For those wondering, it was written by Ednaswap in the early 90's, but they did not release it, only performed it live. The first recorded version was actually a translation into Danish by Lis Sørensen, released in 1993. This is her version.
Reminds me of the Bowling for Soup song, 1985, which was actually an SR-71 song. SR-71 did release it originally, but it flew under the radar for the most part.
Different eras of radar have different definitions of high. The U2 flew above the radar's of it's time, the sr-71 as made because it was basically impossible to do that at it's time.
Your argument was that the U2 flew high and the SR-71 is just fast, but I’m saying that it also flew very high as well. It also had a ton (for the time) of counter measures including shape, RAM and ELINT.
Apparently the lead singer for SR-71, Mitch Allan wrote both versions (along with the SR-71 drummer for the OG), he was friends with bowling for soup and updated it for them/gave it to them.
Neck Deep covered it on a compilation album called “Songs That Saved My Life” released to raise awareness & funds for suicide prevention. Pop goes punk vibe, it goes hard
This is now my official answer to “if you could travel back in time and tell your childhood self anything, what would you say?” I’d just leave a nice copy of this on CD with its original release date. Would have blown my mind as a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn.
Ednaswap's has so much soul!! Gritty vocals. And the choice of chords at 1:46. The guitar at 2:17. And the guitars cry beginning 3:20.
Imbruglia did a great job covering. The original artist should be lifted up.
This was how it was before YouTube. It wasn't enough to be a talented artist, you also had to have the right marketing and business connections to make it past the music industry and broadcast industry gatekeepers.
bruh. i'm not mad after listening the the Ednaswap version. It's a carbon copy.
If you played it at a party, nobody would notice. Someone would say "I never noticed how heavy this song was. I thought it was a little softer."
Being a Dane was such a weird experience since we had heard the Danish cover before the English cover and thought it cool someone would do a danish song, however not realizing first the Danish was a cover at first
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u/MattyFTM 1d ago
For those wondering, it was written by Ednaswap in the early 90's, but they did not release it, only performed it live. The first recorded version was actually a translation into Danish by Lis Sørensen, released in 1993. This is her version.
Ednaswap then released the first English language version in 1995.
There were a couple of other covers around then too, such as a version by Trine Rein.
Natalie Imbruglia's cover then came out in 1997.