John Coan's SHIT OR HIT 2

[naughty boy]

[Diamond Dog]

Utter shit.

[The Fish]

Utter shit.

Hard to argue with this really, although Artie gets cut a lot of slack from me for the albums Watermark and Angel Clare, loaded with JImmy Webb tunes and both great.

[algroth]

Context is everything, I guess. I love Watership Down to bits and that song is pretty emblematic of the film - I might have had a different response to it if taken away from that context but I really enjoy it all the same.

[Belle Lettre]

Shit, steaming pile of

[Minnie the Minx]

Wonderful. Hit.

[Rayge]

Arrgh, hit the wrong fucking button. I mean to SHIT but I voted hit, bah, fucksticks etc.

Anyway, my experience is the exact opposite of algroth's (not for the first time ): as a long-time consumer of doowop, I can't really fulminate about soppy songs sung in high tenor voices, and I didn't mind the record, especially as by then I didn't listen to the radio so only heard it occasionally, but Dogdammit if I didn't really hate that fucking movie, to the point I would have walked out if I didn't have company that was lapping it up.
Incidentally, it has long been the custom of many in my cohort to burst into a rendition of the chorus of this whenever another of their number is caught out in an act of numbing stupidity, like mine in misvoting, so all together now, "Bright eyes, burning like fire..."

[fange]

Oh no, please.

[Velvis]

I've never been exposed to this before.

There's a thin line between an aching Garfunkel ballad and shit.

This is shit.

[Bent Fabric]

It really seems to shy away from firmly standing up and being definitively hit or shit.

Which is somehow even more egregious in my eyes.

[Penk!]

Context is everything, I guess.

Yeah - and the context here is that this is a song about a rabbit dying in a children's film. It is not 'Sister Ray'.

I think that it works within its context, though as an adult listening to it as a standalone song I wouldn't say I liked it.

[Goat Boy]

Context is everything, I guess.

Yeah - and the context here is that this is a song about a rabbit dying in a children's film. It is not 'Sister Ray'.

I think that it works within its context, though as an adult listening to it as a standalone song I wouldn't say I liked it.

Aye although the chorus definitely has something.

Within the context of the film it's almost quite devastating mind

[algroth]

Context is everything, I guess.

Yeah - and the context here is that this is a song about a rabbit dying in a children's film. It is not 'Sister Ray'.

I don't see the problem with that (other than calling Watership Down a children's film being as absurdly reductive as saying Animal Farm is a novel about talking animals).

[PresMuffley]

I love the novel, never cared one bit for the animated feature. The song: poop.

[Diamond Dog]

Context is everything, I guess.

Yeah - and the context here is that this is a song about a rabbit dying in a children's film. It is not 'Sister Ray'.

No - it's so much more than that.

[Tom Waits For No One]

[Spock!]

I love the novel, never cared one bit for the animated feature. The song: poop.

Yeah, yeah.






What about the T-Shirt? ...and... (drum roll)












The stew?











I'll get my goat & curry on out of here.

[soundchaser]

I never liked Mike Batt, and this song gave me no reason to change my mind.

I think Art was wasted on this twee song.

[naughty boy]

I think your reaction to this is probably very much influenced by whether you heard it as a kid (along with the film, maybe). It certainly moved me back then.

If it's new to you now, then it's going to sound very limp.

[mantochanga]

Fading Yellow