Air

[bonerfried]

I'm so glad to have found you, Swordmaster10! I remember my parents seeing this show live, here in New Zealand, and raving about it for months. Have been listening to all your songs off this album and can't believe I still know 'most' of the words and can sing along. I literally grew up with these songs - played the cassette so much it wore out. THANK YOU so much for the memories... and the lyrics ;)

[bdicat]

It amazes me when someone says they hate the original. If it weren't for this original, their would be no others.

[ohanamaggie]

I saw them live! My family is OBSESSED with musicals! Hair, rent, wicked, RHPS..we saw all of those live!

[GereDJ]

Whatever became of Sally Eaton? I heard she gave up on the U.S. and moved to Europe (as if they're any better)

[1955c]

when people were beautiful and civilized unlike today is that a fact or what?

[crackfarm76]

breath deep while you sleep, breath deep!

[emopinata12345]

Such a great song! Her voice is so cute and has a flirty flair to it. :)

[TravellerFellow]

welcome, sulpher dioxide, hello carbon monoxide ha ha ha modern times anyone!!

[SawaaXoXo]

i love the revival version of this song. More peppy lol

[oriskany]

Not to bitch, but, the speed is a "hair" too fast.

Otherwise, thanks for these.

[Swordmaster10]

I can't tell whether you're joking or being serious.

[penrod59]

Serious. We need oil. And I like this version of "Air." And I think hoponcop1 is a moonbat.

[hoponcop1]

It's All Over I Tell You The Air Is Foul And Sour Thanks To the Government For Not Allowing MARIJUANA AS Fuel.And Food And Evetything Under The Sun FUCk YOU GOVERNMENT

[lellepelle01]

i really dont think you're gonna convince any1 by being so aggressive. Take Hair's message and give love instead!=P

what you put out, you get back ;)

[acTOSser16]

revival version is so much better

[Misty9190]

If the song was made in those days, imagine what hardcore song we need today to represent the pollution!!

[NicoleTheBuddendorf]

This one is just....so much more....down to earth...and raw

[NicoleTheBuddendorf]

it's very curious that this is the only version of this song I have heard where Jeannie is cast in a deeper range. The movie and every theatre performance I have heard has this song sung in a much "prettier" and "musically acceptable" fashion. I prefer this version immensely. In fact, this is the song I'm using for my audition for HAIR tonight. And which version have I modeled it after? exactly

[ubersnaab]

When I have seen this on stage it is sung by the pregnant member of the tribe and she has a gasmask over her belly. Brilliant!

[apklinker]

I'm so stuck in the wrong era.

[sillystringgrl]

i totally. totally. fully. and utterly agree. kill me

[IcyKat88]

lmfao same here

[stagecrewgirl2]

@apklinker I feel exactly the same way

[gothicargonaut]

I love this version, also! She has that edgy flintiness in her voice that's so appropriate for the subject matter. I can remember when Air was the flip-side of the 45 of Hair. Those were the days when Hair was the quintessential hippy statement and a "radical" broadway musical that your parents hated... groovy, man. Listening to Air again makes me want to find a copy of Paul Revere and the Raiders singing Cherokee Nation! Don't ask me why, it's crazy. "So proud to live, so proud to die."

[penrod59]

I agree, gothicargonaut, both with your apt description of the lead singer's voice in the context of the song, and with my desire after listening to Air to sing that stupid Cherokee nation song. Why do I like it so much? I may be wrong but the lead singer of the song C.N. seems to affect the accent of a Native American speaker singing in English. I always wondered if he did it on purpose.

[Lillian1225]

HELLO!...We knew then all of the above...nothing was done...nothing can be done...!!!Pesimmistic perhaps!!! but, true...

[mca1218]

I love this original version. it starts out almost as a humorous parody of a folk song (in a sly, girl-group package), but becomes terribly ironic and relative as you hear the lyrics. The end stanzas are brilliant: "deep, deep, deep-de-deep!!"

[bdicat]

This is the original.

[efil4own1]

Is it just me or does this woman sound like Mokey from "Fraggle Rock"?

[bloodiedXangel]

I have a different version of the song. Much nicer to listen to. This womans voice just grates on my eardrums.

[EnkexAlice]

i dont like this version at all. its so boring..

[Swordmaster10]

What were you expecting, a video, the video versions aren't like these at all. You can either have broadway or movie, not both.

[EnkexAlice]

nope, the interpretation of the song.

[magicalfiredragon]

These songs are just as relative to today