Postby Darkness_Fish » 15 Dec 2018, 21:35
Cheap Trick again, that's the second time this comp, isn't it? I'm pretty sure I've never heard them outside this cup before, though I already steel myself for the fact I'm going to hate it. It certainly feels like its set dead in the Boston/Journey US heartland, that kind of chunky but overly polished walnut-dashboard of a rock song. Never seemed to translate to the UK, but then we were all driving mustard Austin Allegros in the rain in flat-caps, rather than racing down endless highways through the desert with the wind rushing through our hair. It's a very professional effort, and the guitar has a kind of pleasing fuzzy grind to it.
I'm also expecting to hate B, obviously. I don't have any particular recollection of the original either, so I'm not judging it on its merits as a cover. The bass is suitably resonant, and that drumming is as crisp as freshly fallen snow. The brass and string section are laying it on a bit thick as to how serious and epic the song should be seen, but it's really the rhythm section that provide the goods, and give you something substantial to wallow in.
Close round, and I almost voted against B on the grounds that I'm generally sick of that kinda thing, but it's the class act here.
B
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.