A raiz de la preciosa versión que aparece en Under the covers, el disco de Matthew Sweet y Susanna Hoffs que por cierto con el tiempo me va gustando cada vez más (en su myspace hay cuatro canciones, ésta entre ellas), me ha entrado curiosidad por la canción Different Drum. Me emociona como la canta ella, su melodía y su letra.
En la wikipedia hay una entrada sobre la canción, y cuenta lo siguiente:
"Different Drum" is a 1967 song performed by Linda Ronstadt (from her days with the Stone Poneys), as well as the name of her 1974 hits album. The song was her first hit single, and was written by Monkees member Michael Nesmith.
The original version of this song was recorded by the Greenbriar Boys and was included on their 1966 album, Better Late than Never!.
Nesmith himself rushes through a version of it in a quick comedy bit while pretending to be Billy Roy Hodstetter, in the Monkees television show episode "Too Many Girls," Davy Jones mentions this during the commentary track on some DVDs of this episode.
Mike himself recorded the song for his 1972 LP And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'. His own version contains four verses as opposed to the three in Ronstadt's version.
The song tells the story of a pair of lovers, one of whom wants to settle down and the other of whom still wants to hold on to a sense of freedom and independence. The song's narrator is the lover who wants to remain free, telling the devoted suitor that they will "both live a lot longer" if they part ways now.
Es realmente emocionante.
Aquí está la canción en directo tocada por estos dos grandes de la música en versión acústica:
Y aquí la de Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponys:
Y una versión de los Lemonheads en directo:
también versioneada por los Pastels, Me first and the Gimme Gimmes...
La letra es acojonante, la pongo aún a riesgo de que el post sea interminable:
You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-ohYou cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the treesOh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only meYes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on meSo good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me
