Eastern Division is still keeping their early lead.
Score to Date:
Zoviet France - 19 Rapoon Robins - 10
Score to Date:
Zoviet France - 19 Rapoon Robins - 10
The Same River Once
Sonol
Yi
Rains
Bol Baya
Dahina Ta
Anatapurrah
Vernal Crossing
Yi-Tun
Sonol
Yi
Rains
Bol Baya
Dahina Ta
Anatapurrah
Vernal Crossing
Yi-Tun
Soviet France - Misfits, Loony Tunes, & Squalid Criminals, Charrm CHARRMCD8, 1995.
Signal
Host / Blowing In The Instrument
Signal
Flote
Signal
Gesture, Signal, Threat
Semasen
Rattle Stick Cruss
They're Eating the Passengers
Host / Blowing In The Instrument
Signal
Flote
Signal
Gesture, Signal, Threat
Semasen
Rattle Stick Cruss
They're Eating the Passengers
Next up tomorrow...Loh Land vs Errant Angels,
NØ
Vernal Crossing
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Not an expert on these two groups/projects by any means, but I've been enjoying getting to explore their various works, so thanks NØ. For this one however, Vernal Crossing has always been an album that I listen to quite often & thoroughly enjoy. My vote is for Rapoon.
DeleteThanks Jewels. You don't need to be an expert to know what you like, that's just personal taste. Thanks for following along & thanks for the vote. I'll add it to the newest tally.
DeleteStarted listening to these two albums yesterday, so I'm early. This is difficult. During the past days, I've been realising how much I prefer ZF over Rapoon, but Vernal Crossing is definitely excellent, maybe Rapoon's best album. The balance of percussion and electronic sounds is perfect, everything is kept minimal, no over-production here. On the contrast, Misfits, Loony Tunes, & Squallid Criminals sounds a bit undecided. There are brilliant tracks (most of all They Are Eating the Passengers), but some pieces sound like Rapoon outtakes to me now. Found that a rather irritating listen, so I'm going to go back to Misfits during the weekend, which might change my opinion altogether. But for now, that this a clear win for Rapoon.
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying going back to all those great albums and putting down some thoughts on them. Again, thanks a lot for this competition, Nate.
Thanks for the in-depth analysis on these two. "They're Eating this Passengers" is one of my favorite tacks as well. When I concieved this competition, I thought it might be interesting to compare different Zoviet France releases with Robin's more personal work to be aware of just what each brought to the table. It seems to be working well enough. I've had no real complaints.
DeleteThis time my choice, again, is ZF. The Rapoon album is for me too much a one idea per track album, and it never stands out. It has good counds, and good balance, it misses playfullness. This ZF one is full of fun, one of the funny albums (clou is in the titles) but listen to this track again
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Thanks Richard. Loony tunes for sure.
DeleteI agree with FlaccusMUC, Rapoon gets my vote this time. This is one of the better Rapoon albums that has a great balance of rhythm and ambience. No dull tracks on this release and it works as a whole with the style presented. I remember being heavily into this album around the same time I discovered Muslimgauze, so again with my nostalgia bias creeping in. ZF however doesn't feel like a cohesive whole and has a few moments of greatness overall, especially as the albums progresses. I feel many of the tracks lack the depth that would be later developed and then overexploited by Robin in Rapoon.
ReplyDeleteQuestion for you Nate, can you share some insight into your selection process? You're picking great albums from both camps, and with the large discography of both I am curious as to what brings specific albums to the top of the list?
Thanks Mooz for taking the time to give some game analysis. The commentaries as well as the scores are what I'm looking for most of all. Perhaps the depth you mention lacking in this ZF offering is off-set by the playfulness Richard mentions, ZF just having a bit of a romp.
ReplyDeleteThe selection process was the hardest part: I gave it a great deal of thought & worked on many variations but in the end it seemed to me to have come off kind of scatter-shot even after all my cogitation. I picked out a list of albums from each artist: one's I really like; one's that have puzzled me over timr; & one's I could never decide on exactly how I deemed them. Then I tried matching them up semi-randomly as didn't want my personal bias one way or another to weigh heavily on the outcome. I'm not too sure how successful I was.
What do you think?
I think you set yourself an impossible task. A remnant of our juvenile Beatles are better than The Stones (or vice versa) mentality. I find it hard to compare different albums that are great. I also find it hard to compare albums that are dull. ("are" as in i.m.o.). After 45 years of a lot of listening, am I wiser? I don't think so. I still listen with my "gut". It is hard to compare Mozart and Beethoven. I usually do not like solo-efforts (solo: one person doing everything, not solo: with a band behind, Lou Reed Transformer is no solo album in that way) Again I usually, with exceptions, do not enjoy solo albums, the joy of playing together is what makes a lot of music to be more than the sum of parts. Over all Rapoon lacks tension, though it is surprisingly often great music.
ReplyDeleteI think it is impossible to compare even when these are seemingly closely related musical outputs.