N3 G 11 Sneelock 6

[rayge]

A The Network - The Boys and the Girls



B Nat Stuckey - Sweet THANG

[toomanyhatz]

Ooh, two fun Nashville rarities! A is a bit odd - not quite sure what it's going for. Seems like a country song gone post-psych sunshine pop. Interesting blend, but I'm not sure how much it coheres.

B is not only greasier, but being more traditional, it's likely to have a tougher time here, which would be a shame.

[fearlessfreap]

Between jobs in my early 20's, a couple of friends and I decided to drive cross country. Somehow we acquired an old panel van and pooled our money for the trip. I was the poorest, so I offered to drive to offset costs. We would sleep in the van at rest areas eat peanut butter and occasionally find a Y to shower in. Once or twice we stopped at truck stops to eat greasy unhealthy meals. One of my friends had light fingers and lifted a couple of cassettes. These were truck driving collections -- in the 80's I guess this is what truck drivers listened to as opposed to the shitty nu-country they do now. These cassettes were the soundtrack for our trip from Ohio to the west coast. They would have songs by Dick Curless, Dave Dudley, Jerry Reed, Red Simpson --even a track or two by the baron of bathos, Red Sovine. B reminds me of that trip.

[Sneelock]

I like that first one. where do people FIND this stuff? I appreciate the effort. sadly, I'm a little worn down with too much echo on a lot of these tracks. maybe I'm hung over or something.

in any event, with a name like STUCKEY, it has to be good!
B

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"You don't have to be strange to be strange" so said Mark E Smith and so it is with A.They were probably going for something quite mainstream and MOR.However because of the foggy production, the opiated vocals and the weirdly hypnotic melody, they ended up producing something which sounds genuinely other-worldly. Liked this one a lot.
B seems especially hackneyed and corny, from a genre that has a tendency towards such things.

A

[osgood]

A good tie in my book. B sounded quite pleasant to these old ears of mine. But A was definitely a keeper.

A

[oh oooh]

Aug 25, 2021 13:07:28 GMT @madcyril1 said:

"You don't have to be strange to be strange" so said Mark E Smith and so it is with A.They were probably going for something quite mainstream and MOR.However because of the foggy production, the opiated vocals and the weirdly hypnotic melody, they ended up producing something which sounds genuinely other-worldly. Liked this one a lot.
B seems especially hackneyed and corny, from a genre that has a tendency towards such things.

A

Agree completely. 

A

[bungo the mungo]

the boys and the girls is a big favourite from the 'fading yellow' series. i enjoyed the stuckey track too.

A

[DayoRemix]

Can't handle the stories from the cornfield..Vote A

[DarknessFish]

Can't say as I care for the soppy vocals of this one. As G says, it probably was trying to be mainstream, but it's just a botched production job giving it a bit of psych appeal. And it was 1968. Inoffensive enough, sorta.

B has a bit of a pop hook to go with its wheat-chewin' yokelisms, too. Could almost be Cliff trying to crack America, the vocals are that smooth and camply unthreatening. More offensive to me than A, unfortunately.

A

[fange]

Sometimes i wish i liked this sort of Country more, because deep down i can see its appeal to some people and how it can brighten their day... but it just doesn't do i for me. Maybe one day, let's see. Maybe like freapy i'll go on a roadtrip in an old beat up Chevy, eatin greasy spoon meals, listenin to old truck stop tapes, startin a second family in Florence, SC... maybe one day...
Anyway, A is great and right up my proverbial strasse.

A

[morgan]

A was great, could have done with a slightly harder edge to everything but I dare say that is missing the point.

B was as awful as I was expecting it to be. I shouldn't reject most of a genre in this way but I'm sure that most c and w fans would be just as contemptuous of the stuff I listen to.

A

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I'm not one to get all righteous about country music, because lord knows I can only take it in small doses myself, but Preludin has a real blind spot when it comes to this kind of music - I suppose it seems too hokey to British people, but I'd be more than happy to have this sort of thing playing in my dream dive-bar than A's hipster-ish choice which has cool sounds but is completely lacking in any substance.

B

[rayge]

A couple of harmless generic songs...the group vocals gimmicky background loads of echo thing predated psych by a distance.ots os similar weirdness aroun a few years before this one. It's OK: as always, I imagine I'd be enthusing more about it now if i had first heard it in my teens, when it came out.

And this is magnificently hokey stuff, timeless really, and I'm going to vote for it out of pure cussedness.
B

[oleandermedian]

If B hadn't done that corny laugh it would have been in with a chance, but it did and it isn't.

A