Marvin'd

andy-hughes | 14:07 Mon 02nd Jun 2014 | Music

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This is a new adjective I've invented.

It describes what happens when a wonderful vibrant exciting and memorable song or piece of music has all that emotion sucked out of it, and replaced by an anodine pedestrian plodding samey drudge that has all the evocation of a set of pan pipes.

If you want a demo - listen to Hank Marvin's version of Waterloo Sunset off his new album - the beauty and fragility of Ray Davies's hymn to his city have been replaced by the sledgehammer crud of a housebrick being dropped from a first floor window.

How can one of the most original, innovative, exciting hugely influential and truly groundbreaking musicians of the last sixty years come out with stuff like this?

It's a mystery to me.

Ed Alleyne-Johnson

Impossible??

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SeaJayPea

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Can I give you the version of Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke? Marvined, definitely.

16:04 Mon 02nd Jun 2014

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mushroom25

to take a lateral view.

could anyone "marvin" this and make it sound vibrant and emotional?

WELSHYORKIE

Yes, jno, I do realise that and I shall hold you personally responsible for the loss of my cred, seeing as it was you who outed me. I will now have to trawl the annals and try and resurrect some of my lost face by finding a dire version of a rock classic grrrrrrrrrr

horseshoes

Ok time to show my hand! I'll see all of you and raise you White Horses by Susan Boyle.

Sipowicz

Anyone else feeling hungry? ;-)

WELSHYORKIE

Just had my lunch, Sips, so I'm no longer Hank Marvin!

jno I have got to get some credibility back with this Marvining of Black Sabbath's Paranoid

WELSHYORKIE

Horseshoes - there must be something by John ac Alun, Y Moniars or Tony ac Aloma surely?

andy-hughes

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Actually mushroom, that would be 'Un-Marvin'ing a song - not sure if that's actually possible.

andy-hughes

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Welshyorkie - "jno I have got to get some credibility back with this Marvining of Black Sabbath's Paranoid ..."

Feeling a little like Frank Skinner on Room 101, I'm not sure i can allow this one in - it doesn;t destroy the sensitivity and feeling of the original - which I am sure was not the Sabs' intention when they made it - to me this is just a cover version with a rather excellent guitar solo, so it doesn't remove all the pleasure and emotion of the original, which is the essence of 'Marvin'ing.

andy-hughes

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"Ok time to show my hand! I'll see all of you and raise you White Horses by Susan Boyle."

Horseshoes is carried shoulder-high from the building!

andy-hughes

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Just in case anyone should forget the reason for this thread - brace yourselves .....!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCP9VqK4OZ8

horseshoes

Welshie, I wouldn't know. I never listen to Welsh language music or bands such as those you mention; it's generally c**p.

Now Welsh bands and singers - they're a different story.

horseshoes

Yay - go me!!!

andy-hughes

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And to follow-up - the coup de grace!!

I'd like to see anyone beat this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cmmCRVs38