Jones should be banned from singing any covers, particulalry his exercrable duets

This guy's an institution.

This is quite a bizarre combination. I like it, I think?!?

I love Chrissie Hynde, but on this track she just sounds off. Not sure if she was trying to mimic Tom Jones's style or was having a bad day in the studio. Either way, this is a cover that adds nothing to the original. I give it a 4.

 timmus wrote:

What are you listening to this on? TONS of details, hooks and nuances blasting out of my speakers! "Nondescript"?! 

Iggy done by Chrissie Hynde and Tom Jones! Nice. Thanks RP for the opportunity to hear this.

 jjbchansen159 wrote:

skip!
job done!

 mikegrinker wrote:


I Agree!!

 Zep wrote: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse

Well if you didn’t know it was Tom Jones? I actually had to check out who was singing… that voice, so familiar, made me laugh out loud when I saw who it was! Way to go Bill, you always have something to make sure we’re paying attention!

Odd how nondescript the band sounds.  It's like Tom and Chrissie punched this up on a karaoke machine and decided "let's try this one".

 kcar wrote:

"Well, that's like hypnotising chickens" : the secret to Jeff Goldblum's enduring success.

Friggin' awesome!! 

 ksilva wrote:


I don't think you'd ever see this on a cruise ship...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

 salice wrote:


Then hit the "skip button"! ...problem solved! I think this is GREAT!  Thanx RP!    

Growing on me more each time I hear it.  Bumping from 7 to 8.

Tom Jones. Chrissie Hynde.
L I K E .
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Off topic :
Sir Thomas once performed  on stage with Janis Joplin. 

I must have been in a bad mood when I rated this 5! Bumping it to 7!
Not a huge fan of Tom Jones.. but with the Pretenders, he sounds rather nice!

I abhor Tom Jones at the best of times but this is terrible by even his abysmal 'standards'

 justin4kick wrote: Unusual.... But, not unheard of.... IMO... 

Make it stop!

How I Came to Like Tom Jones

Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps [hosts of “the Mark & Brian Show” 6-10AM KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, California 1987/2012] provided skits, pranks, and crazy contests along with helicopter traffic reports.  They dubbed the helicopter pilot “Sky Lord” and involved him in many of their ‘contests’.

When M & B heard that while patrolling the skies above LA, Sky Lord was often able to view naked sunbathers on building tops, they turned it into one of their contests and challenged listeners to intentionally show themselves to the Eye-in-the-sky.  While not exactly a contest, I think they did finally declare the winner to be a young lady who water skied nude on Lake Castaic (just north of the city).

After hearing them make jokes about his appearance, (very handsome) romance novel cover model Fabio took exception to their taunts and called the ‘Show”. They found that Fabio was actually a ‘regular guy’ who had a background in Electrical Engineering and prided his giant stereo.  M & B broadcast a visit to his apartment to see his hifi, which he claimed could “Whoosh, blow the clothes right off” of girls sitting in his listening chair.  They judged it to be an impressive rig.

They taunted Tom Cruise, as well.  He contacted them, and they invited him on the “Show”.  Mark & Brian had a listener, Keith, who was a master of impersonating Gene Wilder, which happened to be one of Tom Cruise’s favorite actors, since childhood.  When Cruise appeared on their show they managed to steer the conversation to the ‘other’ famous guests they’d had on the “Show” and eventually offered to give ‘Gene’ a call.  They put Cruise on the line with the Keith (the impersonator) where he was effusive in his praise of the actor’s movie career.  After hearing him read few pages of dialog from “Willie Wonka” Cruise was completely duped since the voice mimic was so perfect.  He found out later about the trick and seemed truly ticked off about being suckered.  He swore vengeance.

One year, for Valentine’s Day, they got Sky Lord’s helicopter fitted with loud PA system and arranged for him to fly Tom Jones around Los Angeles at a low altitude.  For about 2 hours Jones sang love songs over the PA, to serenade the populace.  Several times during the flight they’d check in—usually finding T.J. in the middle of belting out a ballad.

