World Party: Sessions 1 - Is It Like Today

[jacklydon]

I just can't get enough of this song. How could it come to this?

[kincaide67]

I feel like I've finally gone through my old VHS library and watched this for the 15th million time. This is far more simpler. Thanx for uploading.

[blacksunfish]

Ace performance!

[StarKnight1Sunshine]

That version: epic. That is all. <3

[TomCrac]

Can't wait till Karl comes around again in NY!!!!..Great performance!!!

[ejacobdor]

Great song. I love everything of it! Great bass playing on the Hofner.

[ponkey71]

cracking song !!!

[questforbooze]

fucking awesome....loved this song the first time i've ever heard it in the early 90's

[jax833]

i wonder if kim, and the rabbit fur remembers this song cominng from my hallway? what do you think d.s.?

[ganbowling]

This is an absolutely brilliant live version of this song. As has been mentioned before, the piano play is superb, and for me, to hear the intricacy of the harmonies is just sublime. Its a timeless song which I've heard over and over again and have never ever got sick off. Well done World Party, please keep these masterpieces coming! :-)

[timdoog42]

I love this version the best .The guitar solo is great.

[JohnTRoberts]

I heard this song on the radio about two weeks ago. It was one of those days where the market had crashed again. Talk about hitting home. "I'm really worried about living." How many times have you heard that thought in the last few months? "We're living on a landslide." All said, the song has given me a chance to explore World Party. John

[itillbeme]

The electric piano player is supreme, the gutairists, they all are creating music that has never been heard before, not one note. Karl is one of a kind.

[Buglebogue]

I think she is Amanda Kramer and also the wife of Dave Catlin-Birch, one of the guitaritst, unless I am totally mistaken.

[Gippslander]

Completely correct - only Dave is generally the bass player. :)

[bol316]

Amanda Kramer, formerly of Information Society. I want to know..what your thinking!

[jsorensen]

Brilliant. I keep coming back.

[gr8dalmuti]

This is better than the original studio version. What a wonderful performance. I love the added guitar solo in this version.

[JSolitaire]

Excellent live performance!

No studio only crap here.

[Xumil]

Jugswede says "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," but I hear more like Big Head Todd, "Bittersweet." Not sure which song came first. Notice Karl includes the verse added by my all-time fave female minstrel, Eliza Gilkyson (the 2nd verse, about the Greeks laughing at notions of the universe, guessing God's name.) She does a fantastic version of this timeless song about the human mythos... it's on her recent album, "Paradise Hotel."

[karmafix68]

ya, i never noticed the BHT similarity. WP's song was a few years earlier.

[mastacation4dnation]

This song is a total CLASSIC! Dave plays a bass line on this song that Paul himself would have been proud of!

[stavros244]

Just about the best thing I've seen on YouTube, thanks for posting!

[Rockunstank]

great band.

[TouringMars]

Fantastic performance of a fantastic song!

[jugswede]

Is anyone gonna comment on the similarities to knocking on heaven's door in chord structure? A brilliant use of a simple sequence. Pop doesn't get much more eloquent about the human condition.

[Cavedagna]

Is this Brad Pritt? :)

[thecandycane]

This was the 1st song i figured out how to play on the guitar. The chords in the verses was already part of a song I was writing @ the time.

[khortlwolf]

Wow, this is also the first song I ever figured out how to play on guitar, when I was 12 or 13,  since they were some of the first chords I learned on my chord chart.

[mangokitty]

Beautiful, beautiful song.

Karl, I'm so glad you came back to us. May you have decades of good health.

[indeck77]

Thanks for posting this beautiful song. I especially like the harmonies on this version. Shame that this tune isn't more well known.

[dick27]

Thanks for sharing this, Gippslander. Best live version I've seen/heard of this. Wish I could have been there.