Liz Fraser's cover of At Last I Am Free by Robert Wyatt...

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... is the most unutterably gorgeous thing I have heard in month. I've listened to it seven times in a row and it makes me so happy.

I just wanted to say that.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, isn't Wyatt's "At Last I Am Free" also a cover? Originally by Chic or the Sisters Sledge or something? Or am I really smoking the crack?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the original's by chic

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah - two versions to download then.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

what is this from?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah wyatt's is a rather radical reworking of the chic song.

i keep imagining this new cover to be too "ethereal".

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony - it's from the rough trade records 25th anniversary covers album, just released. there's a thread on the album somewhere.

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 7 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not "too ethereal" is the thing. (The cover, I mean.) It's freakin' gorgeous...right up there with "Primitive Painters" for non-Cocteaus Frazer tunes...amazing.

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's nice to see that she didn't stick w/ "Underwater."

― L(E^24) (Leee), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah see i find "primitive painters" too ethereal but that's me i find everything too ethereal

but i'd like to hear this and the album it's from sounds interesting too

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Robert Wyatt cover isn't a radical overhaul of the Chic song - it's pretty faithful, apart from the fact that it's Wyatt singing it.

― DoctorBq, Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds a lot different to me

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

same pace, same melody, very different arrangement.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 07:06 (twenty years ago)

It's freakin' gorgeous...right up there with "Primitive Painters" for non-Cocteaus Frazer tunes...amazing.

Are you saying it's better than "Song to the Siren" and "Teardrop"? I've just had my first listen, and to be honest, I'm not too sure about that.

― bert (bert), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago)

this is amazing.

what in god's name is she even doing these days?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 06:53 (twenty years ago)

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