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Post by osgood on Sept 11, 2021 6:46:10 GMT
A - Herbie Hancock - Fat Mama
B - The Hi-Fi’s - Tread Softly For The Sleepers
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Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 11, 2021 8:32:39 GMT
the hancock track has a pleasant enough groove to it, but ultimately it's incidental music.
i doubt that there will be a better pick than the hi-fi's in the final. a breathtaking piece of psych/freakbeat with an incessant guitar riff reminiscent of the quo's 'pictures of matchstick men'. the change at the 1 minute mark is tripped out heaven. whoever selected it deserves to be decorated by preludin.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 9:26:19 GMT
I love both. I've got a feeling this final is going to bring out the gushing G, not many opportunities for negative rants! A is the playful, funky side of Herbie and is an absolute delight. I love that Herbie was putting fuzz guitars on his records at that point, not many jazzers were doing that! And he just glides over the backing with perky, constantly melodic playing. Superb Mod Jazz. B is a load of veteran UK session musos, but as is often the case with these things, they bring a real inventiveness to things. I don't see it as freakbeat, more pop psych like late period The Action. It's a really excellent song I think, evocative and melodic, and deserved better than to be a B side.
Oh man this is tough...but A just.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 11, 2021 13:33:44 GMT
B, unless G likes A better, then I'll vote A.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 11, 2021 14:28:37 GMT
B
Never been a Herbie fan,
but B is weak enough that I can be swayed for competition's sake if Herbie starts losing
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Post by morgan on Sept 11, 2021 14:48:48 GMT
I liked both of these but b is a real find although I don't think it will ever penetrate the inner sanctum of my psych faves which includes Pictures of Matchstick Men
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 11, 2021 15:38:08 GMT
A reminds me of some of Ike Turner's instrumental tunes in a very good way, and B makes me think of some long-haired skinny twat frugging in a pair of speedos, which is a mental image I really don't need.
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Post by osgood on Sept 11, 2021 19:00:07 GMT
Both great and both tracks to remember. I found the Hancock track a bit more exciting.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Sept 11, 2021 20:42:15 GMT
A would seem to be more in my whe_l_ho_se in general, and B is a slick studio project more than anything touched by genius, but it's a more dynamic arrangement and is just hitting the spot at the moment. A has a great groove but meanders quite a bit. It's also too close for comfort to the Meters, though I'm not sure who came up with the main hook first.
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Post by fange on Sept 12, 2021 4:17:07 GMT
Good match. I'm surprised i haven't heard B before, a really good piece of psych rock. But A has both a killer hook and some goddam electric piano, an instrument i find makes pretty much everything better.
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 12, 2021 19:36:55 GMT
Unlike fange (gasp!), I don't care for the electric piano, it makes everything sound like I should be buying ice-cream at the cinema. And that fuzz guitar is an even worse sound. That drum is properly cool though, it sounds like it's been recorded in its own studio specially filled with the smoke of 10,000 gauloises. It's quite a pleasant thing for all its faults. Didn't need the big jazz-hands finish. Despite playing a vl-tone, there is a great deftness and lightness of touch here. I am worried this is turning into the easy listening/exotica cup though.
B just seems really generic and pointless, something really lightweight and unnecessarily shrill. Quo with a helium addiction. Nasty.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Sept 12, 2021 20:21:23 GMT
Both fine.
I guess the Hancock is earlier than the 70s stuff like Sextant which features some of the most unpleasant keyboard sounds I've yet heard.
The Hi-Fis thing is cool but at the same time pretty undistinguished. I can imagine skope shaking his fringe at the FESTA SESENTA DE VALENCIA but not many others would get up on the floor to salute it.
Marginally
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Post by fearlessfreap on Sept 13, 2021 12:45:13 GMT
A by far -- I am a HH fan --I even liked Rock-It.
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 13, 2021 22:30:46 GMT
Vote A
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Post by rayge on Sept 15, 2021 14:43:31 GMT
Take your electric piano and funky groove and stick it up your fundament. Or indeed anywhere you like other than in my ears.
Harmless bit of undistinguished sixties guitar pop. Just had to turn up with its shoes shined to win this. Speaking as someone who has done a couple of hundred or so trips on one thing or another, this is as psychedelic as smoking banana peel in a bus station in Walsall. Oh, and Pictures of Matchstick Men is shite.
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