in this Canon advertisement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO8d0lLYXGg

Yeah, though it's definitely not the KS version.

That song is used in a lot of adverts over here, particularly car ones for some reason. It's being used in a car advert at the moment in the UK (I think it's the Deep Purple one they're using, although I didn't listen that closely.)

Joe South must be a very rich man by now...

Talking of Joe South, It'd be cool to hear KS try his best-known song one-day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5znh58WITU8

It'd suit Crispian's voice, and the lyric seems to be pretty much in sync with their worldview. They have two Daniel Johnston songs in their repetoire, so I don't see why they can't have a couple of Joe South ones too...

I like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9Es4N4oGU

This is interesting.....!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNdKrUsPRo&feature=related

Crazy!!

I LOVE this one too....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIAUSZuGATI&feature=related

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Originally posted by Domino:
I like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9Es4N4oGU

Yeah, that one's good too. It's kind of ironic that he wrote all these well-observed, insightful songs about humanity, and yet the one that KS should decide to pick from his back catalogue is actually dumbly sexist, if you look at it from a lyrical point-of-view (though it's undeniably catchy, having said that.) But it doesn't really do the guy's songwriting much justice.

Hush's lyrics are sexist?

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Originally posted by 2-J:
Hush's lyrics are sexist?

Well I don't see myself as being particularly PC, but ths isn't exactly enlightened, is it:

"Got a certain little girl that's on my mind
Good gosh o' mine, she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I've ever had
And sometimes she shows me she feels so bad"

"Little girl" instead of "woman", not to mention the concept of relationship-as-ownership. But I'm not saying it's any worse than a million other songs of its era. Just that it sticks out when you put alongside some of his other lyrics.

Isn't 'little girl' a term of endearment primarily, like 'baby', etc? I would say such words are still okay today and not offensive. Even sweet still, perhaps. I can appreciate maybe part of the reason they originally arose might have been to do with seeing women as subordinate, but surely they've lost those connotations today. (even some women call their boyfriends etc 'boy', 'baby' etc now).

I think the same reasoning would apply to 'had' (used freely today, by women and men, usually devoid of ownership associations except perhaps positive ones of closeness and attachment).

Anyway, just another view!

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Originally posted by 2-J:
Isn't 'little girl' a term of endearment primarily, like 'baby', etc? I would say such words are still okay today and not offensive.

Well, the problem with going down this route is that I'll end up making statements about what women find offensive, and the presumption in that is just as offensive in its own way. Women don't need men to speak on their behalf about what they should or shouldn't find offensive... but having said that I'll completely ignore it anyway and say that I think a lot of women would be offended to be referred to as "little girl." And remember that in the context of the song he's not saying it to her, he's using that term to describe her to a (presumably male) third party i.e. "she's my little girl" And to me that's rather more offensive.

I should add though that Crispian has made some comments about women in past interviews that suggests that he takes a somewhat-less-than-modern outlook on the topic (I'm choosing my words tactfully here.) See the NME articles I scanned recently for one or two examples. So I'm sure he'd have a different take on these lyrics.

"You treat me like a woman when I feel like a man"

Nuff said

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Originally posted by antimaterial:
"You treat me like a woman when I feel like a man"

Nuff said

Isn't that just a metaphor for saying "you treat me as something I am fundamentally not".

I agree it's a clumsy phrase. But in the context of the song, with the the guy offering him all the materialistic things, the meaning is clear.

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Originally posted by 2-J:
Isn't that just a metaphor for saying "you treat me as something I am fundamentally not".

Or (playing devil's advocate here) "you treat me as something fundamentally inferior to what I am." Truth is, I've never found that line particularly clear in its meaning, although I suppose it's logical to interpret it to be about not fitting in, since the rest of the song is clearly about a search for spirituality in a materialistic world.