Comments on: No Man's Woman

By: Darlene

Darlene — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:21:44 +0000

PC, I can’t help feeling that the Wainwrights do Cohen better than they do songs by the Wainwrights. Will give her a try on the weekend. “Tower of Song” is such a great song.

Now, I don’t even know who Matt Corby is so I had to Google him. Have to agree with you about the hair (it’s really 80s I reckon). He’s certainly got pretty little lips, that boy.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:04:46 +0000

Darlene, I certainly agree that she’s an acquired taste. I saw her live in Adelaide when the McGarrigle/Wainwright family was touring the country after the original Sydney ‘I’m Your Man’ concert. I thought she was fantastically talented and a monumental pain in the arse. She came across better (as a human being, I mean, but musically she was also really impressive) the night she was on RockWiz last year (?). Then I heard her on the car radio singing Cohen’s ‘Tower of Song’ — without realising who she was — and was so blown away I had to pull over until I’d recovered.

I am considerably older than you and like to think I still have a capacity for new things, but then I watch Idol and look at Matt Corby’s hair, and wonder anew at the fact that I seem to be the only person on the planet who thinks it’s utterly ludicrous, so maybe not.

By: Darlene

Darlene — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:26:13 +0000

Umm, how to explain.

I saw Martha on the Leonard Cohen “I’m Your Man” film, and I thought, “she’s interesting”.

I went out and purchased her CD. I watched Martha on said CD again, and I thought “mmmmm, interesting, but”.

I don’t know, I think Martha is an acquired taste, and I am desperately mainstream (and I’ve recently turned 40, which means I have no capacity for new things).

What’s this about a Nescafe ad, Davey?

By: Davey

Davey — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:24:08 +0000

I guess Tex doing “I am Woman” is slightly better than that execrable Nescafe ad.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:48:54 +0000

I purchased his daughter’s last CD and still can’t bring myself to listen to it. Martha, Martha, Martha.

Sorry, Darlene, I don’t understand. Why not? Has she done something dreadful?

By: Darlene

Darlene — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:47:55 +0000

Mr. Floppy’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Dickhead album.

Monaro, that is the best album title ever. Mr. Floppy is very self-aware.

Love it.

By: monaro

monaro — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:00:02 +0000

The definitive male vocal version of Wuthering Heights is of course on Mr. Floppy’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Dickhead album.

By: Darlene

Darlene — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:45:49 +0000

Yes, Angus’s version is pretty. I was ready to hate it (what with being a Joni fan and all), but he changed my mind. It’s sweet.

As for Tex, when I had stopped laughing, I thought “cheeky bastard, thanks for taking a feminist classic and loading it with a ton of blokey sexuality….errr, ummm, gulp, what was I thinking about?”

Interesting that you mention Mr. Wainwright, I purchased his daughter’s last CD and still can’t bring myself to listen to it. Martha, Martha, Martha.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:53:40 +0000

Thanks for the link, Adam.

Never mind ol’ Tex, go and have a listen to Angus Stone singing Joni Mitchell’s ‘River’.

By: TimT

TimT — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:35:56 +0000

That Tex Perkins version of 'I Am Woman' sounds pretty funny, perhaps somewhat along the same lines as Loudon Wainwright's I wish I was a lesbian.