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Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Jimmy Dread — Wed, 6 May 2015 15:08:19 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 05/06/2015 19:08

Listmeister wrote:

'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.' I'm sorry. For the official BEA favorite, you're kind of bringing the team down. Shape up or I'm gonna trade you for 'Pick a Dub' by Keith Hudson.

Now if you'd gone and done that I would have had no worries whatsoever voting '74. As it is, there's wheat and chaff on both teams. Love Radio City, R<, Dummy and Roman Candle, but not big on any of the other LPs (s'pose Kimono's OK).

So it's down to the singles... and in all fairness I couldn't give a toss for any of 'em. That is, apart from Original Nuttah, which is head-and-shoulders above anything else on both teams. And given that my dog runs and hides every time she hears The Entertainer, '94 gets the nod.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Skinny — Wed, 6 May 2015 13:23:20 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 05/06/2015 17:23

Ended up going 1974 - I like to think JoD raised a smile at seeing 'T.S.O.P.'.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Listmeister — Wed, 6 May 2015 09:23:02 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 05/06/2015 13:23

Well it looks like you guys did a little better this time. Still not getting the 'W', but we're not getting trounced like last week.

"I Wanna See The Bright Lights Tonight", please step forward. It is my honor to give you the Most Reluctantly Voted Against Award.

Phaedra, Radio City, got some good comments, well done.

Kimono, well, you either get glam or you don't.

As for the singles, well, 1974 had a lot of fun songs, and I've been trying to play to my strengths here. 'The Entertainer' may have been a misstep next to TSOP.

'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.' I'm sorry. For the official BEA favorite, you're kind of bringing the team down. Shape up or I'm gonna trade you for 'Pick a Dub' by Keith Hudson.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Anonymous — Tue, 5 May 2015 07:03:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/05/2015 11:03

Yeah was surprised, actually a very tough decision. I Want to See the Bright Lights is easily my favorite thing across both teams, and I very much enjoy Radio City and even more so Phaedra. I never really bought into the Sparks train but Kimono is admittely a very fun album. Genesis is the only meh point here. Singles range from excellent to very not-excellent to downright silly. Overall very strong outing this time for 1974, though.

With 1994 it has a longtime favorite with Ready to Die, a deserving classic of any stripe, and a recent favorite with Musik. Roman Candle is very good but feels a bit like an Elliot Smith sketch book than one of his more fully-formed later masterpieces, and I like Dummy quite a bit but not as much as I used to. And The Downward Spiral has a couple excellent songs but otherwise just echoes much more interesting music from other composers. The hip-hop singles greatly overshadow the rest of the singles team, but those other songs are still pretty fine regardless.

So overall leaning 94 but might ponder (and re-listen) a bit, 94 is much stronger top-to-bottom but 74 has greater peaks, though, and overall just a great job, both captains. Quite a round this is shaping up to be.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Mercury — Mon, 4 May 2015 17:37:51 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 05/04/2015 21:37

Listmeister wins most improved player! And that 74 is pretty good.

But easily voted '94. I just love Big's debut soooooooooo much mooooore than anything on '74 team.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

junodog4 — Mon, 4 May 2015 15:30:14 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 05/04/2015 19:30

1974 was stronger than I expected, and 1994 was weaker than I expected.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

craola — Mon, 4 May 2015 12:25:34 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 05/04/2015 16:25

WindowAbove wrote:

Both teams have great albums and weak singles. 94 has more I love but Listmeister did a fine job.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Norman Bates — Mon, 4 May 2015 12:05:28 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 05/04/2015 16:05

Don't like The Lamb, but don't like The Downward Spiral either. Will have to listen to this Plastikman release before I can choose, I like what I know from him, might be the decider (even though the rest of that '74 albums team is splendid, bravo meister).

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Anonymous — Mon, 4 May 2015 11:04:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/04/2015 15:04

'74 by quite a bit, actually. Phaedra is on my chart and Bright Lights certainly could be.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

WindowAbove — Mon, 4 May 2015 11:02:54 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 05/04/2015 15:02

Both teams have great albums and weak singles. 94 has more I love but Listmeister did a fine job.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Patman360 — Mon, 4 May 2015 06:25:21 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 05/04/2015 10:25

It pains me to vote against 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight', an album I wholeheartedly adore, but as a whole I think I have to vote 1994, 'Roman Candle' is in my top 10 and I also think 'Ready To Die', Dummy' and 'The Downward Spiral' are great, I prefer those three to any album on the 1974 team (aside from 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight' of course). Singles swing in favour of 1994 too. So 1994 it is.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Skinny — Mon, 4 May 2015 05:56:43 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 05/04/2015 09:56

I expected to come here and find myself voting 1994 without a second thought, based on the fact that 1994 is responsible for many of my favourite albums and is being curated by JoD, whose tastes broadly align with mine a lot of the time, whereas 1974 is being curated by Listmeister, a man whose taste in music seems to be made up almost entirely of things that I really don't like. But this is a really close call. 1974 has the best two singles here ('T.S.O.P.' and 'Nothing from Nothing'), but 1994 has 'Original Nuttah', to whose relentless beat I sacrificed many a brain cell between the ages of fifteen and twenty. I'm finding it difficult to decide what my favourite album here is (it's either Ready to Die or I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight), and each team has three albums I like-but-don't-love, and one album that really isn't my bag (although The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway isn't anywhere near as intolerable as The Downward Spiral). I think I slightly prefer the Roman Candle/Musik/Dummy triumvirate to the Radio City/Kimono My House/Phaedra one, but there isn't a lot in it. Gonna have to think about this one for a bit. (I'm not sure I could possibly consider a faithful rendition of 'The Entertainer' to be a 1974 single, though.)

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Hayden — Mon, 4 May 2015 00:29:13 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/04/2015 04:29

Defago wrote:

TSOP, by MSFB featuring the Three Degrees

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The Entertainer, from the Sting, written by Scott Joplin, arranged by Marvin Hamisch

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I'm finding these both really odd, but strangely compelling choices for singles 🤣

Thhhiiiiink I'll be going with '94 here though. Just gotta give that Plastikman album a listen sometime this week.

Re: BYT - G4 - 1974 (Listmeister) v 1994 (JoD)

Defago — Sun, 3 May 2015 23:06:45 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 05/04/2015 03:06