10,000 Maniacs Live 2010 Unkempt at Home. Thanks to all our friends and fans for making 2010 a fun year. Have a safe new year filled with love and laughter.
I'm so greatful that Sandy Denny 's song is still being performed by so many other good musicians. Such a great song with to me meaningful lyrics. Warm greetings from The Netherlands 👍💜🍀🤘💪🇳🇱🌷🤗
I believe she would be happy. It is the best version I've heard, next to Sandy's. I've listened to a lot of people cover this. No one even comes close to Sandy's version, but this is very good.
She gave it to the world from the start: for Judy Collins, for Nina Simone, for many many others in her too-short life. Not easy to take on, but if you take it on well -- and 10KM take it on so well -- then it lives on, it lives on.
Why do so many people on RU-vid have to say which version of a song is "best"? There are so many brilliant musicians out there, and each of them are unique. We all have our personal favourites, but why this need for league tables? This is a beautiful version of a great song.
I hear what u r saying,and u r so very right. This is a truely beautiful rendition of a beautiful song. She does Sandys version true justice. The accompanying musicians do great justice to the Brilliant Fairport Convention. Love it
You & me both, Rick, but I live (and will presumably die) in Catalonia and nobody in my adopted family will understand it! (And I'd also love one of the Dead's epic Dark Stars...) So I'll have to settle for Mozart, Beethoven, maybe Paco de Lucía, I don't think Sandy will mind...
Paul David Martin, I played Judy Collins version at my mother's funeral. Plan to have Sandy's version with Fairport, and Ripple by the Dead at my funeral. I don't think good music has to be understood...I say go for it!
Look I'm a bit late here but I had to comment, this is a wonderful rendition of this beautiful song.lovely lazy pace and sweet gentle emotionally emphasised vocals from the singer.Thank you 10k maniacs and I'm sure the Lady would be pleased
Yes she sure does,I'm sorry I didn't know of Mary or you're selfs until I came upon your beautiful version of this song but I'm going to make up for that!.All the best to you for the future
Loose is a good way to put it. We tend to tighten up at times when the red light goes on, but this was for mostly friends and family. Wine might have been involved.
5:12 The drummer, "Something in my eye there- just need to..." Honestly never heard this song before last week when a snippet of it was used in a TV show prompting me to seek it out- somehow though it feels like I've loved it for years.
Joe Boyd produced a lot of Fairport Convention and 10KM's The Wishing Chair. IMO this is a great rendition of what may be Sandy Denny's "signature" tune .
Thank you. You honoured the song. Didn't try to make it different for the sake of being different. After Sandy Denny's Peel session version, that's the best version for me.
Damn it Mary.....First you blew my mind with you're remake of " These are the days "....and now despite my critical eye I have once again been mesmerized by that Siren's voice! I pride myself on critical analysis and you just shut me down every time! Beautiful....wonderful....exquisite! JO
Top version of this wonderful song. Mary was the perfect replacement for Natalie. Saw them live with Mary in London in 2000, I was expecting to be slightly disappointed without the original line up, but needn't have been, was totally blown away by this fantastic band.
I never heard of this fine group until about 1997 when I was on a trip to NY. I love NYC and walked all day in Manhattan as I did on other trips. Part of my walk was going across the Brooklyn Bridge and back to Manhattan. There was major film equipment and a very extensive camera on I think they call them dolly tracks, the works. If I recall there were 4 people that I imagined must be pretty famous. I asked on the side one of the crew people and he said they were of the group, "10,000 Maniacs". I later bought their album, a cassette tape, but don't remember the name of the album. I just remember they didn't sound as much like folk music on that album as they do here. I'm eclectic but like them performing this great folk song here. Nice to years later see them live here. I was walking then back across the bridge and saw some graffiti down low "Yuppicide" and suddenly the World Trade Center beyond and took a picture with the graffiti down low like a caption. So sad only a few years later all that happened that I feel we won't know the truth about for many years, like JFK, Bobby, Martin too, and Malcolm X. I wish I would have taken some pictures of 10,000 Maniacs too with that beautiful blue sky day with the beautiful blue sky people who know how to fly. Thanks 10MKTV for making this video!!
Whoa I had no idea 10kmaniacs covered one of my favorite songs of all time. Honestly it's a song that needs no cover. It can't be done any better than the original but this pretty good
As with all great songs it's not a matter of who's best it's a matter of preference . With so many versions of this & the bar at which Sandy & Fairport Convention set you wont find a more beautiful feel than they put into it. Some songs can only have one person that makes it stand out as a timeless piece & Sandy Deny sure made this the special number it is. With Richard Thompson 's exquisite melodies & Leads it's just a simple fact it was they that had that special magic this song creates . As a musician myself i don't believe in who's best or this solo is best or this is the best version but in some cases as with any art there can only be one artist that coined as classic piece of music & Sandy & Fairport did that with this . Many great renditions including this one all have their differences but truth & musical history will have Fairport Conventions & those incredible vocals of Sandy Deny as the original masterpiece that made this tune have the feel of the time & feel in which it was written & recorded in. Some times it just is what it is. No matter what you do when you change the song to reflect your personal take & feel you alter the true feel of the song good or bad . I do believe if not always the original is the best as it's the purest feel that particular group or artist had in mind. Tough to play Jimi Hendrix the way he played or change his versions and say i did a better job than him. Maybe different but not the way he did it. All this is just my opinion & i would not tell someone else if they preferred a different version they would be wrong ,it is about personal preference to a point.
Yes, indeed. We love Sandy Denny and this song. We enjoy playing it so we do. It really doesn't matter to us what other people think of our version but we don't expect people to think this is better than the original. Hard to top that! Thanks for being a music fan.
