R4 M7 SKOPE WIN

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A

Eliza Carthy – Blood on my Boots



B

Les McCann - Bucket O’ Grease

[bungo the mungo]

i know all about carthy's heritage, so A wasn't what i was expecting. it left me a bit cold. too clever by half and the sort of thing you can imagine the music mags pulling themselves off to. meh.

B on the other hand is short sweet and puts a spring in the step.

[wobblie]

Both are new to me and this is the toughest decision I've had to make yet. B is just a helluva fun time. Reminds me of the sorta thing you might hear playing on a jukebox in a B&W B-film.

Eliza Carthy. Wow. A very unique, kinda vaudevillian thing going on there. I didn't always enjoy the arrangement, but it was quite intriguing overall. I need to look her up.

A

[toomanyhatz]

I love Eliza Carthy, both as a person and as a musician (namedrop-that-no-one-here-will-care-about alert) and she has succeeded admirably in her parents' world, so I'm delighted by her stepping so artfully outside it (not for the first time, I can assure you).

Shame it's up against B which is perky and peppy without being the least bit cloying, and is nice and concise, for good measure. Possibly my favorite track of the whole dang shootin' match so far.

[Crunchy Col]

I wish that Carthy track had carried on the way it started - I enjoyed that exposed, declamatory introduction. Genuinely unusual choice (not unusual SONG, particularly) for the board. But, as with skope, it didn't move me much

B was better. Wouldn't kiss its arse THO

[fonz]

B suffers from the same thing as the JBs, Bo D, etc.

It’s nothing we haven’t heard many times before, and it wasn’t great the first time around.

A. Well, a lovely rich voice. A bit different.

A

[sloopjohnc]

This is a tough one. I really liked both. I've heard about McCarthy in music press, but never felt the need to investigate. Now, I will. I like the kind of music B does better, however.

B

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Great vocal in A, but its burlesque stomp isn't really to my taste.
B is fairly standard as these things go, the piano break was the most exciting element, but it does build up an attractive head of steam.

B

[Sneelock]

I like Eliza's singing a lot but the tune doesn't really make my n.... it doesn't really do anything for me.

B makes me want to do the Twist while balancing a plate of spaghetti on my head.

[nolamike]

I really liked both tracks a lot.

A was brand new to me - it was great, theatrical, and I really loved her voice, and the whole vibe of the thing. It just could have done with being several minutes shorter.

B isn't groundbreaking, but it sure is fun. McCann put out so much great stuff.

Apologies to A, but I gotta go with B.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I know a guy who, during normal times, tends bar on Saturdays in a small hole-in-the-wall joint, and has a gypsy jazz band backing him up while he sings and bartends and plays trumpet and pours drinks and tells stories and A would right up his alley music-wise and he drives me fucking nuts which is why I never go to that bar on Saturdays.

B is great. I love the piano playing. That's all I need.

B

[T. Willy Rye]

B is really my sort of thing, but A is a braver pick and I like it.

[osgood]

Eliza Carthy has just entered my world. She's gonna stay.

B is generic of course but in a very good way, and the piano playing had a couple of unexpected turns. It would have won many many ties in this cup. But not this one.

A big A

[fange]

I like A ok - her voice is great, very powerful but sensual too - but that music hall style is not my thing i'm afraid, and it's a bit long. B is a lot of fun, great Latin percussion as well as Les and the band.


B

[DarknessFish]

Ooh, folk royalty, who was born on the same day as me (also the day Ian Curtis got married, fact fans). I never really cared for either of her parents' music, and I've only previously been aware of her because whenever the BBC deign to play some folk, it's normally her or that Seth fella. This isn't very folky, feels more like a piece from a stage musical written by Nick Cave set in a Wild West saloon. I like the tone of her voice, that raspy tone, and she puts her heart into it all. It's just not something I can imagine finding an occasion to sit down and actually listen to. Interesting cup pick though, I'll give it that.

This is not an interesting cup pick.

A