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Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4 *C 5- n/e 10*

Postby never/ever » 19 Nov 2019, 09:34

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The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day






B

Johnny Cash- Redemption

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby C » 19 Nov 2019, 14:57

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

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby toomanyhatz » 19 Nov 2019, 20:49

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.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby fange » 20 Nov 2019, 11:45

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby trans-chigley express » 20 Nov 2019, 12:22

B made much more impact.

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Postby Jumper K » 21 Nov 2019, 06:35

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby The Fish » 21 Nov 2019, 18:19

A POgues song devoid of any essential POguery or a Cash song brimming with Cashery

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby toomanyhatz » 21 Nov 2019, 19:37

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby Spock! » 21 Nov 2019, 20:55

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby never/ever » 22 Nov 2019, 10:24

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby Darkness_Fish » 22 Nov 2019, 20:09

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby Purgatory Brite » 22 Nov 2019, 22:16

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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby echolalia » 24 Nov 2019, 16:16

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

Postby Rayge » 24 Nov 2019, 21:44

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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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Semi Final Match 4

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