Everything You Do Is A Balloon

This may be extremely jazz, and I apologise if it is, but I was recently made aware of this excellent live cover version of Everything You Do Is A Balloon. Definitely worth a watch if you've never seen/heard it before.

My favorite BoC track ever. I don't want to hear another version of it... too risky.

edit thread name. Ballon..?

  On 8/7/2013 at 6:47 AM, StephenG said:

edit thread name. Ballon..?

Oops. A mod would have to do it now.

un-Ballon'd

Hmm for me it suffers with the same problem that a lot of these electroica/IDM/whatever-term-is-used-nowadays-that-usually-annoys-somebody covers have. Technically they're fine (a couple of slips by the drummer, though nothing too drastic) but there seems to be no emotion behind them resulting in something so clinical and just a grind to get through.

I've listened to the BoC original so many times and it just seems to fly by, but this one I was frequently thinking 'it must be near the end now surely' and seeing that there's another 4+ minutes to go.

Sorry, me just being a downbeat asshole.

I don't particularly like it either, very dull and the intro is too loud and emphatic compared to the delicate synths BOC originally made

  On 8/7/2013 at 1:04 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

 

  On 8/7/2013 at 6:47 AM, StephenG said:

edit thread name. Ballon..?

 

Oops. A mod would have to do it now.

 

Just giving you a hard time. =)

I like the strings, but the guitar is awful. Sounds like a half-pissed Hank Marvin who forgot to plug into his amp. And on a side note, fuck it if it's heresy but I've always found the intro to the original tedious and over-long.

agree that the guitar is a bit weak. Should've had Tomisnever on guitar.

  On 8/7/2013 at 1:12 PM, mcbpete said:

un-Ballon'dHmm for me it suffers with the same problem that a lot of these electroica/IDM/whatever-term-is-used-nowadays-that-usually-annoys-somebody covers have. Technically they're fine (a couple of slips by the drummer, though nothing too drastic) but there seems to be no emotion behind them resulting in something so clinical and just a grind to get through.I've listened to the BoC original so many times and it just seems to fly by, but this one I was frequently thinking 'it must be near the end now surely' and seeing that there's another 4+ minutes to go. Sorry, me just being a downbeat asshole.

Good point, but isn't that the deal with most idm played by people playing an instrument: not enough progressions, developments going on over many bars. Sometimes you can almost hear the musicians think " wtf, again those same notes!?"

Reminds me of the interview with rdj and stockhauzen and stockhauzen's remark on the post-african repetitions. Which was right on the money, imo.

  On 8/8/2013 at 12:03 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 8/7/2013 at 1:04 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

 

  On 8/7/2013 at 6:47 AM, StephenG said:

edit thread name. Ballon..?

 

Oops. A mod would have to do it now.

 

 

Just giving you a hard time. =)

 

Duly noted. :)