Snow Patrol - Ray Of Light [Maida Vale 75th Anniversary]

The band cover Madonna's Ray of Light as they celebrate 75 years of the Maida Vale studios on 30th October, 2009

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• patrol
• ray
• of
• light
• madonna
• cover
• maida
• vale
• anniversary

[lolliwinker]

Yeah, just makes him human -- very endearing. :D

I really like this cover.

[showernose1]

love it!!!

[TuneWaif]

@kokym- Well I just meant to say it was originally done by Clive Skinner & Dave Curtiss as Curtiss Maldoon. Then many years later Christine Leach adapted it a bit. Finally Madonna & William Orbit did their key changes & whatnot... made it a big production,etc. That is all. I knew the original first you see so immediately recognized the intro.

[kokym8]

@TuneWaif not exactly reworked ,it is sort of a cover ,but it only has the first verse and a little bit of the chorus of curtiss's song the rest of the song was written by william orbit and others including madonna ...

[TuneWaif]

@00bliss 99 is correct. People think of it as a Madonna song but she only reworked the original 1971 Curtiss Maldoon song which in fact was a slow gentle song called "Sepheryn" about an amazing dream.Singer Christine Leach was involved too. Madonna & her producer exploited this as an opus. I think Snow Patrol does this "Ray of Light" proper justice. "Sepheryn" is done with a jazz slant on Dave Curtiss' hot new cd 'Spitting on a Fish' but he uses real name David Lawrence Atkins.Check it out!



[hooha123424]

this songs supposed to be fast, not some slow dreary rock or whatever it is cover

[hooha123424]

this is shit lol, the songs supposed to be fast and speedy, hence the meaning of the song.

[jondapom]

@00bliss99 it's Miriam Kaufman on keyboards, Iain Archer's wife.

[00bliss99]

@mrhouse2007

Thank you, I didn't know that.

On another note, does anyone know if that is Lisa Hannigan on the key boards. It looks like it to me. I know Lisa cut her long hair & I know she can play keyboards, plus a whole bunch of other instruments. Plus, her & Gary were supposedly together. So, it would make sense if that's her playing the keyboards. Especially, the way she keeps looking at him.

[00bliss99]

@homman106

Of course this is Madonna's song & usually the original person does better than the cover.. Just like, rule of thumb the book is usually better than the movie or series... Tolkien & George R. R. Martin. Although, I think Snow Patrol did an excellent job at this cover job, but it is different than the original. A lot like doing an Elvis song... If your going to do one of his songs & make it different or you will get burned every time by his original fans. He was before my time.

[IzDiaries]

This is so awesome I have chills running down my spine.

[ImTotallySummer]

@homman106 i think everyones allowednto have an opinion. theres no such thing as an "ignorant" opinion.

you have a very strong one, let others have theirs.