Clammbon - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still [JAPANCIRCUIT]

[teddingtontcu]

2 years ago I wrote about this abomination and upon reflection I didnt really express my disgust at this disgrace clearly enough..........awful.

I repeat, what is the silly woman doing to the keyboards.

[yhjp4717jp]

賛否両論あるかと思いますが、良い曲なんでオリジナルを聴いてく­ださい。

[HawkwindMaster]

She just shat over one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Damn.

[dantean]

I've loved the Robert Wyatt-era Soft Machine for most of my 49 years on this earth and this is an outstanding cover of my favorite song. There.

[teddingtontcu]

@dantean maybe a trip to the vets is in order, to check out your auditory canals!

[NCW250]

Now this is a very strange version of one of my favourite songs of all time. She sounds like a cat being strangled, then sent to hell. I to think they missing the point. But then wasn't Soft Machine about improvised modern jazz, rather than mainstream prog rock?

[Geni909]

i like it

[holygalaga]

you're retarded

[kofferfischii]

There is a similar cover by Brian Auger of a certain Beatles song

[adifficultname]

This cover is a disgrace. The singer is out of tune, lacking in emotion, and I have to wonder if she even knows what the song is about.

Covers of songs dedicated to specific people - as this one is - rarely work (like Joan Baez singing "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.") This is yet another glaring example.

I've watched many many Youtube videos. This is the first time I've felt I had to say something. Please make this woman stop butchering a very intimate song. Go back and get a history lesson.

[holygalaga]

go fuck your thomas pynchon collection

[teddingtontcu]

@adifficultname yes indeed

[adifficultname]

test

[teddingtontcu]

Soft Machine, was a fusion band. It had jazz and psychedelic influences. In 1969, psychedelia was an influence. As to your transgressive take on cultural forms and differences, I'm afraid it does not stack up at all. Consider this. If the 'Japanese' are not very interested in 'us' as you propose

then why bother covering this song at all. A culture will actively socially construct a form (Including its own music) as a development. This music is not a development. It is retrorade!

[zortotron]

who gives a shit?

[cr1msonking93]

if you watch this video you should be interested a tsoft machine I guess

[holygalaga]

why did so many art fags post on this video?

[teddingtontcu]

Koff....I respect your opinions. Nobody has the definitive 'take' However I'm not looking for perfection here. If you are going to step into the path of musical giants ( Soft Machine ), A Jazz orientated fusion band, you need to wear the neccesary footwear. As I say, respect for your opinions as well. Thats what makes listening and playing so engrossing.

[kofferfischii]

Your categories are wrong. It is not a jazz oriented fusion band, it is something completely different. The more interesting question would be how much those Japanese dig European culture. And whether this matters. They have their own culture and European music is just used in a very special way. We cant really dig it, but we can listen. How japanese is Michael Jackson? He is still very popular there. Maybe a similar phenomenon. They dont care about us very much.

[teddingtontcu]

Sorry folks but she does not convey this song. What she does do is sing ( Flat ) and without suitable expression. And no, I do not just sit down and critisise. I have appreciated and seen many prog cover bands. This is truly awful.

[kofferfischii]

IMHO this is the band that performs Velvel Undergrounds All Tommorrows Parties so beautifully in Carnival of the Night. They really did their stuff, wrapped or not.. Thanks!!

[teddingtontcu]

what is she doing to the poor keyboards

Koff..............

[kofferfischii]

She is cultivating a certain style, call it trash, but I like it. She loves that song no matter that she may be not the most perfect piano player. Perfection and pop music dont go together anyway.

[kofferfischii]

She gets the essense of the song very beautifully! One of my very favourite youtube clips!

[BassLudeman]

the original(by soft machine) beats the shit out of this...

[dantean]

Someone told you that music was a contest? I think they were laughing behind your back when they did that. This is a gorgeous version of my favorite song by the greatest band there ever was (Soft Machine, not Clammbon). Your rating music as if you couldn't tell the difference between it and a judged Olympic competition--say, synchronized swimming--typifies why there's so little wonderful music in the world and lots of people who can swim in synchronization w others--for what THAT'S worth.

[BassLudeman]

its not a contest.but that doesnt mean some music isnt bette. no need to freak out just because I pointed out that the original version is much better and I think it would be a good thing for listeners to hear, so they can actually be directed to the little amount of wonderful music that they would never have encountered had they assumed that this wasnt better or worse than the original, which they wouldnt even know exists, since whoever posted this failed to mention the geniuses who wrote it

[toecutterr6]

don't like it.