The Friday Canon: TRIP-HOP BATTLE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's Bristol! It's the Nineties! What are the kidz listening to on their 'walk-mans' on the back seat of the bus? Well, East 17 probably, but who was the real winner of the Wess Cunnry Coffee Table war? You have EIGHT ticks to dish out between Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky's UK Top 40 hits.

[Poll #1119484]
Manic Street Preachers: (link)
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. You Love Us
=3. Faster / PCP
=3. Little Baby Nothing
5. A Design For Life
=6. Everything Must Go
=6. La Tristesse Durera
8. From Despair To Where
9. Kevin Carter
=10. Revol
=10. Roses In The Hospital
=10. Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)

NB: This canon was meant to be put up in December, but I forgot. Look out for all-new Friday poll action next week!

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Aw trip-hop! Trip-hop was my default listening as a teenager. As well as the trip-hop trinity I own or have owned albums/singles by:

Ruby
Shara Nelson
Nicolette
Olive
Earthling (this was shit even then)
Morcheeba
Moloko
Ragga & The Jack Magic Orchestra (Ragga = the girl on 'You Don't' by Tricky)
Ingrid Schroeder
Coco & The Bean
Sneaker Pimps
and Martina Topley-Bird's solo album.

and also one you forgot Kat - Nearly God, Tricky's 1996 side project ft. Bjork, Alison Moyet, Neneh Cherry, some other people. I wouldn't have ticked the single, 'Poems', but 'I Be The Prophet' was amazing.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There is no way that Olive = trip-hop! They are trip-jungle!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Everything with slow beats and a girl singing wistfully was trip-hop back then!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Martina Topley-Bird just sounds like it is a completely made-up name from FHM or Nuts or something.

I liked Morcheeba and Moloko.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Earthling (this was shit even then)'

'Nefisa' is good!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have no actual recollection of specific Earthling songs!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

seconded - I quite like some of the album too (in my head, haven't heard it for years) and any band which rhymes 'casino' with 'looks like Brian Eno' has to have something going for ut.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Is Topley-Bird any good? A band I like but you really wouldn't so I won't mention did a great cover of 'Too Tough To Die' and I've never heard her original. Should I listen to her?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I haven't exactly gone back to that solo album much - her voice is still magnificent and there are some great songs on it but it's not essential or anything. A bit polite though stand her next to our current crop of Adeles, Duffys etc and she comes across like, well, Tricky.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I'd echo that. I enjoyed listening to it at the time, but apart from 'Need One', which was the lead single off the album, I doubt if I've listened to any MT-B songs in years. Great voice though.