Sometimes I start a Namesakes investigation with high expectations... only to spend the rest of the day wading waist-deep through the sewers of non-hit hell. Often, I spare you (and George) the horror of those excursions. Many's the Namesake abandoned to the NEVER POST file.
Unless you're George, I wouldn't bother wasting your Tuesday with any of this lot. The cream of the crop, they are not.
CREAM #1
Perhaps (?) the only exception to my opening comments...
Ginger Bake. Jack Bruce. That other bloke. Together, they made some pretty decent songs. That other bloke got a bit annoying, smug and racist in later years, but we'll try to forget that, shall we?
CREAM #2
90s dance dudes from Spain.
Yes. It is.
CREAM #3
Israeli techno from 1997.
Why, indeed.
CREAM #4
Memphis gangsta rapper from 2000.
CREAM #5
South African hip hop, also from the turn of the century.
CREEM #6
American hardcore punks from 2011. Naturally, they can't spell.
Indeed.
CREAM #7
Thai girl band from about ten years ago.
Apparently the cream rises to the top. But then, so does something else I can think of...
I promise to do better next week.
Dear Rol, I don't consider it a waste of time listening to all the tracks. Today, I will not be able to listen until late afternoon early evening, but listen to them I definitely will!
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't give you nightmares!
DeleteI wish I hadn't listened to #2. #3 is very bland, drifts over me while I think how awful #4 could be.............18 seconds and it's annoying me intensely.......80 seconds left.....can #5 be worse? Yes, total bobbins
ReplyDeleteI listend to #6 so one else has to - you are all welcome, by the way. #7 annoyed me (I think they use that voice-modulating-thingy) but not as much as #4 of course. Alas, my vote has to go to #1 (despite the choice of track)
ReplyDeleteAnd " the other bloke"
DeleteOut of interest, George, which track would you have preferred?
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