Q Lazzarus "Goodbye Horses" - C or D?

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Classic for its use in "Silence of the Lambs" alone. Also classic for the cover my friends and I did of it during a talent show in college. Complete with wigs and robes.

Chris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*COMPLETE* classic -- and available on disc if you pick up the soundtrack to "Married to the Mob" (also directed by Jonathan Demme).

Alex in NYC, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

own it already Alex. I found this tidbit of info to be rather interesting.

Chris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Did an extensive websearch for this song about 5 yrs ago, without even knowing the name. Finally found like a huge .wav file of it hosted on someone's web page. And then of course I put on a wig and tucked me bits and pieces between my legs and videoed myself dancing in the mirror.

Aaron A., Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wow! Nice find, Chris (I love trivia like this!)

Alex in NYC, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yay yay yay ! my £1.99 mint copy of the married to the mob soundtrack is one of this last year's fave purchases (best version of new order's b.l.t., chris isaak's only good song 'suspicion of love' etc.) that boy demme knew his tunes.

such a shame about his brother.

piscesboy, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four months pass...
favorite song in the world!

Adam Stoddard, Monday, 2 December 2002 01:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

six years pass...

dope track

soup kitchen electro (omar little), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link

holy shit, never realized this was sung by a woman. always thought it was a gay or just very affected 80s voice

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I downloaded the Goodbye Horses remix EP from iTunes and it's great! My favorite is the one with the choral synth pads.

Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Sunday, 19 July 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Wikipedia mocks me though by telling me there's a version that's over 6 minutes long. Where to find?

Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Sunday, 19 July 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link

right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ

scott seward, Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I am ridiculously excited about this. Thanks Scott!

(sorry for boob) (ENBB), Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link

what can folks tell me about Voodooist Corporation, who also had a track on one of those Demme soundtrack albums?

henry s, Monday, 20 July 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Stuart from Ike Yard/Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight had a project called the Voodooists.

dan selzer, Monday, 20 July 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link

did they/he do that "Queen of Voudou" song?...seems right in line with DST...

henry s, Monday, 20 July 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link

really like the fan death cover of this!

http://www.thefader.com/2009/4/24/freeload-fan-death-goodbye-horses/

Kaiser Size, Monday, 20 July 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Wikipedia mocks me though by telling me there's a version that's over 6 minutes long. Where to find?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-RetroActive2-Rare-Remixed/release/267431

Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Monday, 20 July 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I can't stop listening to this song. Just picked up the extended version on this extended versions bootleg series. I am happy about not paying $400.

the who cares (okamax), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

apparently she never even had an album, JUST this single (w/ a cover of "White Lines" on the b-side)

hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 01:41 (eleven years ago) link

try telling that to 15 year old me trying to find more by her on kazaa in 2002

pea hen (clouds), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

goodbye horses

AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link

i'm flyin' over youuuuuu

clouds, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 06:35 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.facebook.com/kelsey.legg/posts/10156501117872488

She's alive, but no longer making music and only surfaced long enough to have a conversation with the author of the above fb post. Stereogum repackaged the story, but she expects to write a more elaborate article soon.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link

i just read this elsewhere!
am glad she is still around <3

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link

tbh though i super-love Silence of The Lambs, I do get bummed out that culturally the song is sort of a punchline or joke to certain circles of dumb ppl

it’s such a beautiful song, it haunts me in a good way

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link

I've never encountered that reaction to it. Everyone I've ever heard speak about it does so with the utmost reverence.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link

lucky you then

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link

i am very privileged that i get to play this song to tens of thousands of people a year; i have never, ever noticed anyone respond to it without the utmost reverence.

v. happy to hear she is still alive!!

stirmonster, Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link

Wow

flappy bird, Monday, 13 August 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link

I do get bummed out that culturally the song is sort of a punchline or joke to certain circles of dumb ppl

:/

rip van wanko, Monday, 13 August 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

A moderately epic troll that when there was finally an official reissue on a 12" it was a shorter edit of the 7" version and not the sought after extended version. And as if to add insult to injury, a no doubt yawnsome remix ;-)

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link

I'm guessing it was a question of getting the rights and/or the original tapes but still wound people up.

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link

wait I thought the song playing while buffalo bill danced was a colin newman song?

akm, Monday, 13 August 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link

it"s Goodbye Horses during that scene but Alone and The Fall's Hip Priest are played earlier in the scene.

fwiw, I don't feel like Buffalo Bill doing a mangina dance to Goodbye Horses is a cultural joke. The scene is amazing and made more deep and strange that it's played out to that song.

Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link

If you wanted to do a mangina dance to Goodbye Horses (as a friend of mine and stirmonster's has) then go for it! It's not a song that requires absolute reverence, imo.

Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

RIP Queen. How can one song be so powerful??

J. Sam, Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link

From another obit, some welcome if still sad news:

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25644374/diane-luckey/neptune/new-jersey/jackson-funeral-home

At the time of her death, Diane was finishing work on a feature documentary about her life and music with filmmaker and friend, Eva Aridjis. The film will be released in 2023, along with an album of songs spanning her entire musical career.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link

Wait, the video was never embedded on this thread, let's correct that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKFaGDrOfrI

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 August 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link

Oh sucks this thread got revived for this. Had no idea. RIP.

Top 10 song of the decade for me.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 August 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link

Oh that's a shame :(

paolo, Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

woke up with this old john peel favourite in my head today. the resemblance to 'goodbye horses' has only just occurred to me. both songs from 1991 iirc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8bBP37eCc

bang bang machine - geek love

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 17 September 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link

Goodbye Horses is from at least 1988 because it was on the Married to the Mob soundtrack (Demme was definitely in her corner early).

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 17 September 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

incredible. after living for so long with the relatively muted original version of "goodbye horses," i'm surprised by how much i'm digging the "new wave version" they have for preview on her bandcamp. her voice is just so powerful

now TAYNE i can get into (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 December 2024 18:48 (one week ago) link


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