That’s when I came to a new appreciation of Tom Jones.  Cool dude.

I have to give that an 8 just for the fact that Tom Jones is doing Iggy!

 psycholynx wrote:

I think this IS

ahhh....sure, why not.

 chrisnotlob wrote: This would be more fun live, I'm thinking - but don't sell Tom Jones short. He and Tony Bennett both aged well and I grew up listening to them (maybe that's why I feel the charm?). Cannot say some of the folks out there touring now are doing as well...

I'll bite.  What could "I've had it in the ear before" mean?

Really? I know RP is an eclectic mix but Tom Jones?

 t0m5k1 wrote:


..but it works with Chrissie and Tom ;-)

Tom, stop murdering decent songs!!!!!

Great, but weird! But, Great on so many levels! Thank You RP!   

TGF PSD!

Long Live Iggy.

Tom Jones had a powerful voice. Sadly not evident here

Tom Jones and Chrissie Hynde cover Iggy Pop. Gotta love it. 

It's like when you sing all bad-funny in the car...but these 2 make it sound artistically pleasing.

This is  the most horrible version of this  song I have ever heard

 eileenomurphy wrote:
The opposite of that

 jerund wrote:

Sorry, but EH would never do an Iggy Popp song.

TOTALLY COOL!!! ...and totally weird! 

really!?!? (just my opinion)

 gillespp wrote:

Well put

kooky baby 

This belongs on Dr. Demento. Tom doesn't sound like Tom here which probably isn't a good thing. 

My late mother might have liked this (she was a huge TJ fan). Had it been on his show, we coulda rocked out together. Ha!

This is so bad it's good. 

This why RP is head and shoulders above any other music source on the planet!
Bravo RP!

I don't know, sounds more like Engerbert Humperdinck to me.   Ha ha.  
Either way, so bad it's almost funny.

 gillespp wrote:
 

Strangely bad.

IIRC, this is the first '1' I've ever given on RP.

This version loses a certain je ne sais quoi.

 Zep wrote:
 
I saw what you did there...
c.

Chrissie Hynde and Tom Jones?

Don't get me wrong, but it's not unusual.

This is Godlike just because they got together and recorded it !

A real gas!

The contrast between her smooth voice and his grit is just awesome.

For those of us who are are old enough to know, Tom Jones, I have to say this is, so cool, thanks to his Great voice and the Pretenders. They crossed genre's and generations. OH, and thanks to RP for not giving us mush! Eclectic taste rules !

Celebrity Karaoke!

The lyrics shown with this version have a few mistakes.

What?! Throwing in a stinker to keep us awake! LOL

Just goes to show the power of Iggy's music - but I don't know if I should barf or dance..Chrissie makes the song. Chrissie - what the hell are you doing??

Deeply uncool pensioner rock, to my ears. I can't wait for Cliff's new album...


Hi, troll...

I am still beating my brains. Chrissie, what were you thinking? Dreck.

 uksminas wrote:
 

 (anonymous) wrote:
 
Subverting subversion.

WATHA COVER... GREAT. El Tomás Jones haciendo de las suyas.

cute the first time I heard it.
less cute each time

GREAT!!! ...I always tap my feet, rock back & forth in my chair and chuckle when this comes on! ...I was just having my 2nd morning coffee when this came on! ...It made my day! ............Thanx, Bill!!!

 lizardking wrote:
 

and such a comment gets an updoot for you!

This is quite good

WTF?

First time I heard this.  I like it!

I probably shouldn't like this, but it's kind of fun.
c.

Excellent!

Anything Sir Tom touches is an automatic 6 and this gets a +1 for Chrissie and the handling of this tune...it's a 7 +1 cuz the wife likes it...hell...I guess it's an 8 off the bat for me!!  Long Live RP and these crazy good covers!!

Strangely good…

I'm so tired of Iggy's venture into pop music that this is pretty refreshing. I have no problem with Tom; his Art of Noise cover of Kiss was fine too.

