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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 13:54:43 GMT
A Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
B Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
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Post by fonz on Mar 6, 2020 16:44:32 GMT
I never knew RDMH was a 'murder song'! I love it tho.
(AS I type this I realise it's actually my own selection. It Phil Spector. That's the link. fucking tenuous or what?! Hatz will go mental)
I love Strange Fruit too. A powerful song.
But it's RDMH that makes me want to get up and go, so B it is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 17:09:42 GMT
Always felt the wall of sound technique did a disservice to the song and that live versions were superior..A is a powerful track and it's actually about murders so, Vote A
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 6, 2020 17:45:06 GMT
Both great tracks, but A fits the subject better and is a *touch* less BCB-friendly (being older).
Prediction correct (though I rarely "go mental" unless there's real Gashian weirdness going on).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 18:00:59 GMT
It Phil Spector. That's the link. fucking tenuous or what?! Hatz will go mental) Ah you'll probably be okay as there's fairly good chance Ike might have killed someone along the way too!  |
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 7, 2020 12:06:23 GMT
B
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 7, 2020 20:51:14 GMT
Fuck it, I'll see if I can get through a couple of rounds without getting depressed. At least I don't have to spend much time listening to these, neither choice exactly stretching themselves in search of an obscurity. However A fits the theme with bold and vivid imagery, and a suitable austere sound. B's a good song, but nowhere near the theme. Soz fonz.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 0:56:49 GMT
A's a hugely powerful track. It's beyond music these days really.
I find it odd that B had to find such a tenuous connection for this one, but at least it's a break from all the doom metal, for which I'm grateful.
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Post by osgood on Mar 9, 2020 12:25:17 GMT
There are not many songs that could beat B in my book, and A is one of them. A could be penalized for not using the superior original Commodore recording, but then B is using an editted version with one verse missing (could be the price for showing Tina on video, so no complains). Things get so levelled that I have to use the out-of-the-theme card A it is. |
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Post by neige on Mar 11, 2020 14:06:43 GMT
Nowt wrong with B, but it's A, for all the reasons stated above
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Post by fange on Mar 13, 2020 3:32:23 GMT
Someone is really enjoying the "as tenuous a link as possible" game. A |
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 13, 2020 10:30:50 GMT
B almost gets it for such a cheeky pick.
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Post by rayge on Mar 13, 2020 15:58:49 GMT
Two songs I've owned for more than half a century, and played lots, so much so that I don't have to listen to either. Leaving aside fonz's tenuousophilia (which ain't a word, but should be), and the fact that RDMH's status as one of the greatest-ever Spector productions lasted only until INNMTT came along to blow it away, I would have had to give it the nod - EXCEPT that he didn't choose the full single version, because the edit destroys the dynamics that are at the core of its appeal. The sound is wrong on that video, too.
A it is, then
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 13, 2020 17:46:02 GMT
OUCH.
I'll pull the bandage off really fast so it doesn't hurt as much.
B
A is so much more important but I've loved the other so long that I simply can't vote against it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 22:40:56 GMT
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