90s Cup Round 2 Match 5 *Ranking Ted 14- Buddha B-Rex 14*

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 18 Aug 2018, 20:27

An easy one for Beck. It's a great track. Peak Beck. And I always feel like I could really like a PJ Harvey track from this era, if only a few things were different. It's never quite right. This one starts off on the wrong foot. Had it been John Lee Hooker's "Black Snake Moan," I would've voted for it.

A.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby Darkness_Fish » 18 Aug 2018, 20:41

That Beck song is a bit of a disaster, isn't it? It's a fairly crappy alt-rock song that didn't have enough weight to it, so they extend it by throwing some silly preset synth sounds over the top. I mean, if you're going to piss about with a track, deconstruct it, don't just stop, make a farty sound and then carry on. It's the cartoon-tie school of wackiness.

And by God, PJ is desperate to drag this dirge out, too. I don't get this kind of tame indie rock, where you want to sound angry and confrontational, but can't be bothered doing anything with the music that might surprise a Status Quo fan. Chug a chug a chug.

Better than that Beck travesty though. B
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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby Buddha B-Rex » 19 Aug 2018, 00:32

I really like A, but I have to vote B here
Freak out. Far out.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby trans-chigley express » 19 Aug 2018, 06:26

Yet another Beck track that underwhelms me though I did like the end part. B gave me a headache

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby pcqgod » 19 Aug 2018, 17:21

I was never a big Beck fan, but A is okay. Can't listen to the other. Just grates on my ears.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby Samoan » 19 Aug 2018, 17:28

A
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby The Red Heifer » 20 Aug 2018, 08:09

toomanyhatz wrote:Not that we needed yet another track from that Beck album (though I think I like it more than most people here do)


As I said when the first Midnite Vultures song was posted, it's the best Beck album in my opinion, certainly the one I enjoy the most, and, as is the phrase of the comp, "my 90's". Maybe it was released in the sweet spot for nostalgia for me (started getting women interested in me etc) but I go back to it more than the rest even if I'm not 7 cans of 500ml Asahi deep and pining for when S.O.A.P.'s "This Is How We Party" was a new release banger.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby Mike Boom » 20 Aug 2018, 14:11

B

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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby Cantankerous » 20 Aug 2018, 14:20

A




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Re: 90s Cup Round 2 Match 5

Postby never/ever » 22 Aug 2018, 11:19

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Ranking Ted 14

Buddha B-Rex 14
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