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Post by rayge on Feb 8, 2021 19:47:40 GMT
Notice how Norma's face cracks into this huge smile just as the backing vocals kick in? Such a love This was her big hit.. Street that Rhymes was the follow-up, hence the slightly similar sound. For me, though, the killer NT track was the b-side of Cat named dog. Pure joy
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Post by osgood on Feb 9, 2021 10:25:09 GMT
A most pleasing tie, the kind I'm always looking forward to in these cups.
Love both tracks, but the Norma Tanega one has some undeniable charm thathas made the bigger impact on me. Sorry B, because of course that Prine song is ace, and to me doesn't fall in the obvious cathegory.
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Post by fange on Feb 9, 2021 12:40:52 GMT
This is an easy A for me. I can appreciate B on a certain level, but for pure sensory enjoyment NT takes this one hands down.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 9, 2021 13:53:21 GMT
A's ok, but it's a bit of a simple ditty that doesn't have an awful lot of body to it. I'm with sloop here (the Bay Area looks fantastic this time of year).
Might be a US/UK divide on the obviousness of John Prine, because I'd never even heard a song of his until his death. If this IS his best, or even one of his best, I'll probably not delve further. It's ok, again quite simple, and marred by the slight country twang, but it is more of a song than A. It'll do.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 9, 2021 17:55:01 GMT
An old house-mate was a huge John Prine fan, and I've probably heard enough to last a lifetime.
Norma Tanega's just more fun, and that's what's floating my boat right now.
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Post by rayge on Feb 12, 2021 18:48:42 GMT
It's a bit of a shame in retrospect (for people who liked her music, not necessarily for herself) that NT hooked up with Dusty and subsumed her career in hers. I bought this, and ...Dog, when they came out, but heard very little after that, and missed out on her albums. As I said upthread, I'm the Sky is my true fave of her material, but she had a sound and style all her own that comes over on all the relatively few tracks of hers I heard.
John P was a great favourite of my pal Phil the prof (No, not the BCB one, an actual professor at an actual University), and when Prine died, Phil splattered facebook with loads of tracks, and I found he had written loads of really fine songs that I knew from other's recordings – Bette Midler's version of Hello in There, for instance, is a pearl. I knew the line from this song about the hole in his arm, but didn't realise it was where John Fuery acquired his name. Trouble is, he's not a very good singer, and I ffind the bumble-along guitar chuntering on this track very resistible.
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Post by oleandermedian on Feb 12, 2021 19:01:13 GMT
This is an unlucky pairing for B as it gets kind of overshadowed by A’s general atmosphere of grooviness. It has some cunning guitar work but the lyric suffers from Dylan-emulationism. But I love
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Post by T. Willy Rye on Feb 12, 2021 19:40:05 GMT
Good match.
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Post by neige on Feb 13, 2021 12:21:49 GMT
Sam Stone is an incredibly moving song and a firm favourite since first hearing Prine's debut some 40 years ago.
But I know it by heart, so A is much more interesting for me.
Very inspired pick indeed, I really dig the guitar too.
I'll still vote for B, because it seems to be losing...
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Post by clive gash on Feb 14, 2021 14:14:58 GMT
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Fuck off Larry the Lamb.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2021 15:10:22 GMT
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Post by wobblie on Feb 14, 2021 15:25:21 GMT
This introduced me to Tanega. Thanks for that.
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Post by nolamike on Feb 14, 2021 17:44:54 GMT
Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
I also love the Tanega track, and clearly should have picked it instead.
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