Wintertijd

In the car-stereo II

While visiting one of my buddies in the Netherlands, I obtained a copy of a double CD called "The Trip" that the lads of Saint Etienne put together. I've never really listened to Saint Etienne, but this collection is something else. They've collected nearly 50 tracks of 60's and early 70's music on two CD's that are utterly brilliant. And they seem to work extraordinarily well in the car to boot.

Somehow they managed to put a face on a whole musical era without taking the usual suspects in. You won't hear Aquarius but in the same style they've put a track on there called "Free from the City" by a Canadian band from the sixties called The Poppy Family. Same mood and era, much less known band. Thus, listening to the Trip becomes just that: A trip.

The song I'll be posting here is one I've enjoyed thouroughly when it was done by people like Gloria Gaynor and The Communards. But the version I stumbled across on the second CD of The Trip is worth buying the whole CD. Apparantly a band called The Sandpipers did a version of Guantanamera that sucked ass, and then they went ahead and did this splendid rendition of Never can say goodbye. It's dreamy. It's lounge. It's got excellent piano and organ stuff going on. I daresay it's quite a lot better than all other versions I've heard of this song so far.

Enjoy The Sandpipers' version of Never can say goodbye.

Posted by Chris at April 1, 2005 01:53 PM