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Mystery Date
05/19/08 | by sammymaudlin
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.
17 comments
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
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?
05/19/08 @ 23:27
Comment from: BigSteve [Member] 
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.
05/20/08 @ 00:34
Comment from: saturnismine [Member]
"not good but not terrible"?
you're being nice, mod!
that song's a train wreck!
you're being nice, mod!
that song's a train wreck!
05/20/08 @ 07:41
Comment from: sammymaudlin [Member]
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"
05/20/08 @ 11:04
Comment from: dr john [Member]
Pretty uninteresting rhythms for a dub track. And the synthesizers sound completely out of place.
05/20/08 @ 12:47
Comment from: sammymaudlin [Member]
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!
Tell us what you think!
05/20/08 @ 16:18
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
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?
05/20/08 @ 17:20
Comment from: sammymaudlin [Member]
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?
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.
05/20/08 @ 18:09
Comment from: mrclean [Member]
I'll say "Pigbag" but that is almost certainly wrong. Just popped into my head...
05/20/08 @ 20:03
Comment from: BigSteve [Member]
This is kind of what I imagine early Scritti Politti sounding like, but the voice isn't high enough.
05/20/08 @ 20:14
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!
05/20/08 @ 22:32
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
Go 2K! Is this Ari Up or The Slits themselves? 2K may be onto something.
05/20/08 @ 23:58
Comment from: saturnismine [Member]
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.
05/21/08 @ 11:39
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
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!
...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.
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!
05/21/08 @ 11:44
Comment from: saturnismine [Member]
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!
mod, of course, your jah wobble guess was wasn't quite cork for a "double bull", but it was still a "single".
good work!
05/21/08 @ 13:14
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