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Oh, I forgive you. But making wise cracks about my polls doesn't go too far in convincing me that we have a classic song on our hands.Drico One wrote:Oh, my superhero wit and literary genius founders on the endless kryptonite of your mindless polls.
You'll have to forgive me. We all have our limits.
Drico.
Erm, I really don't find it stretching it at all. It seems a very easy comparison.Radiophonic wrote:It seems a bit odd a random a comparison. One is a cover version and released as a b-side, the other was a new song and a top ten hit. I get the DJ connection, but it's still stretching it.
No, I think the main difference is that the PSB track is throwaway karaoke fodder which is vastly inferior to the original, and the Saint Etienne track is their biggest hit single ever.Scapa Flow wrote:But I do see now that the Etienne song went Number 7 in the UK. That's the answer to it's defense. It's been sedimentized in the subjective mind as a solid mass of a song, as something representing something more than it is, due to it's radio play.
You proved my point. It's their "biggest hit single ever". What if New York city boy was PSB's biggest hit single, would it be better than It's A Sin. You're just backing up the track as a big hit, not as a quality track. It got no mainstream US play here (only in clubs), and no one on the street knows it. For me, St. Etienne have at least 75 better songs.Patrick Bateman wrote:No, I think the main difference is that the PSB track is throwaway karaoke fodder which is vastly inferior to the original, and the Saint Etienne track is their biggest hit single ever.Scapa Flow wrote:But I do see now that the Etienne song went Number 7 in the UK. That's the answer to it's defense. It's been sedimentized in the subjective mind as a solid mass of a song, as something representing something more than it is, due to it's radio play.
I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was my job to humour you. Besides, the forum's clown vacancy has already been filled.Scapa Flow wrote:Oh, I forgive you. But making wise cracks about my polls doesn't go too far in convincing me that we have a classic song on our hands.Drico One wrote:Oh, my superhero wit and literary genius founders on the endless kryptonite of your mindless polls.
You'll have to forgive me. We all have our limits.
Drico.
Nope. People bought it because they liked it; ergo it was their biggest hit ever.Scapa Flow wrote:You proved my point. It's their "biggest hit single ever". What if New York city boy was PSB's biggest hit single, would it be better than It's A Sin. You're just backing up the track as a big hit, not as a quality track. It got no mainstream US play here (only in clubs), and no one on the street knows it.
It wasn't released in the UK, except as part of Home and Dry so I don't choose to count it as a single.Scapa Flow wrote: Especially since BOTH were singles. In fact, I heard Break 4 Love on US radio once. Just because Break 4 Love has some mixes on Release singles didn't mean it didn't have a CD1 and 2 all it's own.
How rude.Scapa Flow wrote: This response is like someone who needs help fixing their computer and when the repairman gets there he sees it's not plugged into the wall.
This is still an argument from "mass appeal". Heart had more mass appeal than Domino Dancing, but it wasn't the better song. Some awful awful bullcr#p has gone to number 1 and long ago been dumped into the dustbins of history. It's not enough to say, this song is great because a bunch of people bought it.Patrick Bateman wrote:Nope. People bought it because they liked it; ergo it was their biggest hit ever.Scapa Flow wrote:You proved my point. It's their "biggest hit single ever". What if New York city boy was PSB's biggest hit single, would it be better than It's A Sin. You're just backing up the track as a big hit, not as a quality track. It got no mainstream US play here (only in clubs), and no one on the street knows it.
Eh, whatever you like about me. But you allow quite a bit of personal attacks on this forum.Drico One wrote:I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was my job to humour you. Besides, the forum's clown vacancy has already been filled.Scapa Flow wrote:Oh, I forgive you. But making wise cracks about my polls doesn't go too far in convincing me that we have a classic song on our hands.Drico One wrote:Oh, my superhero wit and literary genius founders on the endless kryptonite of your mindless polls.
You'll have to forgive me. We all have our limits.
Drico.
Drico.
New community motto. Perhaps Ghost can translate it into Latin.Scapa Flow wrote:Everyone on this forum is a dick.