90s Cup Round 3 Match 6 *Darkness_Fish 15- Copehead 8*

[never/ever]

A

Miranda Sex Garden - Sunshine





B


Tricky Disco - Tricky

[The Modernist]

I didn't mind A too much. I thought the concept of contrasting these angelic voices with something noisey and dissonant is a pretty good one, but it could have been executed a bit better as the latter seemed to overwhelm the former. But it's okay.

I was going to a lot of clubs/raves in the early 90s so I remember this harder, more brutal style coming in. Basically instead of black guys from Chicago or Detroit making the records, you had some crusty white English guy and a lot of the spirituality and soulfulness got lost. I wasn't keen on it then and I'm not now. Plus it has that godawful "woah yeah" sample that was over everything (even Timmy bloody Mallet) for a while.
PS This has nothing to do with Tricky.

A

[Polishgirl]

I'd prefer A if it was just a single vocal: the collective voices are a bit too syrupy. But I am a sucker for noisy guitars, and I found B unlistenable.

A

[Penk!]

A has something going for it but it didn't quite convince me. It might just be a question of the gothy leanings not being to my personal taste but I think I'd rather hear some MBV or something if I want to hear noise and prettiness combined.
B lacks the charm and invention of other classic Warp cuts, but it retains some punch and is the one of these I'd rather sit through again.

[Diamond Dog]

B is a two year old opening their talking birthday cards all at once.

A.

[toomanyhatz]

I agree with much of what's been said about A, the more typical noisy/destructive elements eventually overwhelm it. Nice idea, they just ultimately don't have the conviction to go all the way with it. I like both elements of it, shame they needed to drive the more typical one into the ground.

Not that it matters, as B is about ten seconds worth of material stretched well beyond what I was capable of listening to in one sitting.

[Dayodead]

A is basically Madrigal singers trying to front JAMC, but still more interesting than B...

A

[Loki]

[C]

A




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[fange]

Warp.


B

[Darkness_Fish]

Miranda Sex Garden's Suspiria is a personal favourite of the era, a really varied, odd album of pseudo-operatic vocals, pop-tunes, and odd experimentation. I was thinking of using "Play" which is one of the oddest lead singles from an album ever for a band with some commercial aspirations, basically a nursery rhyme followed by lots of breaking glass and screaming. But I couldn't find it on youtube. This is a bit more mainstream, but I think as the vocals take more low-key than on some tracks, it's the drumming which lifts the track out of the dullness of the recognised shoe-gazey likes of MBV. Pretty fucking embarrassing that they then went on to form the Medieval Baebes though.

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator. But it's a scientific calculator, and I don't really know what I'm doing with it. I pressed the wrong option, and now it's stuck in a mode where I don't understand what it's trying to do.

A

[algroth]

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator. But it's a scientific calculator, and I don't really know what I'm doing with it. I pressed the wrong option, and now it's stuck in a mode where I don't understand what it's trying to do.

Much like others have said about A, there's a very interesting juxtaposition at play in that track even if it ultimately does fade a bit into the background, but that's more going for it than B.

[Count Machuki]

A

[Jumper K]

B

[Buddha B-Rex]

A

[Ranking Ted]

I remember Peel playing loads of things that sounded like B - its reductive and cynical and not something I’d listen to. However, A is a goth mess and I want to punish it. Thus

B

[trans-chigley express]

both are pish. A for being marginally less pish but if I want sweet angelic vocals married to thumping heavy rock I'd rather listen to Babymetal.

[pcqgod]

A

[copehead]

This is tricky

B

Warp were so cool back then

[The Red Heifer]

B, but for fucks sake.