May 192008
The challenge is to brave the waters and give us your thoughts. You know, on the tunes maaaaan. If you know who it is, don’t be the bad apple that spoils it for the rest of us.
Jan 022008
14 Responses to “Mystery Date”
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Thoroughly mediocre Southern Rock. This is what I’d imagine a solo album by the bassist from Black Crowes might sound like. The guitar playing in the second song is pretty cool.
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Mystery A – the kick drum sounds like someone tapping an SM57 with their finger (…didn’t the Replacements claim to do that on an album?). This song is nothing too special…next please…
Mystery B – Mix/song is better. Like the acoustic guitar sound. Reminded me of the Who – maybe “Pinball Wizard”? The drummer is trying to “Kieth Moon” it a little bit too…
Still – I don’t care for the guys voice much.
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I must refrain from commenting, other than saying that the early 70s were a strange time.
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BigSteve wrote:
I must refrain from commenting, other than saying that the early 70s were a strange time.
You’re not trying to tell us that you play on these tracks, are you?
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Glad to see Mr. Mod and mrclean with their balls hanging out.
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Mrclean: definitely a “Pinball Wizard” cop in the acoustic guitar, and the backing vocals are biting “Sympathy for the Devil” as well.”
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Man, I recognize that first one but I can’t put my finger on it. Neither song jumps out on it’s own and makes me go, “wow,” but I think they both probably fit in just fine on albums I’d like. Nothing groundbreaking but sounds like the kind of thing I could listen to all day.
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2K- bold display.
great 48- OK, but do you like the songs, hate the songs…? Time to roll ’em out brotha.
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The songs are profoundly dull, pub-rocky boogie. They might have been tasty at the time, but they sound bleah to me now.
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Both songs sound like side 2 cuts from a bad Marshall Tucker Band album. What is this?
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great 48 and meanstom roll ’em out with a thud. Nicely done.
For those of you who are are too pussy to take a stand, I hi-jacked today’s poll for you to make your opinion known.
Even if you have boldly rolled them here today, please take a sec to place a vote.
Once we have 15 or more voters, we’ll cough up the mystery identity.
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Guess I’ll offer my opinion before we descend to full-fledged groveling.
Song B does nothing for me. Song A breaks no new ground but I don’t think it breaks wind either. It’s far better than lots of what I hear on the classic rock station up here in Hartford and if it came up on there I wouldn’t switch stations.
Of course, I was one of the George Thorogood defenders…
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Song A has a really bad bass drum pattern that he should be ashamed of.
Song B at least has a memorable chorus
I did a little research and realized who it is. I had defintley recognized the voice but couldn’t put my finger on it. Shows what happens when a “star” leaves but the band continues on.
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andyr and Al set their boys free. Excellent.
Did you both vote in the poll?
This is what I expect a Jah Wobble solo album to sound like. It’s not quite good but not terrible. Who is it, Tim Armstrong?
I hope that’s not Wobble. I think he’d have better intonation on the bass. I couldn’t pay attention to much of anything else, because I kept waiting for more bum notes on the bass.
“not good but not terrible”?
you’re being nice, mod!
that song’s a train wreck!
saturnismine may not have been the first to comment but is certainly the first to lay his ample clackers on the table.
“not quite good but not terrible”
You’re going down, Sammy!
Pretty uninteresting rhythms for a dub track. And the synthesizers sound completely out of place.
If you cockless-wonders think I’m gonna to cough up the ID of today’s Mystery Date™ on only 6 comments, 1 of which is MINE..You are sadly mistaken. I will take my Wobble-esque secret to the grave I tell you!
Tell us what you think!
It SUXX!
Hey, big deal that Saturnismine and a couple others have said the song sucks. Are we here to simply pass judgement on this Mystery Date or are we trying to guess who’s behind Door #1? In other words, are we here to express crude, gut feelings or to show off our ability to compare mysterious sounds to obscure sounds that only the likes of us can comprehend? Where’s Berlyant when I need him?
I always saw this game as an opportunity to express intellectual/experienced opinions that weren’t so much guesses as comparisons. So “This is what I expect a Jah Wobble solo album to sound like” is right on the money as far as the goal here.
I find it interesting when someone makes an appropriate comparison. Last time around I think it was BigSteve that made a Talking Heads comparison only later to discover that the Mystery band was fronted by Chris Frantz’ brother and played at CBGBs during the same period.
So its an opportunity to show off your ear. Or to humiliate your ear…That’s why it takes cajones.
These aren’t put up really as “songs you should hear” but rather as something that his some sort of interesting or noteworthy musical relevance and/or could lead to a discussion of such.
I’ll say “Pigbag” but that is almost certainly wrong. Just popped into my head…
This is kind of what I imagine early Scritti Politti sounding like, but the voice isn’t high enough.
I stood at the bar just close enough to hear our Mystery Date and remain unnoticed. I’m sorry to say, I stood her up after listening to her and slipped back out, unnoticed. That’s the kind of music that wrecked Sandinista!
Go 2K! Is this Ari Up or The Slits themselves? 2K may be onto something.
Along the lines of BigSteve’s guess, this is what I would guess that demo tapes by people who were responsible for the backing tracks on Human League or Thompson Twins would make if the pop songwriters took the day off.
Saturnismine wrote:
At the risk of stealing The Great 48’s thunder, have you heard the first Human League album, when songwriting wasn’t part of their objectives? I remember it being pretty cool and better than this mystery date song. Now that I’ve said this, after not hearing the album in 27 years, I’ll probably learn that this track is from just that album. God, I’ll lose a good 15 rock nerd points if that’s the case!
for the record, i’ve heard good things about the early human league stuff. but i’ve never heard it.
mod, of course, your jah wobble guess was wasn’t quite cork for a “double bull”, but it was still a “single”.
good work!