Marvin'd

[andy-hughes]

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Marvin's version of Waterloo Sunset off his new album - the beauty and fragility of Ray Davies's hymn to his city have been replaced by the sledgehammer crud of a housebrick being dropped from a first floor window.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

[Gromit]

It's not as good as Frank's original....


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H4H0XorrA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[kvalidir]

This is the ultimate in ' Marvining' . I HATE what they did to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZIM2BCcpc

[SeaJayPea]

I agree kvalidir, that's dreadful.

[andy-hughes]

I think some examples of Marvin'ing are more subjective that others. A totally objective Marvin'ing is of course, the massacre of Waterloo Sunset, which is a classic song.

As far as Africa goes, I entirely agree is it utterly horrible, but I find it less offesnsive because I don't actually like the original very much anyway.

But I must concur, this is entirely within the concept of Marvin'ing - it ticks each and every box and is completely devoid of any artistic merit whatever.

Well located kavalidir - may I turn it off now please - I can feel the red mist descending ...

[237SJ]

Talk Talk's song It's my life covered by No Doubt. Definitely Marvin'd