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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 8 February | 107 comments (107 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

i always felt that song to be quite sinister, even without sin-art-ra singing it....

clever wordplay though, and suitably pompous chord structure.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 04:45:26 AM EST
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Well the songwriter was interviewed and said that his favorite version was the Sid Vicious/sex pistols one, as it was the only version that didn't treat it as a pompous epic.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 08:55:09 AM EST
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I heard that Sinatra liked it as well, saying it was the only version he'd ever heard that didn't do it His Way.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 09:20:30 AM EST
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It was originally by French songwriter Jacques Revaux, with English words (For Me no one wanted to record. '60s pop (and '70s disco) idol Claude François took it on and rewrote the words with the help of Gilles Thibaut, recording it as Comme d'habitude. David Bowie wrote new English lyrics for it (not good) before Paul Anka heard the Claude François version and bought the US rights, writing the Eng-lang version My Way.

Which among them preferred the Sid Vicious cover, I don't know, but I do (prefer it...).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 10:15:57 AM EST
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I was reading recently somewhere (maybe The Philippines?) that singing karaoke 'My Way' (Sinatra version) had caused a lot of fights, even shootings. In some bars it was banned.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 12:23:40 PM EST
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maybe a couple of comments higher on the page? ;P

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 05:03:58 PM EST
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Yes, that was it ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 01:15:01 AM EST
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