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PC21- Round 1 Match 5 *kath 8- Purgatory Brite 9*

Postby never/ever » 29 Mar 2021, 06:00

A

La Dusseldorf - Time





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Beggars Opera - Poet and Peasant

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Neil Jung » 29 Mar 2021, 13:02

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Jumper K » 29 Mar 2021, 15:51

Easily A. B is unlistenable.
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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Good Night Austin, Texas » 29 Mar 2021, 16:20

Now we're talking, two great picks. Love a bit of Beggars Opera a Vertigo Swirl classic.

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby toomanyhatz » 29 Mar 2021, 17:29

Dang, them Germans sure know how to find a bunch of variation out of a scant few chords! A has some dull spots, but it finds some interesting corners, considering. One riff for nine minutes? Great work if you can get it.

But B is just so deliciously over-the-top. This is what this cup should be about. You can overdo it and be totally heady about it, or you can just have fun with the absurdity of it all. B has a ton of fun.

I need to look into their stuff a bit more.
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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby LMG » 29 Mar 2021, 18:31

Gotta go for B.

It's the kind of music my friends fear will greet them when I say 'you can come along if you like, I absolutely love them, but you might find it all a bit...odd'.

Which is a shame, because the other contender is a very strong track in its own right.

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby C » 29 Mar 2021, 19:24

This is the toughest match up for me

I adore La Düsseldorf and thesis an incredible track taken from their seminally robust album

An absolute corker!!!

It oozes and drips atmosphere. What the word 'ethereal' was designed for.

Far out man!

I remember buying this album off an ex-girlfriend a long long long time ago. Thanks Lesley.


Beggars Opera (note NO apostrophe) are great fun and this is no exception taken from their first album.

It's good but not that good to beat La Düsseldorf.

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby C » 29 Mar 2021, 19:26

toomanyhatz wrote:
I need to look into their stuff a bit more.


Their debut is a corker Dave!



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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Mike Boom » 29 Mar 2021, 23:07

C wrote:I adore La Düsseldorf and thesis an incredible track taken from their seminally robust album

An absolute corker!!!


Totally agree A

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Spock! » 29 Mar 2021, 23:43

Two corkers, but prefer La Düsseldorf.






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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby pcqgod » 30 Mar 2021, 02:24

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Purgatory Brite » 30 Mar 2021, 10:01

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby kath » 30 Mar 2021, 19:16

this is one of those occasions when i agree word-for-word with c.

well, except for the having-an-ex-girlfriend-named-lesley part.


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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Hightea » 31 Mar 2021, 03:06

A - Lovely Krautrock prog.

B- too disjointed and not into the singer. Otherwise okay. By the end I sort of loved the wackiness of the whole track. Still I think its the drummer who bothers me.


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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby trans-chigley express » 31 Mar 2021, 04:27

I always enjoy the La Dusseldorf tracks I've heard in the competition and this is no exception. It builds and shuffles along nicely utilizing it's simple melody to full effect. The vocals are probably the weak link and it probably didn't even need them.

The Beggar's Opera is relentless and gallops along with busy showboating organ and drums but little in the way of a memorable melody. Enjoyable enough but not something I could ever listen to as much as the La Dusseldorf track.

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby fange » 31 Mar 2021, 04:48

Man, like 2 diametrically opposed ends of the spectrum. Both enjoyable their way. A is an old fave, but B is a new find, so i will reward this, cheers.


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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Neige » 31 Mar 2021, 17:09

Ah, Beggars Opera's debut, soundtrack of my tender youth.

A band led by hammond organ and bass galloping through (as my classically trained mum told me back in the day) German operetta composer Franz von Suppé's overtures at breakneck speed (they also do Light Cavalry on the same album)... and the singer going whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa YEAAAH... YEAAAAAH !!

Ludicorus as hell, but I can't help still loving it dearly after all these years.

Very underwhelmed by the Germans' endless riffing, on the other hand.


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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby C » 01 Apr 2021, 12:10

trans-chigley express wrote:Beggar's Opera


No apostrophe Ray.

Tut, tut

It's an interesting one actually.

The band were called Beggars Opera. The only place that Beggar's Opera appears is on the front cover of Act One...!

Everywhere else including subsequent albums it is Beggars Opera.

I recall asking them about this when I saw them at the Dagenham Roundhouse back in 1970 and they said it was some smart arse in the management who thought the band were illiterate and didn't understand the importance of the possessive case and decided it should go in!

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby Jumper K » 01 Apr 2021, 13:54

C wrote:
trans-chigley express wrote:Beggar's Opera


No apostrophe Ray.

Tut, tut

It's an interesting one actually.

The band were called Beggars Opera. The only place that Beggar's Opera appears is on the front cover of Act One...!

Everywhere else including subsequent albums it is Beggars Opera.

I recall asking them about this when I saw them at the Dagenham Roundhouse back in 1970 and they said it was some smart arse in the management who thought the band were illiterate and didn't understand the importance of the possessive case and decided it should go in!

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You appear to have spelled Opera wrong C. Its should read A.R.S.E.

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Re: PC21- Round 1 Match 5

Postby C » 01 Apr 2021, 19:08

Jumper K wrote:
C wrote:
trans-chigley express wrote:Beggar's Opera


No apostrophe Ray.

Tut, tut

It's an interesting one actually.

The band were called Beggars Opera. The only place that Beggar's Opera appears is on the front cover of Act One...!

Everywhere else including subsequent albums it is Beggars Opera.

I recall asking them about this when I saw them at the Dagenham Roundhouse back in 1970 and they said it was some smart arse in the management who thought the band were illiterate and didn't understand the importance of the possessive case and decided it should go in!

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You appear to have spelled Opera wrong C. Its should read A.R.S.E.


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