The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18916   Message #191583
Posted By: Jon Freeman
07-Mar-00 - 10:17 PM
Thread Name: Original Songs v. Cover Versions
Subject: RE: Original Songs v. Cover Versions
Well Midchuck, I have just spotted your post.

The context ran someting like:

Jon: [saying like I liked] The Pogues doing The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

ddw: Jeez, Jon, I musta missed something. Somebody gave me a CD of the Pogues doing The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. I played it once, then a second time because I couldn't believe it, and then took it outside and played catch with my springer spaniel.

No accounting for taste, eh?

Jon: hey ddw this is part of it all and I love Rum, Sodomy and the Lash like you say no accounting for taste.. maybe it brings in another question, how much oof th8is is down to a group/ perfoormer that you really like - could it be that their version is often the best?

If somebody has not got the inteligence to consider the possibiltiy that ddw and myself were in fact reffering to the Pogues and that it was a logical progression, I can only say that I feel sorry for them.

Jon