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Irish Aris

phatkev wrote: »

In 15th place -Big Generator - Walking In My Shoes- submitted by

Mustang Shelly

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: No

A Depeche Mode cover, interesting.

phatkev

In 13th place - My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - submitted by

Osh

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: No

These look a bit bare without any sort of comments so I'll try to do a (very) short recap.
Loved the heavy bits of this song, felt the washed out vocals really brought the song down a notch imo

phatkev

In 12th place -Horslips – Dearg Doom
- submitted by

Fixxxer

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: Horslips really nailed the trad rock sound, but I think the amount of times i'd seen them during my college years kind of ruined the band for me. Solid tune, just not that massively into it

phatkev

In 11th place – Horslips - Trouble- submitted by

Sawduck

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: just pips the previous track imo, really like how the electric guitar and flute? mixed together on this one

phatkev

In 10th place – Clara Rose - Broken Woman Blues- submitted by

The Purple Tin

Have I heard the band: No

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts: Really enjoyed this one, was unlucky to only get to the number 10 spot, but the 9 tracks in front of it were just that bit stronger for me

Irish Aris

ehm, phatkev, was the second Horslips song meant to be 11th? You mentioned 12th twice. . .

phatkev

Irish Aris wrote: »

ehm, phatkev, was the second Horslips song meant to be 11th? You mentioned 12th twice. . .

whoops, thats what doing it on the fly will do to ya!:o

phatkev

Irish Aris wrote: »

ehm, phatkev, was the second Horslips song meant to be 11th? You mentioned 12th twice. . .

fixed now, we'll pretend that never happened:P

phatkev

In 9th place -Little Green Cars - The John Wayne- submitted by

Rothko

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: I had a whole story typed up about this one
Never a band I was that familiar with but really enjoy this song. Beautiful harmonies through out. love how the music steps up a gear around the 2 minute mark

phatkev

In 8th place -Travega - The Walls (Are Covered In My Name) - submitted by

ALSB

Have I heard the band: No

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts: Was really impressed with this one, not sure how the band passed me by because this was the exact sort of music I was into, around the time this would have been released. The additional voals towards the end really added to the song, thought the piano track was a solid addition as well

phatkev

In 7th place -Director – Reconnect - submitted by

Gru

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: have always loved Director, criminally under-rated band imo

Electric Nitwit

Good work with the live thoughts Kev. I can't listen now but there's a few I really want to catch up with based on what you're saying

phatkev

In 6th place –Mic Christopher - Heyday- submitted by

ShaneU

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: This is another great tune, instantly makes me think of beer gardens and pints. The use of strings elevates the track

s1ippy

Aw that album cover has some bang of nostalgia off it, fair dues ShaneU...

Love the Horslips, just enjoying those tracks now. Nice one Sawduck and Fixxxer!

phatkev

In 5th place – JJ72 - Snow- submitted by

LassyKK

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: This one is full of nostalgia for me. they managed to get such a big sound for a 3 piece, its a great chorus as well. He's got a very unique vocals. I seem to remember them being pretty big and then just disappeared, although I do remember hearing stories of the singer being a bit of a diva and fairly prone to a throwing a strop

phatkev

In 4th place - Talos - Odyssey - submitted by

S1ippy

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: Love Talos, anytime of seen them I've just been blown away. Really atmospheric and love the slow build up through out the song, he can really hit them high notes as well!

phatkev

so that leaves the top/bottom 3 to go. The people still waiting to hear their called are: Barney92, CJ Maxx, Electric Nitwit, Homer J Fong, Irish Aris and y0ssae1an22

Irish Aris

Electric Nitwit

phatkev

In 16th place - Virgin prunes - Caucasian walk- submitted by

Irish Aris

Have I heard the band: No

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts I was really interested in the start of this one, like the punk sounding vocals, but the more I listened to it the lower it fell. I think it was the guitar that done it for me, it got a bit annoying as the song went on. Im not really sure what was going on for the last 40 seconds. Sorry IA

