CHESS' Nobody's Side
CHESS' Nobody's Side
#1CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/11/08 at 10:31pmI was going through youtube, watching, Idina Menzel's version which is excellent. Also I see that Julia Murney sang it, and some others... I think my picks are Judy Kuhn's and Idina's. I don't like Elaine Page's version too much. Which version is your favorite?
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ChecksintheMayo
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#2re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/11/08 at 11:07pm
Emma Kershaw. She's top on the list of few Florences who don't make my ears bleed.
Updated On: 10/12/08 at 11:07 PM
ashley0139
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#2re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/11/08 at 11:30pmJulia Murney. Love Judy's as well.
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philly03
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#3re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/12/08 at 12:14am
My favourite will always be Judy Kuhn's. I really liked Elaine's (although it obviosuly sounds different & older), and Coleen Sexton/Julia Murney are probably my third/fourth favourite. Menzel is quite possibly my least favourite.
Updated On: 10/12/08 at 12:14 AM
Chrysanthemum62001
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#4re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/12/08 at 2:45amJULIA MURNEY. As far as I'm concerned, she birthed that song (well, role really) a new life and called it "masterpiece".
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#5re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/12/08 at 12:38pm
It's still Elaine Paige- You spits out the lines with incredible fire, she is pissed and knows the world, the orchestration works with her to tremendous effect, her voice is the strongest.
The original is still the best.
DeNada
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#6re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/12/08 at 8:02pm
I see your UK/US Florences and raise you Helen Sjoholm as a drunk, angry, clubbing (and awesome) Florence:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=knPdCfzGnmY
Nobody's Side is one of those that seems to sing itself, and it ALWAYS sounds good in any orchestration (unlike the god-awful country and western orchestration they had at the Albert Hall for Someone Else's Story!). Even Idina (who gave a pretty poor performance the night I saw Chess in Concert) did a good job on the song.
#8re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/12/08 at 8:05pmI am partial to the lady on the Swedish cast recording / DVD and love how she gets pissed off her head at the club and tosses the shows and dances with all the hotties, lol.
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#9re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 12:55pmJULIA MURNEY
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#10re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 12:59pmJudy Kuhn
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#11re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 1:03pmJulia Murney hands down. Judy Kuhn's version is brilliant as well. And as a huge Idina fan, I have to say that I was very underwhelmed with her performance of the song. Thought not nearly as underwhelmed as I was with Kerry Ellis's version of Someone Else's Story.
#12re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 3:19pm
Recording: Elaine Paige
Live: Judy McLane
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#13re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 4:04pmIt is my favorite song from the show and now it is stuck in my head and I am singing it at my desk. Even worse, I don't have it on my zune to listen to and no sound card on my work computer!
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LilMiZBroADwaY23
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#14re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 5:15pm
Julia Murney.
It's absolute perfection. She is the role to me.
#16re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 5:19pmMurney pushes to hard on the number for my taste.
#17re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 5:50pm
I think Elaine Paige has the most control and power in that song. I've only heard her sing it in the recording, but prefer it to Murney (whom I normally love but seems to scream most of the song and only gets points for that money note) and I-screama.
That Swedish version was very well done, but also felt like an acid trip.
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Updated On: 10/13/08 at 05:50 PM
#18re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 5:56pmI have to say Julia Murney brought more emotion to the song that the rest of the others put together. Case of pushing too much? I don't really think so. She isn't screamy throughout the entire song, just mostly for that crazy note she hits in the middle.
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#19re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 5:58pmI feel the emotion from Elaine's. I feel like I'm being beaten ever the head with the song in Julia's.
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#20re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 6:15pmIt's her crazy vibrato. Maybe it's a little too strong for your tastes in this song.
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jsg03jd
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#21re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 10:40pm
Idina Menzel's version of this song is scary: she did not quite make those money notes when she sang this at the Royal Albert Hall.
Not having seen her live, I'd go with Elaine Paige.
Someone above quoted a lyric. I love the energy and the melody of this song, but there are some dumbass lyrics in it. My favorite is, "Never waste a hot afternoon." WTF 
#22re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 10:59pmThats a fair assessment I think. I love her vibrato in other songs, and I think that depending on the key and the notes it has variation, but this song really just has it throughout.
I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids and we should all have hybrid cars doesn't mean I don't love America.
[turns and winks directly into the camera]
- Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) on 30 Rock
#23re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/13/08 at 11:01pmI'm kind of loving Idina's version. I'm not a fan of Julia's version.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
Salene
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#24re: CHESS' Nobody's Side
Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:47am
Elaine Paige (her rendition made me fall in love with musical theatre in the first place), Linzi Hateley, Helen Sjöholm.
