The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

[Ste1969]

 

[RobMCFC]

Once more the Killers are killed off in the first round.

The Killers (Mr Brightside) 12 - 23 New Order (Age Of Consent)


Results of my watch so far so that it's easier for BH to track

Lana Del Rey (Salvatore) 10 - 26 Bruce Springsteen (Streets of Philadelphia) (Page 90)
The Jam (Down In The Tube Station at Midnight) 24 - 7 Amy Winehouse (Rehab) (Page 93)
James (Born Of Frustration) 26 - 8 U2 (One) (Page 97)
Love (Alone Again Or) 24 - 4 Elbow (Kindling) (Page 104)
Foster The People (Pumped Up Kicks) 10-13 Delia Derbyshire (Doctor Who Theme) (Page 107)
Rolling Stones (The Last Time) 22 - 6 Siouxsie And The Banshees (Arabian Nights) P108
The Specials (Ghost Town) 34 - 2 (Try Again) P110
The Killers (Mr Brightside) 12 - 23 New Order (Age Of Consent) P113

 

[RobMCFC]

@BlueHammer85 plans to return to controlling the thread today, so I'll just launch today's match before letting him re-take the reins.

Please click 'Like' on the song you prefer.

Round 1/M31
Velvet Underground (Oh Sweet Nothing)
v
Lift To Experience (These Are The Days)

 

[RobMCFC]

RobMCFC

 

[RobMCFC]

 

[Out on blue 6]

Interesting one this. The Velvets are the Velvets but the one album by Lift To Experience is very good. I hope people will listen to that song and seek it out. Bit of a cult band but you could probably say that for both originally

 

[mancity1]

The comments on Mr. Brightside (save the "overplayed" one) seem a bit churlish -- it's a good tune by a good band off an album which, like Pearl Jam's 10, is half excellent and half mediocre.

However, it's up against my favo(u)rite band, off my favo(u)rite record, with a stone cold iconic number. Hasta la vista, Los Killers.

That's a reasonable assessment on the Killers tune and the Killers per say , they are not the and would have on my playlist but I have seen them live and they are worth the entry and have produced some decent material without having a stand out album IMO unlike New Order that have many.

Because New Order may for some if not many be iconic me included that should not mean Mr Brightside should be diminished as such by comparison.

I would have voted for them ahead of a number put forward so far but not certainly not this one , just the luck of the draw I guess.

 

[BimboBob]

I've listened to both and the Lift To Experience was a bit dull at the beginning, a bit generic, no real hook to keep me listening. The ending was OK though. Unusual. A song of two half's.

 

[threespires]

Never heard of Lift to Experience, will have a couple more listens before I vote I think.

 

[MellowJoe]

Never heard of lift to experience either, weird how their singer sounds like Lou Reed, almost like an impression.. I don't like either track, so flipped a coin, and it was heads, so that meant the velvet underground won