Julien Baker + Calvin Lauber (feat. SOAK, Quinn Christopherson) - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying

[@mikeparisi4113]

Beautiful cover of this B&S song...Julien Baker never disappoints...great supporting vocals from Calvin Lauber, Soak and Quinn Christopherson.🎶

[@anyas.3935]

I love Julien and I love love love her cover of this song. I love the supporting vocals too but really I’m here for Julien.

[@anakillackyd4267]

Absolutely wild and unexpected... beautiful ❤

[@beeschlotz5988]

Did you ever find something on the internet and feel like it was made for you specifically?

[@travelingtothemoon]

I love her so much

[@mardinrecords]

너무너무 아름답습니다. 저의 최애밴드 벨앤세바스찬의 곡을 줄리엔 베이커가 커버하다니! 좋아서 무한반복 중입니다. 감사합니다.

[@bigblueboringer]

Doesn’t have a patch on the original but very exciting to see Belle and Sebastian be covered nonetheless! I like Julian but agree with others that this isn’t the most inspired cover, and somewhat sucks the whimsy out of the original.

[@vasileiosfilis9284]

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[@hellenvieira6271]

this is so much beautiful 💖🤩

[@MusicFan-dn9ue]

Don't love the production here. Julien's most powerful aspect on record is the rawness and the quiet/loud aspects of her vocals. The straight ahead nature of her vocal here and the layering of music to fill the space around her vocals robs her of her best asset. This same production problem exists on her most recent album, Little Oblivions, which has amazing lyrics but doesn't hold a candle to Turn Out the Lights or Sprained Ankle. This also impacts her live. The most affecting and impactful moments of her recent live run was when she dispatched the band for her midset solo stretch. No comment on the band members who are great, but they are just being used in ways that weaken the impact of Julien's songs.

[@queep]

Took all the fun and lightness out and turned it into click track robot music.

[@redhotorg]

In the context of the Transa narrative, this track is on the grid for a reason... as we move into broader awakenings in this transformational journey, things become more fluid and weird!

[@queep]

@@redhotorg what?

[@indi3fan]

I think they're saying the song's transformation is apt/meaningful because it is analogous to the underlying community's lived experience (correct me if I'm wrong). Which honestly is an interesting take I hadn't considered (and makes me want to listen to the rest of the album). Unfortunately, here that feels backwards. Sure, the original track was stunningly awkward in it's time compared to it's peers, but it was gloriously self-assured and actualized. Whereas as this version feels like something great/authentic forced into a container that is too boring and predictable to contain its splendor. That said, I love the idea that there might be some meta-narrative to the album as a whole and I'm excited to see other takes (especially if they capture that more deftly)!

[@faigler]

@@redhotorg ...okay you have me intrigued about the narrative and order of the tracks and the way the structuring of the covers reflects that! I actually don't think there's anything wrong with this cover, I think they do a really interesting take (also, catchy: I woke up with it in my head, whether it was for the same reason I like the B&S track is irrelevant); anyone who's listened to Julien's covers knows that they're not going to sound exactly like the original -- whether that's playing with an evolution of gender played through music or just because of the way JB wants to do it. You can't listen to Sprained Ankle vs Little Oblivions (vs the latest full band arrangements), the collabs with Thomas Powers and conversely, what we've heard of her with Torres, the theme song of the new Orphan Black (!! that 'why it sounds like it does' is my favorite story I think) and go "oh yeah, this person only knows how to do one kind of take on something" ...especially this particular sound. And that's not even looking at Calvin's work and SOAK and Quinn's influences.

[@SantiagoLasernaMusic]

I love Belle and Sebastian. I like Julien Baker. But these people have absolutely murdered this song.

[@MMacAttack]

G O N G

[@indi3fan]

Ngl, I find the artistic choices baffling here. I can't think of a better theoretical pairing than one of the better written tracks of this era, one that oozes earnest vulnerability and simplicity brimming with emotion being covered by a once modern torch bearer of this aesthetic with a proven record for effectively iterating on such source material without losing sight of what made them great (kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3m7oo1udteosJYsi=Nh_ruWUc1AqveOZV). But the sad truth is that this is just a boringly safe take (by folks who clearly possess talent). I don't know if the problem is that Julien Baker has simply gotten to a point where they're bored with unadorned vulnerability or if the fault lies with the industry in general, but I really wish someone would either hand her a guitar and get the fuck out of her way, or point her towards whatever boring inauthentic source material inspires artists who wish to hide behind elaborate arrangement in lieu of vocal-forward raw emotional expression.

