature of his voice that makes it so compelling!
@LeshaAnn I wasn't really commenting on the emotion behind his voice, I was commenting on the quality of it. Wicked Little Town, to me, is a song that requires a certain quality of voice. His isn't it. And I'm not saying that his voice doesn't have a place in the music industry, Bob Dylan couldn't sing either.
@LeshaAnn Terrible that you choose to pay attention to American Idol more then you do the great bands that are around today. You get thumbs up because you are supporting the artist with a comment on the artist's video. People have the choice to like or dislike music, deal with it and stop being pretentious. The voices are a bit lifeless and dull in this video, and that is what adds the flavour to the song. My god did I mention how annoying it is that YOU must CAPITALIZE letters in your comments.
@Fliko Well, you have me dead to rights on the capitalization thing (I wouldn't do it if I could underline), but you are way off the mark on the rest of it. I have never, I repeat NEVER, watched American Idol, Dancing With The Has-beens, or any o' that shit. I know there's fantastic music being produced to this very day; I said "POPULAR music" is (and was) soulless. As for being pretentious, what, did I use a word you don't understand or something? I've never been to college, so...???
@LeshaAnn You made a comment about the singers on American Idol being auto-tuned, and crap. There are a few very amazing soulful singers that have passed through American Idol, go check out Haley Reinhart. Yet again you are pretentious suggesting that your vocabulary is better then mine, and you were pretentious before when you were sorry for shinbergs' 'young opinion'. Going to college doesn't make you pretentious. Some popular music is soulful and full of talent, stop trying to be cool.
@Fliko listen she doesn't pretend to be cool she IS COOL!! there is NO TRYING! take your baseless opinions and sucket! also anyone on american idol are just crap. maybe some of those people will do better later on but while they're on AI they all sucked! even that show sucked. and dont give me the shit how millions love it. just becuz millions love them doesn't make it good. if millions like a horrible thing its still a horrible thing. im sure your a good guy but your comments are asinine..
@dillinger9999 You seem a tiny bit younger then LeshaAnn, she probably thinks you are stupid and just uses you to make herself feel good when she loses pointless internet arguments. They didn't all suck on AI, the majority of them were boring singers who had boring tastes in music, but some of them really did shine. It's obvious you never read my or any one else's posts in this thread, just LeshaAnns.
@Fliko dont pretend to think you know us. you are REALLY threatened by the way she STRUCTURES her sentences, & if you had ANY sense at all you would see by the way she writes she's NEVER been to any COLLEGE. if you look at the way she writes she has a very high IQ. you are losing an argument with Lesha and then you go on to attack her writing and how you feel she's talking DOWN to you. AND thats you shit not her's own it buddy!! Lesha is one of the finest people you could ever meet.
@jenoeno6 Of course... You're making my argument for me! Bob Dylan is from a time when heart mattered more than image, perfectly auto-tuned. Early Dylan is absolutely amazing.
@LeshaAnn .. and now I just read your comment .. Well, I *am* old enough to remember a time when being a singer meant not singing like you just woke up. Y'know, working on range and control and stuff because it was your *instrument*. Just like if everybody played guitar like Bob Dylan.. ok.. *maybe* there's honest soul behind it, but theres nothing wrong with trying to get skillz. You dont dis Adele, right? Great voice with great technique. Show me a guy who compares nowadays. Not allowed.
Lol, Ben Kweller doesn't know what to do with his hands without a guitar in them.
Solution: air guitar.
xXChewYXx17 1 week ago
@Fliko @LeshaAnn @VoidLS just enjoy the song and if you dont go listen to beiber the greatest ARTIST OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!
