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Post by rayge on Mar 12, 2020 19:34:49 GMT
A Bridget Bardot – Contact
B Art 'Dustbowl' Fowler & his Ukelele – No Wonder She's a Blushing Bride
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 12, 2020 20:37:38 GMT
Neither is all that amusing, but B is unquestionably a novelty song and A I'm less sure about. Plus, once again, I like to reward the adventurousness when someone goes pre-50s. Being this is way pre-50s, kudos.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 4:23:05 GMT
Boy, the "Novelty" category has not been what I was expecting..Somebody give us a "Fish Heads" or "Existential Blues" for freak sake..
Anyway, For it's batshit video, Vote A
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 8:38:58 GMT
B is just too antiquated for me, I just can't relate to it or get very interested in it and it would be dishonest of me to pretend that I am in some fake display of "open mindedness".
A is great fun and can be seen as "novelty" on the basis of sounding like nothing else, I mean it sounds like going to a disco on........Mars. l also really like the way BB says "contact"!
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Post by Crunchy Col on Mar 13, 2020 21:20:22 GMT
I agree with everything G says. Maybe I like B just a tad more. But 'Contact' is a Gainsbourg gem, a total one-off, absolutely out of and beyond its time, and SO much fun.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 15, 2020 21:11:29 GMT
Well, A's quite a fun Gainsbourg thing, that insistent bass, and hypnotic dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit drilling its way into my brain. Not much of a song, but I like this kind of repetitive loop thing.
B feels very gentle, if we're going to have ukelele comic songs, George Formby's lyrics were far dirtier and funnier. Still don't understand what's novelty about either pick.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 21:19:59 GMT
Love Bardot but absolutely not Gainsbourg. But really don't like B.
I think I need to do these in the morning. Another abstain till I come back.
*Edit. I don't like Bardot that much.
Abstain.
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Post by rayge on Mar 17, 2020 14:37:01 GMT
A record by Brigitte Bardot, famous for having no singing voice at all (as well not being much of an actress and a fascist sympathiser) would have been a real novelty, but unfortunately it's actually it's another Serge Gainsbourg record, and thus as fresh, amusing and appealing as an ashtray overflowing with sucked and tarry Gauloises. Absolute rubbish.
No-one is suggesting that Mr Fowler's record from 1927 is quality, but it is at least a novelty (in the Twenties all non-classical records were described as Dance, Ballad or Novelty, just three genres: ah, simplicity). Also, it precedes George Formby, who was but a copyist, and despite Mr Fish's asseverations, no filthier, just less subtle. Great uke sound, too. Nimble picking. And not an ugly French pervert.
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Post by osgood on Mar 17, 2020 16:04:34 GMT
Pfff, not willing to abstain, but sometimes it's hard. OK
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Post by oleandermedian on Mar 23, 2020 23:05:22 GMT
A is excellent! Admittedly after about 10 listens I’d probably be begging for Art Fowler but for the moment I’m infatuated with it.
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