The legacy of White Town/Your Woman

(I also bought Tasmin Archer's Great Expectations for the same price. Pretty much the same assessment -- not a bad price for a CD single with some inessentials tacked onto the end.)

I also had the dubious pleasure of promoting some gigs at The White Horse.

I was always scared to touch anything when in the dressing room as everyone was painfully aware that it doubled up as a room for 'private dances' when the strippers were on in the daytimes.

Still, it was worth it just to see Hrvatski and Knifehandchop confuse the fuck out of the general Wycombe public.

And, as Dr. C points out, Scorpion Records is a winner.

Listening to the album just now for the first time in a long while, enjoyable stuff. But Dan nailed it why "Your Woman" is so sharp on its own. :-)

http://www.whitetown.co.uk/archives/2005/06/tyler-james-covers-your-woman/

His cover of "Your Woman" is crap, though.

Okay I need to hear this immediately.

Now, three times this week.

Funny how that happens.

Surely they were out of copyright by then?

also: ah, a teenage crush on a lesbian? now it begins to make some sense.

now bearing in mind that all of beddingfield's subsequent output has been, er, you know. ..

Those could be spoken by the female character.

Well, yes, but according to this logic every first person love song ever sung by man could be in fact about a female character, making all of them lesbian.

Urge Overkill- Saturation
Breeders- Last Splash
Butthole Surfers- Electric Larryland

my friend bought this album @ the heigth of it's 'popularity' only to be sorely disappointed...

i just heard this on the radio the other day.
forgot all about it. id like to see more oddball pop make it big in 08

I've been playing this song a few times lately myself! Still wonderful. Seems like it would make a good if random choice for Pop Idol (if not American Idol).

Did Jyoti ever post on ILM? Old ama regular after all?

I know he's on last fm.

Ha ha you would know that...

i'd like to see the original question applied to today - do we have more bedroom musicians now? it seems so, with the ubiquity of ableton, soft synths and high-spec pcs, but what bedroom musicians have made it big recently? (does this apply to jamie t and early streets?)

I think loads are/do, just they don't put their bedrooms onto their publicity photos etc.

Saw Jyoti DJing at some schmind night I went to on Saturday as a perverted warm-up for Fabric, he was OK - for an Indie DJ - playing MBV, De La Soul and James Brown amongst Sarah-esque jingly jangly stuff.

Very Camden Underworld 1991.

i'd like to see the original question applied to today - do we have more bedroom musicians now? it seems so, with the ubiquity of ableton, soft synths and high-spec pcs, but what bedroom musicians have made it big recently?

How about acts such as The Feeling and Lily Allen, who have gotten famous mainly because of MySpace?

Oh come on, you don't actually believe Lily Allen got famous because of MySpace, do you? Next you'll be bringing up Sandi Thom.

no geir, no to that

Your Woman being covered by ............ Wiley.

and it's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6119_SeiFIs

sighted with another woman in shoreditch
it's my house, i pay the mortgage

i think it's just freighting the original with may more importance than it deserves. i'm trying to think of an example of a song i really, really loved being sampled and jarring in its new context but i can't right now.

Most interesting thing about Jyoti's original is not the narrative perspective, but rather the cultural response to iti it got macho rugby boys singing "I could never be your woman" to each other.

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this is one of the most staggeringly banal and useless received wisdoms of all time btw.

ikr? rugby boys a) sing anything b) the camper the better

xp oh yeah sure no doubt i've been at the wrong end of a cheap grabby sample hundreds of times (and i've been wrong about being at the wrong end too) but this particular example with the wiley cut so evidently, basically has its own different things going on that i'm just a bit gobsmacked. it seems like no one's even listened to the thing once, let alone expended an iota of the deep thought they claim have done on the white town original.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2014/02/white-town-your-woman/

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2017/12/12/white-town-release-woman-1917/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVIjNquTJU

The original is perfect as it is - it was great to see someone flying the synthpop flag in the '90s and not being embarrassed about it.

Is it "Your Woman" being used in the advert for The Eternals? Sort of hoping it is (so Jyoti gets a big cheque) but suspect it's just the same sample??

It's in a Dua Lipa song, right?

To answer the question just above: yes. Meantime, Todd in the Shadows does a One Hit Wonderland on it and mentions Tom Ewing along the way, thus tying back to the protohistory of this site, etc. etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYO6-gNGzQ