How far back in time would you still play in a cup

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How far back

1950s
5
42%
1940s
3
25%
1930s
3
25%
1920s
1
8%
 
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How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby GoogaMooga » 09 Oct 2018, 21:49

Have we done a 1950s cup yet? That would be good.

How about 40s 30s 20s? I am still game there, though it gets more difficult. I try to cover the whole 20th c., my earliest stuff is Scott Joplin piano rolls. Popular song really gets going in the 1930s, with advances in mic technique. Lennon's dictum, "Before Elvis, there was nothing"; had he lived longer, I think he'd have changed his mind there.
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Re: How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby The Modernist » 09 Oct 2018, 22:22

1390s.
Couldn't vote though as it wasn't on the poll. :x

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Postby GoogaMooga » 09 Oct 2018, 22:25

Surely we can handle a 1950s cup. Best decade for pop vocal and jazz.
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Postby GoogaMooga » 09 Oct 2018, 22:27

The Modernist wrote:1390s.
Couldn't vote though as it wasn't on the poll. :x


Here ya go:

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Postby Dayodead » 09 Oct 2018, 22:28

Might vote in a 50's cup or "Pre-Beatles" cup as was posed, but not participate... Simply not well versed enough in the period to field a list...

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Re: How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby Hightea » 09 Oct 2018, 22:30

well we could do a classical one? have we ever?

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Postby The Modernist » 09 Oct 2018, 22:31

Dayodead wrote:Might vote in a 50's cup or "Pre-Beatles" cup as was posed, but not participate... Simply not well versed enough in the period to field a list...


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Postby GoogaMooga » 09 Oct 2018, 22:34

To me, the 1960s are the apex, with 50s and 70s tied for 2nd place.
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Postby The Red Heifer » 09 Oct 2018, 22:47

None of them. I wouldn't even play in a 60s cup tbh.
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Postby Loki » 10 Oct 2018, 00:22

GoogaMooga wrote:Surely we can handle a 1950s cup. Best decade for pop vocal and jazz.


It was done~

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Postby fange » 10 Oct 2018, 00:53

I would LOVE a pre-Beatles competition. All genres, all the way back to Stoneage music, up to and incuding the Jimmy Castor Bunch's 'Troglodyte'.

Maybe next year i could run one, but still just a maybe.
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Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 10 Oct 2018, 00:54

Not so into cups anymore. But I’d especially enjoy anything involving the 40s. I listen to as much 40s music as anything.
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Re: How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby fange » 10 Oct 2018, 00:56

The Modernist wrote:
Dayodead wrote:Might vote in a 50's cup or "Pre-Beatles" cup as was posed, but not participate... Simply not well versed enough in the period to field a list...


Fange would kill us all with his Blue Note picks.


How about a Blue Note Cup!

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Re: How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby algroth » 10 Oct 2018, 01:36

I'm of the opinion that a pre-Beatles cup would be better to cover that whole period than one relating to any specific decade. Regarding what I could take part in, I suppose I can fill a 50s list out though I'm a lot less certain about 40s or earlier - I would however vote in any of those cases.

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Postby $P.Muff$ » 10 Oct 2018, 01:58

FUTURE CUP!

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Postby Count Machuki » 10 Oct 2018, 02:08

Hightea wrote:well we could do a classical one? have we ever?


I'd be down but to actually listen to the selections would take way more time than I've got.
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Postby GoogaMooga » 10 Oct 2018, 02:42

$P.Muff$ wrote:FUTURE CUP!

FUTURE CUP!


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Postby GoogaMooga » 10 Oct 2018, 02:43

Count Machuki wrote:
Hightea wrote:well we could do a classical one? have we ever?


I'd be down but to actually listen to the selections would take way more time than I've got.


Yeah, I could play, too, as I got back into classical while I was "away". But the length of those pieces makes it difficult.
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Postby GoogaMooga » 10 Oct 2018, 02:44

algroth wrote:I'm of the opinion that a pre-Beatles cup would be better to cover that whole period than one relating to any specific decade.


Yes, that would be so much easier, and could be very interesting.
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Re: How far back in time would you still play in a cup

Postby Rayge » 10 Oct 2018, 12:30

Loki wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:Surely we can handle a 1950s cup. Best decade for pop vocal and jazz.


It was done~

http://www.bcb-board.co.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... 3&t=134150


That included loads of stuff from later decades, owing to the high wanker factor among the contestants, and nothing much from the first half of the fifties, not to mention it left out jazz, pop and other things that were as much a part of the fifties as other stuff
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