Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Six Months In a Leaky Boat

[yywli]

My favourite Split Enz song in my hometown! TED LEO I LOVE YOU.

[USABG58]

@yywli I went down to Australia in 1980 as a young Yank and The Split Endz were busting out all over the country. On the train from Sydney to Melbourne I met a fine 16 year old Anglo/Greek young woman and I fell into her group of friends for a week. They were from the Sunshine district of Melbourne, were Little Feat came from. Anyways, it was fantastic, intense week, obviously a highlight of my life, and when I came back, I stayed heartbroken until this song came out a while later.

[beaglehowl]

Smart song choice on his part. He plays this well but could never have written anything this good.

[xTheOxx]

@beaglehowl

Clearly you haven't heard Timorous Me.

[beaglehowl]

@xTheOxx oh that song that rips off a thin lizzy riff

[CrazyShakaZulu]

Aotearoa,

Rugged Individual

Glistens like a pearl

At the bottom of the World

[17Mandz]

dont give up the day job ur not the sex pistols lol

[17Mandz]

its shit split enz a million times better ok punk

[wolfpartyjoe]

NO SHIT the cover's not going to be as good as the original in most people's minds but TL/RX MORE than do it JUSTICE. Probably second to seeing Tim do it live solo.

[thalkettoth]

eh, split enz is better.

[wayoutoftune]

sour notes here and there/ but ya its a decent version

We used to cover it similar =always fun

[damacguy2]

Cover and they still can't say Aotearoa right...

[johnnysim1985]

so much better than the original

[lrd9999]

I love the original, but I always figured a punk cover would sound good. This one does.

[dillonpwnshard]

this is probably 100x better than the original. Seriously.

[saturdayskids]

I agree, though I like both

[danvalentino]

yeah, and New coke was better than classic coke..

[charlieramone666]

great song

[rufus102]

crosby123 is correct. This is atrocious - they don't even know how to play the correct notes, and this douchebag can't sing the high notes.

Why did they bother?

[daghastlybeast]

if by atrocious you mean made the song 100x better

[perdeck]

fuck you dude.....this is way beter...this is the best cover so fuck off...

[xTheOxx]

Hey Einstein, newsflash: even Tim Finn doesn't sing it perfectly live. Does that make *him* a douchebag?

Ted Leo bothered because he loves the song and can make it his own by giving it his own twist (which includes changing a chord here and there and dropping the silly whistling).

[rednblck]

love this version of the song. =]

[xflamingpenguinx]

nice, i agree :D

[ricottapark]

great quality! nice work.

[crosby123]

This is awful.

[daghastlybeast]

to anyone negative about this cover:

the split enz version sucks, this version does not

kthxbai

[CrazyShakaZulu]

umm Split Enz made the song. Their version is the original

[catonz]

I like this cover, split enz were a great band and like all great bands they experimented with merging different styles, hence leaky boat, strait old line, late last night,....

[Spiccatoarco]

As both a pharmacist and a musician, this is....okay.

[Darinka84]

Little birdy sing it better...

[duckandroll]

i think ted does it best when he sings it solo.

sounds a lot better.

[hereswhatsleft]

agree. The album version with just him is golden. THat whole album is mostly just him and the guitar and it's so great(TBBiD).

[autoreverse1223]

this was recorded as a ted leo solo song... so maybe thats why he sounds all over the place. im not sure. great song though!

[salty59442]

It's not a bad version. I think they must have decided to do this at the last minute cos the bassist is all over the place...but it's got a good spirit about it.

Love the Enz!

[Rorshak]

Definitely a case where the cover improves on the original.

[gabara]

Agreed.

[ahosek]

Maybe the bassist could come to rehearsal more regularly...

[systematist]

OMG; what the hell were you watching?  That is the single greatest performance on YouTube!

[skinheadskippy]

Worst Split Enz cover i've ever heard.

[rofthorax]

Yeah a Splite Enz Cover