That said, having listened to all the different official versions, I do like the original concept album versions of the songs better in some ways There are some songs that work better when the singer doesn't have to project to a stage audience, this one among them
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Greg Brown as Hades sitting down in a comfy chair just talking into the mic, conversational, calm and self-assured, almost bored Amused at his power to generate so much emotion from so little
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(I do really like the Philosophy Tube episode that introduced this song to do many Internet kids but I wish Olly had kept more of his affable, calm delivery as the Salesman character in the song rather than transitioning into full stereotypical demagogue)
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(I also think the coolest version of Hermes' lines in "Wait for Me" is Ben Knox Miller's raspy whisper and I think my ideal Hermes would be this rangy, weatherbeaten, slightly creepy old man, rather than Chris Sullivan's lovable uncle or André De Shields' dignified grandfather)
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YES THIS
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I guess I should listen to all of that, huh?
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