May 3, 200619 yr Author OK. I think this is the final list. Now who wants to be first? Pretty Flamingo I've Got You Under My Skin Sandy Bootylicious Faith Teddy Bear Merry Christmas Everybody Let It Snow Winter Wonderland Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer White Christmas Time of Your Life Kiss All The Small Things Edited May 4, 200619 yr by Baytree
May 3, 200619 yr and as usual I am not that sure of the order..the top ones are difficult to decide on Pretty Flamingo 11 I've Got You Under My Skin 12 Sandy 13 Bootylicious 2 Faith 7 Teddy Bear 9 Merry Christmas Everybody 3 Let It Snow 6 Winter Wonderland 4 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 1 White Christmas 5 Time of Your Life 10 All The Small Things 8
May 3, 200619 yr Surfexperience, have you had a chance to hear at least snippets of them ? Some yes - having a trawl about the internet and my pc just now ;) I've not found the Kiss medley from the tour anywhere :( - wish I could! - is that one not on the list anymore though anyway now? So is it most points to your favourite and downwards then?
May 4, 200619 yr Author Thanks, surfexperience. Yes, Kiss should be on the list. I don't think the Dive In version is online, just the Oran Mor and Fauldhouse versions. I'll edit the list. Sorry, prettyinpink. There are 14 songs in total. Edited May 4, 200619 yr by Baytree
May 4, 200619 yr :D that's ok. mind you the list will probably change again in rates, as I keep changing my mind, I have had time to think about them a bit more now
May 4, 200619 yr Thanks, surfexperience. Yes, Kiss should be on the list. I don't think the Dive In version is online, just the Oran Mor and Fauldhouse versions. I'll edit the list. Sorry, prettyinpink. There are 14 songs in total. Ok thanks - I've not found Merry Christmas Everybody anywhere yet ... I don't think it will be my favourite anyway though :P Can't find my I've Got You Under My Skin tape at the moment - put it in a 'safe' place :unsure: :P - I'm very reluctant to play it anyway, - has anyone got a copy of this transferred to PC please? Any copies of All The Small Things floating about? ... I've not come across that one and don't think I've heard it anywhere since the tour - I wouldn't mind listening to that one again, not sure otherwise what I think of it really. Edited May 4, 200619 yr by Secret_Song
May 4, 200619 yr 14 pts Pretty Flamingo 13 Sandy 12 Teddy Bear 11 Merry Christmas Everybody 10 Time of Your Life 09 Faith 08 I've Got You Under My Skin 07 Kiss 06 All The Small Things 05 White Christmas 04 Bootylicious 03 Let It Snow 02 Winter Wonderland 01 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
May 4, 200619 yr Author Merry Christmas Everybody was from The Kumars at No 42. Maybe it will be somewhere on the video section on .net. I had it on a video tape but I'm not sure where it is.
May 5, 200619 yr Merry Christmas Everybody was from The Kumars at No 42. Maybe it will be somewhere on the video section on .net. I had it on a video tape but I'm not sure where it is. I know and same here - I just can't remember what it was like - I can't remember being blown away by it though :P I didn't find it on .net - but it could be, I'm tired and not got my best finding brain at the moment - I'll just have to go with it as best I can from what I know/can remember. Okey-dokey ... first my waffle :P The song that will get my top marks is actually a song that I don't usually like very much at all - I find the song itself cheesy/corny - but I just have to give it the highest score because Darius completely re-arranged it musically and put his own spin on it, I loved the fact that he rocked it up and had fun with it - so it gets extra points for originality/creativity. I'm not generally a 'covers fan' unless it's an improvement over the original - and for me, Darius's version of this song definitely was - added to that I think Darius sings it really well - so, daft song, but loved the verison and Darius sounds great - It just makes me beam from ear to ear whenever I hear it :D - So, 14pts goes to (if you've not already guessed) ... SANDY!!!! :lol: 13pts to Pretty Flamingo - I think this is the best cover on this list - I recall the Manfred Mann version from the 60's and I like this song anyway. There's nothing especially original about it - hense second place for me - but again Darius sings this well - in an acoustic-hippy style that appeals to me - it feels really natural and I like that :) 12pts - Tough tussle for 3rd place between I've got you under my skin and Time of Your life here - again, I feel Time of Your life was a very natural sounding Darius - it was also a great relief to me, to hear him sing this way again (after I'd endured weeks of torment at the mercy of the vocal coaches on PopIdol lol!) - so I think I love it partly for that and the fact that it reflected his feelings at the time. Listening to it now - I think it really suits Darius's voice and he sings it well for me. Though I haven't listened to it recently, I do love I've got you under my skin ... I can remember how I felt when he sang it on the tour - I thought it was pretty special; and on the