70s Cup Round 1 Match 8 *Masked Man 20- echolalia 20*

[never/ever]

A

Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me





B

Mott the Hoople – All The Way From Memphis

[C]

I don't need to play these two - they are both very familiar - in the case of Mott too familiar

For me it was the law of diminishing returns on subsequent Mott albums - the debut being robustly seminal and the second seminally robust. By the time of this track they had become too glam rock for me and a parody of themselves (for me, Bowie's influence was not a good one)

Magazine were a great band and this track is awesome - full of music

So despite me meeting and chatting to Ian Hunter in 1970 it's


-+A+-





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[GoogaMooga]

B walks it.

[the masked man]

Easiest tie of the round to call. Mott always were a bunch of journeymen who had the luck to be mentored by Bowie. But they weren't very good.

The Magazine track oozes sleazy passion and features brilliant playing.

A

[GoogaMooga]

Masked Man, don't you mean "A"?

[the masked man]

Well spotted. oops....

[mantochanga]

B. It’s groovy fun.

Magazine sound a bit ‘prog with Johnny Rotten impersonator’ these days.

[harvey k-tel]

Easy A for me. Mott are one of those bands that I feel like I should 'get', but they kinda mostly pass me by.

[Purgatory Brite]

Devoto and crew for me.

A

[naughty boy]

Two of my very favourite tracks from the decade! and very different, too, which makes it more difficult to choose.

I'll come back later once the fuckwits have voted

[sloopjohnc]

This is what I was kinda expecting - early '70s against late '70s and trying to choose.

B

[Dayodead]

A

[pcqgod]

B

[driftin]

A is fine.

B is everything I absolutely fucking despise in one song. That's almost applaudable.

[Belle Lettre]

Damn! It's tough but B

[kath]

This is what I was kinda expecting - early '70s against late '70s and trying to choose.

i was kinda expecting this too, mwhaha.

it'll be mott for me.

there's a... gleefulness to mott that has always been contagious to me.

[Samoan]

B

[Penk!]

I haven't listened to Magazine in ages and this was never one of my favourite songs... but Mott always struck me as a bunch of dart players, barrow boys and roadies who struck it bloody lucky because Bowie wrote a song for them. This was, as with most of their stuff, generic knees-up pint-swilling toss.

A

[naughty boy]

right then

B

[The Modernist]

Familiarity doesn't always breed contempt and I'm happy to bump into these two familiar old school friends.

I've always loved the sheer chutzpah of the Magazine track with its is widescreen production and Glam touches. The Mott track is rambling and amiable and, like the Magazine track, has an oddly triumphant core to it.

Hugely enjoyable tie but A is a bit closer to my heart.