I love Chris's Invincible Super-Blog for setting the lyrics of Pulp's Common People to visuals from Archie Comics, it's totally brilliant. My favorite version of this song is actually William Shatner's cover, from his 2004 album Has Been, and I say that a) completely without irony and b) having heard Jarvis Cocker himself sing it last year. Here, have a listen:
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Kiki and Herb Finally Grow Up—But Is Broadway Ready For It? The always awesome Choire on my beloved Kiki & Herb, in yesterday's Observer. As the Seattle Weekly said last year, "you haven't lived till you've heard a sozzled drag queen crooning, "Wu-Tang, motherfucker"—or turning the Mountain Goats' harrowing "No Children" ("I hope I lie/And tell everyone you were a good wife/ And I hope you die/I hope we both die") into an almost sweet-tempered duet with her long-suffering sidekick." (Hint: the double cd of their sold-out Carnegie Hall show is amazing.)
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