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Post by rayge on Mar 12, 2020 19:23:02 GMT
A Dr. Dre and Tupac - California Love
B Moby Grape - Sitting By The Window
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 4:30:12 GMT
A may be a bit obvious, but at least it doesn't bore me...Vote A
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 14:11:50 GMT
Both good. I guess A qualifies as an obvious choice, but at the same time commercial hip-hop ( as opposed to some underground thing featuring pneumatic drills) tends to be massively underrepresented in the cups.Dre's beats and samples still pack a swing and get the old head nodding.
I love the swirling, quasi eastern mesh of guitars on B, but, as is often the case with Moby Grape, there's not much of a song there.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 13, 2020 20:01:55 GMT
Like A a lot, but as others have said...
Not only is B brilliant, but I'm biased by actually having played on it - several times - with its composer. It is a hell of a song - the transition from the floaty minor verse to the catchy major chorus still gets me every time I listen or play it - as are most of them by the best songwriter in the band. (Yep, I'm saying it wasn't Skip - fight me.)
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 13, 2020 23:32:19 GMT
Agree with hatz
B
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Post by osgood on Mar 14, 2020 18:17:09 GMT
Am I finally 'getting' hiphop? Because for the second time I am going to vote for this thing, and against Moby Grape no less - to be honest I am just an occasional listener of this album, nice but never grabbed me up bar a couple of tracks.
Against all odds
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 21:36:58 GMT
I *loved* A when it came out. Bought the 12" single. I still love it. B can't touch it.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 17, 2020 17:08:56 GMT
Bloody hell, of all the hip-hop to pick, it's something this poor. I find this track massively annoying, the chorus is an absolute pestilence, and the rapping on the verses is properly lumpen and clumsy. Goes on forfuckingever. Does the pronunciation of that decide if it counts as actual tmesis?
B isn't about California. It's an ok song though. The vocals are a bit mannered and stiff, but there's a nice old twang and glide to the sound. As much as it pains me to vote for the trad-dad stuff, A is a stinker.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 17, 2020 19:06:15 GMT
B isn't about California. Hey, where do you think the window he was sitting by was?  |
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Post by fange on Mar 20, 2020 13:38:51 GMT
I love A very much. I would have liked to vote for B, but not here.
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 23, 2020 11:26:14 GMT
B
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Post by rayge on Mar 24, 2020 14:12:04 GMT
I'm old, A is just gibberish splurged over a racket, and B is one of the best tracks from a great album by a fine band, whose three-guitar sound has never really been bettered as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely no contest
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Post by rayge on Mar 24, 2020 14:21:44 GMT
the best songwriter in the band. (Yep, I'm saying it wasn't Skip - fight me.) I wouldn't for a second suggest it was Spence, never rated him (Omaha aside), but on this album at least, it's the Miller-Stevenson tracks I like the best as a whole - Hey Grandma, 8.05, Ain't No Use, even Naked if I Want To. Please give my kind regards to Mr Lewis next time you see him (and I only just found out he was the son of a Hollywood star - what could be more Californian than that  ?) While I bought all the later albums, at least up to Granite Creek (didn't know about the ’84 reunion album at all), I didn't pay as much attention to who wrote the songs on them, so can't say about the later albums. |
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