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William Shatner - Common People
William Shatner's spoken-word cover of Pulp's 'Common People', from his album Has Been.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as a surprisingly good cover that brings out the contempt in the lyrics.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- dsjkhd
- Topic
- cover songs
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Incidentally, I really like William Shatner's cover. It brings out the contempt in the lyrics. And it rocks. [VIDEO]
shimfish on Hacker News · 2013-09
In The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a weeksomewhat even more off topic, but: Thanks to William Shatner for lots of things; least of all demonstrating how to deliver a line of dialogue without it sounding like you're reading off the back of a cereal packet and left your glasses at home. His …
BuildTheRobots on Hacker News · 2015-06
In Chromium will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared ModuleGlad you liked it, I also enjoy the cover of this song by William Shatner that's surprisingly good IMO: [VIDEO]
simias on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Going from $110k to $24k for more skin in the game
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.