Life in a Northern Town (cover version)

[Shaw Tarse]

Played on Radio 2 about 8'ish tonight? Think it was a duet of somesort?
Google/iPlayer aint helped so over to PH

[Pesty]

There was a cover a few years ago with a modern beat behind it

there have been a live cover versions
like this
Sugarland : Life in a Northern Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGt_c0noTA

[Shaw Tarse]

Linky please? or do I need to contact R2?
Sounded like Neil Diamond(ish)

[Meeja]

Or the dance track "Sunchyme" by Dario G which sampled "Life in a Northern Town".....

[Meeja]

Shaw Tarse said:

Sounded like Neil Diamond(ish)

Deffo not my suggestion then!

[Meeja]

iPlayer link for R2 tonight from 8pm....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y6

Had a quick scan through and can't hear anything that sounds like it though..

Edited to add - found it.

At the end of Bob Harris Country this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y4

Would hazard a guess that it is Sugarland performing it.

Edited by Meeja on Thursday 5th March 23:03

[Shaw Tarse]

Meeja said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Sounded like Neil Diamond(ish)

Deffo not my suggestion then!

I think Pesty got it!
But thanks

[Shaw Tarse]

Meeja said:

iPlayer link for R2 tonight from 8pm....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y6

Had a quick scan through and can't hear anything that sounds like it though..

Thanks I'd looked, when I said Diamond (ish) I should have added (moreISH)

[Pesty]

I find it and you give me a unhappy face.


pah can't help anybody these days

[WestYorkie]

Pesty said:

There was a cover a few years ago with a modern beat behind it

there have been a live cover versions
like this
Sugarland : Life in a Northern Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGt_c0noTA

Yup it was Sugerland as Pesty said. As I listened to it I thought how much of a different song it was from a American perspective.
They could sing this in New Jersey or similer and it have a upbeat feeling to it.

Yet I think of the original by Dream Academy to be a gloomy view of life during hard times.

(The views above are those of myself and in no way am I a reviewer or social commentator )


P.S quite good stand in whilst the Whisperer is away.

[Meeja]

Meeja said:

iPlayer link for R2 tonight from 8pm....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y6

Had a quick scan through and can't hear anything that sounds like it though..

Edited to add - found it.

At the end of Bob Harris Country this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y4

Would hazard a guess that it is Sugarland performing it.

Edited by Meeja on Thursday 5th March 23:03

Yep - just listened through it, and it is Sugarland performing it.

That same live version available on this album...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Inside-Sugarland/dp/B...

[Pesty]

The dream acadamy version was one of my favourite songs as a young un.

I heard the sugarland version not long ago and liked it but it sounded suspiciously 'country and western' when one of the blokes starts. Just didnt fit

[knk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGt_c0noTA

[Shaw Tarse]

Pesty said:

I find it and you give me a unhappy face.


pah can't help anybody these days

The unhappy face was for Meeja cos u'd already got it!
Will download it!
Have a virtual both of you
In fact all round!

[Pesty]

Keep up at the back.

Jaysus its in the second post not like you had to trawl through pages to check is it

[Shaw Tarse]

Pesty said:

Keep up at the back.

Jaysus its in the second post not like you had to trawl through pages to check is it

I'm sure that weren't there when I looked?
& I've bin moved!
But have a

[steve_amv8]

Meeja said:

Meeja said:

iPlayer link for R2 tonight from 8pm....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y6

Had a quick scan through and can't hear anything that sounds like it though..

Edited to add - found it.

At the end of Bob Harris Country this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hw4y4

Would hazard a guess that it is Sugarland performing it.

Edited by Meeja on Thursday 5th March 23:03

Yep - just listened through it, and it is Sugarland performing it.

That same live version available on this album...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Inside-Sugarland/dp/B...

Strictly speaking, I think it is Sugerland and Little Big Town featuring some guy called Jake Owen. I'm no country fan but LBT are pretty good - saw them live in Tampa last year, very Fleetwood Mac influenced. We went as a treat for the wife on our honeymoon ... and I really enjoyed the show! ( http://www.littlebigtown.com/).

Life in a Northern Town is also a bonus track on LBT's current album "A Place to Land".

I would guess it was on R2 as Sugarland are performing in the UK next week ....

Edited by steve_amv8 on Thursday 5th March 23:39

[WestYorkie]

steve_amv8 said:

I would guess it was on R2 as Sugarland are performing in the UK next week ....

Edited by steve_amv8 on Thursday 5th March 23:39

Ahh secret advertising from the BBC, Nowt new there then! Seems like they could be worth a listen though

[Captain Cadillac]

I just saw the video for this song on YouTube on the ole iPhone.

This song fking blows.

[WestYorkie]

Captain Cadillac said:

I just saw the video for this song on YouTube on the ole iPhone.

This song fking blows.

Sorry CC does that mean you think it's good or bad?

One of the most under rated songs of the 80's IMO.