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Post by rayge on May 4, 2019 11:53:05 GMT
A Rupert's People - Dream On My Mind
B Kali Uchis - Your Teeth In My Neck
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 4, 2019 12:29:30 GMT
i find B unpleasant. i couldn't listen to it all.
A is a weak choice from the rupert's people canon, but it wins here at a canter.
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Post by Crunchy Col on May 4, 2019 18:05:15 GMT
B really doesn't fit here at all. I mean, it's just not the sort of thing I imagined anyone here would like. It's not terrible, but 90s RnB?
A is a fantastic track, anyway
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 18:12:46 GMT
B is just the kind of stuff I love and could listen to forever.
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Post by lokie on May 4, 2019 18:38:25 GMT
Some nice guitar work in
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Post by DarknessFish on May 4, 2019 20:43:05 GMT
Rupert's People? Frighteningly posh with an air of menace, that name. It's unfortunately the very thing I fear whenever I see a youtube record label vid, just another 60s rock song that wasn't a hit, entirely unremarkable. I don't see the need to dig for this stuff, when it only wants to achieve what the people who achieved hits with better songs wanted to achieve.
What's with the cheese-goth cover hiding a modernish rnb pop number? It's not the sort of thing I'd choose to listen to, but at least someone's not just picking stuff from the 60s and 70s, and it's got a bit of life about it. From a very poor round so far, this is turning out to be one of the highlights.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 22:05:00 GMT
A is hugely enjoyable with surging instrumentation and great energy. Loved the harmonised chorus. A 1967 psych highlight! I didn't mind B at all and was quite attracted to its abstract jazzy arrangement. The song and vocalist are pretty unremarkable though.
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Post by dipstick on May 5, 2019 1:09:03 GMT
It's difficult. I'm picking A, but I have been listening to more of the B style of music lately. In this case, Kali Uchis seems a little green with wavering pitch. I could see her getting things together later though.
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Post by fange on May 5, 2019 2:03:43 GMT
I agree largely with what G said; while I like B's slightly jazzy arrangements and pop R&B groove, A is stronger for me.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2019 6:07:30 GMT
Something really annoying about the chorus of A...but B is sub-Jody Watley level R&B dressed up for the 90's...ABSTAIN
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Post by fonz on May 5, 2019 6:49:06 GMT
B has a certain charm. A is just ok. Yes, some fair guitar bits. We’re RP an actual band, or were his people session pros. I’m thinking Jimmy Page, or the like.
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Post by osgood on May 5, 2019 12:21:15 GMT
A is a forgettable piece but certainly much closer to my heart than the rather insipid B
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 5, 2019 19:50:02 GMT
I do love the Freakbeat - more so than US Nuggets, probably, ultimately - but A is a fairly unremarkable example. Sounds like a Fresh Cream outtake - intriguing as a bonus track, but wouldn't have made the original album.
B is probably a better example of its genre than A is, but it sounds like the start of the automated, auto-tuned, wispy-voiced nonsense that's currently dominating the social media world. I guess a good example of what I dislike is still no match for a poor example of what I do.
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Post by rankingted on May 5, 2019 21:45:34 GMT
A is sounding pretty bloody good to me this evening. Hail old Rupe and his peeps. Not sure the referencing of B as 90s is right - think she's definitely au courant. Anyway, its fine and a cut above a lot of the Capital FM dross I'm currently being subjected to - can hear Erykah Badu very clearly there. Anyway, its pretty good but
A
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Post by fearlessfreap on May 6, 2019 17:07:34 GMT
Not crazy about either, but at least B is outside the box.
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