Outdoor Miner: Wire

[Ferryman_1957]

One of my favourite Wire songs ever, so you needed to be careful here. I'm glad you did it very differently from the original, because it would be really hard to better that and it would be awful to come off second best. This is a really nice treatment, you carry it very well with just a guitar part (and a great sound). The vocals are great and the multiple parts are really good. Great feeling in the vocal performance that suits the song perfectly.

Any idea what it's about? I read somewhere it's about some kind of insect......

Cheers,

Nigel

PS Jim's right, I love it!

[tom r]

Hi guys
i am aware that this is just a classic pop song of the highest calibre so was a little nervous about how to approach it. I'm glad you all approve :-)
Nigel i do believe it is an insect inspired song "serpintine miner" is a silverfish some kind of insect i know you get them living in carpets

T
P.S i remember finding a very sparse looking album called Pink Flag in my older brothers record collection many years ago and put it on the record player. I've never looked back, it was just amazing!

[tom r]

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_leaf_miner

T

[Facemask93]

Wicked track Tom , never got into punk , i'm an old Motown , hippy , sabbath lover , so i dont recall this , got a great sound going on that guitar though , and great vox

Rob

[Gnasty]

Sorry i don`t know Wire or this song but i`m loving this Tom. Great vocals. Sounds grungy to me.

Your vox and backing vox make this sound sweet!

[shadowself]

This sounds great!  I am only familiar with Jason Falkner's cover of it, it's an awesome tune and you performed it well.

[ODH]

How did I miss this?

Outdoor Miner is also one of my all time favorites, I remember recording off of John Peel back in the late Seventees.  I still have that tape somewhere...

I love your version.

[tom r]

thanks i gave my version a listen to for the first time in a while and dont think its very good at all hey ho!

Tom

[Facemask93]

Dont be daft Tom , it's bloody great

[Pipes]

Hi,
Don't know the song, but what youv'e done sounds dam good to me..nice one

Nick