Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4 *C 5- n/e 10*
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Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4 *C 5- n/e 10*
A
The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
B
Johnny Cash- Redemption
The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
B
Johnny Cash- Redemption
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A nice Pogues choice - no Shane vocals. Inspired!
A great track from a great album
I love the way Cait sings 'drink' - a delightful accent.
Full of music
There is no doubt that Cash was a great talent and had a superb voice.
Trouble is his music didn't really do too much for me (with a few exceptions)
This is a good track well performed but for me
A has it
Yes, A has it
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A great track from a great album
I love the way Cait sings 'drink' - a delightful accent.
Full of music
There is no doubt that Cash was a great talent and had a superb voice.
Trouble is his music didn't really do too much for me (with a few exceptions)
This is a good track well performed but for me
A has it
Yes, A has it
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Two of my favorite musical artists ever (as I assume everyone here knows) face off...
I like A, but it's a bit one-note. Unique in their catalog, so kudos for that, but there are dozens of songs by them that touch me more including many that are no better-known.
I don't give a rat's ass how 'hip' the whole Cash/Rubin enterprise was, or what a dick Rubin might be, or how many better Cash recordings there are - I buy in 100%. It's one of the times Rubin got it right. Simple concept - great songs, simple arrangements, that voice, all the more poignant for its encroaching weakness - and Cash facing his own mortality. However much of a cliche it might have become, I will never take for granted how deeply embedded it is in my psyche.
B is the song of the round so far.
I like A, but it's a bit one-note. Unique in their catalog, so kudos for that, but there are dozens of songs by them that touch me more including many that are no better-known.
I don't give a rat's ass how 'hip' the whole Cash/Rubin enterprise was, or what a dick Rubin might be, or how many better Cash recordings there are - I buy in 100%. It's one of the times Rubin got it right. Simple concept - great songs, simple arrangements, that voice, all the more poignant for its encroaching weakness - and Cash facing his own mortality. However much of a cliche it might have become, I will never take for granted how deeply embedded it is in my psyche.
B is the song of the round so far.
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I'm afraid i've never really been much of a Pogues fan; just not my thing i guess. I love Johnny Cash though, right across his long career.
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B
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B made much more impact.
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A POgues song devoid of any essential POguery or a Cash song brimming with Cashery
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B
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The Fish wrote:A POgues song devoid of any essential POguery or a Cash song brimming with Cashery
Well said!
I do like the 'gender switch', as well as the fact that it's the only song Cait sings (in the Pogues, anyway, I think she has solo records out) and she's got a charming voice. It just seems an odd choice how many truly great Pogues songs there are.
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A is not the best of Pogues-picks, it's pleasant but I don't like the doubled vocal on it.
B is a reminder of the moment I came closest to religion...hearing Johnny sing this live in 1994 in a converted church in Amsterdam to a bunch of breahlessly listening Dutchmen.....
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B is a reminder of the moment I came closest to religion...hearing Johnny sing this live in 1994 in a converted church in Amsterdam to a bunch of breahlessly listening Dutchmen.....
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Yeah, I don't like the quality of the production on these Pogues songs, everything's given the full overblown 80s sound. I put 'em in the same basket as The Triffids, they seemed to have a talent for songwriting, but ruin everything with the horrible cloying plastic Jim Steinmanny studio cockery. Could've been wonderful, if recorded as a folk song.
I don't like country music AND I don't particularly like Johnny Cash. But this is just showng what you can do with a more subtle production job, it sounds intimate, it sounds real, it doesn't sound like it'd be used to sell life insurance.
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I don't like country music AND I don't particularly like Johnny Cash. But this is just showng what you can do with a more subtle production job, it sounds intimate, it sounds real, it doesn't sound like it'd be used to sell life insurance.
B
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A is fine. I think I started swaying for a minute, actually. But Johnny Cash in his Triangle of Doom outfit takes it.
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I'm not a fan of Oirishry (or drink, as it happens), so I'm glad they've kept it to a minimum here, and love the way they just trip out on weirdness n the instrumental breaks. The future Mrs Costello should have vocalised more often.
While I know JC is much loved in some quarters here, I grew up thinking of him as the uninteresting one in the Million dollar Quartet, Marty Robbins dropping an octave. I still can't quite shake that. And while this late period material is exceptional, it just isn't my idea of folk.
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While I know JC is much loved in some quarters here, I grew up thinking of him as the uninteresting one in the Million dollar Quartet, Marty Robbins dropping an octave. I still can't quite shake that. And while this late period material is exceptional, it just isn't my idea of folk.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4
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