70s Cup Round 2 Match 8 *pcqgod 15- Moleskin 24*

[C]

Pass



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[Loki]

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Easy

[Darkness_Fish]

Congrats to A for picking something that's less than 9 minutes long, anyway. If I were to judge it purely on musical merits, I'd say its main quality is its brevity. It's very wholesome, just like the rancid acidic brew it advertises, it will no doubt cause intestinal trauma if suffered regularly.

Lou Reed solo is pretty annoying though. I like his voice, it's got a kind of warm and inviting tone to it, even though you know he was an irascible auld twat. Makes me wonder how he got such a sense of self-righteous importance when he sang such banal bog-standard MOR rockage as this. Give me MMM or give me death. Or a third alternative that's not so extreme. Still, it's not a coke jingle.

B

[algroth]

I'm voting A just because I think it'd be hilarious to see Lou losing to a Coke ad.

[Jumper K]

Fuck off Lou. You miserable pretentious nobber.
A.

[Ranking Ted]

Coney Island Baby is also one of my favourite Lou records and this fits it like a glove. Lovely. The jingle is a nice gimmick but it’s an easy

B

[mantochanga]

B is all studio pallor

A, then.

[Hightea]

i can be as sentimental as any kid who was 8 in '71.

but no, this is not happening for me.

i do not wanna buy the world a fucquin gotdamn coke.

give me lou.

I didn't listen to more than three F*cking notes. They played that stupid song everyday for ages.

Went to the VU Experience last weekend - Lou easy here.

B

[driftin]

I admire the bravery of submitting a jingle and I'd probably like it if it wasn't an advert but because it is it can go fuck itself.

B

[joels344]

B. Lou would haunt me in my dreams forever if I voted for A.

[toomanyhatz]

Going with A. Why the hell not? It's a nervy pick, the very definition of 70s, and I can think of at least a dozen better Reed tracks off the top of my head. And actually, it's a good song, and no less noble a purpose (selling sugary beverages) than most music of the time (making cigar-chomping executives wealthy while surviving on bread and water).

[harvey k-tel]

I just looked through some real estate listings, and to buy the world a home is an entirely unfeasible prospect. Dream big, baby!

A

[WG Kaspar]

B

[Mike Boom]

A is a commercial, B is Lou Reed, not the best track from Coney Island Baby, but still good enough to beat a coke ad for fucks sake.

[Neige]

I think A is something of an inspired pick...(...) music can be about a lot things ...it can be about innovation, adventure, artistic daring...all of that, but it can also be about the warm glow of nostalgia and this transports me all the way back. (...) It may have been a two years too late cynical attempt by Madison Avenue executives to transport the age of Aquarian into the Age of Richard Nixon, but now it seems innocent, guileless and oddly poignant.
It's Proust's Madelaine with extra orange fizz.

Very nicely put, G!

i do not wanna buy the world a fucquin gotdamn coke.

This rings true as well.

But while B is great, nice guitar and all, Lou's wobbly voice annoys the hell out of me.

A it is.

[pcqgod]

A

[echolalia]

I agree with THE SMOOTH SOUL STYLINGS OF SUMPTUOUS SI here.

A

[T. Willy Rye]

B

[The Red Heifer]

Why can't commercials be art? This sounds as 70s as anything else you can throw up, and its more enjoyable to listen to than B. And I like Coke. Damn me being in the pockets of BIG SODA

Not to mention its not a song that's fucking 4 hours long.

A

[never/ever]

I hate Coca Cola!


B