[@iiwhereikeptmyrebelnedii2595]

Why are you being so negative? Julien is one of the best out there right now, I just saw her in Chicago and would never describe her as uninspired, it was raw and real and all the things you just said it wasn't. It sounds good, I don't know what your looking for.

[@foxinthesnow7866]

I get what you’re saying. What’s amazing is Julien is so often more & more exploring so many facets of herself musically though. It very much may feel “a safe cover”. It’s also a collaborative effort. I hope you’ll give it a few more listerns . being a Number One Fan of Belle and Sebastian & a Number One Fan of Julien - I appreciate both the original and this cover immensely And they feel not the same song I cried listening to this cover Such a gentle driving intensity of “how do I get myself away from here, from this, even from myself.” B&S had a sort of understated optimism I feel if this were a “rocked out hard drive” cover, the gentle beauty and longing would be overtaken by an angsty no resolve and just being stuck This version feels meditative How to get out Assuring yourself you will It doesn’t really feel a “safe” choice musically The song is reinvented which is such an achievement, especially for such an immensely popular song very niche to that era of Belle and Sebastian

[@Constant---K]

Uh, agreed, but you have to work on those run-on sentences. Multisyllabic vocabulary compounds too quickly and made that whole comment a brain scattering nightmare to read. Maybe it's just me. Grammar is so last century.

[@indi3fan]

@@Constant---K fair

[@faigler]

@@Constant---K This is ...kind of a silly comment. Technically speaking, if we're going to do that: the first four sentences aren't run-on. There's a comma or two that wouldn't hurt, but they're not exactly examples of confusing writing ( _eats shoots and leaves; we invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin_ etc). All of them are complete thoughts. The following sentences follow the same pattern of "thought, linebreak, thought" as the first four: while they don't have full stops/periods, it's easy to tell where they stop. The line breaks continue to help indicate pauses, and the punctuation's rendered mostly unnecessary. Try (without preconception) reading it aloud with a slight pause at each line break and a slightly longer one at a hard return (/carriage return/double line/whatever you personally call that), like you would a poem ...(...maybe sans the awkward "rising?" line endings people like to give poetry, haha). For many people (myself included) who are neurodivergent and have trouble with a lot of lines together, as well, the line breaks render the thoughts easier to parse. I'm sorry (genuinely!) that that isn't the case for you. But...functionally, there's nothing wrong with this comment. Grammar's doing what it should, which is to structure language. More to the point, this is a KZbin comment. ( _Sir, this is a - ̶W̶e̶n̶d̶y̶'̶s̶ KZbin comment section..._ ). We're not writing papers or in a professional situation. Grammatical prescriptivism doesn't improve language use, it makes people afraid of writing. Instead of being impulsively judgy, why not just ask a question about what you didn't understand, or comment about the thought? That's, I guess, _really_ more my point. Why stop to criticize someone's grammar when you _agree_ with them? Don't we have enough arguments and putting people down and insulting strangers on the internet, without telling someone whose opinion we *appreciate* that _"your comment was a brain scattering nightmare"_? That's...damn, pretty harsh! You don't know anything about this person and their background at all -- but you do know that you, at very least, appreciate their musical opinions as valid. Why not make a connection instead of making someone feel bad about themself or you? ...And in that vein: I apologize a bit for the length of this rant/ramble. I'm not trying to be rude or mean and I'm not upset, so much as frustrated that the internet is like this. It's not only you but everyone who does this that bothers me, and there are lots. But I also wanted to engage in good faith about grammar AND about the (communal? moral?) issues, since that's where you were coming from. I'm ...verbose. I _also_ agree with these thoughts, and that most of JB (& company)'s covers are, in my opinion, somewhat reinventions (I recommend reading John Darnielle's commentary on her cover of "No Children" for some really nice thoughts from an artist on hearing their own song redone), and I'm genuinely glad that there are others who think so, since it seems like most of the people who didn't like this who are commenting. [Edit: annnd my YT flavored Markdown totally failed there. Oops.]

[@Bangbangforluckyluke]

The original is one of my favourite songs, and I enjoy JB, but there is nothing enjoyable about this version.