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Old 02-16-2022, 06:08 AM   #1108 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? View Post
David Bowie - Port Of Amsterdam (Jaques Brel)
Yep, one of my fave Bowie tracks.

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Originally Posted by Plankton View Post
Sometimes, after hearing a song for so many years and so many thousands of times it's refreshing to just get a different take on it
^ Times two, Plankton! That's why I found this cover of Cat Steven's song so interesting. Labelle's inventive input takes the song to a new level, a new genre that CS prob never imagined. A brilliant version which is spoiled a bit by the talking sections that take the lyrics more literally than they were (i suspect) intended:-

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