90s Cup Round 6 Match 9 *loki 9- Neige 9*

[never/ever]

A

eels - Cancer for the Cure






B

eels - Susan's House

[Dayodead]

A...though I wish it was an instrumental...

[Purgatory Brite]

B

[Polishgirl]

Shame these are up against one another.

A

[toomanyhatz]

Yeah, very strange that "appropriate matches" always come up by random chance!

E. is someone I've always wanted to like more than I do. Possibly because his trick bag is ultimately extremely limited - but I do like the propulsiveness of A - kind of a poor man's version of the Baerwald track I posted earlier. B is good too if a bit more ordinary.

[Loki]

Both good tunes.....

[Penk!]

Mark E Everett is a bit like Beck on worse drugs, isn't he? I think he lacks Beck's genuine songwriting ability, which is why I've never really bothered getting into his music. I enjoy the odd thing but never enough to investigate properly or sit down and listen to it.

Of these I preferred the busted-conveyor groove of A to the sub-Tom Waits mashup of B.

[Diamond Dog]

If I never heard either again, I'd not lose sleep over it.

B was just a bit more... okay.

[Darkness_Fish]

Hmm, I figured A was just a gimmicky intro, half Neubauten, half Foetus, but it does indeed sound like Beck has joined the party. Absolutely shocking crap lyrically, if you think you've come up with a clever song title, back it up with something better than this shit.

Yep, it's a shame that these are up against each other, I'd have loved to have voted against these in another round. B's just an exercise in being annoying over the top of a generic trip-hop drum loop, with occasional chords from the Hill Street Blues theme tune.

I guess the construction of A was better than the absolute lack of song in B.

[The Modernist]

I don't rate either of these. I can't be bothered to say anything interesting about The Eels either, so I'll just say..

B

[Jumper K]

This is the first time I'm not going to vote.
Oh my cat has told me to go for B. Its the one that makes her yowl less. A crowning achievement Mr Eels don't you think?

[C]

Abstain




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[WG Kaspar]

B

[algroth]

The vocals are pretty shite in either case, but I reckon there's more of interest happening in the background in A than there is in B.

[never/ever]

Yeah, sorry about that. It's not the first time I had a match-up between two exact similar artists in previous Cups. Maybe next time I'll drop a PM to one of the entrants and see if they want to change the order of their songs to avoid a clash like that.
Having said that, it does make it interesting to compare tracks. And in this case I like


A

[fange]

B

[Rayge]

E must have be a terrible disappointment to his father. Still, he probably consoles himself with the thought that somewhere there are universes when his boy doesn't make dull records. It's just not this one.

b

[Ranking Ted]

I really like the eels but they only really came into their own in the following decade. Both of these are lesser things, from even their parent records. I dislike the own brand Tom Waits of A and mildly dislike the rapping Bruce Hornsby of B. Missed opportunities.

B

[trans-chigley express]

B

[The Red Heifer]

I love Eels, I might be one of the only people left on the bus but I'm not getting off anytime soon.

A is the better song here.