stellaviolens (October 5, 2008 at 8:51 pm)

Superb superlative version. The original and by far much better than EC. One of the great british antiwar songs.

rachfatcat (September 12, 2008 at 12:33 am)

Definitely the best version. His voice carries the sentiment so well.

Yorkmackem (August 30, 2008 at 9:25 am)

Clive Langer also produced the Costello album this comes from. He also seems to have been a pretty active musician, he was involved in Deaf School in the 70s in believe. Didn't realise he wrote the music for this though.

simonj50 (August 16, 2008 at 3:15 pm)

Best version by a mile. Touching.

dermotoblong (August 13, 2008 at 4:21 pm)

long live robert.

leonocusto666 (April 27, 2008 at 6:00 pm)

hi, kocisko :)"Shipbuilding" was recorded in 1982,he was only 37 !

kocisko (April 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm)

Leonocusto666.I have been lucky to meet Robert on number of occassions few years ago.However he looks much older on this film.Could you possibly say when it has been recorded?Many thanks for posting!Best wishes!

rbreeman (April 21, 2008 at 7:20 pm)

Beautiful track, first version I knew came from Elvis Costello's album Punch the clock. Nice to see Mark Bedford from Madness play the bass, suppose he's as underrated as Robert Wyatt. I think I read once that Clive Langer, who produced Madness, Costello, Dexy's Midnight Runners etc., wrote the music for this song. Thanks for putting this video up!

TangerineTangerine (April 18, 2008 at 9:51 pm)

what a beautiful piece of work.

welshboy69 (April 15, 2008 at 7:21 pm)

This is a brilliant song. I first came across it when Hue & Cry covered it.