TheCyShow 2 months ago
You know what I miss? Really good guy singers. I mean, there is nothing wrong with these "sofa voices", but thats all there is any more! The nineties made it not cool to "try". So now everybody does this.. and it's a bit boring. Where is a "Sting"? Or a "Billy Joel"? Or even "A-Ha"? Good guy singers are relegated to R+B, or pop-idol stuff, or metal maybe. But "alt" seems to mean "no trying to sing well" for guys (but girls are allowed). Meh.
getkristan 4 months ago
@getkristan I have to disagree. Ben Folds has a fantastic singing voice imo and there are many others in alternative music who do too. Rufus Wainwright, Adam Green, Colin Meloy, Patrick Watson, Fleet Foxes...there are plenty. The 'unstable' voice thing is just probably more common in indie/alt music, as it's more about conveying a feeling than striving for technical perfection. Just the thing many pop-singers are lacking these days: Feeling!
NoekieB 3 months ago
@NoekieB Rufus and Patrick have good voices (not great IMHO).. but Adam Green and Colin Meloy are pretty much exactly what I mean. If you heard them with a guitar busking and you didn't know them you'd go.. "meh". I mean .. there used to be Dylans, Johnny Cashs and Lou Reeds too (ie not great singers) but there was *also* Freddy Mercury, Hall and Oates, George Michaels, Jeff Buckley, Morrissey, Duran Duran, y'know? .. and feeling? C'mon.. Adam Green is more emotionless than T-Pain.
getkristan 3 months ago
What about Ben Dover?
Rocketjay12 4 months ago
I wish there was a separate comment section for arguments. I can't even say how much I enjoyed this without feeling like my comment will just get lost in all the mesh.
pigreenk07 4 months ago
@pigreenk07 i totally agree. i never bother commenting on youtube for that reason. shitheads ruin it for everyone. i LOVE this song, by the way. it's done perfectly.
chemica1smi1e 1 month ago
@fiko - American Idol was never created for making big stars out of people who could sing... It's always been about making money... That's why none of them really ever turn out too successful give or take a few...
Postullio13 6 months ago
@Postullio13 American Idol winners yes, but some of the actual contestants who got weeded out because they didn't adhere to the tastes of popular music (like country) could actually sing.
Fliko 6 months ago
Why is Kweller playing the air guitar the whole time?
yellowestorange 6 months ago
Not a patch on the 2 versions from the film. No feeling in this.
ilsonimp 7 months ago
I like this more than the original cast version but not as much as the film version...
achaturvedi12 8 months ago
I just wish Ben Folds had gotten to sing a verse!
dlweiss 9 months ago
This whole album is weak and I am a BIG Hedwig fan.
FUNCHOMCLALA 10 months ago
@FUNCHOMCLALA I never get that , what would you want ? Would you want them to sound just like the sound track?
googoobh 9 months ago
This whole album is weak and I am a BIG Hedwig fan.
FUNCHOMCLALA 10 months ago
my only complaint is that kweller killed the melody towards the middle and ending. other than that, i like.
whatsanicwaite 11 months ago 3
nice and self version so much about what it is
arinrungjang 1 year ago
I loved it. Wish I could buy it somewhere.
yeshiva83 1 year ago
I don't mind a little bit of out of tune, but this is just annoying. Got tired of it fast.
leftyla 1 year ago
Stephen Trask can sure write a decent tune!!! Lovely song, both versions of it!
deltabluesam 1 year ago 2
Wow. I realize the singer wasn't 100% perfectly in tune, but that's actually what I like about it. They put their own little bit into this awesome song and made it their own. No slick polish. Just raw. Love it.
lisadewild 1 year ago 18
@lisadewild I agree about the vocals. That's how I've always felt about Ben Folds and Ben Kweller, in particular.
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mohanekamale 1 year ago
I think it's great, and I read loads of comments about modern music not being as great as the Classic stuff. Well, I was there for the Classic stuff, and it Was great, Is great......but great music is still being made today, and here is a prime example.
ironbuttermilk 1 year ago
I'm 53 years old and DO remember when artists worked hour after hour perfecting their craft, so they COULD sing with nearly perfect pitch WITHOUT the use of artificial devices to keep them in pitch.. Artistic interpretation aside, it's a great cover, but a little too off key for my ear.
shinberg 1 year ago
@shinberg is it weird that i feel impressed at that? you fooled us, good job on the internet ^^
btw guys, he's right. the vocals are weak, but in comparison to tommy gnosis's version it's angelic. hence why i like this version.
