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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 19:29:43 GMT
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Beach Boys - Disney Girls (1957)
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Supergrass - Brecon Beacons
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 2:20:56 GMT
Wouldn't take much for me to vote against The Beach Boys and this Supergrass ain't much...hmmm...Could have made it easier and taken a song from the first album...WTH..Vote B
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Post by lokie on Jul 8, 2019 18:27:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 18:58:33 GMT
Disney Girls was always a little saccharine for me..and I have a sweet tooth. I've mellowed to its warm sincerity over the years, however there are many tracks on the album I'd take above it. The Supergrass track is them doing what they do very well- catchy, spikey pop, but, macabre lyric apart, there's a sense of them being firmly within their comfort zone. Good, but not a revelatory deep cut or anything.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 8, 2019 20:08:18 GMT
I'd like to vote for Supergrass but, man, I love that Beach Boys song and find its nostalgic longing rather moving.
Sorry B but
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jul 8, 2019 20:12:35 GMT
I tend to like Supergrass in the moment, but never crave them or go back to them. B is charming and catchy but maybe doesn't add up to all that much.
A is by any measure a brave choice; bravery that I want to reward. Not only a non-Brian song, but a song by a fringe member not exactly popular among the Brian cult. But this might be his best song. Full of unabashed nostalgia, it has a beautiful melody and a real sense of longing in the vocal. I've always loved it. Bruce Johnston falls well behind all the Wilsons and Mike Love, and maybe even Al Jardine in the songwriting department, but this is one time he rose to the occasion.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jul 8, 2019 23:40:04 GMT
That's a genuinely beautiful BB song and I think its sheer melodic charm outweighs its saccharine nature.
Supergrass' fourth album is an absolute cracker, almost as good as their headspinning debut, short and sweet and packed with the most fantastic pop songs. It's like T Rex followed up The Slider with something even better. I've loved it since I first heard it. It's just a shame they had to keep ploughing on, releasing two subpar LPs before they finally called it a day. Anyway, anything from that would get my vote.
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Post by osgood on Jul 9, 2019 18:53:20 GMT
Back to a top quality match, this time with two well known picks that I am keen to play again. A has a big deal of unexpected turns that never fail to grab the listener attention. It's a lovely track, maybe my fave from the album, and that's a lot. I am also a fan of that Supergrass album, but B is not a standout from it for me. It falls slightly short here.
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Post by fange on Jul 11, 2019 0:12:22 GMT
Good match. I'd say BOTH of these are actually brave picks in their own ways.
I've grown to like 'DG' very much, but it is so good to see a Supergrass tune here (and one from Life no less) that i can't not vote for it. One of my favourite bands of the '90s onwards.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 11, 2019 12:35:20 GMT
christ. how did these two posters reach the final?
ABSTAIN.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 12, 2019 15:19:42 GMT
Sounds more like The Carpenters than The Beach Boys, this is one of the more wretchedly hateful pieces of shameful plastic forced-nostalgic whimsy I've ever heard. Destroy it with fire. I can't believe I'm on the verge of voting for Supergrass, without even hearing them, that's how bad this is. Christ almighty, what a crock of Care-Bear jingle bollocks.
Well, Supergrass were always one of the less inspiring left-overs from the less than inspiring Britpop bobbins, and here they seem to be leaning towards a bit of the post-punk revival thing with the guitars, in a less than inspiring way. But it isn't A.
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Post by rankingted on Jul 14, 2019 9:47:18 GMT
Surfs Up really goes from the highest highs to some of the schmalziest stuff they put out. This is the latter. Against it is a zinger from a band that specialised in them. Fairly comfortably
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Post by oleandermedian on Jul 16, 2019 17:06:23 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 16, 2019 18:42:05 GMT
I won't hear a word against "Disney Girls" (fingers in ears) but I'm giving this one to Bit's catchy in that catchy way I like a catchy song to be. (eat your heart out Greil Marcus!) the synth noodling almost blows it but not quite. I love D.Girls but the Supergrass caught me in just the right mood.
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Post by rayge on Jul 16, 2019 19:16:17 GMT
Disney Girls is a danger to diabetics. Seeing as it was Bruce who wrote 'I wrote the songs', you'd expect it to be better. Actually I don't mind it at all, because I remember innocence and the 60s,and there are some nice vocal harmonies.
One album was enough for me with Supergrass, so this is new to me. Although slightly used is perhaps more appropriate, as they are back on their favourite pony, One Trick.
Toss up
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