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Post by rayge on Feb 19, 2020 19:16:01 GMT
A Eyeless in Gaza - Picture the Day
B Oppenheimer Analysis - Devil's Dancers
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 19, 2020 22:16:11 GMT
Not my favorite theme in the world, obviously, but B is responding more to the theme.
I hear synths in A, but it ignores the second half of the theme utterly.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 20, 2020 0:00:51 GMT
I preferred B by quite a bit - it's less wilfully difficult, there's more atmosphere there. It's pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2020 0:05:53 GMT
hmmm..Wonder who's track A is ? ..B is too repetitive..Vote A
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 20, 2020 21:22:11 GMT
Well, obviously this is my home tie, and I can't vote, but again I like both tracks here. One track is a stunning brief ripple of emotion, I don't get why it's getting comments as though it was a Hafler Trio pick, but I guess I just don't understand half the people here. The other is quite austere and staid, but quite cool for it. Indebted to Kraftwerk, but without that sense of joy, perhaps more closely aligning with French or Belgian coldwave. Mackem moodiness, I suspect.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 9:12:23 GMT
OA released an underground album on which this was included in 1982, and then nothing until a series of reissues in the 00s. Their cold war themes anticipate hauntology in a way, but they actually wrote good pop songs to boot. The lead singer's surname actually is Oppenheimer and he's a counter terrorism and nuclear weapons consultant now.
Ooof, that bontempi-like screech on A is proper nice though. I like Eyeless in parts and I imagine them as a provinical English equivalent of Alan Vega and Suicide. But, B.
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Post by rayge on Feb 21, 2020 12:20:56 GMT
Well, obviously this is my home tie, and I can't vote, but again I like both tracks here. One track is a stunning brief ripple of emotion, I don't get why it's getting comments as though it was a Hafler Trio pick, but I guess I just don't understand half the people here. The other is quite austere and staid, but quite cool for it. Indebted to Kraftwerk, but without that sense of joy, perhaps more closely aligning with French or Belgian coldwave. Mackem moodiness, I suspect. I changed this rule as it was pissing a few people off. It's up to you to vote and/or comment if you wish, just that those who want to keep quiet about it can, without, losing their votes.
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Post by tory on Feb 21, 2020 13:02:22 GMT
B obvs. I know Andy Oppenheimer a little - I once sorted him out with 3 months sub to a well known dating site and he gave me a load of their demo stuff and out takes in return.
He is the world's leading expert on terrorist bomb making - he wrote a book analysing every single IRA bomb.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 13:53:00 GMT
B obvs. I know Andy Oppenheimer a little - I once sorted him out with 3 months sub to a well known dating site and he gave me a load of their demo stuff and out takes in return. He is the world's leading expert on terrorist bomb making - he wrote a book analysing every single IRA bomb.
He's got a novel out as well, I might be interested enough to read it.
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Post by osgood on Feb 21, 2020 16:07:32 GMT
I hear synths in A, but it ignores the second half of the theme utterly. I guess for some people here anything that can be translated into stave gets filed under pop. Anyway I quite liked it. A
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 16:58:04 GMT
B sounds very BEF or Heaven 17, but it's a good copy.
B
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 5:47:25 GMT
A is very much of its time and not in a good way. The icey synth intro is promising, but the track is soon sabotaged by a ludicrously overwrought vocal. The song's not up to much either. Poor. I really like B. If I've got the guy"s history right, this was a bit of a one off and then he returned to making records many decades later. It's got those early 80s stern, stentorian vocals ( think Oakley in Sound of the Crowd) but adds a cinematic proto techno ( it reminds me of John Carpenter's stuff)which is really propulsive and atmospheric. I really like the way these elements combine and it manages to sound both of its time (in a good way) and ahead of its time. Great pick.
B
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Post by fange on Feb 23, 2020 7:29:33 GMT
I like A here - i'm still a fan of some early EiG - but it's no match for B, which I don't think I've heard before this round. Good dancefloor rhythms, but still with a proper pop feel to it as well. Great pick, right up my alley.
B
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Post by neige on Feb 26, 2020 20:07:47 GMT
I like both, but B edges it.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 26, 2020 20:09:35 GMT
A is the kind of thing DF gets down to on the dancefloor after one too many snakebites.
B is alright.
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