Lindsey Does Here Comes The Sun

johndoe · #1 10-14-2005, 04:15 PM

So I was looking through thrown-down.net (awesome site, i know the guy who owns it is on here) and there was this video of Lindsey singing "Here Comes The Sun" and it could not have been more awful. It was like soo far from the original version. Blah. Has anyone else seen this? Your thoughts if you have?

**mylittledemon** · #2 10-14-2005, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by johndoe

So I was looking through thrown-down.net (awesome site, i know the guy who owns it is on here) and there was this video of Lindsey singing "Here Comes The Sun" and it could not have been more awful. It was like soo far from the original version. Blah. Has anyone else seen this? Your thoughts if you have?

I gotta download that so I can laugh at it. I love Lindsey but damn did he butcher that or what? I think Harrison would've either been speechless, or he would've laughed. I don't know what the heck Lindsey was doing. I'm sure Lindsey has great respect for Harrison, so I cant figure out why he did what I call the "Tusk" version of the song. It was very bizarre.

face of glass · #3 10-14-2005, 04:28 PM

The reason why I love this version is that it turns a very uplifting song into something that's very dark and full of anguish. And my non-musician ears still refuse to believe that he's singing off-key in it.

Regina · #4 10-14-2005, 04:40 PM

There are a few songs of Lindsey's (and I'm talking singer more than songwriter here) I'm not crazy about.
Very few. Some I've not been crazy about initially, but have grown to at least tolerate--if not like...if not love;-)
This is probably the only one I truly hate.
I think he was trying to make a statement by turning it dark--and I can appreciate that--but in a tribute to George Harrison (which I believe this was), he should (IMO only) have respected George's original intent and kept it at least moderately light or picked a darker song.
Don't like this one at all. But, to put a positive spin on it, it did accomplish what he probably set out to do.

johndoe · #5 10-14-2005, 04:43 PM

The thing is that it sounds decent when he goes "little darlin its been its been a long, cold, lonely winter" but then BAM he kills it with the next line.

chiliD · #6 10-14-2005, 04:44 PM

It was from ABC's New Year's Eve broadcast with Peter Jennings; the New Year's Eve just following the death of George Harrison.

Yep, that was definitely a stinker...a really big, bad stinker.

You'd THINK that the original riff would've been right in Lindsey's ballpark to expand upon, but no...he had to put George Harrison's words to his arrangement of "Big Love" (seemingly). I've never heard such a butchering of ANY song as Lindsey's horrid arrangement (or DISarrangement) of "Here Comes The Sun".

shackin'up · #7 10-14-2005, 05:22 PM

I truely believe that was one of his best solowithguitar-performances EVER.

And I'm not putting the arguments up again and again, but I am still very proud of him that he had the guts to put that song in another perpective by tearing it apart and barfed it into the microphone with so much heartfelt emotion. Off key? I don't hear it, but who cares when you throw it out so direct and edgy.

I think it's wonderful. But those who do not are also not so hot for Shut Us Down, I guess.....

lagringader&r · #8 10-14-2005, 05:50 PM

I haven't heard this song but was it on a tribute cd or done live right after George Harrison's death? I don't think right after somebody has died is the time to be an *artiste* and f**k around with the original meaning of the song. The whole plan should be to pay respect for the original artist. Not to show off. Did he really do it to the melody of Big Love? Gawd. Anybody have a link to dl it coz now I'm really curious.

Jyqm · #9 10-14-2005, 05:54 PM

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I truely believe that was one of his best solowithguitar-performances EVER.

And I'm not putting the arguments up again and again, but I am still very proud of him that he had the guts to put that song in another perpective by tearing it apart and barfed it into the microphone with so much heartfelt emotion. Off key? I don't hear it, but who cares when you throw it out so direct and edgy.

I think it's wonderful. But those who do not are also not so hot for Shut Us Down, I guess.....

I'm still not too big on "Shut Us Down," and I wouldn't go so far as to say "best ever," but I really like Lindsey's "Here Comes The Sun," too. His voice is off-key, which is unfortunate, because I think his rearrangement works great. It does make the song a bit darker than Harrison's original. But then, the man had just died; that's a dark time. I think turning the melody inside out like that really worked as far as conveying the pain and sadness I'm sure Lindsey felt at George's passing. And it is indeed passionate.

It's not a "Big Love" arrangement, though. It's a "Red Rover" arrangement.

Serrart · #10 10-14-2005, 05:57 PM

I have only heard the audio of it, and I like it. Yes, he's off key and his version is basically a new song, but the guitar solo is beautiful, and there's so much emotion and storytelling attitude in his voice that makes of it for me more an intriguing post-modern interpretation than a simple cover.

Romy

Jyqm · #11 10-14-2005, 06:08 PM

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his version is basically a new song

Which is really what a good cover should be, anyway.

WizNicks · #12 10-14-2005, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by johndoe

So I was looking through thrown-down.net (awesome site, i know the guy who owns it is on here)...

I am sorry that I put the video up! Could you ever forgive me???
I actually think it is okay (welllllllllllllll, I haven't heard the original version before I have seen it), but I kinda get tried of those "Lindsey, all by himself, just with his guitar"-songs!

**mylittledemon** · #13 10-14-2005, 08:46 PM

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but he is no more "off-key" than he usually is.

I will not stand here and let admittedly untrained ears call a nearly flawless performance "off-key."

How do both of those things you just said make sense? Thats like saying "It works 60% of the time, every time."

He does sing off key somewhat often. At any rate, his guitar work on the song was fantastic. However, I think the way he arranged the lyrics, and the way he sang it just wasnt very moving. I think it's tough with a song like that, because the original is so stamped in our memories.