Irish Aris

ah, I actually had high hopes for this one. . .oh, well. . .

phatkev

In 3rd place – Sleep Thieves - Sparks - submitted by

Homer J Fong

Have I heard the band: No

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts: Really liked the sound of this, the vocals are super familiar but I cant place them. Big fan of all the different sounds they've managed to incorporate in it, love the delay effect on the solo bit.

phatkev

In 17th place -The Golden Horde - Have a scene -submitted by

CJ Maxx

Have I heard the band: No

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts: Found it really hard to find a decent version of this, quality wise. Lively start but after that I cant help but feel I'm just listening to a Ramones song. So yeah, as mentioned the version I found is terrible quality, Im not sure this is the sound they were going for ( a la 90's black metal bands) or if they just never got into a studio

phatkev

In 2nd place – Fight Like Apes - Battlestations- submitted by

Electric Nitwit

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts: Another podium finish for EN. I fecking love Fight Like Apes. They were big around the time I would have been in college and I remember their live shows being absolutely mental. Love her vocals especially around the 2 minute mark. The only knock I'd have on is the vocal sample used, but she even says that sounds a bit sh1t:pac:

Electric Nitwit

Ha ha, I worried picking a song that says "I dont feel like playing this song again, the sample sounds like **** and, I dont want to hear it again" was tempting fate but I love it! Delighted you did too

phatkev

In 18th place - Joe Dolan - Westmeath Bachelor- submitted by

Barney92

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: No

Thoughts: Unfortunately someone has to take last spot and its Barney of the second time in two rounds. I afraid the "Joe Show" is just not for me, anytime I hear a "yee haw", "yaa who" or "diddly i" mentioned in a song I'm going to lose interest

phatkev

Which means 1st place goes to - The Frames - Revelate
- submitted by

y0ssae1an22

Have I heard the band: Yes

Have I heard the song: Yes

Thoughts The Frames got me my first and only suspension from secondary school, we'd been bused up from wexford for a college course fair in the RDS and a couple of us decided to ditch the rest of the losers to go see the Frames in the HMV on Grafton street. Other than Fitzcarraldo this would be my favourite Frames song. Also Colm Mac Con Iomaire is an absolute musical wizard, it blows my mind what he can do with a fiddle, any of his solo stuff would have scored very high on this list

phatkev

Heres the scores after round 5, has Electric Nitwit already got one hand on the trophy or will one of the chasing pack pip them to the post?

Name | Rd1 | Rd2 | Rd3 | Rd4 | Rd5 | Rd6 | Total
Electric Nitwit | 16 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 17 | | 72 |
Homer | 9 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 16 | | 69 |
The Purple Tin | 10 | 11 | 16 | 18 | 9 | | 64 |
ShaneU | 6 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 13 | | 61 |
y0ssae1an22 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 18 | | 57 |
Gru | 12 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 12 | | 55 |
S1ippy | 7 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 15 | | 54 |
CJ Maxx | 18 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 2 | | 50 |
Osh | 13 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 6 | | 50 |
Lassykk | 5 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 14 | | 44 |
Sawduck | 17 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | | 40 |
ASLB | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 11 | | 40 |
JP Liz V1 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 5 | | 39 |
Rothko | 14 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 10 | | 39 |
Barney92 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 1 | | 34 |
Fixxxer | 11 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7 | | 33 |
Mustang Shelly | 1 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 4 | | 29 |
Irish Aris | 14 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 3 | | 26 |

phatkev

Thanks for joining in this round, apologies for the lack of commentary on each entry

Electric Nitwit

phatkev wrote: »

Heres the scores after round 5, has Electric Nitwit already got one hand on the trophy or will one of the chasing pack pip them to the post?

Whoo-hoo

I'll be surprised if my final round submission is in the middle of the pack. I love it, and hope you will too, but it's definitely not for everyone. Blaze of glory or down in flames?