haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) (11/09/84)
< Nami nami nami nami ... > Has anybody out there heard the version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" done by Frankie Goes to Hollywood? It's on their new double LP, "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome", and I just heard it for the first time yesterday. I thought it was quite well done, with all the energy of the original, but with a distinctly British flavour (that's flavor if you can't spell!) to it. How did *you* like it? Tom Haapanen University of Waterloo (519) 744-2468 allegra \ clyde \ \ decvax ---- watmath --- watdcsu --- haapanen ihnp4 / / linus /
clark@sdcsla.UUCP (Clark Quinn) (11/12/84)
> Has anybody out there heard the version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born > to Run" done by Frankie Goes to Hollywood? It's on their new double > LP, "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome", and I just heard it for the first > time yesterday. I thought it was quite well done, with all the energy > of the original, but with a distinctly British flavour (that's flavor > if you can't spell!) to it. How did *you* like it? > > Tom Haapanen University of Waterloo (519) 744-2468 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Well, I haven't heard the record version, but I saw their live version of the song on "Saturday Night Live", and, frankly, I thought it sucked! I may be jaded, being a die-hard Springsteen fan (and having seen him live on Halloween night, *gloat*), but I thought that "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" covered the song with a condescending, weak style that thouroughly obscured the emotion of hopeful desperation that is the hallmark of the song. Of course, their live version of "Two Tribes" lacked something, too. And I do like "Two Tribes" (at least, recorded)! I feel that it is easy with recording studio equipment to make *anything* sound good, but a live show really shows the capability of the band. Sure, there are some songs that only work in studio productions, and shouldn't be condemned for it, art being a product of the medium, but "Born to Run", at least, has been shown to work best "live"! I didn't know till I read the note that FGTH actually recorded BTR, I thought that maybe they had just picked a song they figured would be a calculated crowd pleaser (that close to New Jersey). -- Clark "Volum! Clarity! Bass! We must have bass!"