Order of preference..........Song to the Siren......

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1. This Mortal Coil
2. The Czars
3. Robert Plant
4. Tim Buckley
5. Snuff

― peter d (peter dee), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

the chemical brothers!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

1. The Czars
2. Robert Plant
3. This Mortal Coil
4. Tim Buckley

Nice one pete, just got back from Vetiver and had a good old hug from Devendra. What a top bloke. :-)

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

1. This Mortal Coil
2. Tim Buckley
3-5. don't know.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

1. Buckley
2. This Mortal Coil

That is all...

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

1. Tim Buckley esp when he sings puzzled as the oyster
2. This Mortal Coil
3. Half Man Half Biscuit
4. Oakenfold
5. ... off to find Czars version

― Golden Wonder (believe the truth), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

the czars version is on their website.

here

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

There's also a version, unheard by me, by Laurie Freelove (formerly of Two Nice Girls)...and Cul De Sac also cover it on ECIM (unfortunately, their version has me scrambling for the remote.)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

best version is by Susheela Raman on Salt Rain, although H is the only other person who knows who I'm talking about

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

1 The demo by Buckley
2 TMC
3 Original Buckley version
4 Plant version (the Honeys or something, right?)

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 12 June 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

1. Tim Buckley
2. Messiah - Temple of Dreams

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 12 June 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

2. Messiah - Temple of Dreams

*applause!* I'd completely forgotten about that! one of my absolute favourite prog-rave tunes.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

the Half man half biscuit version os bloody marvellous, if only for Nigel's glee in "WAS I A FoX?"

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

1. Damon & Naomi
2. This Mortal Coil
3. Tim Buckley

― mikef (mfleming), Monday, 13 June 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Should do this for "Ceremony", da?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 13 June 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

jed otm

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 13 June 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

1. This Mortal Coil
2. Tim Buckley on "The Monkees"
3. Tim Buckley on the album
4. Pat Boone.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 June 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

(Has anybody got/heared the Pat Boone version? Supposedly the first recorded..)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I found a nice echoey place to sing, and I wanted to sing Song to the Siren there, a la Liz Fraser. However, I'm having lyrics problems and am wondering if anyone has any answers or theories.

Most non-TMC versions have the line "Were you hare when I was fox." However, the online lyrics for the This Mortal Coil version always say "Were you here when I was full sail." But I'm pretty sure Liz sings neither fox nor full sail.

So, "were you ___ when I was ___"? Any clues?

― Lock Robster, Monday, 18 July 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, it's one of those things where I would never want to know what the real lyrics were.

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

I just listened to Plant's this past Tuesday. Gotta admit, it's pretty damn good. that Porl Thompson guitar break really makes it.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

but of course, Buckley uber alles, that goes without saying

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

^^ Wrong-o

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

(Has anybody got/heard the Pat Boone version? Supposedly the first recorded..)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:23 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Still want.

― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, it's on Youtube.

― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

i wonder what's right-o.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)

"Were you here when I was full sail." But I'm pretty sure Liz sings neither fox nor full sail.
So, "were you ___ when I was ___"? Any clues?

Based on nothing but my probably damaged hearing, it's:

"Were you here when I was flotsam?"

Makes sense in context, plus it fits her accent. Even if I were to be proved wrong, if Liz Fraser herself paid a personal visit to my home to tell me otherwise, I'd still insist these were the right words.

― Lostandfound, Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

Let Me EnPOLL You: The "Song to the Siren" Poll

― Mark, Thursday, 25 November 2010 05:46 (fifteen years ago)

"Were you hare when I was fox"
was what I always heard

― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 07:21 (fifteen years ago)

Apparently HMHB heard the same thing

― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

were you here when i was forsook

― jed_, Thursday, 25 November 2010 17:43 (fifteen years ago)

well i always sang that but she does probably say "full sail"

― jed_, Thursday, 25 November 2010 17:48 (fifteen years ago)

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