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Achoo · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: Lil or Lover

In order to be eligible to vote, you must have heard both albums fully at least 8 times each.

Do not vote for Hello Young Lovers because you are caught up in the present hype.

Do not vote for Lil Beethoven because you know it "oh so well" and that it brings back fond memories of being with Sarah behind the bike shed.

Think seriously about each album and its musical content etc. Now pick which one you feel is the best of the two said albums.

There is no "I like them both equally" cop out option here, pick one or the other, nail your flag to your mask.

Cheers
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: Lil or Lover

Achoo · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

It's a bit painful I grant you....................but I couldn't find a mast, hehehe.

So you go and quote me.....................preventing me from ever being able to change my error, sir you have great style.

The worst bit is "I can not cast my vote yet", ARRRRHHHHHHHH ! !
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

ladystardust · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:07 am Post subject:

It's quite impossible to choose! But I think HYL goes further!
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Achoo · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:30 am Post subject:

It's probably way to early to cast my vote on this topic after just 3 full listenings of the new album but i do tend to think overall Lil'Beethoven is more complete IMO, and like Achoo i feel singing along with the new songs is for the most part just impossible. This is NOT a popalbum. Even if R&R claim to (want to) make popmusic, but different and with more humour. It sure is different and bits of it humourful but pop it is not maybe with the exception of Perfume.
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VINCENTICELLO · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

Lil be is better, but HYL is great.

My baby's..., Carnegie Hall and The rythm thief are more creative and beautiful songs than the three best ones I adore on the new album : Waterproof, Rock... and Metaphor.

Spyke · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

I'm hesitant to admit it, but I voted for Lil' B. I think that because Lil B was completely fresh when it came out, it'll always stand out. HYL breaks lots of new ground, but it still has Lil' B as its precursor. Also, maybe the songs on Lil' B are stonger overall (There's No Such Thing As Aliens sounds unfinished to me, for example). And finally, Lil' B has got MBTMH on, which just about tips the balance...
HYL is still a great album, though.
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Achoo · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject:

I voted after around 25 plays.

Lil' B got 100% of my vote and HYL's got 98% of my vote.

I now feel that HYL's deserves 99% of my vote and wonder how i will feel after the shows.

Whilst I maintain that long term I will be singing Lil' B songs and perhaps not HYL's.......................I now think that I will be singing the classy repetitive bits of HYL's long term, the whole song will be impossible.

HYL's is the only album in my life that has confused me, my feelings for it alter all the time, always great but the levels of greatness seem to constantly shift around.

One thing I will say is that HYL's is a seriously classy work of art. It should be hung in the tate...............oh and in cars it would become a hit and your homes it becomes advertisements and in the streets it becomes the children singing...

I am the Lyric thief ! ! !
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:17 am Post subject:

Achoo, you should have added an 'please can i change my vote'-option...

just in case someone has found him-(or her)self in error let's say next week or next month.
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abrahamtoast · Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 14

Have to vote for Lil Beethoven - NOTHING else has had as many listens as that album in my house...ever!!

New album is good, but one or two tracks, in my opinion, don't quite come off, whereas I thought there was only one non-brilliant track on LB.

And I am writing this after having seen the show in Glasgow last night.

Abraham

Achoo · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

VINCENTICELLO · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

In order to gather all the votes, I propose to our Sparks the release of their best album ever... the soundtrack for the brothers everlasting honeymoon...

"Hello Lill' Bee"

The rythm thief
Carnegie hall
I married myself
Ride em cow boy
My baby's taking me back

Metaphor
Baby baby can I invade ?
Rock rock rock
Dick around
Waterproof

deadcalm · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:06 am Post subject:

Ive mixed the 2 Albums into the following order and as a long play
it seems to work!! Both Albums Meld together nicely....

Tk 1 What are all these Bands Angry About
2 Baby Baby (Can I Invade Your Country)
3 My Babys Taking Me Home
4 Metaphor
5 How do I get to Carnegie Hall
6 The Very next Fight
7 Rhythm Thief (Instrumental)
8 Organ at Notre Dame
9 Ride em Cowboy
10 Here Kitty
11 Ugly Guys
12 Rock Rock Rock
13 Your Calls are very Important
14 Dick Around
15 I Married Myself
16 Perfume
17 The Rhythm Thief
18 Aliens
19 Waterproof
20 Suburban Homeboy

I tried a few combinations but liked this one Best .. Try it !!

Achoo · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

Like the mix deadcalm.

I have to say that these two albums will make for a great budget double album in around 20 years from now.................but not before.
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Tj Sundown · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: Hello!

I think Young Lover is their best album sice the 80's.

And Lil had Surban Homeboy on it so that took some beating!
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Michiel Paets · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

After much inner debate, I've decided upon 'Hello Young Lovers', mostly because it's a bit broader. But if you ask me my favourite Sparks-track since the turn of the century it still is 'How Do I Get To Carnegy Hall?'
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rwolf'68 · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:54 am Post subject:

HYL is much more interesting musically to me. Although I do love all Ron's keyboard dynamics on Lil' B., there just isn't enough SINGING on it for my taste. Both albums tackle great subject matter, but Lil' B. doesn't make me want to get up and move like HYL does. They'll both live on as two of the most innovative albums of all time, but wait...........after their NEXT one, there may just be a 2nd trilogy!

CALI · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:01 am Post subject:

I agree with wolfie on all points. Yes, Lil B is a dynamite album but there just aren't enough of Russell's wonderful vocals on it. However on HYL, his vocals are in abundance in all their spectacular glory. Lil B is a good album to sit down and listen to but HYL, hell it makes you want to get up and dance. I can't sit still whilst that album is on, believe me.
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