I’ll have to check out both versions now. Taken right from Beck’s Journal:
I also saw pink doing her new song, which is in fact my old song. I wrote and recorded it with william orbit a few years back. its called feelgood time. it sat around languishing like a few dozen other tracks of mine are currently. somehow pink heard it and wanted to cover it for the charlie’s angels movie. I was doing a solo tour of europe when I was asked. I thought about it for a few days then gave the ok (I’ve had other songs covered by johnny cash, weird al and tom petty). I like the idea of songs having life beyond what I do. I have much respect for the songwriter tradition. bacharach, hoagy carmichael, frank loesser, hank williams. if a song is good enough it’ll translate to all sorts of voices and styles.
I finally heard it a week later when I got home and was suprised to find that pink had sung over my actual recording of the song and resang the vocal arrangements I did! they took out some of my crazy guitar shizz and made the song a little more radio friendly. I was dissapointed cos I wanted my version to get out there in some capacity. but now it would just sound like I was doing karaoke to pink. so I let it go, but still have plenty more in the kitty. my version, which I am partial to (though pink sings the chorus better than I did), is floating around somewhere. hopefully you’ll be hearing it in one version or another at beaches, community pools and motor parks across the nation this summer. feelgood time indeed.
I’ll have to check out both versions now. Taken right from Beck’s Journal:
I also saw pink doing her new song, which is in fact my old song. I wrote and recorded it with william orbit a few years back. its called feelgood time. it sat around languishing like a few dozen other tracks of mine are currently. somehow pink heard it and wanted to cover it for the charlie’s angels movie. I was doing a solo tour of europe when I was asked. I thought about it for a few days then gave the ok (I’ve had other songs covered by johnny cash, weird al and tom petty). I like the idea of songs having life beyond what I do. I have much respect for the songwriter tradition. bacharach, hoagy carmichael, frank loesser, hank williams. if a song is good enough it’ll translate to all sorts of voices and styles.
I finally heard it a week later when I got home and was suprised to find that pink had sung over my actual recording of the song and resang the vocal arrangements I did! they took out some of my crazy guitar shizz and made the song a little more radio friendly. I was dissapointed cos I wanted my version to get out there in some capacity. but now it would just sound like I was doing karaoke to pink. so I let it go, but still have plenty more in the kitty. my version, which I am partial to (though pink sings the chorus better than I did), is floating around somewhere. hopefully you’ll be hearing it in one version or another at beaches, community pools and motor parks across the nation this summer. feelgood time indeed.