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Post by rayge on Aug 17, 2021 13:40:59 GMT
A Dirty Beaches - Night Walk B Death - Politicians In My Eyes
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Post by fearlessfreap on Aug 17, 2021 16:23:19 GMT
D7 --A Great Wipers tune
It's B of course, how could it not be?
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 17, 2021 17:27:58 GMT
Dirty Beaches is boring and the video makes me want to burn down an art college. Death's sub-BÖC ruckus probably should've remained "lost", but at least they're trying...
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 17, 2021 17:27:58 GMT
Vote A
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 17, 2021 17:52:53 GMT
I enjoy saying nice things about DEATH as much as the next guy but I've gotta go A
by virtue of that solid groove that goes all the way through. I will offer to hold Colin Occupants beer while he burns down that Art College. Am I turning into an old fuddy-duddy? that's another video I can do without.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Aug 17, 2021 18:12:02 GMT
One of the better Death songs. I could swear I picked it in a previous cup, in fact. Weren't me this time...
Anyway, don't much care for the other song OR vid. Trying so hard to make an impression that it leaves me cold. So B it is.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2021 22:24:26 GMT
A evokes its urban nightmare all too well.
Were Death proto-punk or simply a rather inept hard rock band? This isn't the lost classic people want it to be, but it's okay.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 19, 2021 8:18:42 GMT
A is very Cabaret Voltaire circa 1979 isn't it? It's definitely sonically my kind of thing, but to do such a painstaking recreation of a point in time is a bit Oasis, isn't it? It's pleasant enough, but doesn't inspire me.
I've studiously avoided Death, because every time I hear of a band who were "punk before punk", they were never very punk, or very good. This is more NWOBHM before it was British or new, isn't it? Which is ... heavy metal. Still, it's got an energy about the vocal and guitar that appeals, it could definitely fit on Iron Maiden's debut without being offensive. And in this world, that's a good thing, apparently.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 19, 2021 8:56:38 GMT
A is non-entity. Who is picking this stuff? I mean what's the point?
B is one of these overrated "buried treasure" things.
Just....b
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 19, 2021 8:59:43 GMT
Were Death proto-punk or simply a rather inept hard rock band? THIS |
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Post by osgood on Aug 19, 2021 17:16:47 GMT
Uff, after the relief of D6 we're back in piss poor tie territory. By now all of my followers know that there's no way I'm gonna vote for A. Not that I get any pleasure in listening to the other pick ...
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Post by oleandermedian on Aug 20, 2021 10:36:57 GMT
A was very weak.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Aug 20, 2021 19:48:03 GMT
A
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 21, 2021 7:41:50 GMT
Close. I like A more than most, and although this is yet another example of this cup's tradition of choosing the wrong song, B is good enough.
I'll give it to
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Post by rayge on Aug 21, 2021 13:29:15 GMT
Don't know what to make of this, tbh. Can't think of anything useful, or indeed useless, to say.
I flirted with Death earlier this century, DLed their album after others on forums mentioned them - completely slipped by me at the time. Fwiw I listened to them then as black guys playing metal, rather than punk precursors, and see no reason to change my mind after listening to this track. Not bad, and the long instrumental outro lifts it several notches. An easy winner in the end
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