Round 5 JJJ

[rayge]

A Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows



B Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

[toomanyhatz]

Try this one instead for B, the one here is unavailable, at least in the states.



Anyway, I find these both dull, frankly, but A "rocks."

So B, then.

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Not my favorite from the Yeahs, but easy vote for B

[Crunchy Col]

QotSA did some good things at rock's arse-end, just before everybody ran out of ideas, and this is a good example. Actually I was expecting not to like it as much as I did, with all its SERIOUS SWEAT HARD MAN rubbish, but it still sounds fine. They work, rather than show off.

And this is the OTHER good Yeah Yeah Yeahs song off that album with the egg sleeve that everybody creamed themselves over a decade ago. It's very good, as good as the Queens' song.

So - I dunno.

Probably B

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B

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A is very dull. Both the riff and the vocal melody just seem to be going through the motions.
B is much more promising in that it has some lively musical ingredients. They don't pull together in any powerful way though because the song is fairly weak. It's like building an interesting looking house on weak foundations. You want to lock up a band like Yeah Yeah Yeahs in a room with some Abba and Dare era Human League records and say "Study these..this is how you write a chorus, this is how you use a hook as a counterpoint".

B

[osgood]

Nothing wrong with rocking in my book when it is well done. A is good old riff-based rock, but with some nice touches here and there that makes it stand out. B is not bad but left me quite cold.

A

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A feels like it's building to something. It has enough about it. B's reedy vocals and synthy pop. Ach more to it than that but I don't have time just now. I may edit in more reasons later but sometimes it's as simple as what you like and what you don't like. Don't like B, do like A

A

[fange]

An easy A for me. B is fine in its way, but never really seems to outgrow its influences. A is like a dirty ZZ Top-inspired boogie that met some hard stoner rock and decided to get down.


A

[DarknessFish]

A is awful, I don't get why people are still doing this kinda dull AOR, but then I don't understand what people got out of the original stuff either. Completely devoid of energy or bite, it's a bit yeah, ZZ Top.

My son loves this track, I was pretty surprised to find out it was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I mean, give me Maps or Pin, any day. That was rock with energy and style. But as a strange belated addition to the post-punk disco revival thing, its alright.

B

[fange]

Mar 17, 2020 23:33:12 GMT DarknessFish said:

Completely devoid of energy or bite, it's a bit yeah, ZZ Top. ]

Yeah, enough with the boring guitars and drums; they should've got out the angle grinders and sandpaper sheets and recorded it on a 1982 Panasonic tape deck. Yeow.... bite!

[oleandermedian]

I don’t like A at all. B is a bit better.

B

[rayge]

A novelty here: two tracks from albums I own from this century. Blimey. I was quite the fan of Kyuss for a while, and I followed Josh into QotSA for a couple of albums but haven't listened to him in more than a decade. Less wild than I remember, but, yeah, enjoyed that. forgotten about those harmony vocals, sweet. Criminy, I'd in a benevolent mood this evening, that's about the fifth or sixth in a row I've liked.

B And this is OK, but their synthpoppy sound with squeaky voices is more derivative and indeed less subtle than A.

A