90s Cup Round 3 Match 12 *Neige 11- Dayodead 11*
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90s Cup Round 3 Match 12 *Neige 11- Dayodead 11*
A
Grant McLennan - What Went Wrong
B
Lali Puna- Antena Trash
Grant McLennan - What Went Wrong
B
Lali Puna- Antena Trash
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
Both struggled to hold my attention if I'm honest.
Okay I get that A is deliberately using melodic repetition to achieve some cumulative power, but boy does it test the patience. It's a shame as I think there's a decent song lurking in there with a bit of editing.
B was interesting and original (it sounds like something from much later than the 90s), but not particularly likeable!
It felt like it just needed more of something (a melodic hook..a harder rhythmic track..just something to break it out of its confined, hermetically sealed space). But I think it's probably the more successful track, so..
B
Okay I get that A is deliberately using melodic repetition to achieve some cumulative power, but boy does it test the patience. It's a shame as I think there's a decent song lurking in there with a bit of editing.
B was interesting and original (it sounds like something from much later than the 90s), but not particularly likeable!
It felt like it just needed more of something (a melodic hook..a harder rhythmic track..just something to break it out of its confined, hermetically sealed space). But I think it's probably the more successful track, so..
B
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
Much as I love McLennan I find his solo work lacks any real spark; he needed the partnership with Forster to be at his best. This song is performed well but does drag.
Lali Puna were one of those tastefully underground electronic things that got into the NME weren't they? I think that erstwhile BCB clique the Earnest Post-Rock Army liked them, alongside Mogwai and King Creosote. This effort is nice enough but never seems to get going and ended up boring me, though it might just be unlucky to be the last song of the evening.
A probably but mainly out of affection for the artist rather than any conviction about the song.
Lali Puna were one of those tastefully underground electronic things that got into the NME weren't they? I think that erstwhile BCB clique the Earnest Post-Rock Army liked them, alongside Mogwai and King Creosote. This effort is nice enough but never seems to get going and ended up boring me, though it might just be unlucky to be the last song of the evening.
A probably but mainly out of affection for the artist rather than any conviction about the song.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
I'll tell you what went wrong Grant - you carried on for at least seven minutes longer than you needed to.
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Wow - breathy vocals, synth and drum machine loops repeated into infinity, scant melodic material stretched out the point of numbing boredom, "atmospheric" vibe with no dynamic - they actually managed to get everything I hate about the 90s in one song!
I like the idea of McLennan in balladeer mode, but as others have pointed out, this goes on far too long and really doesn't build up enough intensity musically or lyrically to hold my attention. But A would have won if it was an anonymous Morrissey track.
I like the idea of McLennan in balladeer mode, but as others have pointed out, this goes on far too long and really doesn't build up enough intensity musically or lyrically to hold my attention. But A would have won if it was an anonymous Morrissey track.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
I had very low expectations of A, given the comments that went before, but it quite surprised me, it's not that bad. It could do with being a bit less repetititititive, but it was amiable enough. It's the kind of thing you'd expect from a rock band attempting a rare ballad, but slightly better.
I quite like B, too, there's a nice resonance to the bass notes, and I'm a sucker for a really insistent drum-machine. Reminds me very much of something Schneider TM would've done at the time, but obviously a bit quieter and more female. It's got a bit of character, slightly aimless, but quietly driven aimlessness. A decent round this one, despite all the whinging above.
B
I quite like B, too, there's a nice resonance to the bass notes, and I'm a sucker for a really insistent drum-machine. Reminds me very much of something Schneider TM would've done at the time, but obviously a bit quieter and more female. It's got a bit of character, slightly aimless, but quietly driven aimlessness. A decent round this one, despite all the whinging above.
B
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
Didn't care for A at all, and whilst not really great either, B was much more my jam.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
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(something like 'Lighting Fires' might have gone down a litte easier I reckon, A )
(something like 'Lighting Fires' might have gone down a litte easier I reckon, A )
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I listened to more of B than A, but thats probably because I got distracted looking at the Shaver Shop website.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
A started off fairly promisingly but as others have said, it went on too long and outstayed its welcome
B was ok but lacked something to raise it a notch and make it stand out from the crowd a little more.
B on balance.
B was ok but lacked something to raise it a notch and make it stand out from the crowd a little more.
B on balance.
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
Grant McLennan goes on a bit, but I'm not against him or anything. Still, it's the 90s. STeel guitar or glitchy bits?
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Re: 90s Cup Round 3 Match 12
a - what went wrong was that you left the Go-Betweens. I must have heard this before, as I acquired this album because I loved the G-Bs, and didn't realize how much of that was down to Robert Forster. That said, I like the timbre of his voice, the general sense of a literary mind at work and the music is pleasant in a rainy morning staring out the window way. Uninspiring, but I lasted the full eight minutes with only a brief trip outside to check on something 5 / 10
b - oh, what is point? Whatever it is they/she/he/it is trying to express, I'm just not interested 3 / 10
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b - oh, what is point? Whatever it is they/she/he/it is trying to express, I'm just not interested 3 / 10
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