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"Wide to Receive" covered by Jeffrey Altergott - free download
posted by davidt on Friday October 27 2000, @09:15AM

 An anonymous person writes:

As a Smiths/Morrissey fan since 1985 and occasional lurker on the mailing lists and newgroups, I've come to find that the one of the most popular questions among fans is "what else do you listen to?". With the soulless thud of the "98 Christina Spears Sync" era seemingly inescapable (in American pop culture, anyhow), I've increasingly turned to independent music to find my own answers to that question.

I stumbled across Jeffrey Altergott by way of recommendation, and I've found that his latest work, Icarus Grounded, is far and away my favourite album of 2000. It's a confluence of fantastically melodic pop, passionate lyrics, and, as Moz would say, "a lovely singing voice". But you don't have to take my word for it - download his cover of Morrissey's "Wide to Receive" in mp3 format here for free.

Enjoy!

 
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    Can't download (Score:0)
    have Mac
    Anonymous -- Friday October 27 2000, @03:47PM (#3838)
    • Re:Can't download by little320 (Score:1) Friday October 27 2000, @07:28PM
      • Download? by ms_smith86 (Score:1) Friday October 27 2000, @08:22PM
        it's too flowery (Score:2, Insightful)
        this sounds like his publicist stumbled across this newsgroup and found a quick way to get a whole bunch of unsuspecting Moz fans running to listen to their new protege.
        suzanne <{suzsch} {at} {sbcglobal.net}> -- Saturday October 28 2000, @12:26AM (#3859)
        (User #36 Info | http://www.myspace.com/snootywriter )
         I scare dead people.
        i like it (Score:1, Informative)
        i think its a pretty good cover.
        the vocals aren't great but i really like
        the way he plays it acoustically.

        for free, it was definitely worth the time it
        took to download it.

        as far as the person who thinks the encoding is
        wrong, if you are using windows download
        uncook from here:

        http://www.netgoer.com/html/free/musictool.htm

        often times, files get transferred in ascii
        instead of binary and they get copied with line
        feeds. this program takes those out.

        Anonymous -- Saturday October 28 2000, @07:33AM (#3864)
          Wide To Receive Cover (Score:1)
          Oh god! I just listened to it and am ALMOST speachless.

          I believe there are just some people (many actually) that should NOT even try to cover any Moz/Smiths songs. This man is truly one of them.
          Iīm sorry, but his voice was just WRONG WRONG WRONG. I didnīt bother to listen to any of his own songs, for good reason I believe, therefor I cannot say anything bad about his music in general.

          I hope Morrissey did not authorise the remake of this song...please say it isnīt so!
          ShielaTakingABow <pole@samband.net> -- Saturday October 28 2000, @09:08AM (#3869)
          (User #1780 Info | http://www.geocities.com/ragry/rogr.htm )
           "Weīre all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" OW
            I'm not sure how this happened, but... (Score:1)
            I checked my website visitor report today online...and found a rather unusual spike which started Friday. The reffering URL was this site. So...I stopped in to see why.

            I'm sorry to have gotten off on a bad foot with anyone...let alone Moz fans. I feel the need to clarify a couple of things.

            I am only somewhat known locally (Chicago) and a relative nobody everywhere else. I have no publisist, record label, booking agent or manager. I do it all myself and probably always will.

            I've not released the "Wide to Receive" cover on any professional work I've done. I posted that version on my website (which was recorded on the floor of my living room with a cheap microphone in a very no frills sort of way) in order to experiment with the idea of posting mp3's from my shows.

            It's not the best representation of my voice...this I know. But I liked the feel of it (compared to other things I recorded that day) and wanted to try moving the minidisc recordings to mp3 and my website to see how it would work.

            If you don't like my voice, I totally respect that. But, I don't think you've given me a fair shake if you haven't listened to my own perfessionally recorded material. The best example is the title track from my CD, the mp3 for which is at:
            http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/21/jeffrey_altergott.html

            Your comments did modivate me to buy a condenser mic for home recording which I picked up this morning. I re-recorded the cover and moved it to my website this evening. It's still me on my living room floor practicing, mind you, but the recording quality should be better.

            Thanks, though, to the person who likes my stuff enough to share it - that was really cool of you (whomever you are).

            JeffreyAltergott -- Sunday October 29 2000, @06:27PM (#3928)
            (User #1789 Info)

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