R5 M5 NOLAMIKE WIN

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A

Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina



B

Voivod – We Carry On

[bungo the mungo]

pretty ballerina is beautiful, we really don't discuss the left banke enough.

B's selections are gradually getting more tolerable, which is the only positive thing i can say about it.

A

[wobblie]

Don't care for the vocals in the Voivod song at all, but I'm fairly certain that guy wants to do some kind of harm to those weenie Left Bankers. I know I do.

B

[nolamike]

There's a lot to like about Voivod - but it's not at all the type of thing I typically like. The Left Banke track, of course, is glorious.

I listened to them in reverse order (Voivod first, simply because I already knew the Left Banke track), and they weirdly worked together. I may need to keep that in mind when I get back to doing my radio show...

At any rate, it's A.

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Ditto Wobblie's comment..Vote B

[toomanyhatz]

A is glorious, of course, but I wish I could punish it for not digging a little deeper. They have more than two songs!

B is just so bog-standard, though. The 'chorus' in particular is quite the cliché-fest. Some nice guitar work (Gen-xers sure loved Neil Young; the feeling was apparently mutual) but not enough to take it out of Shrugsville.

[Crunchy Col]

Musically the Voivod thing is fine, but that singer - he looks like an out-of-work taxi driver and his vocals are surprisingly 'straight' for a band with so much fire. 

Anyway it was never going to win against one of the Left Banke's most memorable moments

A

[sloopjohnc]

I go with Hatz's criticism. Such an obvious Left Banke pick. Who do you think is voting for these?

Voivod rocks! Four devil horn signs.

B

[Sneelock]

If I had a can of Sterno to huff then Voivod might have a sporting chance. As it is, this might be the first time I've compared "Pretty Ballerina" to anything other than "Walk Away Rene" and it's nice to see it on the winning side of things for a change.

A

[T. Willy Rye]

A

[wobblie]

Feb 4, 2021 20:07:36 GMT Crunchy Col said:

Musically the Voivod thing is fine, but that singer - he looks like an out-of-work taxi driver and his vocals are surprisingly 'straight' for a band with so much fire. 

His vocals are shit. 

[osgood]

B is ... well, not my thing in any circumstance. Much less in front of the glorious

A

Feb 4, 2021 23:53:50 GMT Sneelock said:

this might be the first time I've compared "Pretty Ballerina" to anything other than "Walk Away Rene"

If it helps, I prefer She May Call You Up Tonight to both.

[DarknessFish]

Christ, that Cardinal track wasn't as wet as this. Is he meant to be singing like that? Did he know they were recording? Freddie and the Dreamers on mogadon.

Voivod have been going for bloody donkey's years, haven't they. I remember when I used to read Kerrang! they were seen as some kind of avant-garde thing, but I never really understood the fuss. I'd have voted more enthusiastically for something off Rrroooaaarrr though, something with a bit more energy and less kinda polished and standard. A bit disappointing, I have to say.

B

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I've heard way better from Voivod, and this tune is just a little pile of wet mush, crying in a corner, compared to the muscular OOMPH of "Pretty Ballerina". All I can do is parrot some adjectives already used in this thread: Beautiful! Glorious! Memorable!

Of course it's B, what the fuck do you think?

B

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A is beautiful and beguiling with a touch of Love weirdness. B is B.

A