ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
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ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Voted off: Police on My Back
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Hmmm... gonna have to come back to this one. Both excellent. Lyrically The Call Up is better but I do prefer the tune on Washington Bullets. Tough one.
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Indeed.
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
As I said the other day, both are fine songs and worthy winners—a tie would be just—but I give the edge to TCU because its pacifist range is wider, more universal, than WB's criticism of America's imperialism in Latin America. I also don't accept the criticism that TCU shouldn't have been a single. C'mon, it gave the subject matter a wider audience at a time when nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union were at their highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis. It ain't all about poppy aesthetics—sometimes it's because people should hear what is being said.
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Eh, didn't take as long as I thought. Haven't become less of a Dead Kennedys fan in the last couple weeks so I'm not NOT going to vote for the tuneless hectoring (and vote out Washington Bullets).
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Here's my one red line - I will not accept Washington Bullets being voted off.
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Nice to see you admit that you're a Truman-loving nuke junkie. Google Hiroshima, you dirty fascist.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 Apr 2019, 1:57pmHere's my one red line - I will not accept Washington Bullets being voted off.
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Difficult because voting for a great song like The Call Up is tricky.
Not difficult because Washington Bullets is fucking exceptional.
Not difficult because Washington Bullets is fucking exceptional.
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I’m gonna keep thinking for a bit.
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
I voted to oust WB in this very difficult poll because Joe was mostly unable to pull it off live.
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By that logic, y’all need to put Let’s Go Crazy into a freshly dug grave.
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Let the record show that though I ultimately voted to oust the Call Up, I disagree vehemently with people that call it boring.
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Re: ROUND 16 - Sandinista! - Side Four
Call Up, boring. Got it.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Yeah, I didn't think we were taking into account live versions in these polls.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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I’m not. My very favorite Clash live moment is the last minute or so of Clampdown at Shibuya, but I just voted Clampdown off because the studio version isn’t nearly as transcendent.
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