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[rayge]

A Ike Quebec - Loie



B Irma Thomas - Two Winters Long

[DarknessFish]

Christ, never has a still image filled me with so much dread. Fear not, I shall listen on with open ears and an open heart. Acker Bilk. Quando quando quando. I kind of want to like the playing, but it just has such a weight of baggage that I struggle to cope. Honestly, I think that if that sax was framed with better accompaniment, or perhaps none, it might work.

There actually hasn't been a lot of this stuff in the preluding cup, which is unusual. It feels like an ok rendering of an ok song. Struggle to say an awful lot about it.

B

[oh oooh]

A bored the shit out of me.

B was all kinds of great. I can SEE that band and they're as cool as it gets. And the vocal touched me

[Deleted]

Both okay without setting my wheels on fire.
Quebec had a lovely tone to his playing which was worth the price of admission alone. I would have liked more vitality in the rhythms, it was a bit of a soporific samba!
B suffers from a similar thing really. Like A it is pleasant, but a little too basic. Could've done with more meat on the playing and arrangement to give it lift off.

A

[toomanyhatz]

This is genuinely tough as I like both. I think any degree to which A seems cliché is probably stems at least in part from how many inferior players with less imagination took up the mantle.

But B just has such a great feel. I can totally see the band, as JC says, in both cases in fact. But B's a cooler scene.

Down through the years (thanks to Rayge and Skope among other posters here) enough of a variety of great Irma has been brought to my attention that I think I may finally be appreciating what a giant she is. She's still around, too. What a treasure.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

Both of these tunes seem like something you'd enjoy hearing in a smokey little intimate club, but of the two, I'd definitely prefer to be hearing B.

B

[neige]

I thought A was quite nice, but Irma rocks my boat more.


B

[osgood]

A is a brave pick, bossa nova is not really popular round here. Me, I love it when it's well done, and this is the case. As G said, the sax tone makes it special.

Not a particularly brilliant Irma track, granted that for most artists this could mean an unreachable height. As I voted for her in the other match I don't feel guilty to go for

A

[fonz]

I like a bit of bossa nova. I can’t get in to B at all.

So, A.

[DayoRemix]

Going with the vocal..Vote B

[Sneelock]

B because my moon is in retrograde.
(I don't really know what that means but I think we are encouraged to give reasons. I don't know. it's just a bit more to my liking, I guess)

[fearlessfreap]

They're both ok --neither one really sticks. B needs the votes.

[rayge]

Aug 23, 2021 17:57:06 GMT Sneelock said:

B because my moon is in retrograde.
(I don't really know what that means but I think we are encouraged to give reasons. I don't know. it's just a bit more to my liking, I guess)

Astrological fun fact: the Moon, like Mercury and Venus, cannot exhibit retrograde motion

[morgan]

A was just well executed background music.
B was wonderful in every aspect, I can always enjoy listening to decent sixties music that I somehow missed out on.

B

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A

needs some love