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Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 5:28pm
by Flex
Flex wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 4:18pm
Also engaging in principled abstentionism at this point in the process.
actually, i take that back, i'm voting for i feel love. it's not really something i'd pick for an ultimate women's album since most of its best qualities really belong to Giorgio Moroder, but when I'm in the right mood I like a bit of disco and this is a good one - and it certainly influenced a bunch of other stuff that i like quite a bit (although its most immediate influence, spawning Hi-NRG, is much less my bag).

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 5:51pm
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 5:18pm
I remember reading about either a proposal or perhaps a place that actually employs this, but one of the options on the ballot is always none of the above, and if that gains a plurality, a new election is called and all the candidates have to be replaced. Pretty sure most of the elections I've either voted in or skipped, I would have taken advantage of that option.
Jello mentioned this on one of his old spoken word albums.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 6:08pm
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 5:51pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 5:18pm
I remember reading about either a proposal or perhaps a place that actually employs this, but one of the options on the ballot is always none of the above, and if that gains a plurality, a new election is called and all the candidates have to be replaced. Pretty sure most of the elections I've either voted in or skipped, I would have taken advantage of that option.
Jello mentioned this on one of his old spoken word albums.
That's probably where I came across it.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 8:11pm
by Heston
Counting Crows version swang it for me. #flex #matedog

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 9:50pm
by Flex
Heston wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 8:11pm
Counting Crows version swang it for me. #flex #matedog
swung it in which direction?

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 4:55am
by Heston
Flex wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 9:50pm
Heston wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 8:11pm
Counting Crows version swang it for me. #flex #matedog
swung it in which direction?
I voted for Joni. I Feel Love looks made for me on paper but I never really warmed to the tune. BYT carries a good message and is a likeable enough melody.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 9:44am
by matedog
Heston wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 8:11pm
Counting Crows version swang it for me. #flex #matedog
Also a main contributor to this great one:

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 10:03am
by revbob
Did I wander onto a disco board without realizing it?

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 10:29am
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
14 Sep 2020, 10:03am
Did I wander onto a disco board without realizing it?
IMCT has always been a disco board. Pay attention!

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 10:51am
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Sep 2020, 10:29am
revbob wrote:
14 Sep 2020, 10:03am
Did I wander onto a disco board without realizing it?
IMCT has always been a disco board. Pay attention!
I thought it was a KISS board.

In the future I'll take my punk discussions to the Kool and the Gang site as the good lord intended.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 11:01am
by Inder
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 3:05pm
Mimi wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 2:18pm
I nominated one song but really like the other. What to do, what to do?
Write in "Funky Town."


Not many cool, spiky covers of Joni, I note.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 11:03am
by Mimi
revbob wrote:
14 Sep 2020, 10:03am
Did I wander onto a disco board without realizing it?
And don't think we didn't dance to records by the Fifth Dimension in the disco sphere like Kublai Khan...

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 11:24am
by matedog
As someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 11:31am
by Marky Dread
I Feel Love. The only choice for me.

Re: The Ultimate Women's Album - Side 2 Track 4 Vote - Round 3

Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 12:17pm
by Silent Majority
matedog wrote:
14 Sep 2020, 11:24am
As someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
It's still got that mad freshness that truly original songs always carry, regardless of their imitators. The Pistols singles came out in the same year, and their revolution was in the lyrics and presentational attack - there was nothing new in the music. I Feel Love is brilliantly new and you can hear that.