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Creep, is this a better cover?

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 The Lemming 03 Sep 2014
Not many covers are good but just heard this one on Radio 2.

Not work safe for a few swear words.

youtube.com/watch?v=3Ado5PMjr5k&
 PeterM 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

Creep, is this a better cover? - No.
 Tony the Blade 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

> Creep, is this a better cover?

Absolutely not, not even close.

It'll sound great to the suckers that love a harmony though.
 Alyson 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

Sung prettily and stripped of personality. You can't have a choir singing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' and it still mean anything.
 Blue Straggler 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

What do you mean by "a better cover"? A cover better than the original, or a cover better than another cover?
 Blue Straggler 03 Sep 2014
In reply to Alyson:

> You can't have a choir singing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' and it still mean anything.

Seriously? You don't think any ensemble can represent a first-person sentiment, even as a chorus?
So you wouldn't like The London Community Gospel Choir echoing Jason's refrain "Lord, Can You Hear Me?" on the Spiritualized song of that name?

Blimey

 d_b 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

Talking of bad covers, I heard an absolutely dire version of "Losing my religion" on the radio a couple of days ago. No idea who sung it, but I don't really want to hear it again.
 jezb1 03 Sep 2014
In reply to Tony the Blade:

> Absolutely not, not even close.

^ This

 Dan_S 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

This is better by a country mile....


youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM&
OP The Lemming 03 Sep 2014
In reply to Dan_S:

You can't say that bloke was not pouring his soul into that version.

Hope the tw*t who coughed towards the end was taken out and given a damb good beating.
In reply to The Lemming:

What is so truly creepy about this is that here is a musical ensemble, who would no doubt sneer at anyone worshipping anything greater or other than themselves, singing a paean to themselves, a hymn to the ego/the self - and, wait for it – sung in exactly the style of a gospel hymn! It beggars belief.
In reply to The Lemming:

The basic message seems to be 'We are so f*cking wonderful, aren't we?' and 'we're revelling in our wondrousness' ... without there being a hint of doubt, or any intimation whatever, just how dangerous their self-indulgent self-worship might be.
 mrsphene 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

The original Creep is great, as is the one you mention, but I'm afraid I also love this one:

youtube.com/watch?v=3jjiO4DcGMY&

Listen at your peril...
OP The Lemming 03 Sep 2014
In reply to mrsphene:

That was fabulous.

And I raise you Mr Flowers

youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ&
 AdrianC 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

Well what about amanda Palmer's version?

youtube.com/watch?v=1ogNJkXGd0w&

And while we're on, here's her No Surprises...

youtube.com/watch?v=uAk93YZgTts&
 Dom Whillans 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

i always liked this version... youtube.com/watch?v=LlZydtG3xqI&
 ThunderCat 03 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

This is a nice accoustic version of it

youtube.com/watch?v=QgKVSYrT9Bs&

I've never heard of the movie in the background but I think the actress has a really interesting face
 Bobling 03 Sep 2014
In reply to mrsphene:

Hah - you got there before me "Whistle Solo!"
 Alyson 22 Sep 2014
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> Seriously? You don't think any ensemble can represent a first-person sentiment, even as a chorus?

> So you wouldn't like The London Community Gospel Choir echoing Jason's refrain "Lord, Can You Hear Me?" on the Spiritualized song of that name?

> Blimey

That's not at all what I said though, is it? I'm talking about this particular song, these lyrics.

'What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here'. Well clearly you do, you're stood in a group of 50 other people and you're all wearing matching clothes. All that painful feeling of being a misfit, that angst, is diluted.
 Mike Peacock 22 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

There's always the Kid 606 remix.
youtube.com/watch?v=m0fO5gblvEA&
 Bulls Crack 22 Sep 2014
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

err not keen on choirs Gordon?
In reply to Bulls Crack:

> err not keen on choirs Gordon?

That wasn't my point. I like choral music very much in certain contexts, and even as backing, but here we've got crazily mixed genres. It's a bit like hearing a (straight/unsatirical) nursery rhyme extolling the virtues of the Stock Exchange.
 aln 23 Sep 2014
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> So you wouldn't like The London Community Gospel Choir echoing Jason's refrain "Lord, Can You Hear Me?" on the Spiritualized song of that name?

That's a great song and it works on that. The Creep cover is overblown rubbish.
 Brendan H 23 Sep 2014
In reply to The Lemming:

How about this version;
youtube.com/watch?v=7j-yJixxh10&
 anonymouse 23 Sep 2014
In reply to Alyson:

> Sung prettily and stripped of personality. You can't have a choir singing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' and it still mean anything.

Yup. On the other hand, having a choir sing it brings out the hymnlike prayerlike quality of it. That species of music in which man admits to god that he is not worthy - a wormful of sin, slimy, low and base - but pleads to be loved anyway. I'm going to choose to appreciate this as a kind of satire.
 Chris the Tall 23 Sep 2014
In reply to Alyson:

> Sung prettily and stripped of personality. You can't have a choir singing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' and it still mean anything.

Agree, but I'm not a bit fan of the song anyway - they have done so much better stuff.

Then again I've just discovered that The Darkness have done a cover of Street Spirit and I'm reconsidering my opposition to the death penalty
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