A Thread To Discuss Why The Delgados Cover of "Mr Blue Sky" Is The Best Single To Be Relased This Year.

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Well... it just is.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

And it's not actually technically a single either, which makes it even better.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

So... yeah.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Considering this is the first ILM post I've started in a month, I probably should have put more thought into it, but no. I know best.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't heard it yet!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i should put more thought into my replies too...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Let this thread serve as a warning for ILM...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, no, an explanation is required. In a world where there are many (some would say too many) indie bands doing the fragile, delicate, beautifully fey thing, this song manages to be more fragile, more delicate, more beautiful and more fey than them all. It makes ELO seem like one of the all time great ideas. It's the wussiest song ever, which is a great thing. It's.... wow.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I am looking forward to hearing it, and I don't say that about many cover versions (well, not potentially ironic ones of uncool songs, anyway).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't heard it, but I just felt like saying I'm getting rather sick of the Delgados. Until this latest album I never really realised how the melodic structure of their songs NEVER BLOODY CHANGES

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

In a world where there are many indie bands doing the fragile, delicate, beautifully fey thing, this song manages to be more fragile, more delicate, more beautiful and more fey than them all. . . . It's the wussiest song ever, which is a great thing.

Dom: I hope you realize that by saying that you're bound by honor to show at least some modicum of respect for serious twee indiepop. Like Blueboy twee, because I haven't heard this cover but it simply cannot be wussier than Blueboy.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I've heard wussier than Blueboy, and ironically it wasn't pretty

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Blueboy? That "remember me" dancey guy from 1997?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

erm no

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah label twee popsters c.91-95

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Their cover of 'Matthew and Son' is much better.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the idea of it. Reminds me of Ash covering Abba, somehow.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Possibly the best b-side this year, I'll give you that.

― Brian the Snorf, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

And it's not actually technically a single either, which makes it even better.
So, uh, where do we find it?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

On the b-side of their current single, All You Need Is Hate. In stores now.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Anywhere it can be downloaded? I refuse to import and I bet there won't be a local release of the thing (tho Coming In From The Cold came out so there's hope)... what's the other B-side like?

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"all you need is hate" sounded like it could have been a big hit, actuyally. i wrote a review of "hate" for college, and i said "this is the single". shame it hasn't taken off...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

posted on wrong delgados thread. silly me.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

is it the peel session version? are all the peel session tracks on there? (they did mr blue sky, california uber alles, matthew and son and last rose of summer(?))

it was great btw. someone posted on here a while ago that mr blue sky (the original version) was the saddest song ever and that very morning i'd practically skipped up the bond street escalator whilst listening to the delgadoes version.

i'm not sure the 'please turn me over' line survives intact though. which is a pity.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it a b-side? Or is it on an album?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't also a bit bizarre how the original ELO track has staged a bit of a comeback? Between its placement in "Adaptation" and those VW convertible ads, it's suddenly back in vogue (as if ELO and "being in vogue" ever shared any common ground). Heard it again this week in Crate & Barrell on Houston and Broadway.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly, only Mr Bluesky is on the CD. Last Rose Of Summer is the most beautiful thing they've ever done, or that's how it feels...

It's even better when they do it live. The whole of the BA2 sighing along... magic.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm still not cinviced the VW ad used the original album track.

― g (graysonlane), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"convinced"...
if the delgados new record was even close to as good as blueboy it would be great, but i highly doubt this possibility

― g (graysonlane), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Rose Of Summer

Is that the doo wop song that John Peel used to play quite a bit?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yep. Except their version isn't quite as doo-wop.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"It makes ELO seem like one of the all time great ideas."

Um, they are.

I unabashedly love ELO. Have since I was in diapers, and am very happy to see them getting some sort of nod from "the cool kids". Sure, their later stuff is pretentious on the level of, say, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (another of my favorites) but Lynne has a way of writing pop songs of Brian Wilson-esque proportions. Sure, he's an egotistical prat. Sure, he's got the biggest whiteguy 'fro you've ever seen. Sure, he was in the Traveling Wilburys. I think he's scored enough karma points by writing "Livin' Thing", "Do Ya", and "Yours Truly, 2095"

I can only hope my vocal support of this fine group will encourage others to cast off their shackles of shame and admit that they, too, own *both* ELO greatest hits multi CD sets.

― jodi shapiro (burun), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

There are two? Don't they overlap, then?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Overlap, yes, but FLASHBACK, the one from last year, is remastered and all that, with liner notes from Jeff.

AFTERGLOW is the other one, with all the "hits" and some rather poor choices, IMHO.

― jodi shapiro (burun), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I have Greatest Hits on LP... as well as most of the original albums! I actually think if anything they did is worthy of the vague and dreaded word pretentious it's their earlier stuff actually. The later stuff was just a pop bonanza! And while Jeff Lynne did sport a whiteboy 'fro, surely his wasn't the largest. Mark Farner's was way bigger, to name a random example.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant Rob Tyner, not Mark Farner, btw.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

http://photo2.matchnet.com/alpha/2003/02/20/16567732.jpg

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I will defer to the photo evidence at hand, but Lynne, in the early 70's, had a much huger one than show in the photo above.

― jodi shapiro (burun), Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

And it's straight in at...

72.

Perhaps I protest too much, but I ain't been this angry for a very long time.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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