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Post by rayge on Feb 12, 2020 14:17:05 GMT
A Mark Fry – Narrow Streets
B Tim Hardin - If I Were a Carpenter
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 0:38:10 GMT
Have people forgotten about this tie?
I'm a fan of the Mark Fry album, it's a bit of a hidden gem. This is a good pick from it, a gossamer, spectral track: All dappled sunlight and mysterious woodland paths. Lovely! The Hardin selection is a more predictable choice. It's not very freaky, but at least it's folk. It's a beautiful song performed with real tenderness. However I'm going for the deeper and more surprising selection in this tie..A
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Post by osgood on Feb 13, 2020 11:44:15 GMT
Hmm, really tough. I did like both. The Hardin track is one of those songs that seem to be unhurt by familiarity (and this is going to be my judging criterion when dealing with the so-called "obvious" picks) and listening with care there's a lot going on behind his voice and guitar that keeps rising the interest of the track.
A is new to me and I found it really beautiful, especially the guitars interplay. But the interest decreased as it progressed without any further highlight. Just, but
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 16:56:36 GMT
I feel the same as Osgood about A
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 14, 2020 20:31:32 GMT
Hmm, Mark Fry again, for an unknown singer/songwriter he does crop up in these cups a lot. At least it's not The Witch again. I do keep meaning to return to this album, I must try and find the CDR I had. It's a lovely sun-drenched thing, and there's such a warmth to his languid, vaguely hoarse vocal. Very pretty.
I've never encountered Tim Hardin in the real world, only ever seen him mentioned here and on BCB. This is quite a dull standard folk song, feels more like an album filler than anything with any real feeling or depth. It's not bad, but it doesn't exactly aim at the stars.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 13:57:36 GMT
A
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 15, 2020 16:53:58 GMT
Have people forgotten about this tie? I had, yeah! Not sure how that happened... A has a sweet arrangement but most of the tune see-saws unexcitingly between two chords, and it features a limp vocal which is doing its best not to be noticed. I hear the 'folk', but not the 'freak'. B is much more interesting.
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Post by oleandermedian on Feb 16, 2020 0:31:54 GMT
A – the fanciful Fry! Fey and fleetingly flutey. Fair enough. B has never moved me.
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Post by fange on Feb 16, 2020 10:08:27 GMT
This is a good tie too. I think i can pick a winner here though; A has a very nice sound to it, but B just has a bit more oomph and depth to it.
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Post by rayge on Feb 16, 2020 17:36:19 GMT
Along with the Blue Note one, this is a thread I have been dreading. I don't reeally know what it means, apart from anything else.
a This sounds kind of folky, sure, but not particularly freaky, although the way that insistent, jangling, trebly guitar drowns the mumble-whisper vocals means I can't tell if the words, or indeed the tune, are any good.
b God this track was ubiquitous in the late Sixties. I didn't care much for it back then - that 'If I worked my hands in wood' clunk of a line was a deal-breaker. I haven't heard it in more than 40 years, though, so I gave it a go - the digital remaster reveals it to be not the smooth and ballady bounce that I remember. In fact the guitar bass and drums sometimes combine to invoke the sound of a sack of spanners falling down a staircase.
Didn't like either of them to be honest, but this is A vote against TH's mauling of the language and the simpering sentiment of the song. Perhaps having that attack guitar so high up in the mix did Mr Fry a favour.
EDIT I originally planned to make some sort of joke about chocolate and Quakers when writing about Mr Fry, but it was only when I went to check him out on Wikipedia that I found he actually was a member of that family
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 18:30:55 GMT
A is pleasant enough, I guess and B is annoying and dull..Vote A
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 17, 2020 14:54:47 GMT
Perhaps I don't understand what "Freak Folk" actually means, but neither if these sounded very 'freaky' to my ears.
I'll give it to A even though I couldn't really understand what he was mumbling about. I much prefer the Small Faces take on IIWAC.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 17, 2020 18:21:49 GMT
A is wet.
B please!!!
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 18, 2020 1:05:41 GMT
B
I thought it would fall victim to over familiarity but I think his vocal is swell.
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Post by fonz on Feb 18, 2020 17:19:03 GMT
I like B best
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