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Post by rayge on Aug 10, 2021 11:30:27 GMT
A Lana Del Rey – Video Games
B Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 10, 2021 14:21:41 GMT
the christie song was too CHEESY by far. not mad about the del ray song either.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Aug 10, 2021 18:03:06 GMT
When Lou Christie, Del Shannon, Johnny Rivers, etc., are your competition how could Brian Wilson not be genius.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 10, 2021 18:11:09 GMT
Takes a lot to make me vote for the overrated nostalgia miner that is Lana Del Rey, but Lou Christie fits the bill..Vote A, but many of the other "L"s in the round would have bested it..
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Post by toomanyhatz on Aug 10, 2021 19:05:06 GMT
While there's some likeable things about Lana, her biggest talent seems to be for stretching limited musical ideas into long songs. There's pretty much no semblance of melody or variation until the second half. It livens up a bit from there, but there's still at best a minute or so worth of song. At least she keeps this one under 5 minutes.
B is wonderful. Alex Chilton called him "Lou Crispy." Very instructive comparison of pop now vs. then. B may be dorky as hell, and A more 'challenging', but one gets right to the point and the other meanders quite a bit. I guess maybe that's what folks want nowadays.
Get off my lawn, you kids!
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Post by osgood on Aug 10, 2021 19:07:19 GMT
Not a fan but I've heard a bunch of Land del Rey songs that I have enjoyed much more than this. Anyway it wins easily here. Recording something like that Lou Christie thing in 1969 is really unforgivable. I bet it was a hit in Spain.
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 10, 2021 19:57:22 GMT
more power to her but most of her stuff reminds me of stuff I like better. If you need me I'll be standing in the cheese. B
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 10, 2021 20:31:10 GMT
Both very familiar to me, both very fine.
The Lana Del Rey tune...I get what hatz is saying about her trying to spin a winter coat out of a single thread. There ain't much there. But there are some HUGE moments.
Lou C put out some excellent singles and altho' this isn't QUITE as killer as 'Lightnin' Strikes', it's a joyous blast of 60s kitsch that the dude throws his whole heart and soul into. Great fuckin' song.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 11, 2021 13:24:02 GMT
Blimey, modern pop on preludin, it's simultaneously too obvious and almost a brave pick. Not exactly a deep dive. It's ok though, innit, even though if there are obvious flaws (that shhwhhhhheh sound at 1:40 is a 'futuristic' synth setting from 1979). Kinda boring though, too. It's a seething mass of contradictions! Can't actually think of anything to say about it. Expensive wallpaper. I still think Lana Del Rabies was better.
Enforced excavation work, huh? In what kind of world can you vote for such an ardent supporter of slave labour? Horrible hectoring backing vocals, they all sound like the secretary from Ghostbusters. Horrible, horrible, horrible, it should be destroyed by fire and have its remains shot into space.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 11, 2021 13:37:11 GMT
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I still have some love for this.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 11, 2021 14:52:05 GMT
I had to turn B off after a minute. Dreadful stuff.
A ain't much better but it doesn't make me want to hurt things.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Aug 11, 2021 16:00:00 GMT
Neither are my cup of meat. Somebody explain Lana Del Rey to me -- if she looked like Rosie O'Donnell would she be getting all this acclaim?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 16:49:46 GMT
A has the reputation of a 'modern classic' but it's appeal still eludes me I'm afraid. The production works hard to give it a stately feel, and the vocal is good as these things go, but I find it melodically dull. There's just nothing there to hook me in. I'm usually with John on his more ultra pop tastes, but It's step too far with this one. It sounds like a mid 70s Eurovision entry, like Brotherhood of Man or something.
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Post by rayge on Aug 11, 2021 16:54:43 GMT
Not a fan but I've heard a bunch of Land del Rey songs that I have enjoyed much more than this. Anyway it wins easily here. Recording something like that Lou Christie thing in 1969 is really unforgivable. I bet it was a hit in Spain. A Top ten in the USA, number 2 in the UK
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Post by blue on Aug 13, 2021 1:47:06 GMT
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