Yes, as with everything else I write about here, I latched onto DeVotchKa a bit late. Heck, I even saw Little Miss Sunshine way too late, barely catching it on DVD a month before the Oscars. So when I heard them on the soundtrack and found a sound that I liked, I decided to do the prerequisite research into them, and liked what I found...
I'm a sucker for strings. There's a bunch of songs that just make me shiver when I hear those parts. You stick some violins or violas or cellos in the back of a song, and it just connects with me in a way I can't quite explain. This track is quite full of them, and really build the song up and make it more epic than the original. It's a cover of a Siouxsie and the Banshees song, but I do have to be honest and say that I like this version better. I have a theory about cover songs: you tend to favour the one that you hear first, even if the original is superior (which should always be the case, but not always so). I was suprised to hear many 80s songs I liked to actually be remakes of obscure 60s songs, especially since you never ever hear the originals except when cool DJs in the clubs dig them out.
To be fair to those Siouxsie fans, I think their version of Dear Prudence is superior to the (gasp!) Beatles. Let the music experts shoot me down...
Can anyone tell me why they write their name with all the weird capital letters?
--Nooker
