Paul Young - "Every Time You Go" C/D

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I've always loved this song. It hasn't dated a fraction of an inch. If Paul Young replaced Daryl Hall as singer in Hall & Oates (leaving him to fill instrumental and mullet duties), you'd have the real rock 'n' soul fusion H & O were striving for.

In fact he's got other great tunes: "Come Back & Stay," his version of "Oh Girl," his rendition of "That's the Way Love Is" with Alison Moyet at Live Aid. Where is he these days?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud dud dud dud dud, for his version of Love Will Tear Us Apart alone.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If Paul Young replaced Daryl Hall as singer in Hall & Oates (leaving him to fill instrumental and mullet duties), you'd have the real rock 'n' soul fusion H & O were striving for.

That sentence brings up my BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. Paul Young sounds to me like he's one perm away from being Michael Bolton (and/or one open shirt away from being Paul Rodgers).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We must forgive him his sin. He had great ears.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Young is NOT Michael Bolton. Even a cursory listen would reveal this.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

LOOOOOOVE LOOOOVE WILLL TEAR US APPPAAAAAART AAGGAAAAAAINN

(I paid a dollar for No Parlez just so I could hear him sing this. Sooooo worth a dollar.)

As for the song in question...classic!
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― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

He started out great -- his cover of "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" was a masterpiece of overproduction -- but his taste in covers became more obvious and boring with each successive release. "Everytime" is still a classic, though.

xpost: that movie was a DUD DUD DUD

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In theory I don't have a problem with a mainstream MOR guy covering "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (frankly, Joy Division deserve to be schlocked up). I haven't heard it and am actually hoping I enjoy it.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Classicclassicclassic. "Every Time You Go" is a fundamentally a great song, with a nice hook. There were maybe a few questionable aesthetic choices (a tad too much falsetto; the backing vocals sound a little cheezy to me now; I hate that huge Pet Sounds-esque Tambourine of the Gods).

I don't think I ever heard his cover of LWTUA. I liked "Oh Girl" and "Playhouse"; "Love of the Common People" also deserves mention.

I think he has/had a great voice, though I can kinda see where the Michael Bolton-Rick Astley comparison comes in. I can only say that his hits preceded theirs by a decade, and he did the postmodern crooner thing way better than they did. Bolton isn't fit to wipe the sweat from Young's earnest brow.

And I also wonder what happened to him. (It was a different Paul Young who was in Mike and the Mechanics, right?)

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

He's doing these 80s revival tours a lot over here. His version of Love Will Tear Us Apart is horrible. I don't hold any great reverence to the song in that I don't think it shouldn't be covered, but, really, it's just awful. Every Time You Go Away, Wherever I Lay My Hat, Love of the Common People, all great though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Seems he had throat problems, and also has been trying to be a country singer.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Song in question: classic. Movie depicted above: dud. Joy Divis. cover: haven't heard it. Graham Parker cover: ditto.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife's a big fan. I don't mind "Come Back & Stay" for its hoary histrionics, but his butchering of "Love Will Tear us Apart" is pretty hard to forgive.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure he was a great singer, however, I also find the production and arrangement by Laurie Latham really tasteful on this one. I think I would favour Daryl Hall singing using Latham's backing track to create the perfect version of this one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Overall H & O were better artists, but Daryl Hall don't have shit on Paul Young as a balladeer.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Young was always kind of a guilty pleasure for me, but I really like the H&O version better.

Ken, by "Graham Parker cover" I'm assuming you mean 'Playhouse.' That's actually an Ann Peebles song, and I would rather hear either of those than Paul Young's.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Dan. I realized that later. I was thinking about pretending it was an intentional joke, but it ain't worth it.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

"come back and stay" is a GREAT song -- background singers, the Filthy Rich Tarts (or something like that)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The icy synths on "Come Back & Stay" complementYoung's warmth like whipped cream on hot peach pie.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicely put, Alf.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

his taste in covers became more obvious and boring with each successive release

Title track of "No Parlez" was written by Anthony Moore of Slapp Happy/Henry Cow, er, fame.

― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:34 (ten years ago)

... and Dagmar Krause sings on the version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart"!

― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:42 (ten years ago)

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