70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1 *echolalia advances*

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70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1 *echolalia advances*

Postby never/ever » 17 Dec 2018, 19:10

A

Neno Exporta Som - Deixa a Tristeza





B

Ronnie Lane - How Come

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Diamond Dog » 17 Dec 2018, 20:53

The first track really doesn't go anywhere for me - and there are some frankly bizarre backing vocals too.

I'm not a great fan of Ronnie and this track really suffers from the same problem the other track has - it has a reasonably memorable chorus but that's about it...

Sheesh..... I think I must go for B
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby toomanyhatz » 17 Dec 2018, 20:59

Ronnie Lane is one of about five artists that are guaranteed a vote from me, barring anything too obvious or the rare song I don't care for.

I like A OK, but B.
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby sloopjohnc » 17 Dec 2018, 21:01

B
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby The Modernist » 17 Dec 2018, 23:46

A was new to me and I thought it was terrific. It had a great exuberance, and the sax and organ gave it a real vigor.

B was amiable and good-natured, but musically very generic and a bit dull.

Quite easily A

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby trans-chigley express » 18 Dec 2018, 01:04

I really liked A, all sunny and exotic but the monkey sounds in the background were a bit bizarre.

B instantly conjures up images of early 70s Britain and I like its working class jauntiness and amiable pub feel. Pretty sure it was widely used in commercials in the 80s or 90s too.


Enjoyable tie but I'll go A

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Loki » 18 Dec 2018, 03:14

Both nice. I'm liking the Latin flavours more here.

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby fange » 18 Dec 2018, 03:52

B is a perfectly serviceable Ronnie track, fun and with a nice loping groove, but i'm much more into the melting pot of styles that is A. That mix of latin, soul jazz with lashings of disco funk feels and sounds very vital and alive to me, the kind of thing i love to get lost in.


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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Count Machuki » 18 Dec 2018, 04:14

I like

A

but I wish A didn't like that sax.
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Neige » 18 Dec 2018, 11:24

I'll play the exotic card...

and B is nice, A is better
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby naughty boy » 18 Dec 2018, 14:23

B, without much enthusiasm
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Osgood » 18 Dec 2018, 16:00

I liked both a lot. But


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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Purgatory Brite » 18 Dec 2018, 19:52

B

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Darkness_Fish » 18 Dec 2018, 21:34

That sax is a bit out of place, barbed wire on top of a victoria sponge cake of a track. A sunny, frothy thing, with a monkey being smothered in the background, as all slices of exotica must have. Hmm.

Ronnie Lane's track is a good old fashioned lump of bread and butter pudding, it has no ambition to be anything other than a cheap and stodgy reuse of old ingredients. It's got a bit of joie de vivre about the vocal, almost as if he's really pleased he's somehow managed to get this recorded and released, despite it having no purpose or merit.

Both really quite pointless generic tracks, and if I voted for A, I think it'd just be because it's a less familiar to me, albeit with some monkey sadism thrown in for novelty. I think I'll give it to B if just for managing to sound really pleased with effectively scratching his arse.
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Polishgirl » 18 Dec 2018, 21:52

Although I have to be in the mood for an organ, it's

A
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Jumper K » 18 Dec 2018, 23:41

2 tracks of inconsequential nothingness. I've immediately forgotten both of them. An utter waste of mine, and everybody else's, time.
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby kath » 19 Dec 2018, 01:57

i like both very much. both bouncy and jaunty in their own way. different kindsa picks. B is more my thing. so i'll go with it, but both make me happy. ya.


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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Samoan » 19 Dec 2018, 12:18

A
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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby Rayge » 19 Dec 2018, 13:38

Copacabana vs Kentish Town. hmm...
a - Contrary sod that I am, at least in the context of present company, it's the cheesy sax I enjoy most about this, and there's nothing like enough of it. I'm no fan of Latin dance beats, I don't speak Portuguese, and I think the 'festive' 'carnival' beach lifestyle this music seems to wallow in is a tired trope that I was never interested in in the first place. But I did like the sax, and the odd stabs of organ - 4 / 10
b - never met him, but our Ron used to score from my mate Chris in the eighties, and I never heard anything remotely negative about him. Not that it's anything to do with his music, but it helps. I remember this from the time, enjoyed it then, and still do on hearing it again 30 years or so later. though I always thought his wistful vision of the simple country/gypsy lifestyle was a bit of off the peg romantic tomfoolery, he was the embodiment of what I liked about the Small Faces. 5.5 / 10

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Re: 70s KnockOut Cup- QF 1

Postby algroth » 19 Dec 2018, 16:25

Yeah, more quality MPB! A takes this one pretty handily.


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