90s Cup Round 3 Match 3 *Count Machuki 9- Buddha B-Rex 14*

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90s Cup Round 3 Match 3 *Count Machuki 9- Buddha B-Rex 14*

Postby never/ever » 19 Aug 2018, 12:42

A


The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who?






B

Swervedriver - Last Train To Satansville

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Penk! » 19 Aug 2018, 14:36

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are basically the USA’s answer to Ocean Colour Scene, except less catchy.
Swervedriver are OK but they have a crap singer.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby The Modernist » 19 Aug 2018, 14:50

The BJM approach to retro rock was far more fun than many of their peers ( Primal Scream or The Black Crowes say). This has some great riffing but is let down by nondescript vocals. However everything about B was nondescript.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Samoan » 19 Aug 2018, 19:43

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Polishgirl » 19 Aug 2018, 20:01

Fairly evenly matched for me, but the riff wins it.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Darkness_Fish » 19 Aug 2018, 20:44

I like the fairly shambolic nature of track A, and I hope that the awful "whooo" noises are in some way a nod to US Maple's Al Johnson. It's just unfortunate that it's so backwards looking, I really never saw the point in doing stuff like this. It sounds like they could have had some charm, if they'd just not been so classic rockist.

Swervedriver are more fixedly of their time, and are also clearly not trying to make anything interesting happen, lest they annoy a passing Melody Maker hack. This is such a let down after the first two ties in this round. I'm struggling to find anything to say about this at all, it's a cheap aural muesli.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby toomanyhatz » 19 Aug 2018, 20:45

Style over substance in both cases. B is also way too long, for bad measure. But it also has more style and more substance. BJM has always seemed like the Emporer's New Clothes to me. Act like rock stars and people will think you are, I guess. There's nothing special about what they do beyond that.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Dayodead » 19 Aug 2018, 20:46

A... but not terribly excited about either track...

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Diamond Dog » 19 Aug 2018, 20:52

A sounds like a very poor Primal Scream track.

B sounds like a very poor primetime Oasis track, so just shades it.
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Postby Cantankerous » 20 Aug 2018, 19:48

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby fange » 21 Aug 2018, 06:09

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby trans-chigley express » 21 Aug 2018, 10:34

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby algroth » 22 Aug 2018, 00:34

B's twice its necessary length at least but I feel there was more going on in it than in A, which just irritated me.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Count Machuki » 22 Aug 2018, 14:58

A. Far and away A.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Rayge » 22 Aug 2018, 15:43

Two bands I at least heard of, although I can't say what they might sound like
a - more vaguely mid-tempo grungy shit. Ah fuck, this is horrible - not the fault of this particular track, but I've really heard enough smacked-out* grinding pastiches of rock music in this cup to last me the rest of my life, and there's six more rounds to go. The guitar was all right, I thought, and boost the marks up, but basically that was a chore to listen to. 3.5 / 10
b - That's better. Sounds like they're awake. The vocalist is nothing to write home about, I agree, but he fucks off soon enough, there's a fine train riff (a mover, too, not a shunter in Swindon loco sheds), some pleasant and comfortable noises from the instruments, and a proper pulse. It's alive!
Sure it was long, but at least they were mindlessly jamming around a riff that was worth it rather than showing off their edginess or prog aspirations. One of very few tracks in this cup so far I would consider listening to again, all six-odd minutes of it. Thanks, B.
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B

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Jumper K » 22 Aug 2018, 18:11

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Buddha B-Rex » 22 Aug 2018, 18:22

B
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby Ranking Ted » 22 Aug 2018, 22:14

So that’s what BJM sound like - amateurish bobbins. Swervedriver were also a band that I never bothered with at the time - this doesn’t exactly make me think I missed out but has far more about it than A.

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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 3

Postby pcqgod » 23 Aug 2018, 02:38

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