Group A - Week 6

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Songs about/featuring a location you've been to.

Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

St Etienne - Girl VII

The Teenagers - Streets of Paris

Alberto · **Joined:** 28th Jan, 2011 **Posts:** 1198

A song questioning the sexuality of a baseball player must surely get points from me! Shame it's not a very good song though...

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Not much I find pleasing among them.

Alarm · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 0:04

Is Sheryl Crow a punishment song, or is that a location?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I can only assume it's referring to "Santa Monica Boulevard".

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Also, the cheek of implying that I don't choose punishment songs to fit the themes!

Alarm · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 0:09

Ahh. I've not actually listened to the song.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:53

I've not listened to the others, but "Holland, 1945" is one of the best songs EVER, so will almost certainly get my vote.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Oh for God's sake people, all of these are awful.

It's like you don't know me at all

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

It certainly isn't a particularly good selection this time is it?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

DerekFME wrote:

It certainly isn't a particularly good selection this time is it?

I have to agree.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:22

If you don't like Neutral Milk Hotel I can only assume your souls were removed at birth, and replaced with a cold, hard stone with the lyrics to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" written on it to guarantee you have an awful taste in music.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Curiosity wrote:

If you don't like Neutral Milk Hotel I can only assume your souls were removed at birth, and replaced with a cold, hard stone with the lyrics to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" written on it to guarantee you have an awful taste in music.

If you do like it, then I suggest you have no interest in music that sounds like the person performing it gives more than 2 shits about what they're doing. It sounds like he was worried about a pan boiling over or something.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:42

DavPaz wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

If you don't like Neutral Milk Hotel I can only assume your souls were removed at birth, and replaced with a cold, hard stone with the lyrics to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" written on it to guarantee you have an awful taste in music.

If you do like it, then I suggest you have no interest in music that sounds like the person performing it gives more than 2 shits about what they're doing. It sounds like he was worried about a pan boiling over or something.

You, sir, have no soul. He's singing about death and love and Anne Frank and stuff.

It was also listed at the 7th best song of the decade for the 1990s by Pitchfork.

Trufax

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Voted best by a tool you say?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:50

DavPaz wrote:

Voted best by a tool you say?

Ah, so you did give it three points!

Alarm · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:42

DavPaz wrote:

Oh for God's sake people, all of these are awful.

It's like you don't know me at all

I agree. Only The Teenagers' song was almost mediocre, so I voted for that.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I wish I had thought of this earlier

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 21:06

Belle and Sebastian - Not good.
Neutral Milk Hotel - Neither is this.
Sheryl Crow - I think this is the best song in the group and I'm not a massive fan of it...
St Etienne - ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz
The Teenagers - boring.

So that's me saving some points this week!

Mark X · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 21:43

I'm clearly in the minority, but I thought this was a very strong set of choices from the Group A jury. If they throw a party with a playlist like this, I'd SO be there. (I'd go for a wee when Sheryl Crow's song was on, obvs.)

Teenagers > St Etienne > Neutral Milk Hotel for me. Bit surprised no-one chose "It's Grim Up North" by the KLF. Which would have been extra-excellent if it'd actually been chosen by Grim*.

(*Except he's not in this group. Aw.)

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 22:05

Craster wrote:

Also, the cheek of implying that I don't choose punishment songs to fit the themes!

Well, there are no songs about the time you went to Craster. Or the toilet. So it's hardly a surprising conclusion.

Curiosity wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

If you don't like Neutral Milk Hotel I can only assume your souls were removed at birth, and replaced with a cold, hard stone with the lyrics to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" written on it to guarantee you have an awful taste in music.

If you do like it, then I suggest you have no interest in music that sounds like the person performing it gives more than 2 shits about what they're doing. It sounds like he was worried about a pan boiling over or something.

You, sir, have no soul. He's singing about death and love and Anne Frank and stuff.

It's probably the best there, but boy could it do with something happening in terms of dynamics.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I wonder if people realise that GirlVII features lots of tube station names in the middle.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

DerekFME wrote:

I wonder if people realise that GirlVII features lots of tube station names in the middle.

Nope. Stopped listening well before the middle.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

It's understandable really, it's not Etienne's best song.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:49

DavPaz wrote:

DerekFME wrote:

I wonder if people realise that GirlVII features lots of tube station names in the middle.

Nope. Stopped listening well before the middle.

I finished listening before you.

I think the given thing here is that I will inevitably take an immediate and severe dislike of any of Nigel Henges submitted songs.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Who's to say I submitted that ONE?????111?!?11/1?

Well yes I did obv. BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT.

Not sure what the point is actually.

Anyway I'm not Nigel Henge anymore - I'm Derekfumeh

I think I might have done better selecting Coventry earlier. Can I go back in time and change it please?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I had to listen to it, because somebody didn't tell me what it was, so I had to try and make out the virtually inaudible lyrics and then google them.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 17:14

Craster wrote:

I had to listen to it, because somebody didn't tell me what it was, so I had to try and make out the virtually inaudible lyrics and then google them.

Shazam!

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I forget that the Beex mp3 uploader doesn't tell you the title. Sorry cresster.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 17:56

Craster wrote:

I had to listen to it, because somebody didn't tell me what it was, so I had to try and make out the virtually inaudible lyrics and then google them.

Why didn't you just reply and say 'what the fuck is this shit?' and then put a punishment song in when you didn't get a response in time.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Because it was already past the deadline when I noticed

Craig · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1236

The album that the Neutral Milk Hotel track is from is a bit of a "masterpiece". I only first heard it about 6 months ago, and it took a while to get into, but it is one of the most powerful recordings I've ever heard. I don't think that this track is a very good example of the general sound as it does sound a bit loud and rushed, it's difficult to hear the words and be bothered about the context.

I strongly urge anyone who hasn't heard the album to give it a shot.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

I've heard better Belle and Sebastian songs... 'Ooh Stick You' and 'U.G.L.Y' are much more upbeat and fun.

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