Watch: Saul Williams does U2, bloodily
- Artists:
- Saul Williams »
The official video to Saul Williams' faithful cover of U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' has found its way into the public eye.
The song - taken from Williams' latest LP 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust' - clearly exhibits the influence of producer Trent Reznor. Blessing? Curse? Video:
Download Niggy Tardust from here. In other news, Williams has just been confirmed to play at the Explosions in the Sky-curated ATP, which runs from the 16th 'til the 18th of May.
- WIN! Tickets to this summer's Wireless Festival in London
- Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS review
- Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
- Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS preview
- The Great Escape 2008: the DiS preview
- Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
- Hyde and seek: good bands discovered on Wireless bill
- Vampire Weekend, Saul Williams added as Great Escape bill shapes up
Saul Williams
From the archive
-
In Photos: White Air Extreme Sports and Music Festival, Brighton
-
Drowned in Saturday: Alright for Fighting? Dancing? At the movies?
-
Slowcore Week: Slint and Codeine - a shared musical language?
Tweet This
Share on Facebook'tis a horrid thing,
guvnor.
Is it just me
Or is this really REALLY shit?
its not just you
this is really bad
it's bad
so very very bad.
thank god
you've got sarky in your name...
:(
Definitely a Curse.
My opinion
It's absolutely brilliant.
err
The parts where the original takes a step up this one is flat. Not the worst cover i've heard, U2's helter Skleter is bad.
Maybe because
I don't have any particular affections for the original and I really like most of Trent's work I'm leaning towards this one too.
Either way, I think it's ace.
I like it
And I'm pretty sure that video has Johnny from The Wire in it!
Why? WHY?
Some things should just be left well alone, including songs such as this...
Also, what's the relevance to him covering this song?
Surprised, really. I thought the dude had some cred.
LEAVE IT ALONE.
I got in about 54 seconds and had to turn it off at work. Might revisit. Might not.
im surprised.
Hes made the song like a million times better.
And
it was a real highlight on "niggy....."
which shows how shit it is
come on, how can anyone whose username references House Of Leaves have such shit taste?
He is shit
I've tried it live I've tried it on record he just doesn't float my boat, too dull too preachy and too generic.
I don't quite see the "Trent Reznor" influence on the video, being that there is no NIN video style as such, they're all very different.
The album the song is from was produced by Trent Reznor
and is very different from Saul Williams S/T album and the one before it. I like the video for this song, it has a good message but am not too keen on the music.
Since when
has it been cool to hang out with Trent Reznor. Okay it's not quite Rivers Cuomo and Thora Birch appearing in Limp Bizkit videos, but it doesn't fill me with glee either.
In Photos: Monotonix @ Hector's House, Brighton
In Photos: The Specials @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
In Photos: Camden Crawl Launch Event @ The Blues Kitchen, London
In Photos: La Roux @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Last.fm
SoundCloud
MySpace
Friendster
RSS
Comments
- Post a new comment on this article