70s Cup Round 3 Match 13 *Hightea 9- Neige 30*

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70s Cup Round 3 Match 13 *Hightea 9- Neige 30*

Postby never/ever » 21 Oct 2018, 04:50

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XTC - Outside World





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The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Diamond Dog » 21 Oct 2018, 10:33

Stop it already.

Miserable hotch potch of half formed ideas from XTC versus one of the all time classics? Really.

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Dayodead » 21 Oct 2018, 11:11

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Moleskin » 21 Oct 2018, 11:32

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Purgatory Brite » 21 Oct 2018, 11:39

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Rayge » 21 Oct 2018, 13:04

a - XTC are on my list. No mark
b - This full-length version of Rolling Stone is stellar, and perhaps the only instance of wah-wah guitar in an R& B context I'm prepared to put up with, partly because the Motown house band, Whitfield, and indeed the string players, are in blistering form, and partly because the Temptations, even in this later, Ruffinless form, still possessed on of the greatest aggregations of voices in the genre. I didn't have to listen to it, but I did 7.5 / 10

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby The Modernist » 21 Oct 2018, 13:44

A is largely ugly, hyperactive nonsense to my ears.

I sometimes get frustrated that people don't dig beyond 2 or 3 tracks for their Whitfield Temptations. The early 70s albums are full of nuggets if you look. But still...this is a masterpiece and always great to hear.

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby naughty boy » 21 Oct 2018, 16:00

only a fool would vote for A in this match-up

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby harvey k-tel » 21 Oct 2018, 19:27

Like most "new wave" songs, A could've benefited by being recorded at a fraction of its tempo - it's just too frenetic to be enjoyable.

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Nick Danger » 21 Oct 2018, 20:15

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Polishgirl » 21 Oct 2018, 20:21

I really hope B isn't in my group.

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Goat Boy » 21 Oct 2018, 20:27

Oh christ...

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 Oct 2018, 20:34

Oh God, XTC. It's jaunty in the same way that the presenters from Playschool were.

B deserves a kicking for picking something as obvious as this track, but then XTC deserve the slaughtering they're on the end of here. I think B show the way here that you can still follow the 70s commandment of having 354 session musicians in the room, but have some proper separation of instrumentation in the sound, the amount of space that bass generates is a wonder to behold.

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Belle Lettre » 21 Oct 2018, 20:47

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby kath » 22 Oct 2018, 08:12

no competition here. i got sick of the XTC track halfway through... and the song is less than 3 minutes long.

B is fantastic. wonderful, through and through.


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Re: 70s Cup Round 3 Match 13

Postby Count Machuki » 22 Oct 2018, 18:06

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