Charlotte Chruch Slags Off The Flamin' Lips Cover of Sgt P's

[cronus]

http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/cha ... my-fwends/

Charlotte Church Talks the Flaming Lips’ With a Little Help From My Fwends

....So we have a band that couldn’t care less what any of us think of them. Flaming Lips have nothing left to prove, having given us a string of unique and brilliant-sounding records since the mid ’90s. Apparently they don’t give a flying fuck. Why should they? Nonetheless, there’s an overwhelming sense of pointlessness looming luridly over every facet of this record. They don’t take us far enough away from the original to offer anything new, but seem more preoccupied with stuffing their covers’ membranes with as many modern digital effects as they can take, like filling prophylactics with mashed potato. With the exception of Auto-Tune, (here cheaply employed on the title’s namesake, just for LOLs), almost all of these effects were available to the Beatles when they were creating their absurdist masterpiece, yet George Martin et al used them only sparingly, always in all the right places and always to great effect. The result is closer to an act of Yellowism than to any Roy Lichtenstein-ish intention, which prompts the question, why am I listening to this when I could be listening to the original?

(continued, you can tell she's a Welsh woman by the end of this piece...nothing else to say....)

[Svartalf]

who's this church person and why should I give a flying fuck about what she thinks about a band I never heard of?

[cronus]

who's this church person and why should I give a flying fuck about what she thinks about a band I never heard of?

She becomes Prime Minster of Wales after it is awarded independance....

[Svartalf]

wales will be independent after jesus comes back

[Strontium Dog]

It's fair to say she's the only church I'd want to spend hours inside.

[Scott1328]

It's fair to say she's the only church I'd want to spend hours inside.

ewww.... don't you worry about chafing?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Chruch?

[laklak]

Yep. Yessir. No doubt about it. I'd hit it.

[Calilasseia]

I wouldn't chuck her out of bed either.

[JimC]

I should hope not! Chucking a substantial wench like that out of bed could easily cause you to strain a muscle!

[Calilasseia]

I think the word you're looking for is "statuesque"

[piscator]

What if she's right about the record?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

She's pretty, got a huge gob on her and very opinionated. The last two properties are as divisive in a woman as in any man - it all comes down to whether or not you share the opinions! The first is undeniable but superficial and really shouldn't enter into any discussion of her comments on a subject upon which she is qualified to expound, being in the industry and all that. Whatever you say about feminism, immediately bringing up a woman's appearance whenever she makes a comment is clearly sexist - and irrelevant! But, obviously, I would too.

On this topic, I can't really comment, as I haven't heard TFL's version. Much as I admire the band, I doubt their cover version really compares favourably with Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band.

[surreptitious57]

Charlotte Church is a beautiful young woman with very strong opinions and for those two reasons
I like her very much indeed. She is a wonderful asset to her nation and if I were Welsh I would be
very proud of her. So I hope she carries on being beautiful and opinionated for as long as possible

[Xamonas Chegwé]

This is how to cover a full Beatles album. Their version of Dark Side of the Moon is even better!