The Bluemoon Song Cup 2024 - Semi-Final / SF/M2 / P292 - Ben E. King (Stand By Me) v The Cult (She Sells Sanctuary)

Like both, but prefer hearing Van Halen play WGFA....Highway.

My love for VH exceeds that for both AC/DC and The Who. VH’s WGFA is brilliant and clever but you can’t beat The Who’s. Entwistle’s bass is sensational. The best version for me is the live one recorded for The Kid’s Are Alright film. Keith Moon’s drumming on the intro is superb.
 
Both great songs to listen to but I think wgfa has more to it musically, it is more interesting to listen to imho. hth is simplistic and I'm surprised no one came up with the riff/chord structure nefore they did tbh. Its fun to play mind. The solo in the song neither adds or detracts so you are basically left with a typical 3 chord acdc song, catchy as fuck mind.

AC/DC make a virtue out of simple in a way that few bands can match.
 
My love for VH exceeds that for both AC/DC and The Who. VH’s WGFA is brilliant and clever but you can’t beat The Who’s. Entwistle’s bass is sensational. The best version for me is the live one recorded for The Kid’s Are Alright film. Keith Moon’s drumming on the intro is superb.
All opinions, I find The Who OK or 'mid' as my kids would say.... another band who are mythed & hyped well beyond what they were....imo.
 
All opinions, I find The Who OK or 'mid' as my kids would say.... another band who are mythed & hyped well beyond what they were....imo.
I’ll agree with that. A few exceptional songs, this being one of them, but not enough to put them in the same league as their contemporaries. Another discussion point for the Rock Evolution thread.
 
I was giggling about this earlier this morning and subsequently provided the appropriate 'like'.

I have just flown out to Copenhagen for a few nights and downloaded a film for the plane.

One from Netflix.

Managed to cram in about an hour of it during the flight whilst being pestered by my kids for snacks.

The film - The Killer with Michael Fassbender.

Anyone that has seen the film will now see the further irony from the above.

The fucking soundtrack is wall to wall Smiths FFS!?!

Barring one song I spotted from Portishead...............
I watched the entire film solely for that reason - the film was shite! (Unlike the soundtrack ha ha)
 
I’ll agree with that. A few exceptional songs, this being one of them, but not enough to put them in the same league as their contemporaries. Another discussion point for the Rock Evolution thread.

Oh man. Here we disagree. A string of great singles in the 60’s. Three classic albums, two of which are doubles. And plenty of very good, sometimes classic music on other albums.

Also, to see the original Who with Moon on drums was one of the great concert experiences, as good as anything I’ve seen and I’ve seen a lot.
 

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