R10 Knucklehead 7 JC 9

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People go on about 'cheese' on here all the time don't they?
I think what they mean by the term is that the track is a ballad rather than fast tempo, has strings rather than guitars and a lyric about falling in love rather than taking smack.

[osgood]

Randy's singing is good but the song goes several steps into cheesy* territory beyond the limits of acceptable, like Stevie Wonder worst moments.

And I loved A. Somebody to check further without feeling is hard work.


A






* written before reading G's comment, but I keep it. I can't tell the recipe for chees in this context, but I know it when I taste it.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

For some reason I do not believe a single word that's coming out of Rhiannon Giddens' mouth. Hokey fuckin' BS.

B at least has a stuffed seagull flying around in the vid.

B

[morgan]

B everytime for me, it's a thing of beauty. A is ok but not my cup of tea.

[rayge]

My heart sank at the intro, but picked up again as it went on. As I said on the Ry Cooder track, I tend to prefer my American rusticana in the hands and voices of the originators, but this is actually pretty decent. Nice fiddle, which helps.

This was a huge hit in the UK in the post-punk era. Didn't like it then, don't like it now. Sure she has a reasonable third-division R&B voice, but the arrangement? Beautiful? Haddaway and shite. Sickly and utimately sickening.

A

[fonz]

A is a soundtrack to a telly programme such as Justified, or at least, it could be. Yee haw

I like RC’s voice. Classy, so…

B

[clive gash]

Rhiannon

Tasteful and dull. Not appreciably less smoove than

Randy

B

[neige]

I relly love both, but I'll take austere Rhiannon over lush and over-emoting Randy.

A

[rayge]

A 7 - Knucklehead
B 9 - JC
Neige's vote was not counted as it was after the deadline, but fortunately it did not affect the result. Sorry Felix.