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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: Susan Boyle |
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Just heard Susan Boyle's 'Wild Horses' (Rolling Stones)
a) doesn't sound like her
b) I haven't heard the Stones' version
c) em, I didn't like it on one hearing (didn't listen to the words)
You can download it from the Guardian site
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/audio/2009/sep/14/susan-boyle-wild-horses
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Toggy
Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I like her voice but I found this song rather boring. That's not to say it's bad particularly just a bit, well, slow I guess.
I don't much care for the stones version either truth be told. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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It's about two minutes too long, as was the Rolling Stones original.
I don't like that vibrato. _________________ Ron |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: |
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Not my kind of music at all, boring.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:13 am Post subject: |
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I only saw her BGT audition after all the youtube attention, but she sounded so natural, but really little different to millions of people up and down the country who can sing but have no inclination to do it in front of an audience.
A lot of water has passed under her bridge since then. Simon Cowell has obviously ensured that she has been looked after, groomed and trained (he could hardly drop her after the very public breakdown, could he?) but it sounds as though all the charm and spontaneity has been ironed out of her.
Strange choice of song, really. _________________ Ron |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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She didn't even win in the end did she? I'm not really begrudging her success, indeed I wish her the best of luck. I wonder if I'm the only one for whom that playing of her single is the first time I've heard her sing! Wasn't it a dance troupe that came out on top in the end? They seem to have dropped off the radar! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Well, since ten million or so who watched the ITV show, plus endless highlights and repeats, and 100 million or so hit on youtube, yes you probably are the only one, LEE
The winning dance troupe will turn up on the Royal Variety Performance in November, if nothing else. _________________ Ron |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | Well, since ten million or so who watched the ITV show, plus endless highlights and repeats, and 100 million or so hit on youtube, yes you probably are the only one, LEE
The winning dance troupe will turn up on the Royal Variety Performance in November, if nothing else. |
The big question now must be is that something to be proud of? I think can count on one hand the number of times I've actually watched Simon Cowell's show, and those few times were in a pub and were before Susan Boyle's series! All the info in my initial post was gleaned from the press! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, it was a dance troupe who won in the end... but apart from the Royal Variety Show they've got nothing lined up. Cowell didn't sign them because he
a) has no idea how to make money off people who aren't doing bad cover versions
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b) lost a vast amount of money on George Sampson (despite not paying Sampson a penny) |
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Toggy
Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I've had a couple more listens to this and while I won't be rushing out to purchase it it is growing on me. Maybe it was too early in the day the first time I heard it |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: Susan Boyle |
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Was she using the Sundays' version of the song (off their 'Blind' album) as a template? I doubt that Simon Cowell has heard of the Sundays! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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