The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

[denislawsbackheel]

I’ve seen everything now.
Pompous writing about pop music is a particular speciality of US journos but writing that Hook is one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time takes the fucking biscuit!

 

[tonea2003]

I’ve seen everything now.
Pompous writing about pop music is a particular speciality of US journos but writing that Hook is one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time takes the fucking biscuit!

he aint shite either, to say "greatest" is pushing the envelope tad too far
but he isn't shabby and has a unique style

 

[threespires]

I’ve seen everything now.
Pompous writing about pop music is a particular speciality of US journos but writing that Hook is one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time takes the fucking biscuit!

It's the age old question of how much do you value technical virtuousity above other things? Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen more technically adept players and they'll be loads more. However, his was probably the defining sound in one (arguably two) of the most influential bands in British popular music. Someone like Jaco P might wipe the floor with him when it comes to technical chops but imo that's far from the only measure. A bit like the likes of Larry Graham, what he brought to the party was pretty unique.

 

[hilts]

The bottom line is JD's misery was 100% real (and within their music you hear the struggle and sometimes find them breaking free . . . "Dance dance dance / To the radio") and RH's is fake, and cynical, and a grift.

I have a moral objection to this band in addition to a musical one. They've fooled millions of teenagers and young adults who all through periods of wallowing as their brains develop into thinking they're profund. No one ever went broke playing the "misery loves company" card, ever.

And let's also add that Peter Hook -- **** that he can be -- was and is one the great and most influential and novel bassists of all time. Who does Radiohead have in any musical seat you can say that about? The perpetual whinger Yorke, who had the incredible balls to claim Neil Young influenced him? Fuck off with that.

I can -- and will -- go on and on and on regarding this topic, which may be the musical prejudice I am more willing to defend than nearly any other ("The Eagles are mostly shit" is close).

Thankfully for all here, we're getting another song battle soon.

I get you as I have similar feelings of angst over Zeppelin but mainly I listen to a song and base the whole process on if I like listening to it. I really couldn't care if radiohead are grifting teenagers . The whole entertainment industry is full of grifters.

I like listening to some of their songs Joy Division with one song excepted I could gladly never listen to again tbh.

 

[hilts]

I'm not a massive JD fan, but I would take Decades, She's Lost Control, Isolation, New Dawn Fades, Atmosphere, Ceremony, LWTUA and Digital over anything Radiohead have ever done.
Radiohead is just warbling misery.

I do.like the New Order version of ceremony a lot. Substance is in my top 10 albums. I much preferred Bernard Sumner on the mic tbh.

 

[BlueHammer85]

2 of 2 Oasis tracks through to the next round. Radiohead out.

Fake Plastic Trees 17 - 41 Live Forever

 

[BlueHammer85]

Please click 'Like' on the song you prefer.

Round 3/M6
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
v
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

 

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[NZBlue]

I asked before when the real music starts- it has now.

We have the monumental epic from Floyd. It sums up their entire ethos, demonstrates their phenomenal musicianship and shows impeccable songwriting.

One that allows for room to think and proves its not necessarily what you put in to the music but also what you leave out.