70s Cup Round 1 Match 7 *Pansy Puff 12- Machuki 28*
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70s Cup Round 1 Match 7 *Pansy Puff 12- Machuki 28*
A
Flying Burrito Brothers – White Line Fever
B
Television - Venus
Flying Burrito Brothers – White Line Fever
B
Television - Venus
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
This is a better match - two strong choices that suit my taste.
Two very different tracks but both robustly delightful
A tough call but I am going:
-+A+-
.
Two very different tracks but both robustly delightful
A tough call but I am going:
-+A+-
.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
Ha ha, such easy choices here in the first round, A
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
C wrote: buy moth.
Seminal.
Indeed seminal.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
The Flying Burrito Brothers track was too anaemic for me.
So B then.
So B then.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
Not really a fair match this one, is it? I mean, A is nice enough and all, but FOR FUCK'S SAKE
B
B
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
A could have done with being a bit more, well, feverish. It's pleasant enough, but a bit too amiably tasteful for its own good -there's not much to excite the senses.
Is there anything more BCB than the first Television album? Probably not. They don't excite me as much as they do everyone else, but the guitars chime nicely enough here, although, as usual, Verlaine's yelp does nothing for me.
B
Is there anything more BCB than the first Television album? Probably not. They don't excite me as much as they do everyone else, but the guitars chime nicely enough here, although, as usual, Verlaine's yelp does nothing for me.
B
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
A isn't my kind of thing. Dull as ditchwater American songcraft. B is a prime cut from one of the greatest albums ever made.
Easy choice.
B
Easy choice.
B
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
I don't like either of them but I'll begrudgingly vote for B because it's less bad.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
with A, i guess one person's "dull" is another person's "understated yet lovely."
on the other hand, with B, i absolutely love the gweetarage... and not much else.
hmmmm.
i'll give some love to A.
on the other hand, with B, i absolutely love the gweetarage... and not much else.
hmmmm.
i'll give some love to A.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
You know how 'Heroin' by the Velvet Underground sounds like taking heroin? All edginess, a panicky rush, a heavenly plateau?
Well, 'White Line Fever' sounds like taking cocaine, in that they have snorted a load and then sat there twanging for two minutes and thought they were geniuses.
I bought that Flying Burrito Bros album once. I think that was the day I decided to always, always, try before I buy in future.
'Venus' is a key song on one of my all-time favourite albums, and one of the songs I pick if I want to impress someone with my own guitar skillz.
B, several times over.
Well, 'White Line Fever' sounds like taking cocaine, in that they have snorted a load and then sat there twanging for two minutes and thought they were geniuses.
I bought that Flying Burrito Bros album once. I think that was the day I decided to always, always, try before I buy in future.
'Venus' is a key song on one of my all-time favourite albums, and one of the songs I pick if I want to impress someone with my own guitar skillz.
B, several times over.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 7
Well, I expected something by a band called "The Flying Burrito Bros" to be much wackier than that. It's a nice and pleasant simple twang-along that is a bit too close to country for my normal tastes, but doesn't overdo the yodelling and doesn't have that bouncy two-note bassline. Without being spectacular, it was a good example of people making a song with voices and guitar. If someone said to me, imagine a couple of Americans with an acoustic guitar singing a song, I'd probably think of something like this, unprompted.
Marquee Moon is one of the most overrated albums I own, often praised for being post-punk before its time, when really it sounds very much of the early 70s. "Venus" is probably the best track on the album, everything that follows is quite dull, but I've grown to dislike elements of this, too. The shouted background vocals and the guitar outtro especially. It just grates in a prog kinda way.
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Marquee Moon is one of the most overrated albums I own, often praised for being post-punk before its time, when really it sounds very much of the early 70s. "Venus" is probably the best track on the album, everything that follows is quite dull, but I've grown to dislike elements of this, too. The shouted background vocals and the guitar outtro especially. It just grates in a prog kinda way.
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