"Don't You Want Me" vs. "Like A Prayer": two songs I don't care that much about, and I actually had to go back and listen to them; the result is that I way prefer "Don't You Want Me" for a rather simple reason: way better melody. The tune to "Like A Prayer" is nondescript, only the arrangement and Madonna's singing make me care about the song; and Madonna's singing is starting to carry the heaviness that makes me like later Madonna less than earlier Madonna. Of course, Human League isn't so vocally light either. So it's the tune.
"Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" vs. "Love Will Tear Us Apart": But on this one the riff of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is one of the most tunefully beautiful ever but I'm voting against, 'cause the singing, while in style is fine for what Ian is trying to do, is really really terrible in execution; and though overall I'd say riff overwhelms badness of singing, not against good competition and one of the most beautiful singers ever. (Btw, when I voted LWTUA previously (I don't actually remember how consistently I did), it wasn't a matter of my having been there, since being "there" for me meant a general opinion of me and many of the people around me that Joy Division were a terrible retreat from punk and power pop and were actually Pink Floyd in drab garb w/ Jim Morrison-like vocals that were lacking Morrison's ebullience, so JD seemed like a step back. So it took me a while to admit that I actually loved some Joy Division songs a whole lot. I did feel for the beauty of LWTUA right off. I think "She's Lost Control" has a far better performance. (Did consider New Order to be a step forward and also dull as dishwater [unless it's ditchwater that they're dull as; poll: which is duller, dishwater or ditchwater?], and plenty of other dance steppers were dancing further anyway.))
"Work It" vs. "Billie Jean": Already told my love for "Billie Jean"; my not quite love for "Work It"? Hmmm. I said "too cutesy" last time, which states it too strongly (the track is more cutesy peculiar than cutesy ha ha); it's a delight, but "delight," while praising, also identifies a limit; the song doesn't work itself into my heart muscle.
"West End Girls" vs. "Toxic": Feelings about these two aren't so strong, and therefore once again I relistened. It think WEG is actually among PSB's very best, but then I'm talking as a non-PSB fanatic and maybe I like it for being the one where the disco shows through and the vocals and arrangements don't cloak the disco in their sensibility - and the sensibility, not weighing down the sound for once, sounds beautiful. "Toxic" is fun - quite good - but chillier than a lot of other Britney and chillier than WEG. (I wonder now whether, if I were revoting previous rounds, I might vote WEG more and "Toxic" less.)
Everything I'm voting for today is winning decisively.
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:28 pm (UTC)"Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" vs. "Love Will Tear Us Apart": But on this one the riff of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is one of the most tunefully beautiful ever but I'm voting against, 'cause the singing, while in style is fine for what Ian is trying to do, is really really terrible in execution; and though overall I'd say riff overwhelms badness of singing, not against good competition and one of the most beautiful singers ever. (Btw, when I voted LWTUA previously (I don't actually remember how consistently I did), it wasn't a matter of my having been there, since being "there" for me meant a general opinion of me and many of the people around me that Joy Division were a terrible retreat from punk and power pop and were actually Pink Floyd in drab garb w/ Jim Morrison-like vocals that were lacking Morrison's ebullience, so JD seemed like a step back. So it took me a while to admit that I actually loved some Joy Division songs a whole lot. I did feel for the beauty of LWTUA right off. I think "She's Lost Control" has a far better performance. (Did consider New Order to be a step forward and also dull as dishwater [unless it's ditchwater that they're dull as; poll: which is duller, dishwater or ditchwater?], and plenty of other dance steppers were dancing further anyway.))
"Work It" vs. "Billie Jean": Already told my love for "Billie Jean"; my not quite love for "Work It"? Hmmm. I said "too cutesy" last time, which states it too strongly (the track is more cutesy peculiar than cutesy ha ha); it's a delight, but "delight," while praising, also identifies a limit; the song doesn't work itself into my heart muscle.
"West End Girls" vs. "Toxic": Feelings about these two aren't so strong, and therefore once again I relistened. It think WEG is actually among PSB's very best, but then I'm talking as a non-PSB fanatic and maybe I like it for being the one where the disco shows through and the vocals and arrangements don't cloak the disco in their sensibility - and the sensibility, not weighing down the sound for once, sounds beautiful. "Toxic" is fun - quite good - but chillier than a lot of other Britney and chillier than WEG. (I wonder now whether, if I were revoting previous rounds, I might vote WEG more and "Toxic" less.)
Everything I'm voting for today is winning decisively.
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:35 pm (UTC)By the way, Tom, what are the seedings of these? Do you always put the top seed first?
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:39 pm (UTC)These fights go:
8 vs 9
13 v Unseeded
6 v 22
2 v 18