taking sides: john hiatt, "love like blood" vs. killing joke, "love like blood"

seriously, this thread was prompted by my recent discovery that john hiatt had a song w/ the same song as one of killing joke's better-known (and all-around better) songs. not really into john hiatt, but i am curious as to what his "love like blood" sounds like and if it's any good.

bump!

john hiatt is a hack

Love Like BloodJohn Hiatt / Riding with the King 1983 *Take it easy baby *But take as much as you can *Cause I got all the sweet loving *You could possibly stand *I'll take your tears for drinking water *Make your pain sweet company *You can lay all your burdens on my shoulder *Girl you mean that much to mechorus 1: |1 / /I could climb the highest mountain 4 |5 / / #5oTo show the world I could survive |6- 5But without your lovin' baby |4 4/5I wouldn't even be alive |*Cause your love is like blood |*Cause your love is like blood to meLike a river babyYour love is running thru meAnd with ev'ry beat of our heartsWe're defying gravityJust a little bit further on up the streamThere's a shady resting placeWhere you can lose all your blues and your troublesWith just one sweet embracechorus 2:Now I could do a million thingsJust to prove that I'm a manBut there's only one womanWho holds my life in her handsYour love is like blood to meYour love it's just like blood to meb7 6-I don't care what your people say 4 1Over my dead body will they ever take you awayb& 6-And any man cutting in on me 2- 3- 4 5Well he just better stop cause I can't spare a drop |*Your love is like blood to meYour love is like blood to me

He obviously made the lyrics up on the spot.

Don't do it Alex!

Don't give these fatuous fire-dishonouring cheese-monkeys the satsifaction of rising to their paltry and ignoble bait!

I'm not your performing chimp.

YEAH! [pumps fist in air] You tell 'em!!

I heard "The Wait" on college radio today - it had been some time since I'd last listened to it, and certainly many years since I'd heard it on the radio. Hearing Killing Joke on the radio is an especial treat for me because the things that make them special really stand out when I hear them in between songs by other artists; their attention to detail, and especially to formal concerns. For a band interested in "primal"/cthonic urges, their love of structure is certainly worthy of brief comment. Also remarkable in "The Wait" is the contrast between the willfully "ugly" (picking my words carefully here; not "ugly"="don't wanna hear it" but "ugly"="painting with dark colors and jagged strokes") vocals of the verses and then the cold, grand beauty of the sustained notes in the chorus. I remember thinking, when the song was fairly new, that its schtick seemed a little forced and obvious - the verse parts, anyhow - that tortured vocal saying "you'll all dance" - but now I find the whole thing quite coherent, beautifully constructed.