70s Cup Round 1 Match 8 *Masked Man 20- echolalia 20*
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 8
Just read all the comments on page one. Shame some people can't hear the sheer joy in the Mott track.
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Re: 70s Cup Round 1 Match 8
B
The other is kind of a drag.
The other is kind of a drag.
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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The Modernist wrote:Just read all the comments on page one. Shame some people can't hear the sheer joy in the Mott track.
I agree, I’ve always loved its swaggering groove and the insistent repetition of the fade -for me, it’s easily their best track (that I’ve heard) that’s not THAT ONE.
And it’s against another fabulous creation, one of a number of times Magazine got their prog/punk meld exactly spot on. This is another hell of a tie. Umm.
B, just to redress the balance but it is a coin toss.
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Wonderful battle across the punk divide. This time I'm gonna give it to the older guys, but that Magazine choon is quite good too.
B
B
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Despite everyone comparing Ultravox to Magazine in the earlier tie, I never liked Devoto's dull attitude to 'art rock', it's like he ran away from the circus to join an accountancy firm. It just doesn't have the same energy. This track is very much a case of coming up with a memorable phrase, and not doing an awful lot with it, other than a sounding like a bit of Roxy Music in wellies.
Mott the Hoople are one of those strange bands who seem to have a lot of credibility with people who like shit music. This is Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders theme tune from Minder. Sounds like they had a good time, but all I can hear is beer being spilled all over a threadbare carpet.
A
Mott the Hoople are one of those strange bands who seem to have a lot of credibility with people who like shit music. This is Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders theme tune from Minder. Sounds like they had a good time, but all I can hear is beer being spilled all over a threadbare carpet.
A
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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The Modernist wrote:Just read all the comments on page one. Shame some people can't hear the sheer joy in the Mott track.
We can hear the joy in it. They're having a lot of fun. But it's still a crap pub rock song.
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Come now...that chorus is killa! I love the way it just springs out of the desperation of the verses.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Roxy Music in wellies.
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders theme tune from Minder.
You're going to run out of these (rather excellent) funnies soon!
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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I'm clearly not as enamoured of these two as others appear to be.
I really dont get Mott at all - they've never made me think they were any more than a competent pub band.
I'm not overly keen on Magazine either.
I think I'll go for A because it sounds like a bit more thought went into it.
I really dont get Mott at all - they've never made me think they were any more than a competent pub band.
I'm not overly keen on Magazine either.
I think I'll go for A because it sounds like a bit more thought went into it.
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Fuckwit voting alert. A kills it.
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A
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B's too boogie-woogie for me.
Easy
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The Modernist wrote:Shame some people can't hear the sheer joy in the Mott track.
Pardon?
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Darkness_Fish wrote:... all I can hear is beer being spilled all over a threadbare carpet.
You make it sound as if it was wrong.
No wonder you worship Joy Division
Nobody's ferpect.
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Ranking Ted wrote:The Modernist wrote:Just read all the comments on page one. Shame some people can't hear the sheer joy in the Mott track.
I agree, I’ve always loved its swaggering groove and the insistent repetition of the fade -for me, it’s easily their best track (that I’ve heard) that’s not THAT ONE.
'Roll Away The Stone' is as good as either, if you ask me.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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Mott are a luckier version of Sailor. Twats.
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A.
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A
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This is a good tie that pits two very different bits of the seventies against each other. There probably aren’t many Magazine-Mott pair-ups where I’d vote for the latter but I have to admit this is one of them.
B
B
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echolalia wrote:This is a good tie that pits two very different bits of the seventies against each other. There probably aren’t many Magazine-Mott pair-ups where I’d vote for the latter but I have to admit this is one of them.
Yep, well put, echo. Both are faves, but i find the jaded rock n roll energy of B irresistible here.
B
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All The Way From Memphis - Yikes have listened to that in decades. Never been a fan of Mott although I guess they had their moments. Ugh agree with the BCB's hear bar (sorry pub) band with a bunch of old frat guys. Part of the reason I listen to prog.
A by default.
A by default.