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You know, there are a disturbing number of brilliantly written and ingeniously covered Leonard Cohen songs where Cohens original turns out to be an unlistenable production nightmare that sounds like the 1970s ate a bunch of Russell Stovers and then vomited it all over Dewey Coxs CBS variety show. Exhibit A: Dont Go Home with Your Heart On, covered here by David McComb and Adam Peters. Cohens 1977 studio original, from Death of a Ladies Man, is thoroughly incomprehensible, like a Huey Lewis and the News cover band branching out to perform the theme from Happy Days at the State Fair, with the Lieutenant Governor sitting in on lead vocals. But this version, I adore. I like it for its sneering sarcasm and its eerie whispers of menace that hint at I do not know WTF and Im pretty sure I do not want to know. Note, for example, the sucking sounds on the word suction, toward the end, there. McComb, the way, was singer and guitarist from Australias The Triffids and The Blackeyed Susans, who died in 1999 at age 36 from acute heroin toxicity and mild acute rejection of his heart transplant. At 36. https://youtube/watch?v=MezW4zQME0Y
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:58:01 +0000

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