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Post by rayge on Mar 6, 2020 14:37:10 GMT
A Chuck Berry - Promised Land
B The Rheostatics – California Dreamline
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 7, 2020 2:06:27 GMT
I'd say A was an obvious choice, but I have to confess it's never quite registered with me that the song refers to California. No idea why. And I guess it's not one of the very top Chuck Berry songs, and of course it's great.
B is the very essence of a band that's absolutely fine, solid, and average. I've never heard anything by them that has bothered me in any way or lingered in the memory for more than a minute after playing.
No offense, Canadians.
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Post by fange on Mar 7, 2020 7:00:57 GMT
I've never heard of the Rheostatics before; i'm afraid B didn't really do much for me. A bit too contemporary progressive rock. A is always a pleasure, so gets the vote.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 7, 2020 18:00:16 GMT
Nothing in the world could make me vote for B, sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 21:09:13 GMT
I liked B a lot more than I thought I was going to, not being aware of the band. It started new agey and then sounded like Porcupine Tree. God bless Chuck wherever he may be now but I've no need to listen to him again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 1:10:22 GMT
B sounded a bit like one of those slightly experimental tracks Bowie would use as album filler in the 90s. It doesn't really work and seems an odd pick. The Chuck track doesn"t excite me but it's agreeable enough.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 5:08:23 GMT
With so many interesting songs name checking California or invoking the feel of the state, these are what we get ? B doesn't work for me and I don't really associate A with Cali..Vote A, I guess
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 8, 2020 20:33:34 GMT
Just picking Chuck Berry seems like a cynical move, he was canonised a long time ago, and this stuff is slap bang in auto-vote territory. The guitar line is nice enough, the vocals are ok, but it's fairly average. Chuck Berry song sounds like Chuck Berry, really. I was hoping B would actually be some whale music, that would be a properly bold pick. I agree with G about the shit-Bowie aspect of this, though ... hang on, did he actually sing "disillusioned porpoise"? That's great, everything I was going to write about the strange patchwork nature of this post-punk/prog/new age/Bowie mess doesn't matter anymore. It's a more interesting pick, it's less boring than reaching for the canon again, and he's singing about sea-mammals with a sense of ennui. B
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Post by osgood on Mar 9, 2020 11:18:54 GMT
Always a pleasure listening to Chuck Berry, and A is not near the too obvious barrier. More than enough to beat the forgettable B
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Post by fonz on Mar 9, 2020 23:19:39 GMT
Chuck was a degenerate fucking pervert
Wasn’t he?
I can’t listen to him without thinking of weewee and poo.
Yuk.
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Post by neige on Mar 11, 2020 13:44:05 GMT
B wouldn't be out of place in my record collection, but it's not really great is it?
Chuck Berry was a genius in those 5 or 6 years he recorded his classic songs - and this is certainly one of them.
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and by the way, I would habe picked the (IMO) superior cajun version by Johnnie Allan.
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Post by rayge on Mar 13, 2020 16:05:35 GMT
and by the way, I would habe picked the (IMO) superior cajun version by Johnnie Allan. Me too. That was the first version of the song I heard, courtesy of Charlie Gillett's radio show
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Post by rayge on Mar 13, 2020 16:19:12 GMT
Chuck was a degenerate fucking pervert Wasn’t he? Nah, not hugely, no more than the average white rocker anyway, and certainly not all the time. Mean, miserly and bitter at his treatment by a white world, certainly. But degenerate and perverted, no. I can't hear him without thinking what a wonderful facility with words he had, how he helped to create rock and roll and how much joy he brought into the world.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:31:18 GMT
Didn't he install hidden cameras in the ladies' loo?
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 13, 2020 16:38:49 GMT
I think that was Keef
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