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]

'Safe From Harm' beating 'Unfinished Sympathy' - wow and hurrah! Not that I don't love the latter - another couple of ticks and I'd've ticked it - but it's always been the inferior Shara Nelson track to me. She just sounds stronger on 'Safe From Harm'. Blue Lines is probably the weakest of their three good albums actually (I refuse to acknowledge 100th Window), but the best cuts off Protection and Mezzanine weren't the singles (viz: 'Better Things', 'Inertia Creeps', 'Group Four').

Portishead's second album was pretty great, too. Despite its coffee table rep, Dummy sounded pretty fucked-up and weird to me when I first heard it; Portishead is even more strung-out. 'Half Day Closing' is incredible.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Unfinished Sympathy is great but everyone has heard it far too many times. Or at least I have, hence my lack of tick.

I thought Inertia Creeps was a single, and was surprised not to see it here. Maybe it didn't chart?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was a latecomer to Unfinished Sympathy - the first I'd heard of Massive Attack was hearing 'Sly' on Now 27! I played it to death, and then when 'Protection' was equally good on Now 28 I decided to get the album. Of course I'd *heard* Unfinished Sympathy before then, but had never registered either the artist or it being anything other than tv montage music. Hence it dropped off the ticky list for me. Nicolette sounds like a ghost on 'Sly' - it's still fabulously awesome.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah Nicolette's got such a unique voice - her album was really good too, but I lost my copy :( Also, it was called Let No One Live Rent Free In Your Head wtf.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think I prefer White Blue Lines. Also The Mad Professor dub/remix thing wasn't all that good IIRC.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I never liked Blue Lines as much as Mezzanine or Protection. It seemed too... stilted? Protection had this lovely flowing oogly-bloo feel to it, and Mezzanine was all dark and menacing. Blue Lines was a tape with some songs on it.