'Helpless' vs 'Life On Mars'
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Jimboo what the fuck is going on? What's wrong with you tonight?
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jimboo wrote:Davey the Fat Boy wrote:
Getting beyond the issue of melody, I still like Helpless more of the two records because I think it allows the listener to bring more of themselves to it.
WHAT?
Get a grip man ffs.
It's Davey
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Neil's gonna play helpless , we must be in heaven man!
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I was listening to CSNY this morning and while this is not prime Neil, it's certainly better than [insert whatever]. However, it's brought a knife to a gunfight here.
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Ranking Ted wrote:I was listening to CSNY this morning and while this is not prime Neil, it's certainly better than [insert whatever]. However, it's brought a knife to a gunfight here.
A cake knife moreover.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:Then I went and listened to Life on Mars which sounds like a wizard ejaculating sponge cake on a moon made of crystals.
Helpless? No tune to speak of, verse and chorus are almost identical, a NY song I always skip!
And Life on Mars might be my very favourite Bowie song.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:Then I went and listened to Life on Mars which sounds like a wizard ejaculating sponge cake on a moon made of crystals.
Yes, it does.
My point exactly.
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Interesting how dismissive so many of you are.
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Oh Christ, now we're all going on DAVEY'S EXAMINATION COUCH
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Just relax and put on this gown...
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Davey the Fat Boy wrote:Minnie the Minx wrote:Then I went and listened to Life on Mars which sounds like a wizard ejaculating sponge cake on a moon made of crystals.
Yes, it does.
My point exactly.
Whereas Helpless sounds like Young ejaculating nothing but a puff of dust and a smell that resembles an old folks home
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Davey the Fat Boy wrote:Interesting how dismissive so many of you are.
I don't think it's that. It's not like you've taken some obscure deep cut from some random brown album that sold eight copies in 1972 and tried to convince us it's a better song, and we're just sticking our fingers in our ears and ignoring you. You've taken a Neil fucking Young song that we've all heard a million times. We know it isn't a better song.
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Davey the Fat Boy wrote:Interesting how dismissive so many of you are.
It's a plodding dirge Davey.
Why do you think he picked Helpless? JC was being mischievous in taking one of Young's worst songs and putting it against a Bowie classic.
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Matt Harringay wrote:The Modernist wrote: ...one of Young's worst songs...
One of his worst "standards" perhaps but, believe me, he's got dozens of worse songs.
I believe you, but it's the worst one I own, by some distance.