Honestly, I really just think this song is insipid. Awful lyrics. Awful vocals. And a gimmicky use of the "non rock" instruments.
Discuss.
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
The instumentation just feels like a gimmick.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Both feature top "walking down a street" video hilarity though. Curiouser and curiouser...
Anyway, at least it's not "Lucky Man".
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris sallis:, Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― B.Rad (Brad), Thursday, 5 December 2002 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love "Lucky Man" as well though, which is um, less of a sacred cow.
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/youth/youth15.JPG
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
And for the record, the string bit isn' t the Stones sample. That's some bell chiming in the background that you can hardly hear, which makes Ashcroft the most retarded man alive for not dropping it and taking the fattest paycheck of his life...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 6 December 2002 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, yes, yes, someone else who like that song. It's just as good as BS imo
― Vic, Friday, 6 December 2002 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― frank in u.s., Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
especially mr. noodles dec. 5, '02). you just can't beat the british wit.
So how's life in Australia, Frank?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― bloke carrington, Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― weekly handle change (haitch), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― ______, Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Lord, that is tragically awful. So unsurprising, though.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken stabler, Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
BS. Whoever told you that was messing with you. Here's the original, if you don't believe me: http://rapidshare.de/files/13080965/The_last_time_-_Andrew_Oldham_orchestra.mp3.html
eta: didn't realize how old that comment was. Oh well.
― musically (musically), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― retroboy, Sunday, 12 February 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I suppose I should've put it this way: the sample is everything but the string melody -- it's got the bells, the string swells and the brass. What it doesn't have is the higher string part that went "ya-daaa-da-da-da-daaa, ya-da-daaa, ya-da-daaaaa..." and which was the hook. That said, there's no way in hell Ashcroft would've come up with that melody w/o warbling it over the Loog Oldham Orchestra version.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 12 February 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― _____, Sunday, 12 February 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Sunday, 12 February 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Robert L Bell (Robert L Bell), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I just did. It doesn't.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 February 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― noizem duke (noize duke), Monday, 13 February 2006 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link
how long before some puff daddy type rapper samples the verve version and makes a billion dollars... and won't that be a complicated legal procedure.
― feckless chump, Monday, 13 February 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link
But, I also note that the "Well it's a bitter sweet symphony is life" tune matches "Well, I told you once and I told you twice" tune. Even if slowed to twice the length.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 February 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
the strings *are* on the ALO version, but i think these were not sampled but replayed, they're much 'stronger' on the verve record and you'd have to be a genius to extract them from the original without hell of distortion.
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 13 February 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link
i want this song played at my funeral!
― Dani, Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike W (caek), Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
If ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ came out in the 80s 🎶🔥 Like & RTFull version anyone?: https://t.co/wLH0Xgi8bi pic.twitter.com/EZGvclB17j— DECO (@decobanduk) December 3, 2021
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 4 December 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
Just missing a couple of well placed bass slaps.— Guy Pratt 🇪🇺Mask Wearer. (@guypratt) December 3, 2021
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 4 December 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
Collab for the next one? 😄— DECO (@decobanduk) December 3, 2021
80s version is pretty good!
― calstars, Saturday, 4 December 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
I do like this
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 4 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
If Bittersweet Symphony was made in the 2020s by some synthwave people for whom electroclash is indistinguishable from the actual 80s and heavily molested by mastering plugins.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Saturday, 4 December 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Which is not to suggest it isn't markedly more enjoyable than the original.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Saturday, 4 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
yeah it's a great cover! but it's more "Washed Out covering Bittersweet Symphony"
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 December 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
I think it's called a marketing angle guys
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 4 December 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah miles better than the original.
― chap, Sunday, 5 December 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
Thread is probably not complete without the house version that was a big hit itself in 1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_tZVeIH7Y
― Siegbran, Sunday, 5 December 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
I remember a d’n’b mix destroying a dancefloor around that same year
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Sunday, 5 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
I didn't listen but there was no way in hell it wouldn't match this description.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 5 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link