Do you like your hangover served with paranoia or melancholy?
― kenan, Saturday, 10 May 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
they're both melancholy, aren't they?
both great, but "sunday morning coming down" is greater.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
(ts: johnny cash version vs. kristofferson version)
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(vs the dozen other versions that I can think of just off the top of my head)
― kenan, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, they're both soaked in regret, and neither is concerned with the future much, but one is "nothing short of dying quite as lonesome" and one is "watch out, the world's behind you."
― kenan, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/615SoLCUiJL.jpg
are we talking about this? If so it wins.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunday you need love, Monday be alone.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
True.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 11 May 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
are we talking about the Velvet Underground?
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted for The Velvets, but it was pretty close.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I vote 'Sunday Morning' - it wasn't easy, but there's more special memories with that song than the other. Specifically, being an American exchange student in Canterbury UK and how wonderful and goddamn special it was to get baked in some old cemetery and spin it up on the boombox while a beautiful Sunday morning sun arose.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Y'all voting for "Sunday Morning Coming Down" should definitely get that Best of the Johnny Cash show DVD.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunday Morning Coming Down, though they're both great.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted for the Velvets because that song is so much less... healthy. Kinda nasty and sarcastic and itchy.
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
This dude is pretty unhealthy ;)
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
cleanest dirty shirt
One of my all time fave lines.
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
... which Mark E. Smith nicked for "Hip Priest"
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. I didn't know that. Cool. I wonder who had the cleaner dirty shirt? Probably Kristofferson.
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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Kristofferson definitely does not say "quite" in that song, and it would sound ridiculous if he did.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. Nobody does. It's "half as lonesome." I accept full responsibility for this grievous error.
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
A victory for common sense
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, as long as Kristofferson doesn't go around acting like he has some kinda mandate. It was a squeaker.
;)
― kenan, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
was considering this exact same poll this morning
― na (NA), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
tried to pull off a medley of these two songs a little while ago with my band, didn't quiiiiiite work, but i think it's possible.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
James Redd otm above, version I know/love is off a Johnny Cash show soundtrack record
― albvivertine, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link