I rarely play Magazine but always enjoy hearing them when they crop up although I much prefer them musically than vocally
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A is great, it's got the right mixture of punky aesthetic and attitude with a more expansive synth-driven sound. I like Mott a fair bit but B is one of the album's weakest moments, not one I care for much.
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Two firm favourites make it hard to choose.
In the end, it's Ian over Howard
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In the end, it's Ian over Howard
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Sounds like a lot of people believe Mott only started with ATYD. Pub band indeed.
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ooh, here's a rarity, two sounds I own(ed) and played plenty of times.
a - Devoto leaving the Buzzcocks was a win-win, as two better bands emerged, and I loved them both at the time. The appeal of Devoto was always in his songs, rather than his spidery presence, mannered vocals and frankly creepy looks, while the band he assembled gave them the cinematic spread they always deserved. The first track of this round that I can give a decent mark to - 6.5 / 10
b - Far and away the best single that Mott produced, shaking of the shackles of Bowankery and pathetic attempts at homoerotic posturing for something closer to real rock and roll than pub rock; from the pounding piano to the rippling sax solos (not to mention the Beefheartian squealings at the end), it was already retro in the early 70s, but in a Wizzard way, rather than dry and reverential like Stray Cats, worthy like Darts or soppy and half-mocking like Sha Na Na, and demands to be played at full volume. I loved it then and can still summon up a frisson for the chorus today.
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Two best tracks of the cup so far
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a - Devoto leaving the Buzzcocks was a win-win, as two better bands emerged, and I loved them both at the time. The appeal of Devoto was always in his songs, rather than his spidery presence, mannered vocals and frankly creepy looks, while the band he assembled gave them the cinematic spread they always deserved. The first track of this round that I can give a decent mark to - 6.5 / 10
b - Far and away the best single that Mott produced, shaking of the shackles of Bowankery and pathetic attempts at homoerotic posturing for something closer to real rock and roll than pub rock; from the pounding piano to the rippling sax solos (not to mention the Beefheartian squealings at the end), it was already retro in the early 70s, but in a Wizzard way, rather than dry and reverential like Stray Cats, worthy like Darts or soppy and half-mocking like Sha Na Na, and demands to be played at full volume. I loved it then and can still summon up a frisson for the chorus today.
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Two best tracks of the cup so far
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Not one, but two great tracks by bands hugely overrated by the BCB Massive. A is kinetic in all the ways most Magazine isn't. It might be their greatest track.
It's still nowhere near as good as B, though.
It's still nowhere near as good as B, though.
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Outside of the Bowie- like bends in the vocals that are nice, not much else is doing it for me in B.
Simply because it has more meat on the bones..
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Simply because it has more meat on the bones..
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B, but they were both enjoyable in their own way.
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