BCB CUP 2010: Round 3, Match 13 - Rocky Balboa!

[Butch Manly]

List A:

The Temptations- Runaway Child, Running Wild
Daft Punk- Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger
Bill Withers- Use Me
Slick Rick- The Ruler's Back
Barrington Levy- Here I Come (Broader than Broadway)
Fela Kuti- Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Kraftwerk- Autobahn
The Flamin' Groovies- Shake Some Action
The Delfonics- La La Means I Love You
The Pop Group- She Is Beyond Good and Evil
Marvin Gaye- That's The Way Love Is
Dr Alimantado- Poison Flour (Man Next Door)
Aaliyah- Try Again
The Fall- Leave the Capitol
The Lovin' Spoonful- Darling Be Home Soon
Creedence Clearwater Rivial- Born on the Bayou
War- Slippin' into Darkness
23 Skidoo- Coup
Turbulence- Notorious
The Slits- Typical Girls

List B:

Tommy James and the Shondells- 'Do Something To Me'
Animal Collective - 'What Would I want? Sky' link
Clarence Reid - 'Masterpiece' link
Pink Floyd - 'Cirrus Minor' link
Todd Rundgren - 'Zen Archer' link
Rose Royce - 'CarWash' link
Michael Arnoud with Serge Gainsbourg - 'Les Papillons Noirs' link
Bobby Womack - 'Across 110th Street' link
Fred & The New JBs - '(It's Not The Express) It's The JBs Monoaurail (Parts 1 & 2)' link
Francoise Hardy - 'Je Changerais D'Avis' link
Mitty Collier - 'I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night' link
Raphael Saadiq - 'Staying in Love' link
Funkadelic - '(Not Just) Knee Deep' link
Yo La Tengo - 'Sugarcube' link
Del Shannon - 'Cut and Come Again' link
Esther Phillips - 'Home is Where the Hatred Is' link
Margo Guryan - 'Take a Picture' link
The Temptations - 'Runaway Child, Running Wild' link
Can - 'Future Days' link
Travis Wammack - 'You Better Move On' link

[Minnie Cheddars]

A

[toomanyhatz]

Despite the Yo La Tengo and Animal Collective, B's simply more consistent.

[Jeemo]

A

[The Modernist]

I can't believe how often lists I've liked have been drawn together, it's getting beyond a joke really. I'l have to consider this further.

[Magilla]

A

[Goat Boy]

A is a bit too BCB but very good whereas B is the one of the few remaining lists I can get behind so...

B

[The Modernist]

I've sometimes thought A was covering bases but it's really developing its individuality now. Great 23 Skidoo pick, now there's something from the post-punk era that deserves championing. Overall A deserves to go far.
B has its strengths too and there are some very good picks in its new five, but that Yo Lo Tango song annoyed me..limp hipster posturing picking over the carcass of the Velvet Underground.

A

[Cosmic American Girl]

B

[Always Positive]

B

[packrat]

B

[BlueMeanie]

B

[Count Machuki]

B

That was a tough call.

[purgatory brite]

abstain

[whodathunkit]

Neither of these really ring my bell. I would love to go with B for trying something different but a lot of it is just dreary. Back to the security blanket of the canon.

A

[Neil Jung]

I can't believe how often lists I've not liked have been drawn together, it's getting beyond a joke really. I'll have to consider this further. Or not.

B

[soundchaser]

B

[T. Willy Rye]

B

[The Modernist]

I can't believe how often lists I've not liked have been drawn together, it's getting beyond a joke really. I'll have to consider this further. Or not.

These lists have War, Barrington Levy, Fela Kuti, the Pop Group, Francoise Hardy, Funkadelic, Rose Royce..they're terrific.
Get a grip man!

[automatic_drip]

I like A's list very much. Starts so strong, and the inclusion of Fela/Daft Punk etc at the start is pretty great. The latest five adds, though, suffer from unfamiliarity (links people, if you expect me to work to hear this stuff, your overestimating my need to support you), or just plain dislike....

B is the opposite. Starts off shakey, but I like it the more we go on with this.

B