TS: ivor cutler's "women of the world" vs jim o'rourke's cover thereof

ok, i'm just listening to the O'Rourke for the first time and Ivor wins this hands down. i usually like JimO and i've never had a problem with his voice but the vocal on this is pretty awful.

i disagree a lot. theyre some of the least-affected vocals i can think of. not that i have any problem with strongly-affected vox, but i have a soft spot for plain plain plain "normal person trying to sing prettily" vocals. agh im gay.

I love this, it's from Cutler's website:

Ivor is a member of the Noise Abatement Society and the Voluntary Euthanasia Society. He remarked once when asked if he was a member of the Noise Abatement Society "Yes, for years and years, it makes my life a great misery, noises. I always carry earplugs with me" and "The thing that drives me nuts is a lot of the fans that I have - because of Peel, I think, or because of the taste of the day - are people who go home and play very loud music in their homes, and they go in their motor cars playing very loud music with the windows open. Then they come to my gigs and I play as quiet as I can get away with because that's how I want to communicate it. I think, "I ought not to let these people in if they play loud music." Maybe I should stand at the door and you have to fill in a questionnaire before you can hear me."

(last one, promise)

I think you'll find Ivor was a left winger himself