recorded version on the tape - I just love it when he changes the lyric to dedicate it to Glasgow - can I give these both 12pts and miss out 11pts please? .... if not, I'll have to find my tape or something to split these two. I think the above 4 songs are the only ones from this group, that I really like/think Darius sings well. Next probably comes Kiss - I particularly enjoyed the medley version on the tour, but I don't know whether I would enjoy it the same just listening to a recording of it? - it sounds ok on the Oran Mor recording (can't find the Fauldhouse one) - but it's just alright for me - I don't think Kiss alone by Darius is as good Kiss by Prince. Next comes Faith - I don't think it sounds that great on the live recording I have (GITM b-side) - but it did immediately follow Bootylicious and I think by then Darius was probably out of breath from his energetic performance of that! ... Bootylicious doesn't sound vocally great to me either - it was more about the energy of the 'performance' live than the singing with those songs for me. But I've chosen Faith, because I do think it's a song that Darius can sing fairly well normally and lyrically suited/meant something to him. Of that Christmas medley group - not really keen on these myself - I've listened to both the recording from This Morning and also X-Change now as well. I remember not particularly enjoying the This Morning performance on TV at the time. Having listened again, I think it's because I feel that Darius seems to adopt another persona for this type of song and sing with a sort of pseudo-American sounding accent - it just doesn't come across as seeming like a very natural performance or sound to me and I tend not to like this style of performance/singing from Darius very much. I think Winter Wonderland is the best of the group vocally for me. Next probably White Christmas - that's really good in parts, but sounds a bit dodgy in some places to me. Then I think I'll stick Teddy Bear in between - he puts on a daft sounding voice for me in this too - but it's meant to be fun - so I enjoy it in the sense of it being just for fun - and I like it towards the end. Then Rudolf the Red nosed Reindeer. I don't know where to put Merry Christmas Everybody at all - 'cos I really can't remember what it sounded like now?
May 5, 200619 yr Author Voting will continue for one week i.e. until 6pm on 11 May. You can all change your voting as many times as you like until then but each person's last vote before the close of voting will be the one which counts.
May 6, 200619 yr I've found this pretty tough Baytree - because I don't really like that many of them - there's only 4 that I've enjoyed listening to. I think there should be a huge points gap between my no. 4 and those below it really with some even on Nil punts lol! ... but here is the vote from the secret_song jury :P 14pts - Sandy 13pts - Pretty Flamingo 12pts - Time of Your Life 11pts - I've got you under my skin Big Gap here 10pts - Kiss (Dive in tour medley version) 9 pts - Faith (potentially - but not the version I've got though ) 8pts - All the small things (I think? ... not heard it apart from on the tour) Another Gap 7 pts - Winter Wonderland 6 pts - White Christmas another gap 5 pts - Teddy Bear another gap 4 pts - Bootylicious (with the visual performance it's better, but I don't like just listening to it) 3 pts - Let It Snow 2 pts - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Excluded - Merry Chrismas Everybody - because I have no-eyed-deer :lol: Edited May 6, 200619 yr by Secret_Song
May 6, 200619 yr 14 pts Pretty Flamingo 13 Sandy 12 Teddy Bear 11 Merry Christmas Everybody 10 Time of Your Life 09 Faith 08 I've Got You Under My Skin 07 Kiss 06 All The Small Things 05 White Christmas 04 Bootylicious 03 Let It Snow 02 Winter Wonderland 01 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer same as megham
June 2, 200619 yr Author Pretty Flamingo -13 I've Got You Under My Skin -7 Sandy- 12 Bootylicious- 4 Faith-11 Teddy Bear-10 Merry Christmas Everybody -5 Let It Snow - 6 Winter Wonderland -3 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer -1 White Christmas -2 Time of Your Life -14 Kiss - 8 All The Small Things -9 Phew. Done at last. Any last votes?
August 13, 200618 yr What happened to this? - Did it just get forgotten about, or did you decide not to carry on with it Baytree? Weren't you going to combine the results of this one, with other era covers to come up with the all time favourite Darius cover?
August 15, 200618 yr Author I don't really know. I think it just fell by the wayside. Tbh I don't know if I've rated them yet and I can't remember how many I was going to put through automatically and how many were to live to fight again for a second chance. If there's a consensus that we should continue, then I'll get up to speed with it and post the final tally from this particular vote and some sort of resume of where exactly we're at.
August 20, 200618 yr Author I'll tally up the votes that are in this thread after 4pm tomorrow so if anyone still wants to rate these please do it before then.
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