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Post by rayge on May 24, 2019 16:57:05 GMT
A Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - I Concentrate On You
B Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 17:12:50 GMT
My Brain think Bomb-like...Vote B
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 17:15:00 GMT
I'm not a big Tricky fan, but I didn't want to be remonstrated by Rayge for not listening.
That stated.
A in a big way.
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 24, 2019 17:23:26 GMT
i feel sorry for whoever chose B, not because it's going to get trounced but because of their abysmal taste in music.
A is just fine.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 17:26:07 GMT
B is a great pick. I doff my hat to them.
Be back to vote later.
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 24, 2019 18:22:20 GMT
I don't hate B, mainly because it's not overly long. But it's a bit too repetitive to engage me.
A is not one of my favorites by Frank, but it's from a great period. More than enough here.
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Post by Crunchy Col on May 24, 2019 19:13:40 GMT
Ooh triphop! I think you had to grow up with this stuff, to be a clubber or at least a young music fan digging it at the time to appreciate it fully. Listening now it sounds cool but of course it's just a collection of samples and attitudes and images and it doesn't amount to much at all, it's just surface blah
I've got that Sinatra/Jobim LP somewhere - think I bought it for 'When I Was Seventeen'. It's a pretty good song
A
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 22:30:04 GMT
A is as classy, elegant and understated as you would expect. I'd like to hear the whole album actually.
Tricky seems to be an acquired taste, but I acquired it, at least for a while. I actually prefer both Portishead's and Tricky's very different recontextualisation of the Hayes track to Hayes' original ( I have all three).
I remember when Blue Jam came out and Chris Morris said something like he wanted to capture that woozy, slightly nightmarish feeling of waking up in the middle of the night under heavy medication. That seems an apt description of this.
It's close, but I feel the cup is getting a little too classicist. It's time to give the 1950s (actually it came out in the 60s, but it sounds older) a break and recognise what a singular talent Tricky was.
B
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Post by lokie on May 25, 2019 4:38:09 GMT
Not Frank's best effort, but I can't resist those Latin beats.  |
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Post by alejandro on May 25, 2019 18:48:16 GMT
Don't much care for either of these. A I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2019 19:13:25 GMT
That's two votes against in a row, Al..You are going against the cabal rules !...  |
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Post by alejandro on May 25, 2019 19:15:42 GMT
That's two votes against in a row, Al..You are going against the cabal rules !...
Oh no! Please don't send me back to the reprogramming chamber!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2019 21:08:32 GMT
20 minutes in The Refuge Box aught to do the trick... |
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Post by Inspector Norse on May 26, 2019 18:09:24 GMT
A is very nice of course, all class and elegance and style and the tinkling of glasses in swanky James Bond bars and people in suits and pristine hair. Difficult to escape, though, the feeling that both artists are sleepwalking through it.
Tricky is sleepwalking in a different way: narcotic, sensuous and compelling. A Charles Weetabix for the information age.
Nice picks both, but B
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Post by fange on May 27, 2019 5:38:41 GMT
This is a really good match. I like both very much, even if they are artists i have reservations about, because as songs they represent moments in time that really resonate with me and things i find myself coming back to again and again over the years. The musical meeting of Sinatra and Jobim is add to immensely by doing a standard as beautiful as "ICOY", and the psychedelic groove and narcoleptic Tricky flow of 'Hell...' still hits many of my pleasure zones.
B, just.
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