70s Cup Round 1 Match 10 *Penk 27- Neige 14*
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A is world class. That bass line at the front and centre, the precise drumming, Ian's disconnected vocals, the fuzzy guitars all tied together with an almost dubby and massively spacious production. It doesn't get much better than this. With a song this good who cares about its obviousness?
Slade? Seriously?
Slade? Seriously?
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Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
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I never got to the salivating stage that others at the time did with JD - I like them well enough but don't ever feel compelled to jump back into them to reassess.This is very typical of their output - fine but that's it.
"Coz I Luv U" was the very first record I ever bought - it still makes me shiver whenever I hear it. B is an integral part of my musical DNA.
"Coz I Luv U" was the very first record I ever bought - it still makes me shiver whenever I hear it. B is an integral part of my musical DNA.
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I don't know why I'm sat here listening to Disorder, I know it better than I know my wife. It's possibly the greatest debut album opening track in history, with the best opening lines, "I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand; could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man". Just awesome. Ok, JD are an obvious pick, and I didn't choose anything by them for that reason, but y'know, there's not going to be a single track that's better than this in the entire competition.
I do like Slade, as it happens, and I think this was their first big hit, wasn't it? Makes me wish they'd had more fiddle in their other tunes. It would've won many a tie in this competition, but it's basically been slapped down and sent packing. Not as big and brash as most glam tunes, it has a bit of a melancholy edge to go with its stomp that I really like. I feel bad for voting against it, to be honest, but there's nothing that's going to compete with unknown pleasures.
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I do like Slade, as it happens, and I think this was their first big hit, wasn't it? Makes me wish they'd had more fiddle in their other tunes. It would've won many a tie in this competition, but it's basically been slapped down and sent packing. Not as big and brash as most glam tunes, it has a bit of a melancholy edge to go with its stomp that I really like. I feel bad for voting against it, to be honest, but there's nothing that's going to compete with unknown pleasures.
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Belle Lettre wrote:Slade get on my tits when all's said and done.
Mine too, Carol.
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Never saw the appeal of Slade. Esp. with that screechy fiddle.
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JD really were the dullest shit you could listen to at the arse end of the 70's.
B. Although its throwaway tosh.
B. Although its throwaway tosh.
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Generally I think JD are overrated, but this is one of my favourite tracks by them. I like that whooshing sound like high-speed elevators leaving a basement.
The Slade track is a bit crap.
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The Slade track is a bit crap.
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I wish this was closer, but it's not. B isn't awful by any means - despite the fingernails-on-blackboard fiddle, and the its perpetrator's eye-wateringly skintight pants - but it's simply punching way below its weight class for me.
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No contest A
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Joy Division are like The Grateful Dead for me, the image and the album sleeves are far more appealing than the actual music. I find them clunky and rather tuneless and this is no exception so I'll stick to admiring their album covers instead.
I'm not the biggest fan of Slade but I enjoy their singles and the warm whiff of nostalgia they bring and this a good 'un.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Slade but I enjoy their singles and the warm whiff of nostalgia they bring and this a good 'un.
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PENK wrote:Joy Division really are a product of the '70s: paranoid, urgent, industrial and devastating.
It's hard to be negative about Slade, they're always enjoyable, but they're outclassed here.
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This is pretty much how I feel. My only caveat, as with the 90s cup, is that as a choice in such a cup there's very little creativity in this as a pick. But, it's a clear few cuts above B. A then.
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JD's angst never appealed.
B is great fun and I love me a little fiddle.
B is great fun and I love me a little fiddle.
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Two bands I like that I can never get totally behind - A can be too stuffy and B too goofy. They really should have listened to more of each other.
A is one of JD's best, and B is one of Slade's worst, though, so...
A is one of JD's best, and B is one of Slade's worst, though, so...
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Angsts, I had a few, but then again, too few to mention... JD was my go to punching bag, music to wash another difficult day away.
Slade just passed me by.
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Slade just passed me by.
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