BCB Cup 2013 - Round 3 - Match 1 - Bajin? Wank!

[the masked man]

List A

Mandrill - Fence Walk link
The Kinks - Animal Farm link
The Almighty Defenders - Cone of Light link
Big Maybelle - That's a Pretty Good Love link
Pigbag - Sunny Day link
Love - You I'll Be Following link
The Upsetters and Prince Jazzbo - Croaking Lizard link
Jacques Dutronc - Les Cactus link
Cybotron - Clear link
Joni Mitchell - Help Me link
Ike & Tina Turner - You Got What You Wanted link
The Chills - Pink Frost link
Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb link
Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wäkbarr link
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder link
Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl link
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays link
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Hungry link
Los Amaya - Que Mala Suerta La Mia link
The Mills Brothers - Diga Diga Doo link

List B

Jigsaw Puzzle, Rolling Stones - here
Fade To Grey, Visage- here
Find 'Em, Fool 'Em And Forget 'Em, George Jackson - here
Walking With Thee, Clinic - here
I Can't See Nobody, Bee Gees - here
Safe From Harm, Massive Attack - here
Want Ads, Honey Cone - here
Run Run Run, Phoenix - here
I Believe In You, Talk Talk - here
Lucifer Sam, Pink Floyd - here
Last Train, Allen Toussaint - here
Slow Death, The Flamin' Groovies - here
Trampolene, Julian Cope -here
Home Is Where The Hatred Is, Esther Phillips -here
Squares, The Beta Band -here
Sock It To 'Em, J.B., Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers -here
Ghost Ship In A Storm, Jim O'Rourke -here
Along Comes Mary, The Association -here
True Confessions, The Undertones -here
Get It Together, Beastie Boys ft. Q-Tip -here

[Matty Red Sox]

Two good lists... I've used several before... I seem to recall the Sidewinder...

I go with B Rex Garvin and the Undertones!

[Bungo the Mungo]

B, without much hesitation. It's more consistently my thing.

[Copehead]

B

[GoogaMooga]

No way, A slaughters B. Fight em, A!

[Lemon Yoghourt]

B

[Thesiger]

True Confessions by The Undertones is seldom heard these days. But it helps swing it for
B.

[Jed Clampett]

<A>

[Goat Boy]

B's new five are probably a little bit better but A has got more moves overall

a

[whodathunkit]

Both lists have their moments - just not enough of them for this stage. Only just:-

A

[sloopjohnc]

B

[T. Willy Rye]

I guess A's inclusion of that Los Amaya track makes me want to keep it around a little longer. Otherwise these lists seem about a tie for me, some really strong stuff, but a few missteps too. A tough one.

[The Modernist]

For those that say the cup is declining in quality, I've got to say I think that's wrong. This is the second tie today where I've been seriously impressed by the quality. I think part of that is after being on the site so long we've all been influenced by each others tastes and there are many tracks that are known to people through individual posters extolling them on BCB. We've learnt to separate the wheat from the chafe. But that is probably also why it's becoming harder to identify individual identities of lists because we're all taking good things from each other.

The only negative thing I can really say about A is that there's a slight air of calculation about it, it avoids going into the kind of poppier waters that may not be critically approved.
You can't accuse B of that, it picks Visage for a start, something I suspect A wouldn't do. It's introduced to me to a few things I didn't know too like that Jim O' Rourke track which I really like. Overall I probably prefer its mix and breadth to A, but I also can't ignore the sheer quality of what A picks.
So this is very tough indeed.

A with sincere apologies to B.

[Nolamike]

Two strong lists, but despite A's inclusion off goddamned Joni Mitchell, and B's use of a few great New Orleans tracks (I'm like the Hawk Harrelson of Cup voting), I've gotta give the slightest edge to A.

[Samoan]

B

[Count Machuki]

A continues to speak my language AND acknowledges that there was music before the 60s. That Mills Brothers track is the jam.

[harvey k-tel]

For those that say the cup is declining in quality

That was you, wasn't it?


A

[The Modernist]

For those that say the cup is declining in quality

That was you, wasn't it?

No that was Davey. I said lists are getting more samey, which they are.
See my second point!

[Walk In My Shadow]

A

[Mike Boom]

B


Grrrr Pink Frost again, it is one of my favourite songs of all time, but come on people, its been used to death, as has Everybodys Happy Nowdays plus B has a great Association track and takes a few more chances.