BCB Cup 2014 - R2, M15 - Fish out of water

[the masked man]

List A

1. The Triffids - Lonely Stretch link
2. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights link
3. Serge Gainsbourg - Melody link
4. Opeth - Bleak link
5. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove link
6. Can - I Want More link
7. Sheila & B Devotion - Spacer link
8. One Dove - White Love link
9. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water link
10. Sly & Robbie feat Shinehead - Boops (Here To Go) link

List B

Don Covay - It’s Better To Have And Don't Need Link
Dessa – Dixon’s Girl Link
The Undertones - I Gotta Getta Link
Eddie Bo – Check Your Bucket Link
Brooklyn Bridge – Blessed Is The Rain Link
Ronnie Lane – Roll On babe Link
Black Uhuru - The Youth of Eglington Link
Travis Wammack – Fire Fly Link
Anita O’Day – Kick It Link
Lee Dorsey – Gator Tail Link

[Jed Clampett]

B

[toomanyhatz]

Don't think much of B's token new thing, but the rest of it works. A seems to have replaced some good tracks with some not-so-great ones. There's still stuff there I like, but too much of it's skippable.

[purgatory brite]

A

[Samoan]

List A

1. The Triffids - Lonely Stretch link
2. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights link
3. Serge Gainsbourg - Melody link
4. Opeth - Bleak link
5. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove link
6. Can - I Want More link
7. Sheila & B Devotion - Spacer link
8. One Dove - White Love link
9. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water link
10. Sly & Robbie feat Shinehead - Boops (Here To Go) link

FYI - List A's Links for 6. and 7. are identical = Both Can.

[PENK]

Most of A is good-to-decent, but safe. When it goes crazy, it picks a shocker like that One Dove song. Opeth ain't for me either, at least until the bloke has finished having his dump.
B isn't all to my personal taste, but it's got some cool things like Lee Dorsey and Don Covay and is more interesting than A overall.

[BlueMeanie]

A

[Polishgirl]

Not keen on either overly but

B

[Betty Denim]

A

[the masked man]

A, I think, is a splendid list....

[The Modernist]

B is the kind of quite traditional list that does well in the cup and I like it fine enough, but I want to reward the sparkier independence of A

[Ron Viveur]

A

[Count Machuki]

B

[Belle Lettre]

I really did want to reward the Opeth choice, but there are only a couple of other songs on that list I really like.
Whereas B..

[Goat Boy]

a

[wannabee enfant terrible]

A despite the Opeth. B's is semi-ok-ish but never takes off for me.

[Ranking Ted]

A is pretty fabulous, Opeth excepted. One Dove's White Love is a great leftfield pick.

A

[Bungo the Mungo]

Fucking RON again! Music for gardeners!



it's

A despite the wretched Opeth

[T. Willy Rye]

B but please get rid of that Brooklyn Bridge track.

[pcqgod]

B