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Thread started 08/30/07 8:21pm

thebanishedone

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Maxwell - This Woman's Work (Live)

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Reply #1 posted 08/31/07 4:55am

CandaceS

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I think he can sing higher than Kate!! lol


But yes biggrin biggrin biggrin that was great! But can somebody tell me a little more about that performance? When/where, etc?
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Reply #2 posted 08/31/07 5:54am

thebanishedone

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its maybe from 1997
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Reply #3 posted 08/31/07 6:17am

heybaby

i'm sorry but i never liked his version and i could never understand why everybody else does. its just so cringe worthy to me don't know why barf
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Reply #4 posted 08/31/07 9:15am

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His version kicks Kate's version's ass easily. He put soul in it.
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Reply #5 posted 08/31/07 9:22am

Scorpion

MuthaFunka said:

His version kicks Kate's version's ass easily. He put soul in it.



I agree.

I don't even listen to Kate's anymore after his.
tho' I battled blind
love is a fate resigned
memories mar my mind
love it is a fate resigned

Over futile odds
and laughed at by the Gods
and now the final frame
Love is a losing game
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Reply #6 posted 08/31/07 9:48am

3121

Always loved this rendition. Maxwell looks like predator when he takes his mask off here though.
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Reply #7 posted 08/31/07 11:58am

myloveis4ever

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Scorpion said:

MuthaFunka said:

His version kicks Kate's version's ass easily. He put soul in it.



I agree.

I don't even listen to Kate's anymore after his.


i don´t agree.... Kate´s version is the best...

shit.....
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Reply #8 posted 08/31/07 1:07pm

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he may do a great rendition
But kate still wrote and composed it

so kate will always be greater
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Reply #9 posted 08/31/07 1:52pm

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myloveis4ever said:

Scorpion said:




I agree.

I don't even listen to Kate's anymore after his.


i don´t agree.... Kate´s version is the best...

shit.....


Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless. Maxy owns it and makes it his.
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Reply #10 posted 08/31/07 2:01pm

SirPsycho

EmbattledWarrior said:

he may do a great rendition
But kate still wrote and composed it

so kate will always be greater


nod :co-sign:
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Reply #11 posted 08/31/07 4:19pm

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CandaceS said:

I think he can sing higher than Kate!! lol


But yes biggrin biggrin biggrin that was great! But can somebody tell me a little more about that performance? When/where, etc?

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I like Maxwell's version more than Kate's. With all do respect to Kate Bush, Maxwell really did sing it like it was his.
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Reply #12 posted 08/31/07 4:31pm

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Awe nice, I have heard and watched this like 100 million times in the past and it is always so nice to see again. I love Maxwell's vocals and pretty much anything he has sang. I have all his released music and I am so bummed he has not released anything new lately. heart
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Reply #13 posted 09/01/07 9:19am

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FLAWLESS... love it exclaim
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #14 posted 09/02/07 6:14am

myloveis4ever

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MuthaFunka said:

myloveis4ever said:



i don´t agree.... Kate´s version is the best...

shit.....


Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless. Maxy owns it and makes it his.



okej whatever . u like maxwell´s version and i Bush´s version.
okej?
but u r wrong about >Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless

shit maxwell like the song because of the emotion
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Reply #15 posted 09/02/07 6:23am

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Most people would never have even heard this song if Maxwell didn't cover it.

Kate Bush is not exactly my cup of tea, and radio doesn't play her here in the U.S.

I do like her version, but Maxwell took the song there.

So for me MAXWELL all the way.
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Reply #16 posted 09/02/07 9:40am

MuthaFunka

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myloveis4ever said:

MuthaFunka said:



Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless. Maxy owns it and makes it his.



okej whatever . u like maxwell´s version and i Bush´s version.
okej?
but u r wrong about >Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless

shit maxwell like the song because of the emotion


How is my opinion wrong? eek

If you think it has soul then that's your opinion. To me, she sounds wooden and emotionless. Case closed.
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Reply #17 posted 09/04/07 4:09pm

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Both versions are really nice, but I can't let go of Kate's.
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Reply #18 posted 09/05/07 5:18am

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MuthaFunka said:

Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless.


LMFAO
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Reply #19 posted 09/05/07 7:30am

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Cloudbuster said:

MuthaFunka said:

Kate's version sounds very wooden and emotionless.


LMFAO


ditto...not sure what mutha is smoking to think that but kate's version is anything but wooden or emotionless IMHO.

i like both version and don't need to discredit one over the other to enjoy them.
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Reply #20 posted 09/05/07 9:01am

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I don't feel any "soul" in hers that's all. Maxwell swoons it and soulifies it much better than she did.
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Reply #21 posted 09/05/07 9:13am

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MuthaFunka said:

I don't feel any "soul" in hers that's all. Maxwell swoons it and soulifies it much better than she did.


Soul as in r&b swagger or as in an emotional pull? because to my ears i hear the struggle of woman...the ending is heartbreaking...but if you prefer soulful r&b malaise then i can understand why you would prefer maxwells...but to say her version doesn't have soul?
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Reply #22 posted 09/05/07 9:39am

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sosgemini said:

MuthaFunka said:

I don't feel any "soul" in hers that's all. Maxwell swoons it and soulifies it much better than she did.


Soul as in r&b swagger or as in an emotional pull? because to my ears i hear the struggle of woman...the ending is heartbreaking...but if you prefer soulful r&b malaise then i can understand why you would prefer maxwells...but to say her version doesn't have soul?


Both "soul" as swagger and as feeling. And I just don't feel it from her.
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Reply #23 posted 09/05/07 10:10am

SirPsycho

sosgemini said:

MuthaFunka said:

I don't feel any "soul" in hers that's all. Maxwell swoons it and soulifies it much better than she did.


Soul as in r&b swagger or as in an emotional pull? because to my ears i hear the struggle of woman...the ending is heartbreaking...but if you prefer soulful r&b malaise then i can understand why you would prefer maxwells...but to say her version doesn't have soul?


there's my thing...i don't hear the saddness of death and loss in maxwell's version...it's almost (keyword being almost) as if he focused on the birth of "the child" and his vocal delivery reveals such...like the difference between the work of ALL women..and the work of ONE particular woman- as her husband says farewell
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Reply #24 posted 09/05/07 10:11am

SirPsycho

there's a personal quality in kate's version that could only come from the one who penned it.


P.S.=> listen to kate's "song of solomon" and tell me she aint got soul.
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