The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

Not heard the S&G one before and like others have said they have much better. It would be nice for someone who is looking for someone called Emily. Not my son though who ended his relationship of four and a bit years with his childhood sweetheart Emily a couple of months ago.

I was never really into the pretenders but listening with fresh ears they're not bad and get my vote.
 
Not heard the S & G track before and not a big fan of female vocalists but Ms Hynde is one of the few exception, good song too.
 
Maybe a graphic would help illustrate the problem.

Songs on Pretenders first two records up here
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2000 Miles (great Xmas song, also about J H-S)
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Everything else they did down here

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S&G's best songs up here
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This particular one down here

Ugh. I will go Pretenders but couldn't someone have picked Up The Neck or something?
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
Maybe a graphic would help illustrate the problem.

Songs on Pretenders first two records up here
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2000 Miles (great Xmas song, also about J H-S)
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V
Everything else they did down here

versus

S&G's best songs up here
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V
This particular one down here

Ugh. I will go Pretenders but couldn't someone have picked Up The Neck or something?
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Harsh. Learning To Crawl might not be as good as the first two but overall it's a decent album especially in the circumstances albeit it is marred by a couple of dodgy tracks.

We can agree about 2000 Miles being a great (and touching) Christmas song.
 
threespires said:
Harsh. Learning To Crawl might not be as good as the first two but overall it's a decent album especially in the circumstances albeit it is marred by a couple of dodgy tracks.

We can agree about 2000 Miles being a great (and touching) Christmas song.
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Not harsh. Accurate.

"Decent", agreed, versus an amazing debut (one of the best ever) and IMO an exceedingly underrated follow-up, just as "English Roses" might be one of the most underrated rock songs of all time. It's Chrissie Hynde's "Heroes."

Nothing CH did after the absolutely tragic deaths of JHS and PF comes close. Not her fault. Their deaths together are up there with Hendrix, Cobain, Rhoads and D. Boone for wasted potential IMO.
 
This S&G song is stunning ‘Live’. Should have picked the live version as the vocals are absolutely spot on. Here it is…
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
Not harsh. Accurate.

"Decent", agreed, versus an amazing debut (one of the best ever) and IMO an exceedingly underrated follow-up, just as "English Roses" might be one of the most underrated rock songs of all time. It's Chrissie Hynde's "Heroes."

Nothing CH did after the absolutely tragic deaths of JHS and PF comes close. Not her fault. Their deaths together are up there with Hendrix, Cobain, Rhoads and D. Boone for wasted potential IMO.
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If we agree it's decent then I still think your graphic is harsh and needs more work :-)

As for your second and third paras, I couldn't agree more, particularly with respect to JHS. Had they been in a position to repeat the quality of those first two albums (which I think they would have been without those loses) they would now probably have one of the great back catalogues.
 
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