Plus Chrissie, so hey. 7.

I just don't know what to make of this.

As a Stooges fan it seems wrong but ....

I think Tom Jones' voice is simply unique and powerful. I don't really see the point of pigeonholing (and therefore dismissing) him in some sort of "cruise ship" or "Las Vegas" category. Hearing Iggy's song in an entirely fresh new way is great!  Thanks for keeping it interesting Bill. 

Oh, that Tom Jones .  .  .  ?!?!? Huh, what the 'bleep'?

This offically marks the end of music.

Oog... That was hard to take. Mercy!

uhhh... sounds like he took a wrong turn and landed in graceland.

thugdrummer wrote: Are you kidding? Tom has probably done more drugs, drunk more likker and had more tail and kinky sex than ZP ever thought of. Apparently he can hold his likker better. Highly functional. Well, I don't know about heroin; he probably had the good sense to avoid that. Song's a hoot, eh?

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!! This is making me beat my brains.

I am as big a Pretenders fan as there is, but I think Chrissie and the boys should have gotten out of Vegas a little quicker last trip, before this unholy union was consumated. Tom Jones is a great singer, but he has made some really unflattering choices to stay hip - first Prince's "Kiss" (a God-awful song to start with), then this.

That. Totally. Rocked. I was dancing. And I just had foot surgery. Tom Jones....yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must confess I love this guy's voice and what he did with a lot of modern songs. Including this one.

psycholynx wrote: Well I'll check out the karaoke bars...

gandalfbmg wrote: Nope. Last played date was wrong. It happens.

Cruithne3753 wrote: "Somthin' called love, Somethin' called love Well that's like hypnotizing chickens Well I'm just a modern guy Of course I've had it in my ear before." Great rocked out Motown groove. Think Tom had any idea what he was singing about? Or those Carnival Cruise ad execs?

AliGator wrote: Well, I clicked the link 30 seconds into the song, and it came up w/ almost a full page but it still said "Last Played: Never"... so a lot of someones were trolling the song comments to dig this up... impressive. most impressive.

Well it was a nice idea, I suppose. It sounds like Chrissie was wearing one of Iggy's leather collars during this session, and it was way too tight. She sounds like she's getting only half the air she needs. And Tom? Well I can't help but wonder if Bill Murrey couldn't have done just as well. Worth hearing once just for the novelty. The second time will be far less bearable.

Ouaouaron wrote:Ahh, you should here him do Lenny Kravitz's "Are you gonna go my way?"

I didn't know stars did karaoke too...

psycholynx wrote:

philamander wrote: I totally agree Barcelona,Spain

You know....it's not unusual.

forest wrote: ditch 'em both

oh my god....

Hehe. I own Reloaded. (The cover art doesn't come up for Reload because it's an import...) It's actually pretty good. Amusing, anyway. My, my, my, Delilah...

fun-e! gotta follow that up with "Tattoed Love Boys"

Oh my friggin' God?!?!?!

i'm absolutely flummoxed by this.

So is Tom going to be slashing his chest and smearing himself in peanut butter? Here's hoping... Oh, Chrissie, Chrissie.

Yaaaaa Liquor & Drugs!!

Somehow I just can't equate liquor and drugs with Tom Jones. Then again there is alot of things that don't equate with me.

He and William Shatner should hook up and do a Edie Gourmay tune

no! no! no!

The scary thing is that it's not THAT bad....

It's so bad, it's good.

gandalfbmg wrote: Check the dates on those, sweetie.

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jpfueler wrote: I tried to rate it for you... but it only let me rate sucko-barfo once. I tried.

Well it's made I laugh...

Can't wait for the current rush of haters' comments.

Wilco Tango Foxtrot... yowzah..

This song has a full page of comments 30 seconds into it's first ever play... that's impressive Now why couldn't Carnival use THIS version in their commercial??

Featherynscale wrote: yup...a one timer for sure.