80s Cup R2M6 - Darkness Fish 14-11 algroth

[Penk!]

A

Danielle Dax - The Spoil Factor



B

Stump - Charlton Heston

[Dayodead]

Well, B is quite interesting, but have to go with A

[Diamond Dog]

For some reason I can't get that Stump to play....

[Loki]

I couldn't either, but I found one that's cool in Canada; might work for you~

[Loki]

Don't care for either.

[The Modernist]

A doesn't sound much like what I remember of Daniella Dax. I quite like her vocal here, but the lack of instrumentation, presumably intended to create "atmosphere", actually makes this quite a dull and monotonous listen.
Stump were the worst kind of student bollocks, Capt Beefheart being covered by the presenters from Rainbow. Insufferable.

A

Blimey the ties are getting really pony, I hope things improve in the middle part of the draw.

[Rayge]

Big fan of Stump, not so much DD.

B

[Deebank]

Lights, camels, action!

B

[Polishgirl]

Oh my goodness. A sounds like a bizarre Christmas carol to me.

Umm... B

[Belle Lettre]

B

[C]

I just love the Stump album from which this great track came

I recall I saw them live at this time too

-+B+-



.

[The North Yorks Moors]

Difficult too chose. B

[GoogaMooga]

Gimmicky shit. A lullaby on downers vs. a soused up ditty w frog backing. ABSTAIN

[Darkness_Fish]

Ah, Christ, I've picked another song I dearly love here. "The Spoil Factor" is the closing track on the God damned absolute genius mini-album "Jesus Egg That Wept", a sprawling world - of musical styles, invention and beauty. One of the slabs of vinyl that makes the world seem a better place. Anyway in the context of the album, this feels like such a beautiful, joyous oasis of calm following the frenzy of invention that has gone before. Outside of the context of the album, this feels like such a beautiful, joyous oasis of calm following the comments of a bunch of cloth-eared cretins. I could listen to this on repeat for the next 80 years and never get bored. It's a masterpiece of minimalism, a celebration of the human voice, and quite frankly it's just a sexy bastard. I'd have this played at my funeral, if I weren't concerned that it might raise the coffin-lid.

To be fair to Stump, the opening 5 seconds did make me laugh. I mean, I want to be fair in this cup, and if I prefer a song that's against my pick, I will vote for it. But there's no song on earth I could imagine voting for against "The Spoil Factor", at best it could be an abstain. This is a weird quirky number, the frog backing reminds me once again of The Residents, though the vocals are much more clean-cut. It's not a bad track by any means, nothing great, but it certainly didn't trigger any knee-jerk hatred.
A

[toomanyhatz]

I'm not familiar enough with DDs usual shtick to know how A contrasts, but I will say it is pleasant listening and refreshingly free of the cliche trappings of the decade.

B is a cute joke driven into the ground, though the video's pretty good. It almost sells the song, which means without it, it would be utterly forgettable. Which might be for the better, frankly.

[never/ever]

Were Stump trying to channel Shriekback? Fail on that point.
Dax effort channels O Superman and does that better.

A

[Diamond Dog]

I couldn't either, but I found one that's cool in Canada; might work for you~

Cheers Loki.

Sadly it does.

A

[Purgatory Brite]

Stump were the worst kind of student bollocks, Capt Beefheart being covered by the presenters from Rainbow. Insufferable.

G on the money once again, but I'm going for it anyway. Danielle Dax is far to up herself for my liking.

B

[Penk!]

Two contrasting styles here and both risk making people run for the hills. I personally quite like both though.

Danielle Dax is perhaps from that post-post-punk school of just being odd and creative without much purpose or message, but I like her vocal and the backing burble. I'm not sure what meaningful artistic epiphany I am supposed to be having, especially not as this pretty and wistful bit of noodling is accompanied by a colour-flickering image of a full English breakfast, I just find it a pleasantly intriguing noise.

Stump, meanwhile, are quirky and silly, but for some reason I don't want to put them all in a pressure cooker and add them to Danielle Dax's video; I think they get away with it because the vocals are oddly tuneful and affecting, and there's some peculiar menace in the chord changes and the video's slow-dancing which offset the wackiness.

A though.

[Jumper K]

A real dilemma here. I like both but I’m going with the ultraquirk of B. I’m in a moderately happy frame of mind at present.