[kj]Peter is Actually Still Quite Right

[higgo]

Shut the fuck up!!!!!! I tried to get my name off this list after two 
days after all this bullshit, but noone seems to remove me. My 
delete-finger is sore by now. I fukkin love killing joke, but this list 
is just boring and I now dream nightmares about you all!
/Peter

peter.west410 wrote:

>"So, off I went in search of "Song to
> the Siren" as recorded by the Cocteau Twins"
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>     OK,OK OK Alex.............If you admit that you got The Cocteau twins
>mixed up with This Mortal Coil ......................Then so will I :-)
>     Although my reasoning was technically correct.
>     PW
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>(The version I downloaded stated it was by The Cocteau Twins)
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alexander Smith" <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
><gathering at misera.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 11:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [kj]Alex is Actually Still Quite Right
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>>At the end of the day, the song is Tim Buckley's (as, I believe, you
>>yourself pointed out).
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>>The Cocteau Twins have -- once again -- NEVER, NEVER, NEVER released
>>"Song to the Siren". Members of the band happened to record a version,
>>though under the direction and cooperation of the studio conglomerate
>>that was This Mortal Coil. That they have performed it live is
>>incidental. U2 have performed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" live. That
>>doesn't make it theirs.
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>>This is, of course, a completely ridiculous debate. As both Peter and I
>>are well aware, Robin and Liz of the Cocteaus are the ones who lend
>>This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" its greatness. When I first
>>heard this version of "Song to the Siren", it was courtesy of a mix
>>tape my friend Charlie -- spending a year in a British college -- which
>>included no listing. When I later quizzed him about it, I believe he
>>said "Oh, it's the Cocteau Twins." So, off I went in search of "Song to
>>the Siren" as recorded by the Cocteau Twins.....WHICH, IN POINT OF
>>FACT, DOES NOT EXIST. "Song to the Siren" -- with Liz and Robin of the
>>Cocteaus -- as it turned out, was recorded and released by This Mortal
>>Coil.
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>>I'm just giving as good as you give, Peter. Contrary to what some may
>>glean from this thread, I don't have any serious ill will for you. You
>>are a nice funny guy, and as far as I'm concerned, this argument is
>>just a bit of contentious fun. But you still need to find a way to plug
>>up that pipeline of verbal waste product that has as a faithfully
>>regular habit of spewing into and polluting the otherwise crystalline
>>waters of the Gatherers.
>>
>>Incidentally, I just downloaded Robert Plant's rendition of "Song to
>>the Siren," and I think we can all agree that it's a shivering dollop
>>of yak dung when compared to any of the other versions.
>>
>>MOUTH DIAPER!!!
>>
>>Alex in NYC
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