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Iron & Wine stretch to Such Great Heights

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 36 comments 16:11 June 7th, 2006
Iron And Wine Sam Beam

Sam Beam - aka Iron & Wine - is to release his version of 'Such Great Heights', originally penned and performed by The Postal Service.

The song will be available as a download and CD on July 31. Previously released as a b-side of The Postal Service's version, Beam's take on the song is enjoying increasing popularity. It was included in the movie Garden State, and was recently used on an advertisement for Ask.com in Britain, sparking a fresh wave of interest.

The single's b-side will be 'Naked As We Came', lifted from Iron & Wine's most recent (2004) album, Our Endless Numbered Days.

Iron & Wine The Postal Service

i dont like this version

its a bit dull innit, never heard any other iron and whine stuff though.

sharp_yet_blunt | 7 Jun '06, 16:15 | X | Reply

Power of advertising isn't it.

i like Iron & Wine but i feel that it will become more successful than the Postal Service version and fuel the argument that acoustic guitar music is by default more noble, heartfelt, worthwhile and 'proper' than electronic music.

DiScuss.

thommo | 7 Jun '06, 16:16 | X | Reply

it's been said before

but that cover is DULL.

-Mark- | 7 Jun '06, 16:16 | X | Reply

this feels a bit lame

no new tracks? its all a bit (whisper it) 'sell-out' ish.

Heliotrope | 7 Jun '06, 16:30 | X | Reply

i like

the shins version of 'we become silhouettes'
far superior.

silentlyamused | 7 Jun '06, 16:37 | X | Reply

but

hasnt this been out for AGES AND AGES AND AGES AND AGES.

(CAR ADVERT BANDS ARE SHIT)

elainepaige @silentlyamused | 7 Jun '06, 16:38 | X | Reply

Martin Grech

was ok... until he played Truck.

Filip @elainepaige | 7 Jun '06, 16:47 | X | Reply

It's a rubbish cover version

and I love Iron & Wine. Naked As We Came on the other hand is superb. Thanks fuck that isn't being used on adverts.

benrith @Filip | 7 Jun '06, 16:54 | X | Reply

i cannot stand

Iron & Wine. it's so saccharaine, over-sugary, and just damn cringe-worthy.

brusma | 7 Jun '06, 17:40 | X | Reply

apart from the people

who don't want it.

cos it is bad, innit.

benmarwood @65Rules | 7 Jun '06, 17:58 | X | Reply

.

shock horror, elitist dis'ers judge and write off previously liked track because it got popular and/or was used in adverts

i still think it's a good cover. *shrug*

underpangs | 7 Jun '06, 18:06 | X | Reply

!

I have that Postal Service single, bought randomly when some customer didn't come to pick it up. I like both versions.

I would buy the cd but I have both tracks. Naked is also a bit of a tune...

IranDIS @underpangs | 7 Jun '06, 18:18 | X | Reply

I really dislike this version

It adds nothing whatsoever to the original, in my opinion

dove_from_above @IranDIS | 7 Jun '06, 19:02 | X | Reply

iron& wine

this version, i believe is better. that's only, i suppose, because i don't really like the postal service version very much.
i prefer iron & wine in general. better than anything ben gibbard does anyway.

neecho | 7 Jun '06, 19:16 | X | Reply

...or not.

thommo @thommo | 7 Jun '06, 19:59 | X | Reply

in the same way as

the knife/jose gonzalez??

-Mark- @thommo | 8 Jun '06, 00:16 | X | Reply

hrmmm

i can see why it might appeal to some but i find it just a watered down version of the original with all the good bits taken out...

ThreeHopefulThoughts @cyan_scarab | 8 Jun '06, 00:32 | X | Reply

I have

they're flimsy as fuck, but when you type your destination in the steering wheel it takes you there with minimal effort.

Browno @scottjackson2 | 8 Jun '06, 01:20 | X | Reply

Hmm..

Doesn't have that same feel as the Postal Service one, but its ok.

http://www.musictimes.com.au

jimboh2k | 8 Jun '06, 02:17 | X | Reply

Iron & Wine is great

and has great songs. Its a shame a cover has to be relased to bring him to anyone's attention.

Thom_fa | 8 Jun '06, 02:19 | X | Reply

i love iron and wine

but this cover is a bit unimaginative. although having said that i like gozalez's cover of heartbeats so what do i know. i also heard sam beam's cover of we all us three will ride by will oldham, and that was pretty bland too. maybe covers just aren't his thing.

since-last-summer @Thom_fa | 8 Jun '06, 02:24 | X | Reply

Zzzzz. Rubbish version.

Also, why the hell does he call himself 'Iron and Wine', and not just 'Sam Beam'?

wrightylew | 8 Jun '06, 10:34 | X | Reply

I think you may be right

lame situation really.

But the original is hugely popular.

Go look at the last.fm history of most listened tracks, that song is in the top 10 nearly every week for 18 months!

JezCC @thommo | 8 Jun '06, 13:48 | X | Reply

Because 'Sam Beam'...

...is a far, far less interesting name to release under.

Effloresce_Sean @wrightylew | 8 Jun '06, 16:34 | X | Reply

Erm..

I like it.

More than The Postal Service's version.

Does this make me a bad person?

I don't think, either, than it even remotely suggests people automatically choose acoustic ahead of electronic, especially given the amount of singer/songwriter types that now dabble in the electronic side of things.

Mackem @Effloresce_Sean | 8 Jun '06, 17:08 | X | Reply

Another cover?!

Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls does a cover version of this at some live shows. She did it in Dublin anyway, yo.

holly_golightly | 8 Jun '06, 17:28 | X | Reply

I really love tha cover

it's my favourite cover, lykz evahhh.

That's really the only Iron and Wine song I've heard and actually remembered. It's alright. But is his other stuff better?

Omgz1one @silentlyamused | 8 Jun '06, 21:22 | X | Reply

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