The Hundred Voyages of Version

[Corpsey]

Here's the scene in question:

This is a good scene but the best scene in Hard Boiled is obviously the hospital shootout.

 

[version]

That's like a third of the entire film.

 

[...]

I never developed a taste for John Woo. I don't really like slow-motion as a cinematic device which is the main component of his visual aesthetic.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'd never noticed the incredibly spooky pitched-down vocals at the very end of the song.

 

[version]

I never developed a taste for John Woo. I don't really like slow-motion as a cinematic device which is the main component of his visual aesthetic.

Watch it on fast forward? He may woo you yet.

 

[version]

18. Space Opera, Holy River

First heard this in an OPN mix for FACT in 2010. Dunno whether they did anything else this good as I never bothered to look, but one great song’s more than most of us manage anyway. Music for lovely weather.

 

[luka]

its werid cos that scene version posted is literally what the insdie of craners head looks like

 

[version]

Yeah, but about fifty minutes of the film's people diving around in slow-mo shooting at each other. If it was just that scene for two hours, Craner would be in his element.

 

[version]

19. Round Two, New Day feat. Andy Caine (Vocal Mix)

Hands in the air. I don’t even mind the cheesy vocal. In fact, I love it.

 

[version]

20. Can, Moonshake

I almost chose Vitamin C, but I prefer this one atm. They have so many though. Jaki was a god.

 

[version]

21. The Loni Gamble Band feat. Lisa Warrington, I Like The Way You Do It

 

[Corpsey]

Your write-ups are getting shorter, to the point of nonexistence. Don't wear yourself out, now.

The music is good but the words are what really matter IMO.

 

[version]

The next one's a bit longer, but it's mostly about tucking your shirt into your trousers.

 

[version]

22. Walter Becker, Down in the Bottom

This is a tune I feel I should hate just from looking at how he’s dressed on the cover, but I don’t. I really don’t. Admittedly the snare’s far too intrusive, particularly for a member of a band regularly praised for the quality of their sound, but other than that… The only downside is it makes me feel like a middle-aged man who tucks his shirt into his trousers.

 

[Corpsey]

That was made funnier because I knew it was coming. Interesting.

That snare must have inspired Pendulum.

 

[version]

It's inexplicable.

 

[version]

Also he dresses like my dad and his mates. They all dress like that and go to pub jam sessions and play Sympathy for the Devil.

 

[Corpsey]

My dad dressed like that throughout his 40s and 50s. Not coincidentally he introduced me to Steely Dan.

 

[shiels]

Tucking your shirt in is cool again version

 

[Corpsey]

Luka already knows about the beaded driver seat.

I think when I told Luka and Barry about that Barry said my dad was Nigerian.