Jop Tournament: Semi Finals

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nissy vs Madge! Jacko vs Britney! Go go go!

[Poll #931988]

Turnout was down last round, maybe because of all the complicated extra questions (or maybe because people are sick of the poll - almost over now!), so I've kept this one simple.

Oh, comment away of course, but please no chat on the lines of "Who I will vote for in the final" :)

Comments

Re: Get Ur Rock On

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"Common People" was never really rocking in terms of riffs/song, more that its lyrics kinda spoke something. Of course, the album version has that ranty angry bit toward the end to reinforce its "point" that got cut in the single version (I think).

Looking at yr second para: would something like "La Bamba" qualify for "hard rock in a combined sense", or isn't the riffage hard enough? What about "Jump"? That is probably hard, but I don't know if it has a strong "back and forth motion" (does it?)

Re: Get Ur Rock On

[koganbot]

Well, "Like A Rolling Stone" would qualify in my combined sense ('cept damn, it needed a better bass player, so it doesn't do the back and forth as well as it should); and of course the chorus to "Like A Rolling Stone" was taken from "La Bamba." Dylan's said so (and even if he hadn't, the chords say so).

If you're talking about the Van Halen "Jump," I'd say maybe, but I'd almost say it falls down on the rock as-in-igneous-thing bit (which is fine; that just makes it disco with rock riffs, which is pretty much what I'd say about "Beat It"; and of course, disco is great, at least as good as rock, though it's not "my music" in the way that rock once was). Stuff that might really qualify as my "double hard rock" would be Jimi's "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child" and Funkadelic's "Funky Dollar Bill" and Sly's "I Want To Take You Higher" and the Contortions' "I Can't Stand Myself" and maybe even James Brown's "I Can't Stand Myself" (certainly the closest he ever came to hard rock). Of course, many rock fans wouldn't count those as rock at all, and I have to say that my favorite rock band is the Stones through about 1971 (conventional choice) though I'll acknowledge that they do fall somewhat short on the back-and-forth bit. This is why I think hard rock's greatest moments may still be in the future, though they almost certainly won't be called "rock." "The Real Slim Shady" was a great hard rock moment. The Lil Jon slammer that opens the Ciara album could qualify, 'cept I haven't heard it since AOL streamed the album on their Listening Party the week of its release. If someone with a Jagger-type self-critical mind were to do crunk or snap or hyphy...?

Re: Get Ur Rock On

[koganbot]

Jimmy Castor Bunch "Troglodyte"!

Re: Get Ur Rock On

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Troglodyte" got the most 'WTF is this' reactions of anything I've played at Poptimism I think. I didn't see anyone making a back and forth motion though :(

Frank where do you stand on Status Quo?

Re: Get Ur Rock On

[koganbot]

Barely know the Quo; "Pictures of Matchstick Men" was their only hit in the U.S., came across more as psychedelic than as hard rock (not that you can't be both).