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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 14:29:03 GMT
A If – What Did I Say About The Box Jack?
B Mr Brooks – The Family
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 7, 2020 11:48:16 GMT
A is from the more acceptable side of prog - a little reminiscent of Blodwyn Pig to these ears. The flute is incorporated nicely, it rolls along without too much wankiness.
But B, oh boy - I love that one. It's the theme from one of the BBC's most interesting experiments, one of the first fly-on-the-wall documentaries, and it's a magnificent, haunting piece of music that fuses all sorts of genres completely successfully. Once heard, never forgotten. A very easy win here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 19:30:26 GMT
I could imagine B being strong as part of a soundtrack, but it's not doing much as a stand alone piece. A isn't doing anything for me though.
B.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 7, 2020 22:01:13 GMT
Musty. I reckon a segment of this could've been used as the theme tune to late night crown green bowls on BBC 2 in 1973. No way am I sitting through 8 minutes of this fetid toss.
Gather in the Mushrooms is a really good compilation, an excellent primer on some of the best artists of the late 60s/early 70s folk scene. I absolutely don't remember this track, unsurprisingly since it's forgettable. But it isn't A.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 5:12:55 GMT
Flaccid, proggy jazz slog vs. a languid stroll through the Patchouli fields..Ugh..Vote B for better use of the flute and having better production
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Post by osgood on Mar 10, 2020 12:29:31 GMT
TWo excellent picks. I like a lot that If album (in spite of reminding me of C***), as JC I find it on the acceptable side of prog, though I must say that I can take most kinds of prog if the dose is not too high. In any case it is a track that I listen with pleasure all the way through, with just a wrong step towards the end. And I consider the flute part brilliant. B is a very beautiful song and the production is very nice. Really I can say nothing against it. It's just that I think A deserves a vote.
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Post by neige on Mar 11, 2020 11:46:20 GMT
B starts out really nicely, but dangerously veers into Richard Clayderman territory later on. Bleurgh.
A is overlong, there's some pointless noodling towards the end, but it's a fab period piece and the flute solo is just lovely
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Post by fange on Mar 11, 2020 12:00:06 GMT
I generally have few probs with longish songs, and A was fine, but B does just as much and a bit more in less than half the time. A good pick to win a good match.
B
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 14, 2020 21:14:56 GMT
I’m with the Hypolimnetic Halibut here.
B
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 9:25:44 GMT
A struck me as being twee, weedy, dated and limited. And if you don't want to do lyrics just don't do them, in stead of going "har-har-har" throughout. Fuck off with that. Struck me as being written to formula rather than from inspiration. Just didn't like it. Whereas B was a thing of beauty from the out.
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Post by rayge on Mar 16, 2020 19:27:28 GMT
If were always too far on the proggy side for me to warm to them in the 70s, although one or two stoners of my acquaintance were into them. Still, I soon unloaded them. Gave this two minutes, time to give B a listen and see if it can save me from the other six... I can't get excited about this. I watched The Family (often from behind the sofa — they were awful) but don't remember this tune. It's all right, although eminently forgettable, as already noted. It'll do, though B
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