Seriously, if you don’t go listen to this right goddamn now, I don’t think we can be friends. I mean that. We’re not friends. We’re not even acquaintances. In fact, if you don’t go listen to this version of Creep, we don’t even know each other anymore. Take me out of your address book, off your Christmas list, and out of your phone. We clearly don’t understand one another.
Wow.
November 11, 2008 at 11:42 pm
That was pretty great, I must admit. Gorgeous actually. Makes creep sound like a hymn… But the best thing about it was the tags on your post. I can’t seem to find any other posts about “60 Beligan Women.”
November 12, 2008 at 12:16 am
Not that I feel any need to suck up with you in order to be friends but Creep is such a beautiful song. Too bad I’m at work now so I can’t turn on the music to hear what is so special about this one. So I’ll be left wondering whether it is “fucking amazing” for the better or for worse.
Got to remind myself to come back here in the evening. But hey, that’ll be just like visiting a dear friend, don’t you think? :-p
November 12, 2008 at 2:30 am
That gave me the biggest goosebumps I’ve had in a really long time (okay, actually since last Tuesday when we elected the first African American president). Women’s voices – in f***ing amazing harmony to boot – give this song a whole new meaning.
You should also check out the album Strung out on OK Computer – The String Quartet Tribute to Radiohead
November 12, 2008 at 2:48 am
More info: the group is called Scala and they have a whole album of this stuff called ‘On the Rocks’ including Smells Like Teen Spirit
November 12, 2008 at 7:23 am
Wow. Just… wow. Beautifully done, no tongue-in-cheek. And there’s just something about a beautiful choir singing “…so fucking special…”
November 12, 2008 at 8:21 am
I thought it was unbelievably haunting. Thanks, Karen, for the info on the group.
And Arno? EVERYONE wants to be my friend
Even 60 Belgian women.
November 12, 2008 at 8:45 am
That was amazing! I can’t really find anything to say that hasn’t been said except that it brings back a lost interest in choral music, very restorative in that way.
November 12, 2008 at 10:17 am
I’ve got meself a new friend
Or rather make that 61 
OMFGs! Engel? They wouldn’t, would they? They would! Brilliant.
It’s just that Till sings the “Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein” so perfectly low, that’s just not what my 60 new friends can do, not even together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_&_Kolacny_Brothers
Apparently they made 5 albums already. How come I never heard of them before? Thanx Tiana for finding this gem for us!
I’m curious to the rest of their songs…
November 12, 2008 at 11:21 am
Of course now I’m angry that that I haven’t heard their rendition of “Everything in it’s Right Place”.
November 12, 2008 at 12:49 pm
OMG! I have never laughed so hard in my LIFE! I was listening to the music and my mother came out and immediately assumed that I was listening to RELIGIOUS MUSIC! Brownie points for the day intelekshual!
November 12, 2008 at 3:46 pm
^ If you want an alternative to religious music, try Sanctus from Lacrimosa. That’s not how you hear it performed by the religious
But exceptionally beautiful anyway.
November 18, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Finding out they are a girls choir, not ‘women’ as I had assumed, makes it even more powerful…
November 22, 2008 at 2:11 pm
You need to hear their version of “I touch myself” by the Divinyls…
May 3, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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