BCB Loud Cup Round 9 Match 1 *pcqgod 9- n/e 12*
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BCB Loud Cup Round 9 Match 1 *pcqgod 9- n/e 12*
A
The Monkees – Stepping Stone (live)
B
Loop - Afterglow
The Monkees – Stepping Stone (live)
B
Loop - Afterglow
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Re: BCB Loud Cup Round 9 Match 1
As much as I like the Monkees, and acknowledge that sound-wise, they're not that different from a lot of contemporary garage bands, A is mainly only loud 'cause the audio quality is so bad. Turning it up doesn't give it more power, it only makes Davey Jones and thousands of screaming girls more shrill.
I like B a lot less as a song (is this what's referred to as shoegaze? More like naval-gaze!), it is more proper loud. And I must confess I enjoyed parts of it, it just didn't sustain that enjoyment all the way through.
I like B a lot less as a song (is this what's referred to as shoegaze? More like naval-gaze!), it is more proper loud. And I must confess I enjoyed parts of it, it just didn't sustain that enjoyment all the way through.
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Yeah, not a good mix on A. Jones almost sounds dubbed over the din behind him. Or something. Such a shame cuz the studio recording is a fab arrangement of a kick-ass song.
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Toughie
Think I'll have to go for A despite loving B.
A is such a kickass song although I think the studio version may have done it more justice
snotty and loud
A
Think I'll have to go for A despite loving B.
A is such a kickass song although I think the studio version may have done it more justice
snotty and loud
A
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Re: BCB Loud Cup Round 9 Match 1
The video for A is no longer available on You Tube.
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Purgatory Brite wrote:The video for A is no longer available on You Tube.
It's still working for me....
How's this one?
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never/ever wrote:Purgatory Brite wrote:The video for A is no longer available on You Tube.
It's still working for me....
How's this one?
Still not available
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Purgatory Brite wrote:Still not available
This works, from 53:21 onwards is the correct track, I believe. Dunno what it's doing in a Loud cup though, it's not exactly Anaal Nathrakh.
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So, A is an ok mid-60s pop song that seems to have been chosen for reasons that are entirely beyond me. Unless Loop are entirely execrable, they're getting my vote.
I've never purchased anything by Loop, probably due to my allergy to shoegaze. I do, however, like both bands that spawned from their breakup, The Hair and Skin Trading Co, and especially the completely immense Main. I can find hints of both in this track, that kinda spiky guitar flitting from one speaker to the other, almost disassociated from the rhythm section is pure Robert Hampson. I prefer the lack of structure that Main applied to this though, it would be far better without the drums. Still, it really is lovely to hear that guitar style again, and it isn't just a random pop song from the 60s.
B
I've never purchased anything by Loop, probably due to my allergy to shoegaze. I do, however, like both bands that spawned from their breakup, The Hair and Skin Trading Co, and especially the completely immense Main. I can find hints of both in this track, that kinda spiky guitar flitting from one speaker to the other, almost disassociated from the rhythm section is pure Robert Hampson. I prefer the lack of structure that Main applied to this though, it would be far better without the drums. Still, it really is lovely to hear that guitar style again, and it isn't just a random pop song from the 60s.
B
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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A mainly for the attitude of the song I suppose. I did pick up a hint of Hendrix in the guitar sound. I'd feel a bit of git for voting against it after NE and DF went to the trouble of finding the clip
B sounded very mediocre, neither good nor bad. Landfill indie.
B sounded very mediocre, neither good nor bad. Landfill indie.
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Well, I think that the last minute of that Monkees pick justifies its presence here and is probably the reason why somebody chose this specific take. That said I'm not voting for it because I found that Loop track more up my street.
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These two have more in common than you might initially think, and Osgood is probably right about why that version of Steppin' Stone was picked. You can just about trace the evolution from A to B, with The Stooges/MC5 as the missing link. I bet Loop used to do versions of Steppin' Stone at their earliest practices, and I bet Spacemen 3 did too.
I didn't like the Loop track as much as I thought I would, although I still liked it a lot.
I'm going to surprise myself and go for A
I didn't like the Loop track as much as I thought I would, although I still liked it a lot.
I'm going to surprise myself and go for A
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The Monkees wouldn't play, but everyone knows Stepping Stone, one of their best, however, I used to love Loop. Stroppy middle class, home counties teenagers channelling and distilling The Stooges down to their essentials - what's not to like? This track has made me think I should dig out the old LPs and EPs.
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Re: BCB Loud Cup Round 9 Match 1
i teeter. (teeter, teeter.) i see-saw. (well, it *is* saturday night.)
there is something so very cool about hearing the monkees with a crap mix but goin all garagey-punky and ending the way they do. it's such a juxtaposition from the way i've heard em almost all of my life. and yeah, it is a wicked lil song anyway.
but i really liked the loop, in their loop as they are. i love the sound.
i'm going with the monkees. in the end, just hearing this version made a few brain cells happily go *pop*.
there is something so very cool about hearing the monkees with a crap mix but goin all garagey-punky and ending the way they do. it's such a juxtaposition from the way i've heard em almost all of my life. and yeah, it is a wicked lil song anyway.
but i really liked the loop, in their loop as they are. i love the sound.
i'm going with the monkees. in the end, just hearing this version made a few brain cells happily go *pop*.
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I enjoyed the Loop track very much - I love all that shoegazing stuff
The Monkees track was too fatiguing and not that robust.
'Stamp your feet too'.
No thank you
B
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The Monkees track was too fatiguing and not that robust.
'Stamp your feet too'.
No thank you
B
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Make it all go away! This cup has descended into non humorous comedy. Utter shite of the highest order.
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a - well, I like the Monkees as a singles band: they had some great musicians playing on some of them, and Mike Nesmith turned out to be four times the artist that any of the ex-Beatles were. But this Sex Pistols cover is live – and apparently badly recorded – which immediately drops it in my view. Can that really be Nesmith playing that lead guitar, or is it Peter Tork? Either way, this is the sort of record I generally damn as all right. Which it is. 5 / 10
b - Loop in my mind are inextricably linked with Ride as Bands where I picked up quite a lot of vinyl without ever really loving anything, and now unable to bring any specific track to mind. I'd always prefer Spacemen 3 if I wanted to hear this sort of trancey row anyway. I'm pretty sure I have this on the shelves – my visual memory is sharper than my audio one and the cover seems familiar – but it sounded like something new to me. As well as a less interesting variation of the Spacemen's schtick. 5 / 10
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b - Loop in my mind are inextricably linked with Ride as Bands where I picked up quite a lot of vinyl without ever really loving anything, and now unable to bring any specific track to mind. I'd always prefer Spacemen 3 if I wanted to hear this sort of trancey row anyway. I'm pretty sure I have this on the shelves – my visual memory is sharper than my audio one and the cover seems familiar – but it sounded like something new to me. As well as a less interesting variation of the Spacemen's schtick. 5 / 10
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