R8 Sneelock 3 Sloop 13

[morgan]

I'm torn on this one. A only appeals because of the door's content but it's a rather wanky idea and goes on too long by two or three minutes. B is the usual from the runaways but with the sound turned off it's perfect entertainment for an old perv on a wet Sunday afternoon.

Sorry, girls but it's got to be A as we're judging on the music.

A

[rayge]

I was thrilled when I saw Robbie Krieger's name because he and John Densmore were what I liked most about the Doors, but a bit less thrilled to find it was a remix of one of the band's weaker tracks. I agree with Snee about the way Jimbo's voice has been treated, and on the whole this mix is an improvement on the original, with a bit of humour injected into it and some nice splurges of guitar: it certainly doesn't deserve the disdain it's been getting here.

Unfortunately, though, it's up against someone I like even more than Robbie, with a last late flowering of Kim Fowley's particular genius. I know he wasn't much of a human being, and didn't have a lot of, ahem, 'musical talent' himself, but he could write an exploitative bubblegum pop single and find the perfect band to play it with the best of them. This is a lightning in a bottle moment, and I don't care that I heard it a hundred or more times (at my own volition, I should add, I owned this single - fuck the radio, and doube-fuck advertising with a barbed-wire dildo), it still stands out in this round above all the chin-stroking choices.

B

[clive gash]

Robbie

Pointless. Not a patch on the Saccharine Trust version eh kids?

Runaways

Their one smash, the one where it all comes together. Proper Sweet damage.

The We Got The Neutron Bomb book makes interesting reading.

B

[neige]

B, simply because I didn't feel compelled to fast-forward it.

[rayge]

A Sneelock 3
B Snoop 13