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swannman
10-24-2007, 08:59 PM
I was listening to the Tokyo broadcast from 11/25/05 this afternoon, and I noticed that at 7' 20" into King of Snake, Karl does an improv with lyrics I've never heard anywhere else.

I'm a little surprised, since the lyrics seemed fairly well-developed but haven't shown up elsewhere.

Are they unique to this gig?
lloyd
10-24-2007, 09:23 PM
Karl improvises with lyrics during a lot of gigs, and indeed does this sometimes during KoS.
I think I remember U2 lyrics, Rolling Stones...
swannman
10-24-2007, 09:55 PM
Good catch — I'd forgotten that we already had a thread (http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showthread.php?t=2648) re: Karl singing bits of other tunes.

I tried to transcribe what he was singing here, but the audio in my copy is too muddy to make anything out other than "Tokyo, Tokyo..." about halfway through.
TheBang
10-24-2007, 10:04 PM
1999 Fuji Rock Festival has "Hey Hey, we're The Monkees" during King of Snake. :)

Edit: Bah, already mentioned in that other thread. It makes me smile though.
dubman
10-24-2007, 11:21 PM
uh... spoonman lyrics?
jole
10-25-2007, 01:26 AM
Yes Karl often uses lyrics from other songs like on fuji 03 on Rez he used U2s With or without you, or on Benicassim he sings Johnny Cash Hurt, i even saw him "sing" "wariors come out to play" words from the movie i think in 1996 Rainbow 2000 during Pearls girl.
TheBang
10-25-2007, 01:55 AM
on Benicassim he sings Johnny Cash Hurt
O M G, it's not a Johnny Cash song!!!!
Flywaver
10-25-2007, 04:18 AM
O M G, it's not a Johnny Cash song!!!!

Oh dear Jole you crossed a line with The bang!
Hurt was Nine Inch Nails but i think Johnny Cash's version is better.......
(Flywaver takes cover...):o
thee carp dreamer
10-25-2007, 04:27 AM
i think Johnny Cash's version is better.......

you think wrong.
jole
10-25-2007, 05:54 AM
Wow like i steped on a mine. Sorry m8 did not know that, its the only version i ve heard but still i think Karl was refering to Mr. Cashes version.
Flywaver
10-25-2007, 07:52 AM
you think wrong.

I don't always think.........It's a start though....
geoff
10-25-2007, 08:38 AM
Wow like i steped on a mine. Sorry m8 did not know that, its the only version i ve heard but still i think Karl was refering to Mr. Cashes version.

Well according to what i've read around here, there's some mutual respect between UW and NIN, so who knows.
jole
10-25-2007, 09:06 AM
That may be so but i ve heard Karl mention Johnny Cash on many occasions like at the end of jumbo on bootleg babies i think, so there maybe wasnt mutual respect, unless Johnny liked electronic music, but i think Karl definitely is a fan of Johnny Cash.
dubman
10-25-2007, 12:40 PM
what does that have to do with anything
swannman
10-25-2007, 01:04 PM
I guess I'm more interested in improv lyrics that are original to UW but are only delivered once... a hapax legomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon) of Underworld's live lyrics, if you will.
dubman
10-25-2007, 01:12 PM
no, those are spoonman lyrics and they kind themselves in KOS an awful lot.
swannman
10-25-2007, 01:30 PM
Ah, I'd missed your earlier post - you're right. Thanks!
hippy dave
10-26-2007, 05:45 PM
the best version of 'hurt' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU) :)

the only thing that annoyed me about the cash version was where he changed the lyrics.... 'thorns' my arse.