I just bought Will Shatner’s rendition of Common People. It’s currently in the Top 10 of the iTunes Music Store Chart.
Ok, so ultimately Pulp are such a bloody good band that you really can’t improve on their performances - every track sounds like it’s been polished and produced for the entirety of the band’s history (some 20 odd years if I remember correctly) but astonishingly Shatner is actually pretty good and offers an entertaining performance whilst maintaining the undercurrent of rage that sold the original so well.
I was wavering towards it after Kev originally told me about the track and the album (he subsequently posted about it on his blog). Whilst I shied away from buying Has Been (Will Shatner’s latest album) ‘Common People’ was just too cool to ignore.
I wonder if Mr Shatner can quite believe the meteoric success of his album on the iTunes Music Store - it just goes to show that if you make music cheaply available to your entire target audience (surely every self-respecting geek is on the iTMS) you’re going to sell a lot of albums.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 23, 2004 02:27 PM | TrackBack