The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

FogBlueInSanFran said:
It really is a special song and though I was a literal kid (6 or 7) when I first heard S&Gs Greatest Hits, so many of those tunes have stuck with me all my life — this one most of all.

Personally I expect the Manc contingent to fight for their local heroes and A Day In The Life is still lurking too, so some big (and legitimate) battles to come between titans.
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I think there will be some big battles ahead I agree and also agree with you about S&G Greatest Hits but for me the song that will always be their greatest is Bridge Over Troubled Water.
 
threespires said:
I won't be crass enough to suggest that S&G didn't make some incredible music together and that the music in this particular track is anything other than great. However the lyric and his motivation for writing it simply reminds me of what a self-serving, self-pitying dickhead Paul Simon appears to have been over the course of his career. In fairness this isn't one of the songs where Simon's 'creative process' meant he could get away without crediting others but still if I wanted to listen to a pop star blather on about how hard done by they are I can listen to some of Lennon's early solo work.

I can think of multiple Pretenders songs better than Back on the Chain Gang but on the basis it doesn't wind me up listening to it, it'll get my vote. I think The Boxer might easily win the whole thing but I'd prefer it was one of their others tbf.

It's a shame because Paul Simon was talented and successful enough that he could have been the (figuratively) bigger man at various points in his career but seemingly too insecure to do so.
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Fair point of view on Simon which I’ve heard before, but with others wistfully recalling days of yore despite the now-recogniz(s)ed sins of an old artist in the modern day, I have allowed my nostalgia to rule the roost.

Also you’re goddamn right there are better Pretenders songs — start with every single track on the first two records. OK, maybe not the Kinks cover.
 
I am actually surprised by the margin to date even though I agree its not the Pretenders at their very best.

Despite the worst of the New York / New Jersey traits that both have and his angry little man syndrome Paul Simon is an amazing song writer and story teller and he more than deserves to be inducted into Hall of Fame on 2 occasions.
I haven't listened to his latest album where Voces8 appear yet but at 82 in less than two weeks and 66 years of song writing there are not many peers for what he does and how he does it.
 
I would like to amend my previous post re: The Pretenders having just listened to their first two records.

Every song on the first record is better than Back on the Chain Gang, except Lovers of Today. The Kinks cover actually IS better.

And all but one (I Go To Sleep) on II are better.

And I LIKE Back on the Chain Gang. That’s how absolutely fucking great The Pretenders were. RIP JHS and PF and long live CH.
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
I would like to amend my previous post re: The Pretenders having just listened to their first two records.

Every song on the first record is better than Back on the Chain Gang, except Lovers of Today. The Kinks cover actually IS better.

And all but one (I Go To Sleep and) on II are better.

And I LIKE Back on the Chain Gang. That’s how absolutely fucking great The Pretenders were. RIP JHS and PF and long live CH.
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I Go To Sleep is a Ray Davies song too but not as good as Stop Your Sobbing which I've always really liked.

I'd dare to say both are a decent match for the original Kinks tracks.
 
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