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Post by rayge on Feb 26, 2020 13:18:37 GMT
A The Dramatics - Toast To The Fool
B Sam and Dave - Hold On I'm Coming
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 26, 2020 17:55:16 GMT
A's lovely - just beautiful vocals throughout that build and build. A nice find.
But it's up against one of S&D's finest. I mean, just the sound of that band tingles my jingle
B
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 26, 2020 20:43:30 GMT
A is marvelous and unfamiliar to me.
B is great too, but very special circumstances need to be involved for me to vote for anything that would come up at the top of a simple Google search. I never need to hear it again for the rest of my life thanks to local oldies stations, for good measure.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 4:46:33 GMT
I wasn't nearly so keen on A as Hatz and John. It's got a classy string arrangement but otherwise seemed quite formulaic and weak. Way too much emoting from the singers who seemed to be overcompensating for the weakness of the song. B is a bit too over-familiar and I'd have liked the picker to have made a bit more effort, but it's an undeniably exciting track and wins fairly easily here.
B
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 9:15:10 GMT
Have to go with the classic..Vote B
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 28, 2020 20:41:50 GMT
Ok, I won't complain about the age of these tracks, I promise. A's a very smooooth stagey number, it's a more adventurous pick than B, but it's the kind of thing that's poison to my ears. It makes me clench every muscle in my body until my spine disintegrates under the pressure.
B's a lazy pick, but I guess that's half the point of the Stax round, the classics are the classics for a reason, and the same applies to the forgotten. I'd love to vote against it, but this is the kind of chunky, tight playing that I can get onboard with. I reckon I could just listen to that drum sound and be happy.
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Post by fange on Feb 29, 2020 11:47:33 GMT
B is fantastic of course, but i'm going with A for being a less obvious choice from a well-known act. Loki was a big fan of The Dramatics sumptuousness, and I reckon she would be giving this one the thumbs up from upstairs. A
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 21:33:02 GMT
B
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Post by fonz on Mar 3, 2020 12:59:52 GMT
B.
Very lazy. Very lazy indeed.
B
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 4, 2020 19:12:06 GMT
I thought A was pretty weak really.
B is familiar of course but never really fails.
b
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 6, 2020 11:18:12 GMT
More Dramatics! Generally I like this kind of thing but this particular track feels over-elaborate in places. I dunno ... sometimes it lets its fireworks off at the wrong time. It’s good, though.
B is a bit too obvious not just as a Stax pick but as any pick at all.
A
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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 15:21:30 GMT
I've been dreading this round. Still, loins girded
a I wasn't really aware that Stax Volt had this sort of Philly-soul, Chi-Lites-stylee vocal group thing on it. I'm glad it does, because I used to be very fond of this sort of thing, and I can still access some of those old feelings. There were better exponents of this style, the Tymes, Chi-lites and Harold Melvin & the Blue-Notes notably, and this is a little longer than the song deserves, but it will do. Especially up against
b which I have always considered one of the very stinkingest turds to emerge from the arsehole of 'soul', and perhaps even the WOAT. That wretched fanfare of horns, that dreary plod with some bored guy hitting a dustbin lid, and then that god-awful fucking chorus. I had a theory that the white boys liked it because the beat was so slow that they could dance to it with a fag in their mouth and no danger of spilling their pint. It really is a wretched thing, hoarse and dreary, a drag in every sense of the term. I always had the image of a wretched, broken thing dragging itself across the ground. I listened to it again for the purposes of this cup, and the only less than negative thing I can say is that at least it fades out after 2.30. Absolutely totally wretched, an abomination against black music. Kill it with fire, bury it under concrete in a pit of sulphuric acid and build a SuperMax on it. UGH
Have A fucking guess
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 15:43:19 GMT
Blimey! A splendid rant. and probably the wrongest musical opinion I have ever read on this internetty thing
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Mar 6, 2020 15:47:44 GMT
It's what you get from c****arians
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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 15:55:08 GMT
It's what you get from c****arians I were hating that thing before you were even born, young Johnny, so think on with your posh asterisks
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