Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 24 Feb 2018, 12:43

All of a sudden, it occurs to me that German 60s beat bands were more fun than the Krautrock stuff of the 70s!
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby naughty boy » 24 Feb 2018, 12:55

:P
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Matt Wilson » 24 Feb 2018, 15:02

Super-Jank wrote:
Not to pile on, but Matt - you've always demonstrated very conventional taste. Nothing you've ever written here has been indicative of a mindset outside the classic American 'rock journalism' POV.

And that's not a criticism - it's just that it might be interesting if, now and again, you'd express an idiosyncratic opinion. I dunno, like 'I really can't get with Neil Young's voice', or 'German 60s beat bands were more fun than the Krautrock stuff of the 70s'.


Yeah, but I don't mind Neil Young's voice - and I wouldn't know German '60s beat bands if you introduced me to those guys at a pub.

I'm not gonna lie to adapt an 'idiosyncratic pose' just to please you and Moddie - both of you two also have extremely predictable taste as well by the way. I hope you guys aren't excluding yourselves from that accusation. The trouble with discussing music with the same people for fifteen years is that we all know what the other is thinking with regards to music most of the time.

If I preferred Marilyn Manson's version of "Golden Years" to Bowie's and proudly proclaimed it to the world on BCB, you wouldn't hesitate to call me out on my buffoonery. So I'll do the same with anyone who rates David Cassidy's version of a classic Rascals song to the real thing - merely because it was more successful in the UK. Talk about a provincial mindset...

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Count Machuki » 24 Feb 2018, 15:08

The JBs never covered Love...

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby clive gash » 24 Feb 2018, 15:10

Another vote for Love then.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Count Machuki » 24 Feb 2018, 15:18

nev harp wrote:Another vote for Love then.


Very much so.

AA(N) sounds pretty corny to me. I confuse it with Seasons in the Sun.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 24 Feb 2018, 15:33

Goat Boy wrote:This kind of early 70s singer songwriter soft rock/easy listening thing is overrated round here. See also solo Macca, Nilsson, the Carpenters, that sorta thing.


As opposed to what? The Human League?

What should we rate higher?
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby clive gash » 24 Feb 2018, 15:36

Provocative.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Rayge » 24 Feb 2018, 15:38

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby clive gash » 24 Feb 2018, 15:42

Next to your collarless suit jacket and pointed boots I reckon.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Goat Boy » 24 Feb 2018, 16:06

Davey the Fat Boy wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:This kind of early 70s singer songwriter soft rock/easy listening thing is overrated round here. See also solo Macca, Nilsson, the Carpenters, that sorta thing.


As opposed to what? The Human League?

What should we rate higher?


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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby naughty boy » 24 Feb 2018, 16:18

:lol:
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 24 Feb 2018, 16:23

Goat Boy wrote:
Davey the Fat Boy wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:This kind of early 70s singer songwriter soft rock/easy listening thing is overrated round here. See also solo Macca, Nilsson, the Carpenters, that sorta thing.


As opposed to what? The Human League?

What should we rate higher?


Go away


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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Goat Boy » 24 Feb 2018, 16:26

Poll it!
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby clive gash » 24 Feb 2018, 16:27

Goat Boy v Randy Newman
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby clive gash » 24 Feb 2018, 16:31



Really captures the desolatation that the original only hinted at.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby The Modernist » 24 Feb 2018, 16:56

Matt Wilson wrote: So I'll do the same with anyone who rates David Cassidy's version of a classic Rascals song to the real thing - merely because it was more successful in the UK. Talk about a provincial mindset...


Er no. Do you really think I care which country it was a hit in when I was six years old! I prefer it because I think it's a better production and arrangement. But of course it's entirely possible that had I grown up with The Rascals song I'd prefer that..but I'll never know.

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 24 Feb 2018, 17:22

I don’t think the reasons matter. The lapse in taste is what it is.
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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby Matt Wilson » 24 Feb 2018, 17:26

Of course.

And if you think that you're displaying some kind of individual taste in choosing the song which was the hit in your country, start a poll of the two songs and see if almost everyone who votes for the Cassidy rendition doesn't come from Britain.

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Re: Alone Again Or vs. Alone Again (Naturally)

Postby naughty boy » 24 Feb 2018, 18:22

Matt Wilson wrote:
Super-Jank wrote:
Not to pile on, but Matt - you've always demonstrated very conventional taste. Nothing you've ever written here has been indicative of a mindset outside the classic American 'rock journalism' POV.

And that's not a criticism - it's just that it might be interesting if, now and again, you'd express an idiosyncratic opinion. I dunno, like 'I really can't get with Neil Young's voice', or 'German 60s beat bands were more fun than the Krautrock stuff of the 70s'.


Yeah, but I don't mind Neil Young's voice - and I wouldn't know German '60s beat bands if you introduced me to those guys at a pub.


You've entirely missed my point. I wasn't asking for your opinion on those two things. I couldn't care less what you think about Neil Young or German 60s beat bands. They were just examples given to clarify my point. Except they didn't. Clarify, that is.


Matt Wilson wrote:I'm not gonna lie to adapt an 'idiosyncratic pose' just to please you and Moddie - both of you two also have extremely predictable taste as well by the way. I hope you guys aren't excluding yourselves from that accusation.


Not at all. I'd say the accusation is especially true for myself.

But again, you're missing the point.

Never mind. Off you go.
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