<![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:13:47 EST Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:13:47 EST http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4019706 There are so many clauses in that opening sentence that I expected it to be punctuated with a couple "Whereas..."

G3K

]]> 33:351659:c4019706 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:13:47 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4012271 Hate to join the choir, but I will anyway. Most of "King of America" and "Blood and Chocolate," and about half of "Spike," consist of truly great songs. That said, Wyatt's immortal rendition trumps Costello's, and is easily the best cover of any Costello composition (and no, I'm not forgetting Dave Edmunds' "Girls Talk" or Roy Orbison's "The Comedians").

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:351659:c4012271 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:42:40 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4010749 robert wyatt is such a phenomenal talent. i love everything i know of him from soft machine up til now.
good choice.

harumph

]]> 33:351659:c4010749 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:25:37 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4007441 "Costello's last truly great song"? Don't make me come over there.

Chris N.

]]> 33:351659:c4007441 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:31:58 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4007381 Woah woah woah. "I Want You"?

martybrownesq

]]> 33:351659:c4007381 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:30:05 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4006685 also, I think Robert Wyatt might have the highest hit rate of any covers artist. has he ever recorded a bad version of anything?

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:351659:c4006685 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:03:43 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4006672 @Jupiter8: you really don't have to re-evaluate Goodbye Cruel World, honest.

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:351659:c4006672 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:03:02 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4005915 "Peace in Our Time" is also a great song-I remember seeing this performance-I think it was from "The Tonight Show"....

[www.youtube.com]

I might have to re-evaluated "Goodbye Cruel World"!

Jupiter8

]]> 33:351659:c4005915 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:36:20 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4004840 umm, really, i'd say blood and chocolate is full of great songs, and "tramp the dirt down" on spike is a fine war themed tune.

iantenna

]]> 33:351659:c4004840 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:56:35 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4004724 Thanks, Jess. He's one of my favorite singers.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:351659:c4004724 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:52:46 EST <![CDATA[Robert Wyatt Needs A Bigger Boat]]> http://idolator.com/351659/robert-wyatt-needs-a-bigger-boat#c4004405 Suede doing same:

[www.youtube.com]

NickEddy

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