(gnosis made my ears bleed)
knightsintodreams 1 year ago
very very artistic!!!
vicco415 1 year ago
why is it that when I look up the lyrics to this song its different from the one their singing? Did they change it?
cutestkittyface 1 year ago
@cutestkittyface
There were two versions in the movie. One sung by Hedwig and one sung by Tommy. Look up the Tommy Gnosis version.
MsRenushka 1 year ago
This Version along with The Breeders are the best i've seen..... :-)
PORPH 1 year ago
weird... -_-
baboysai 1 year ago
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BFF has some great songs, but this video shows how a really bad singer sounds when he doesn't have pitch correctors and tone enhancers. Sounds like one of my daughters High School productions... OK, I'm being too kind... This vocal is terrible.
shinberg 1 year ago
@shinberg Ben Kweller is amazing in this. listen to some of his songs he sounds the same in all of them.
dcy123 1 year ago 3
@shinberg This is not BFF. The Bens is a collaboration of three different musicians. Ben Kewller's music is typically infectiously raw and unedited and he's the one singing this piece.
kittercat 1 year ago 3
@shinberg and precisely the REASON this version WORKS
iCostaRica24 1 year ago 2
@shinberg The reason you think these vocals are "bad" is probably because you are SO young, that you can't remember a time when popular music hadn't become the flat, soul-less, auto-tuned American-Idol style overproduced CRAP that is spoonfed (or shoved down the throat of) to the Masses by the dinosaur record companies. I feel sorry for you. "Perfection is stagnation."
LeshaAnn 1 year ago 38
@LeshaAnn WOW you said that extremely well. I think the waver in his voice brings more legitimacy to the song and a real sense of true feeling. I really love this version of "Wicked Little Town" , and screw it if someone can't see where this was coming from.
googoobh 9 months ago 2
@LeshaAnn I'm a little pissed about how pretentious you sound but I'll try to keep this response civil. His voice is bad because it lacks depth and sounds like a 15 year old trying to enunciate like Bob Dylan. The only thing remotely interesting about his voice is that he managed to make a career with it.
VoidLS 9 months ago
@VoidLS Check the thumbs-up count of my comment versus yours. Obviously musical tastes are subjective in the extreme, but yours is clearly in the minority among people who really know music, who feel it to their core and live or die by it. It's the youthful, plaintive nature of his voice that makes it so compelling!
LeshaAnn 9 months ago
@LeshaAnn I wasn't really commenting on the emotion behind his voice, I was commenting on the quality of it. Wicked Little Town, to me, is a song that requires a certain quality of voice. His isn't it. And I'm not saying that his voice doesn't have a place in the music industry, Bob Dylan couldn't sing either.
VoidLS 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn holy shit, this made me laugh so much :D Nice!
sweetdeathofi 8 months ago
@LeshaAnn Terrible that you choose to pay attention to American Idol more then you do the great bands that are around today. You get thumbs up because you are supporting the artist with a comment on the artist's video. People have the choice to like or dislike music, deal with it and stop being pretentious. The voices are a bit lifeless and dull in this video, and that is what adds the flavour to the song. My god did I mention how annoying it is that YOU must CAPITALIZE letters in your comments.
Fliko 6 months ago
@Fliko Well, you have me dead to rights on the capitalization thing (I wouldn't do it if I could underline), but you are way off the mark on the rest of it. I have never, I repeat NEVER, watched American Idol, Dancing With The Has-beens, or any o' that shit. I know there's fantastic music being produced to this very day; I said "POPULAR music" is (and was) soulless. As for being pretentious, what, did I use a word you don't understand or something? I've never been to college, so...???
