70s KnockOut Cup Match 4 *Penk advances*

[never/ever]

A

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down





B

Neu! - Isi

[Dayodead]

Easy vote for B

[Darkness_Fish]

Ooh, I was milliseconds from picking Neu's "Isi" myself, changed my mind at the last minute and picked something rather out of character instead. I guess I'll listen to Queen anyway, in the interest of having an open mind. Despite the fact I hate them, their music, and their disgusting support for apartheid. I think the valid comparison for this one is The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" from round 2. You hear how they have almost the exact same basic glam idea behind the tune, but where The Sweet take that hackneyed formula and launch into the stratosphere, Queen instead choose to wallow in the stale beer, fully inhabit the sticky pub carpet. There's not an interesting idea, not a reasonable hook to be found. It's as generic a pub rock song as you could ever hope not to hear.

Neu! 75 is Neu's crowning glory to my ears. I know many will prefer the debut, and some will argue that the proper songs on 2 are sublime, but a tie like this shows you just how much more beautiful rock music can be when it's given the space to float free with invention and remove itself from the shackles of hairy-arsed axe-wielders shouting about how good they are with their penises. Ding-dong.

B

[Jumper K]

It would have taken a 5 year old 5 minutes to have programmed the Neu abortion into a DX7 synth. Its vapid, simplistic and spends 5 minutes gradually disappearing up its own arse. Utter bobbins.
Queen are shit, no 2 ways about it.
B I suppose. At least I'm not likely to be troubled by a random play of it on the radio, unlike fekkin Queen.

[The Modernist]

B is the second best song on the Neu album (Hero being the best natch). I love its crisp, winter morning, blue sky optimism. It feels alpine to me.
Is there anything more ridiculous than Queen "rocking out"?

Easily B

[C]

Easy:

-+B+-

ROTHER & DINGER RULE!

Full of music




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[fange]

Damn, I was hoping to pick 'Isi' if I got past this round. Still, the Queen track is ok but not in the same ballpark.


B

[Purgatory Brite]

A let's fucking rock!

I don't want to be a prog boy desperately seeking secondhand coolness from liking Krautrock. Neu! ace in their own way but not today thanks.

[Osgood]

I am all for Neu! 75 (not so keen on the previous ones) and Isi is probably my fave track on it. That Queen track was so simplistic and empty of ideas that couldn't move even a hopeless rockist like yours truly.

B

[harvey k-tel]

I know there are people on BCB that actually think Queen are worth listening to, and they're usually the same people who, in the same breath, would put down people for listening to something like KISS. Me, I don't get it.

B wins this one easily.

[naughty boy]

Like a lot of others here, I don't like Queen much at all. That one has all the elements I dislike, too. It's like a hot jockstrap coming at you on the back of a wild animal. Just horrible

I think Neu! are one of those right-place-right-time bands that are insanely overrated by po-faced music fans. The second side of the album 'Isi' comes from contains some awful rubbish - examples of fun-free German ROCK MUSIK that we'd laugh at if the Scorpions were responsible. But thankfully this is the best thing the band ever put out - it's impeccable

B

[sloopjohnc]

A

[The Modernist]

It's like a hot jockstrap coming at you on the back of a wild animal.

It's true, except it wouldn't be a wild animal but one of those ridiculous manicured poodles you see at Crufts.

[naughty boy]

[Penk!]

A is by Queen. When I googled it, I saw that it had been covered in a 1997 by a band consisting of Ted Nugent, Lemmy, a guitarist who has been in KISS and WASP, a bassist from Whitesnake, and a drummer who has, according to Wiki, worked with bands "such as Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore... Thin Lizzy, Vinnie Moore and Yngwie Malmsteen".

Thanks for that, A.

B is a burst of colour and light; a perfect marriage of propulsion and ambience.

[Goat Boy]

Tie Your Mother Down is huge. Such a great sound.

B is one of about two good things Neu did. Fantastically overrated and largely boring but this track is undeniable.

I'm voting A partly cos if the sniffy comments from the BCB tastemakers but also because Mother actually makes me want smash some shit up. Whilst wearing a leotard.

a

[harvey k-tel]

To think I once thought you had half-decent taste in music.

[echolalia]

Status Quo did A’s kind of thing so much better. Where’s Status Quo?
B
goes effortlessly shimmering into the next round

[Goat Boy]

To think I once thought you had half-decent taste in music.

How dare you! I am a true BCB tastemaker as well y'all know.

How quickly you forget my BCB cup lists of yesteryear.

[trans-chigley express]

Queen in full on pub rock mode but FM saves it from being run of the mill.

I largely agree about Neu! being over rated but this is a lovely track that coasts along on sweet melody and a lightness of touch.

B