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Post by rayge on Feb 26, 2020 13:20:01 GMT
A McGarrigle Sisters - Talk to me of Mendocino
B Thee Midniters - Whittier Blvd.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 26, 2020 18:17:46 GMT
A's beautiful but I hadn't heard B before and it's absolutely right bang in the middle of my musical bullseye. Bravo!
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 26, 2020 20:00:07 GMT
Pretty much what JC said.
The McGarrigles often leave me cold, though I like this one a lot. But B is elemental in all the best ways.
It helps that I've both driven down Whittier Blvd. and met Little Willie G. (who sings a guest vocal on one of my favorite Los Lobos songs).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 9:24:58 GMT
California needs an earthquake..Marginal vote for B
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Post by osgood on Feb 28, 2020 12:19:23 GMT
Can't deny B is great fun, but I cannot vote against those heavenly harmonies.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 29, 2020 21:41:10 GMT
A's unexpecedly pretty, if not a little overwrought and film-soundtracky. The harmonies jar with me at those high pitch/volume moments, but the more relaxed bits are quite soothing and pastoraly acceptable to me.
B's okay for this kind of thing, I guess, it'd fit well on a Tarantino soundtrack. But it runs out of ideas very quickly for a 150 second song, and doesn't exactly pull up the weeds as you'd hope it might.
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Post by fange on Feb 29, 2020 23:11:46 GMT
I can appreciate the talents of the people who made A, but it's just not my thing. Sorry.
B is a fun and bouncy tune that is right up my boulevard.
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Post by fonz on Mar 3, 2020 12:57:08 GMT
B by a mile. A sounds like a hymn, not that that is necessarily a bad thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 17:27:21 GMT
A had a very hymnal quality. There was something prim and pristine about it, which I did find slightly off-putting, but I can see in the right context it could be quite moving.
B is its polar opposite really, a wild joyride of a record and tremendous fun.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2020 7:21:05 GMT
Maybe because it's Monday morning, I've had coffee, psyching up for the week, I like the energetic song rather than the soporific one.
No, A bores me. The tone of their voices are too clean (same problem I have with Judy Collins).
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Post by rayge on Mar 9, 2020 14:39:01 GMT
Well, I wrote a justification, but it seems to have disappeared. Sigh.
Anyway, A
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Post by neige on Mar 10, 2020 17:57:52 GMT
Nothing could possibly threaten the immaculate beauty of
A
The McGarrigle's debut is a bona fide masterpiece
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