What Have I Done To Deserve This? by Pet Shop Boys ft Dusty Springfield

No, literally dudes, that's the TRUTH for me and the last hour or so. (drunk also).

Still, great great song.

but it is comparing really great with really very great

the most OTM thread ever posted on ile.

-- michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, July 1, 2006 6:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

also lol @ "jacques lu c on t"

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I quite like how the WEG version gives more prominence to the "We don't have to..." outro by making it an intro as well, the backing is probably a bit simlar (albeit faster) than their cover of "Being Boring" - similar settings anyway. But the singing is pretty hideous! Magnus doesn't sound like the throaty, lovelorn crooner he usually is, and Isabela seems to be resorting to running the words together which ruins the BEST BIT OF THE SONG i.e. "At night the people come and go...".. there's something about how she renders the "th" noise as "d" I find annoyingly lazy.

To be honest I've only listened to it once and really didn't really paid much attention to it, I thought it was meh. But to me the vocals pretty much ruin most WEG songs anyway; too chipmunky. I guess I like them more in theory than in practice. Also, the person behind their image/design is clearly a genius. The cover above is completely WTF! I was kind of disappointed to hear that the other one left.

I quite like how the WEG version gives more prominence to the "We don't have to..." outro by making it an intro as well

This makes me curious. That condensed outro is one of the most frustrating, beautiful things I've ever heard, so hurrah for someone doing something with it...just not these two.

.. there's something about how she renders the "th" noise as "d" I find annoyingly lazy

I think it's probably not her fault. She sounds like she's still struggling a bit with her English.

^^^"really didn't really"="I didn't really"

Okay, this is true, but covering songs where Tennant's crisp enunciation is going to be massacred by rendering that dry "th" sound as "d" means not playing to strengths. The chipmunky vocals worked really well on "Domino Dancing" because they were a lot looser, and also on "Rent" because it still sounded scared and frightened, but here.. it just sounds like comedy ESL. And I love Magnus Carlson's voice so I'm really sad to hear it sounding like this!

Maybe they should have translated the songs to Swedish. Not that many people would be able to complain about the lyrics.

I'd never even heard about Magnus Carlson before and there doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia entry on him. From the pic I thought it was an opera singer. What kind of music does he do?

He's the lead singer of Weeping Willows, a Swedish rock group. They started out wanting to be Elvis, then they were basically Morrissey singing love songs for a bit, and now they're kind of vaguely country. Almost all their songs are about love being shit!

Quick POX for you: Blue And Alone, Broken Promise Land, Touch Me, Lost Love, Heart of Hearts, Hold Me, I'm Gonna Let Love Find Me, The Burden, The Moon Is My Witness, Drifting Away,

Thanks :)