Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
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Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
Gotta be Fingerpoppin' though Dictator is a strong contender.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
Yeah fingerbop. Says something that with all manner of turds to choose from, it's not even a close call.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
I voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
With play to win in the mix, it would still be the finger song for me. Play to wins not even my second least favourite on the album.
Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
Fingerpoppin' has the least catchy chorus so it gets my vote.
In terms of the worst song as is on the album, Dictator is such an abomination. But at least the chorus is sorta catchy.
In terms of the worst song as is on the album, Dictator is such an abomination. But at least the chorus is sorta catchy.
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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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
"Fingerpoppin'," easily. "Dictator" is a hilarious mess, but it's kinda mesmerizing in its awful. "Fingerpoppin'" is just gross all around.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
Play to Win is sick. I'm a North and South hater though, so what do I know.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
I think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.Chairman Ralph wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 6:39pmI voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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“Very good”?Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:26pmI think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.Chairman Ralph wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 6:39pmI voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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Well that "I long for the prairie" chorus sounds decent enough to me. The breakdown bit is ok as well. It's certainly better than Junkie Slip.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:32pm“Very good”?Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:26pmI think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.Chairman Ralph wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 6:39pmI voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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i can accept tolerable or I've heard worse, but not very good.Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:54pmWell that "I long for the prairie" chorus sounds decent enough to me. The breakdown bit is ok as well. It's certainly better than Junkie Slip.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:32pm“Very good”?Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:26pmI think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.Chairman Ralph wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 6:39pmI voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
It's more melodic than a lot of Sandinista and CR stuff to me, just executed in that horrible Cut the Crap way.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 8:02pmi can accept tolerable or I've heard worse, but not very good.Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:54pmWell that "I long for the prairie" chorus sounds decent enough to me. The breakdown bit is ok as well. It's certainly better than Junkie Slip.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:32pm“Very good”?Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:26pmI think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.Chairman Ralph wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 6:39pmI voted for Fingerpoppin -- that, plus Play To Win, represent (for me) the biggest barrel scraping moments on CTC.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
I shake my head at how badly people seek to find a good album in all that.Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 8:06pmIt's more melodic than a lot of Sandinista and CR stuff to me, just executed in that horrible Cut the Crap way.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 8:02pmi can accept tolerable or I've heard worse, but not very good.Heston wrote: ↑24 Jun 2020, 7:54pmWell that "I long for the prairie" chorus sounds decent enough to me. The breakdown bit is ok as well. It's certainly better than Junkie Slip.
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Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
I thought that way, too, at the time: "This has a great chorus, looking for an equally great song to give it a good home." So I guess that raises it a notch over Fingerpoppin', doesn't it? But not by much.I think what music is in the song is actually very good. It's the long stretches of them talking in an arcade do it no favours. They couold have hung that chorus on a proper song.
Interestingly, Kerrang's five-K review of CTC cited PTW as one of the highlights -- "a sly C&W dip that shows why they deserve their innovative reputation." Just goes to show, there's always somebody in every crowd who's ready to stick their neck out...
Re: Leaving out Play To Win, what is your least favourite song on CtC?
Similar to Hoy's Dictator, the Flex version of Fingerpoppin' is the definitive version.
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