I don’t even know where to begin with this song. It’s been covered repeatedly over the years–maybe most sensationally and disappointingly by Primal Scream and sex kitten Kate Moss, though the Lydia Lunch/Rowland S. Howard version has its murderous charms–but no one has been able to capture the wild doom and psychedelic potency of the original. As an aside, director Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher) used the song in her second film Morvern Callar to great effect.
Without further ado… here’s Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra singing “Some Velvet Morning”. One of the strangest, most beautifully bizarre pop songs ever. Hell, it may be the best pop song ever.
