Apropos of nothing, I’m making a post. And it’s another YouTube post, at that.
Nikki‘s favorite song is “Wild Horses.” Famously (but not originally*) performed by The Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers, 1971), she appreciates the more recent live version featuring Dave Matthews. The other day, we got to hear Alicia Keyes’s take. It’s on her Unplugged album. With Maroon 5′s Adam Levine sharing vocal responsibilities, her cover is quite good. I mean, it’s Alicia Keyes. Even Bob Dylan digs her. But in the listening, I can’t shake the notion that young Ms Keyes just doesn’t fully grasp how much longing is loaded into these lyrics.
My favorite rendition? The Sundays. Yes, it was in that Wahlberg movie, but the track was so good long before then. Four years, at least.
The Sundays haven’t produced anything new since 1997′s Static & Silence, the album that featured another hit called “Summertime.” It was shortly thereafter that lead singer Harriet Wheeler and bandmate/husband David Gavurin decided to move into the countryside and raise a family.
Just about everybody has heard the studio cut of “Here’s Where The Story Ends,” but I’ve found a live version makes the song worth a second or third listen.
The Sundays – “Here’s Where The Story Ends (Live)”
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Other renditions of same: Garbage, Guns & Roses (actually just Gilby Clarke & Slash).
* – Yep. Mick and Keith wrote “Wild Horses” in 1969, Sticky Fingers came out in 1971, but the song saw first light on a Gram Parsons album in 1970.
