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[rayge]

A Elton Duck – She Won’t Answer the Phone



B Elvis Costello and The Attractions – From a Whisper to a Scream

[bungo the mungo]

good grief.

you don't need to be sherlock holmes to work out who picked A. insipid as hell.

as i said with the earlier costello pick, his vocals rub me up the wrong way.

fuck it, i'm going to give a sympathy vote.

A

[oh oooh]

A is rotten.

B is OK. Who's that singing with EC?

[DayoRemix]

A is just Blah..pointless pseudo jangle and B is freakin' Elvis Costello, with equally annoying Glenn Tilbrook...Vote B, but I'm not feeling good about it..

[toomanyhatz]

I'm usually not one for b-level power pop like A, but this one has a lot of charm, the harmonies are crisp, and unlike a lot of the genre, they don't skimp on either the pop or the power.

Armed Forces is my favorite Costello album, and I probably like Get Happy more than most, but this is where he starts to lose me a bit. It's not a bad song, but the arrangement has always sounded a bit messy, and by god that beloved rhythm section has a tendency to overplay sometimes.

[DarknessFish]

A sounds like Elvis Costello, and B is Elvis Costello, what a comedown after the E7 tie. I guess it's inoffensive enough, but it's not exactly aiming for the stars. Could be the theme tune to a shit US sitcom. They're both effectively doing the same thing, but A is a name I've never heard, and has done me the favour of warding me away from them in future.

[Deleted]

A is a bit too wholesomely clean cut for me to get too excited by, it needs more roughage to give it character, but it was musically capable enough.. some nice descending harmonies and jangly bits. Quite pleasant in a radio hit kind of way.
B's one of those Costello tracks that feels very by the numbers and I don't like his vocal much.

A

[fearlessfreap]

I normally don't like power pop, even by the bigger names
Trust is where Elvis Costello lost me.

With it's stupid name, I was expecting ukelele's for A, but I was spared, so A it is.

[osgood]

I can take a bit portion of power pop, probably much bigger than most people round here, but A was really piss poor quality, no good features to hold on. No wonder she doesn't answer the phone, and odd it's doing so good at the voting.

Especially against this excellent EC track, energetic, well sung by Costello and Tillbtook, and with the Attractions in full gear. A big

B

[Sneelock]

B because I love it. I love the song. I love both singers. I think it's a punchy workout of a track. try to sing along - you'll be exhausted.

my main comfort in this round is knowing that people who dislike EC have voted for a band called ELTON DUCK.

[fange]

The radio-pop grudge match of the round, clearly. Both pranced by without hardly leaving a scuff mark, but maybe B by a fraction.


B

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

A sounds a bit like my band (but we're better), oh and I see there's a Mike Condello connection - I wonder who could've chosen this? Stuff like this usually gets trounced in these competitions so I'm surprised to see it doing so well. It kinda gives me hope that maybe one or two of you might have kind words for the music I've been involved with making for the past 20 years.

EC again, and with another annoying sounding singer to boot. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I'd happily change radio station if it came on.

A

[morgan]

A lacks a certain amount of character but it's way better than the Costello. EC seems to have dug up another irritating vocalist from somewhere, as if one's not enough.

A

[~ / % ? *]

Love the Costello

But maybe A needs a win

A

[oleandermedian]

A