The Eternal Survivor Round 4
 

What's it like to be a girl in a band? I don't quite understand...

What I don't understand is how Sacred Trickster got voted off third. But like I said, I'm not the one voting here.

Survivors:

Anti-Orgasm
Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)
Antenna
What We Know
Calming The Snake
Poison Arrow
Malibu Gas Station
Walkin' Blue
Massage The History

Vote off your LEAST fave...

damn I will catch my copy tomorrow. I dont know how, but I made it to today without listening to the album, because I wanted to liten to MY copy...argh

poison arrow

antenna. :(

calming the snake!

Calming The Snake.. it's getting really hard. I really love this album.

Calming the Snake...only 'cause the echo effect on Kim's vox in the verses
should have been vetoed.

This is getting dumb hard.

Poison Arrow has the greatest combination of Lou Reed mimic and
drunken vocal panning ever, it's gotta last.

Sacred Trickster should have gotten voted off first.

This round:

Antenna.

Someone really is going to have to fill me in on what's so bad about Sacred Trickster. Is it all about paedos or something?

Leaky Lifeboat.

I go for the Leaky Lifeboat bizness too.

demondude - your avatar reminds me of reading an article about Wings today....."the band that the Beatles wish they could have been"

Nothing wrong with a bit of Wings every now and again. Besides, I've always felt that it wasn't so much the music that let them down as Paul and Linda's mullets. A decent enough band whose reputation has been effectively ruined by flat out diabolical haircuts.

I think we all saw the video.

Poison Arrow

a) I don't see the need to play the verse, chorus, whatever a full time through before Thurston starts to sing. (This happens on Sacred Trickster, Anti-Orgasm, and Malibu too, but I feel the music is much more interesting on those tracks...)

b) How does "Who shot the poison arrow?" relate to the rest of the lyrics? And then... why repeat it four times?

c) Even for a Lou Reed mimic, Thurston sounds a little too cool for school, and I agree with others about the panning on Kim...

I like the song, especially the overly hidden bass line at the end, but it's a little forgettable. The rest of the songs are pretty much flawless to me.

VERY good point.

My spies have indicated to me a different concept for the "Sacred Trickster" video, involving Bob Bert presenting his collection of Julia Cafritz's plectrums and used undergarments in a Richard Kern-style montage.

dr666 - Wings felled by mullets, eh? Does that explain these false-reggae moments too?

Poison Arrow

No, I mean Wings were ultimately pretty shit, but they weren't exactly helped by the fact that most of the band looked like members of the Socialist Workers Party, either.

Ha ha ha ha!!!! Awesome. Buy that man a pint :D

Leaky Lifeboat

poison arrow.

damn that chorus! why repeat such a boring line 4 times and then make lame panning effects

i'm going to vote poison arrow, it's alot better than massage the history but it seems a fair amount of people have bad enough taste to vote for leaky lifeboat and antenna which are obviously superior tunes

poison arrow

calming the snake

Leaky

Poison Arrow

Anti Orgasm

haha I maybe the only motherfucker who thinks that it is the weakest track on the album

is "calming the snake" a song or morning vocalises?? this song makes me want to yawn

Poison Arrow

I don't think it's weak, but first time I heard the intro I thought, "Oh no, Sonic Youth have gone dance-punk!"

Calming the Snake


The lyrics and certain parts of the song are painful to listen to (yeah, the lyrics are probably supposed to be stupid, but that doesn't make me like them any more), but there are still enough really cool parts of Anti-Orgasm that keeps me from voting for it. Yet.

calming the snake

Snake

Antenna
The way people went on about the "radio plays nothing when she's far away" lyric, I thought it was going to be a great song. I just find it really boring.

antenna

la lifeboat.

poison arrow. terrible chorus.

calming the snake

Calming the snake.

I really like Calming the Snake. Kim's "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal bit sounds like some exotic scale.

Antenna