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[rayge]

A Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Love I Lost



B Girls at Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast

[bungo the mungo]

fuck! tie of the round. two fantastic picks. hats off to both.

A is just so beautiful... but B fucking love it!

[Mr. FOLLARD]

I'm familiar with cover versions of both these tracks - can't remember who did the first, the Wedding Present did 'Getting Nowhere Fast'

anyway it's quite comfortably

A

[Deleted]

Hmmmm, classic Philly soul against second-rate Brit punk/post-punk?

A

[toomanyhatz]

Love the ending of B, and it's a lot of fun. No match for the glorious A, though - pretty much a career peak for all involved. What an arrangement! (Though I probably prefer just the A-side - this is the full version, which was originally both sides of the single.)

[lokie]

Yeah, another good match. I'll go for

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Vote B, for brevity sake...

[Reactionary Rage]

B is alright and there is a decent bass line in there but it's out of its depth here.

A

[Deleted]

A's undoubtedly a classy track, but it's a bit too middle of the road and safe as a pick for me to get too excited.
The punky energy of GAOB was quite refreshing, but I don't think it's strong enough as a song or distinctive enough in its sound to compete fully here. If you'd have gone for 'Go for Gold' I would've been tempted to switch votes. Decent tie tho'.

A

[fonz]

A's a bit cheesy, isn't it. Disco soul. Like Barry White.

B is ok, but not classic.

Hmmmm.

B

[DarknessFish]

Yeah, the wheelhouse you're looking for is over there. *points in fange's general direction*.


B's much more my kinda thing, I don't think it's doing anything special, but it's got a lot of charm, a nice hint of shambling amateurism, and a big bugger of a bassline. Lovely thing this, the best obscuro choice of the round so far.

[rayge]

Well, that cup rarity, two tracks I know and liked in their respective days.
A nice Philly sound, but I feel that it's suffered in the last 50 years or so from being so regularly copied, and that basic thump beat underpinning it, and turning what is basically a mid-tempo vocal group performance into a dance track with crooning on top. Was never particularly impressed by teddy Pendergrass, either, but that's my problem. 5.5 / 10
B sure isn't obscuro in Granger Towers, where every utterance of the band is filed away with a small degree of reverence. I was quite a specialist in female-fronted punk and post-punk bands, and found GAOB utterly charming. this track, with it's tumbling bassline, was their first, truly indie, home-made single. Like A, it has lost a little of its appeal in the last four decades, but it started from a higher level. 6.5 / 10

My, that was reasonable of me, wasn't it?

B

[T. Willy Rye]

I've never heard B before and I kinda like it. This is becoming more and more rare, so it wins.

[fange]

Both very happily welcome in my house of wheel. Good propulsive Philly soul versus good propulsive punk rock. Close, but my gut says Gamble & Huff.

[osgood]

Not a huge fan of Philly soul my good old self, it evokes images of girls dancing in discos in a most un-sexy way. I have reconciled a bit with it since, but can't fully embrace it. And the new to me B was great great fun, short and nice and with a fantastic ending. Much closer to my wheelchair.

B