LeshaAnn 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn You made a comment about the singers on American Idol being auto-tuned, and crap. There are a few very amazing soulful singers that have passed through American Idol, go check out Haley Reinhart. Yet again you are pretentious suggesting that your vocabulary is better then mine, and you were pretentious before when you were sorry for shinbergs' 'young opinion'. Going to college doesn't make you pretentious. Some popular music is soulful and full of talent, stop trying to be cool.
Fliko 6 months ago
@Fliko "[S]top trying to be cool"??! I don't have to try, Baby!
LeshaAnn 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn lesha I think [F]liko is threatened by your Superior linguistic skills...lol
dillinger9999 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn You had to get your buddy dillinger9999 to come insult me on an internet arguement? You're pathetic.
Fliko 6 months ago
@Fliko I didn't ask him, or tell, him, to, so I'm not sure, um: What's your beef, Wellington?
LeshaAnn 6 months ago
@Fliko listen she doesn't pretend to be cool she IS COOL!! there is NO TRYING! take your baseless opinions and sucket! also anyone on american idol are just crap. maybe some of those people will do better later on but while they're on AI they all sucked! even that show sucked. and dont give me the shit how millions love it. just becuz millions love them doesn't make it good. if millions like a horrible thing its still a horrible thing. im sure your a good guy but your comments are asinine..
dillinger9999 6 months ago
@dillinger9999 You seem a tiny bit younger then LeshaAnn, she probably thinks you are stupid and just uses you to make herself feel good when she loses pointless internet arguments. They didn't all suck on AI, the majority of them were boring singers who had boring tastes in music, but some of them really did shine. It's obvious you never read my or any one else's posts in this thread, just LeshaAnns.
Fliko 6 months ago
@Fliko dont pretend to think you know us. you are REALLY threatened by the way she STRUCTURES her sentences, & if you had ANY sense at all you would see by the way she writes she's NEVER been to any COLLEGE. if you look at the way she writes she has a very high IQ. you are losing an argument with Lesha and then you go on to attack her writing and how you feel she's talking DOWN to you. AND thats you shit not her's own it buddy!! Lesha is one of the finest people you could ever meet.
dillinger9999 6 months ago
@dillinger9999 Yeah that's cool
Fliko 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn lol awesome
dillinger9999 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF BOB DYLAN?
jenoeno6 6 months ago
@jenoeno6 Of course... You're making my argument for me! Bob Dylan is from a time when heart mattered more than image, perfectly auto-tuned. Early Dylan is absolutely amazing.
LeshaAnn 6 months ago
@LeshaAnn .. and now I just read your comment .. Well, I *am* old enough to remember a time when being a singer meant not singing like you just woke up. Y'know, working on range and control and stuff because it was your *instrument*. Just like if everybody played guitar like Bob Dylan.. ok.. *maybe* there's honest soul behind it, but theres nothing wrong with trying to get skillz. You dont dis Adele, right? Great voice with great technique. Show me a guy who compares nowadays. Not allowed.
getkristan 4 months ago
VERY nice version of a great song.
Rocketjay12 1 year ago
background vocals +1
seneida623 2 years ago
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Nice to see retarded people record songs by much superior talents...
chikotntw 2 years ago
Pero si desafina!!! =S
pandorrrita 2 years ago
Ah...wh...what happened at 2:44?
AnarchalPatriarch 2 years ago
@AnarchalPatriarch
I agree, lol.
felldownonce1 1 year ago
Eek
mjharden0223 2 years ago
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I lame version of a great song. What a weak voice!
donhajicek 2 years ago
one of the best covers I've seen o.O
TickMoloTock 2 years ago 2
muito bom, muito bom, muito bom!!!!
gledison83 2 years ago
excellent version of this song!
geschaftsreise 2 years ago
I cant believe this only has 478 views. This is a cool song, and they do it better than any. You can tell Kweller likes this song alot.
TheSlibert 2 years ago 2
how have i never heard this, did they realese more than the 3 or 4 songs from the EP?
elsmurf01 2 years ago 3
Yes, they recorded this one too for "Wig in a box", an album featuring some artists covering songs from the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
TatianeMayumi 2 years ago 8