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This was the special pleading I did on bsky on behalf of my three bonus nominations for Tom Ewing's World Cup Of 1975. All three made it in! (Someone else had already put Waylon Jennings's "I've Been A Long Time Leaving" into the tournament as their main nomination, and I was fearing Tom might not think there was room for a second Waylon track.)
The competition gets under way today. Go to peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social for how to vote and for the discussion threads; #Pop75 is the hashtag.
Is likely that anyone reading this would have a blast taking part – you can do as little or much as you want. Tremendous way to learn about music. People sharing joy in discovery, giving sound the benefit of the doubt, giving each other the benefit of the doubt, somehow achieving this in only 280, 300 characters. Wrote a perspective back in 2023 on my experience of it (Frank's low scores people's pop world cups).
So these were my pleas:
Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
To make a case for a second Waylon Jennings cut, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," this is where country sounds most like the Velvet Underground, grinding into the ground and into the drone and a voice poised between disillusion and excitement.
Ali Chukus & His Peace Makers Dance Band "Ana Azor Eze Azor"
'70s West African guitar is something special, not relying on sustain like Anglo-America but still exploring the landscape and its colors in needle-like jabs. Singer declaiming, humming, running.
Pere Ubu "Heart Of Darkness"
Cleveland gtr is something special, Peter clawing, digging, scraping, throwing dirt while he and Tom still tickle the toes, the sound occasionally arising to an exuberant fanfare and then digging down again. Singer wavers between excitement and disillusion.
And my main nom:
Lieve Hugo "Een Pot Met Bonen (Oh Marie)"
Haven't written anything yet for this; being my main, it was in automatically, so it didn't need any pleading. Smooth and hot at the same time. I wish I could write like this, the way this sounds. (Not all the time. I'm fine being me, you know. Just to be able to draw on cool moments of heat, here and there.)
The competition gets under way today. Go to peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social for how to vote and for the discussion threads; #Pop75 is the hashtag.
Is likely that anyone reading this would have a blast taking part – you can do as little or much as you want. Tremendous way to learn about music. People sharing joy in discovery, giving sound the benefit of the doubt, giving each other the benefit of the doubt, somehow achieving this in only 280, 300 characters. Wrote a perspective back in 2023 on my experience of it (Frank's low scores people's pop world cups).
So these were my pleas:
Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
To make a case for a second Waylon Jennings cut, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," this is where country sounds most like the Velvet Underground, grinding into the ground and into the drone and a voice poised between disillusion and excitement.
Ali Chukus & His Peace Makers Dance Band "Ana Azor Eze Azor"
'70s West African guitar is something special, not relying on sustain like Anglo-America but still exploring the landscape and its colors in needle-like jabs. Singer declaiming, humming, running.
Pere Ubu "Heart Of Darkness"
Cleveland gtr is something special, Peter clawing, digging, scraping, throwing dirt while he and Tom still tickle the toes, the sound occasionally arising to an exuberant fanfare and then digging down again. Singer wavers between excitement and disillusion.
And my main nom:
Lieve Hugo "Een Pot Met Bonen (Oh Marie)"
Haven't written anything yet for this; being my main, it was in automatically, so it didn't need any pleading. Smooth and hot at the same time. I wish I could write like this, the way this sounds. (Not all the time. I'm fine being me, you know. Just to be able to draw on cool moments of heat, here and there.)
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