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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 14:21:49 GMT
A Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature
B Rumblers – I Don’t Need You No More
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 19:34:26 GMT
The hard part of choosing garage is I like the art form, but a lot can still be good with adhering to a template. A is a little more original, even it's just production gimmicks.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 6, 2020 20:22:58 GMT
As much as I like the zoopy bass and wild sax on B, the song is just far too cliche and uninteresting.
A might be a touch obvious, but it's an undeniable classic.
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 7, 2020 7:43:17 GMT
I like 'em both but I'll go with A. you can just hear the bell bottoms.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 19:35:07 GMT
I'm very much an outsider looking in on this stuff and I'm really struggling to differentiate a lot of the sounds. A is doing a bit more for me, just.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 5:21:04 GMT
Heard way too much of this stuff here..A is slightly more original, so Vote A
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Post by osgood on Mar 8, 2020 10:41:20 GMT
Well, the guys in A at least bothered to have their instruments in tune before recording.
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Post by fange on Mar 8, 2020 11:16:10 GMT
Sadly for B, it's punching a full class below its opposition here. Not that it's terrible - it's a decent garage track; A is just fab.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 8, 2020 20:39:51 GMT
Yeah, it's the usual game of trying to spot the merit in failed sixties pop songs again. I'm sure skope could tell me what I'm missing, but thankfully he isn't here. Really annoying vocals, but the guitar is ok on the verses.
The vocals are better, and the sax is ok. Fairly generic, unsurprisingly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 23:43:23 GMT
The appeal of the best garage is that it's visceral, thrilling and exciting based on a diet of great riffs, energy and snotty, attitunal vocals. At its worst, it can sound generic and samey, but that's where you separate the wheat from the chaff. It's not intellectual music in the slightest, which I think may be one of the things you struggle with.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 9, 2020 10:06:24 GMT
It's not intellectual music in the slightest, which I think may be one of the things you struggle with. Now I don't know if you're taking the piss out of me or not! I bet you meant it seriously, but couldn't keep a straight face while typing. I get the appeal of visceral music, but this is kind of a subsection of visceral-for-the-time, or slightly-visceral. I don't get why it'd be sought out. Obviously, not for me, anyway, except possibly via The Cramps.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2020 10:39:55 GMT
The attraction is its so primitive partly, it gives it real character.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2020 13:40:18 GMT
I'm a bit concerned that so far in this category I've been voting for the tracks that have already been old favourites, but perhaps there's more of a consensus on the best stuff in this genre....?
A is another classic which marries a tremendously snarling guitar riff to a song of escalating hysteria and the combination is very exciting indeed. I'm surprised B isn't getting more positive comments. I love it's moody, reverbed sound and the way the sax blares from it. It packs quite a punch. For me it's a rock n'roll record rather than a garage record, but I'm not punishing it for that as I accept we all have our different interpretations. Close but A I wanted to add some positive comments as this category has attracted a lot of criticism, but I've enjoyed it!
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Post by neige on Mar 11, 2020 14:02:28 GMT
I love sixties garage as a genre, but it is best when it's not just shouty vocals over a banal blues riff.
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 14, 2020 21:37:06 GMT
I gave A two spins and liked it more the second time. But B is where the swagger and filthy goodness is at and I like that video-arcade guitar-noise it has.
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