The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

[threespires]

Fuckin' hell Grandads, turn up your sideboard gramophones and get with the programme here, Massive Attack is top stuff :-)

 

[BlueHammer85]

Fuckin' hell Grandads, turn up your sideboard gramophones and get with the programme here, Massive Attack is top stuff :-)

Awesome tune, never get tired of that one

 

[Marklr]

Awesome tune, never get tired of that one

Massive Attack were around 91, so technically fans of the band will be grandad age now..

 

[threespires]

Massive Attack were around 91, so technically fans of the band will be grandad age now..

Thanks for that helpful bit of maths, cheered me right up ;-) Anyway as Einstein almost certainly didn't say, everything is relative.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Come on, I love Midnight Oil but I am perfectly willing to accept that people might be put off by Peter Garrett's voice. Surely you can see the same with Kate Bush?

Kates voice matured and changed throughout her 40+ year and counting career. Whilst I can understand some of the adverse reaction to her vocal style early in her career as on this song, to write her off as a vocalist is mistaken. Her later work from Sensual World through Hounds of Love and especially Ariel features beautiful vocal performances. Acknowledgment of that nuance wouldn’t play as well to the gallery though. Live, she is in the top two or three vocalists I have ever seen.

 

[RobMCFC]

Kates voice matured and changed throughout her 40+ year and counting career. Whilst I can understand some of the adverse reaction to her vocal style early in her career as on this song, to write her off as a vocalist is mistaken. Her later work from Sensual World through Hounds of Love and especially Ariel features beautiful vocal performances. Acknowledgment of that nuance wouldn’t play as well to the gallery though. Live, she is in the top two or three vocalists I have ever seen.

I'm not really playing to the gallery as most of them seem to be on your side :)

I still can't believe that she knocked out "Sweet Child O'Mine".

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Kates voice matured and changed throughout her 40+ year and counting career. Whilst I can understand some of the adverse reaction to her vocal style early in her career as on this song, to write her off as a vocalist is mistaken. Her later work from Sensual World through Hounds of Love and especially Ariel features beautiful vocal performances. Acknowledgment of that nuance wouldn’t play as well to the gallery though. Live, she is in the top two or three vocalists I have ever seen.

I don't have an issue with her voice, here or later in her career. But "Wuthering Heights" is as inventive as a Barry Manilow song musically. Not to dis him, or her even, but it's pap.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I don't have an issue with her voice, here or later in her career. But "Wuthering Heights" is as inventive as a Barry Manilow song musically. Not to dis him, or her even, but it's pap.

In your opinion of course. Many don’t hold the same. A song without chorus about a classic book written by an unknown eighteen year old is still critically acclaimed by many. Just be clear, what definition of pap are you applying to this song 1) soft food 2) worthless) 3) a woman’s breast
Not sure any of them fit mate.

 

[stonerblue]

Fuckin' hell Grandads, turn up your sideboard gramophones and get with the programme here, Massive Attack is top stuff :-)

All day over that Bush dirge

 

[Saddleworth2]

I'm not really playing to the gallery as most of them seem to be on your side :)

I still can't believe that she knocked out "Sweet Child O'Mine".

Then rejoice in the learning that nobody should underestimate Ms Bush :-)
And seriously, listen to some of the later stuff. You still may not like it but it won’t be because of the voice.