Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

[ET Awful]

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight is fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows that the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody’s got this broken feeling
Like their momma or their dog just died
Everybody’s hands are in their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That’s the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
Everybody knows that you live forever
When you had a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black Joe's still pickin’ cotton
For ribbons and bows
Everybody knows you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you been faithful
Give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you been discrete
So many people you had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That’s the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That’s how it goes
And everybody knows

(what can I say, I was diggin' through old CD's tonight) :)

10 Points to the first person to name the band.

[redqueen]

1. Isn't that Leonard Cohen?

Did he have a band?
(yeah I'm dumb, sue me.)

[ET Awful]

2. BZZZZZZZ. . .Thanks for playing. . . Next player? :)

[redqueen]

3. Well I like his version, anyway.

:P

[ET Awful]

5. LOL . . I didn't even know he'd done until now :)

The original version was recorded in 1990 I believe. Wasn't Cohen's done in 1998?

[redqueen]

8. No clue... would have to check the CD at home

I guess I could search, but I'm too lazy. ;)

I love Cohen... if you do you might check it out... it's nice.

[ET Awful]

4. I'll give a vague hint that has nothing to do with the band. . .

Christian Slater.

[politicat]

10. It was originally Leonard Cohen but well covered by Concrete Blonde.

It's been covered a million times.

In the movie, I think he plays the LC or the Tom Waits version early on.

Pcat

[ET Awful]

12. I don't believe Cohen's version came out until 1998. . .

I may be wrong.

[politicat]

13. Long discussion on the matter HERE

http://home.comcast.net/~g_m/LC-ng-90-95/1257.htm

I can't be certain on it because my copy of CB's Recollection is an iTunes copy; the problem with digital music downloads, legal or no, is no liner notes. And my copy of the soundtrack is long long dead.

IMDB says that Leonard Cohen wrote the song used in the film - here's that link: http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0100436/fullcredits It's about halfway down the page.

I like the CB version - trust me on this one, and I think the rendition is somewhat more powerful when JN actually SINGS (entropy, she has a VOICE....) but she didn't write it.

Pcat

On Edit: iTunes says that the LC version was off of the 1988 I'm Your Man album. A fan site for CB says that the first appearance of CB doing EK is in 1990 on the self titled VHS tape they released; the next release is the 1992 Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man EP.

Sorry... I am sometimes obsessive about tracking down "footnotes" of all sorts... It got me through grad school?? :shrug:

Thanks for reminding me, though.... I've been listening to that in heavy rotation today under the talk radio and the info out of Chechnya.

Pcat

[ET Awful]

16. Hehehe It's alwasy interesting to find out the real story :)

I just LOVE the Concrete Blond Version. It's just got this really cool . . . dark feeling to it that just kind of explodes at the end.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Don Henley

[redqueen]

7. If that's correct...

I don't see how Christian Slater was a hint.

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Hell, I have no idea who Christian Slater is.

I googled the first line & got lotsa stuff about Leonard Cohen, but that had already been shot down. The next name was Henley.

[redqueen]

11. Woooohooo for Cohen?!

Does that mean he's popular?

[ET Awful]

17. Christian Slater was a hint because the song first gained

nationwide radio play after appearing on the soundtrack for the 1990 film "Pump Up The Volume" starring Christian Slater. That's why I said the hint was very vague and not related to the band itself :).

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. He plays the original (Cohen) version at the beginning of the film.

But only the Concrete Blonde version is on the soundtrack.

Both excellent renditions.

[tarkus]

14. Released by Cohen in 1988 on the album "I'm Your Man" NM

[NashVegas]

15. I'm Hoping There's Just a Lotta Jokers Here

*crosses fingers*