Taking Sides: Marc Cohn's Walking in Memphis vs Shut up and Dance's Raving I'm Raving

I wsa absolutely delighted when I heard the Shut up and Dance record - so glad that they had taken the dull old Marc Cohn record and done something exciting and interesting with it. Likewise, I was annoyed when Raving I'm Raving got banned.

Anyone who votes for Marc Cohn deserves to be beaten with a stick.

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DO NOT BEAT MY WIFE WITH A STICK (even if she's totally wrong)

what about Cher?

You can beat her with a stick if you want to.

"do you believe in life after being beaten with a stick?"

Where's the Scooter love?

Anyone who votes for Marc Cohn deserves to be beaten with a stick.applauded for correctness

-- Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:28 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Fixed.

You can't do Shut Up and Dance at karaoke, for one.

didn't marc cohn get shot in the head?

You can't do Shut Up and Dance at karaoke, for one.

i would sing the Peter Bouncer version

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Shut Up And Dance. Because Memphis is the most overrated city in the history of music.

What about the Scooter version? That version has usually provoked extreme reactions to anyone I've played it for (which is mostly people not into techno).

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I'd have gone for "Raving I'm Raving" as performed on TOTP, to an entirely different (and desperately sad) tune because all copies had had to be withdrawn. The encapsulation of everything we will never see again.

yeah that was the album version which has maybe 5 or 6 better tracks on it incidentally

It's strange. I honestly don't think I've heard that version since. But I know, without even needing to hear it again, that it speaks of a profound sadness, the kind that cannot be articulated in words. I think that's how "we" all felt, in May 1992.