Jop Tournament Round 1.7

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nothing hugely dramatic in yesterday's fites - possibly today's will generate more conflict!


[Poll #921728]


Tomorrow: Breeders, Jacko, Eminem, and more from Madge.

Comments

Re: He's a crank, but he's OUR crank

[koganbot]

Sweet Child over No Scrubs: Sweet Child is like the eighth best song on Appetite if even that, but I love Appetite; reason for not loving "Child" as much as some others is that it's a slow ballad and I generally don't like slow ballads. Best part is Axl's stretching the words on "where do we go, where do we go now," 'cause he actually doesn't know where to go. Kat, GN'R are naive and ignorant, but they're not stupid. This is the love ballad in the land of confusion, which makes it more interesting than 80% of other love ballads, since he's not promising her devotion he's promising to join her on a desperate journey to who knows where/nowhere. GN'R cops a rock stance and then unexpectedly (unexpected by me in '88, 'cause I truly thought rock was ready for the scrap heap by then), brings back analytic smarts of Dylan-Stones-Stooges-Ubu. Except they do it way better in "It's So Easy," in which he criticizes trees and phone poles and oncoming traffic for not running into him when he's driving drunk. Wants engagement, not getting it from the world, tries to get it from a girl. As for "No Scrubs," I love writers-producers Kandi-She'kspere '99 for their romantic journey across the measure bars, and for the ethereal harpsichords that accompany them; unfortunately it's TLC not Kandi doing the vocals, and I have a problem with T-Boz's "throaty, seductive voice" (Wikipedia). I tended to call her the horsey-voiced woman. Also, the lyrics are a valid complaint but not interesting. And anyway Kandi and She'kspere then came along on "Bills Bills Bills" and "There You Go" later in the year and totally trounced this.

Re: He's a crank, but he's OUR crank

[koganbot]

does it way better in 'It's So Easy'"

Does it way better than on "Sweet Child," that is. (Not way better than "Under My Thumb" and "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Final Solution" and "Gimme Danger," though it's up there.)