Interactive Poll: Live Again!

My take on the suggestions, so far:

Lorenzo: Ou, with La mentita, stands out for me from your three tracks: original energetic and captivating. Tredici Bacci sound a bit more polished; nice except for the "singer". I'm a bit underwhelmed by the Springsteen track, nice to hear, but rather "standard", to my ears.

Christian: A couple of months ago I saw (excerpts of) a recent concert by The Cure broadcast on French television. I couldn't really stand it for a long time, because it all came over as one big mess of sound - I got back to it regularly, though. Hearing this track, I guess it is part of the The Cure sound. It starts off nicely, but when they're all playing together it becomes a big sound mess again, to me, and a bit too monotonous. Although music-wise I normally prefer The Cure, here I prefer the Killing Joke video. But from your three I'd Go with PSB, music wise and sound wise.

suitkees: Limbo should become the National Anthem of a country, but Têtes Raides should write one for France, to get rid of that hideous Marseillaise. Hildur plays the halldorophone: a kind of cello with an electronic feedback component for each string, which makes this sound like more than just a cello, whether you like it or not.

JD: Busker sound quite good, except maybe for the singer. Makes me think a bit of The Nice and early Yes. Joe Jackson's acapella piece has been brought forward before in one of these polls. Always nice to hear, but also very well known. Grand Funk bring actually Grand bluesy Rock 'n Roll. Not bad, very energetic, but maybe a bit too straightforward for my ears despite some wonderful passages in the second - jamming - part of the song. I prefer the Lee Michaels track here, great organ and emotionally more engaging.

Mila: I saw this Lamomali concert aired on TV a couple of years ago - was wonderful to see and hear. And this is a beautiful song; love it! Chedid/M is of course a very well known artist here (and the whole Chedid family, actually). Max Raabe with some mellow big band music to bring a funny text. Nice to hear, but not earth shaking. I find the Sara Renar track quite intriguing; accessable electro pop/rock with a nice sonic stance. I always hated hand claps coming from a drum machine and I think her music could become much more interesting if she would leave those things to the real drummer. A bit short, actually; I would have liked a bit more development. The Arthur Hnatek Trio brings for me the most interesting track, next to Lamomali. Musically speaking these two are the stand outs for me.

George: Cheap Trick, famous! But we don't hear them that often. Nice raw rock track, although the drummer sounds a bit too much like a wood chopper... I had forgotten how great the singer is! I remember Band Maid from an earlier poll. Not really my music, but super tight - I guess live this must be a great experience. Dongyang Gozupa - what's this? Eastern trad-folk metal, or the Dulcimer version of ELP? Whatever, it is a great listen and a real virtuosity on that dulcimer. My preferred one of the batch, easily.

Robert: Ow, this is a kind of nostalgia trip. A wonderful rendition of this Little River Band hit from the 70s. I must say I had forgotten about this band, but this is a great reminder. Jemig, dat is lang geleden dat ik wat van De Kast gehoord heb. This was quite a big hit in the Netherlands in the 90s. I never dived more into this band but they had some decent radio play in those days. Great song, actually, wonderful Nederpop. This was also used in a film, wasn't it? And then this exceptional Velvet Underground track. Cale is in top form here. Musically easily, for me, the most interesting of the three. Great selection!

^ Yes, that's how I prefer The Cure.

The A.R. & Machines track is quite intriguing, BTW. A pity that the audience recording does not do it real justice, but it raised my curiosity (didn't hear of him/them before).

@Christian

Tredici Bacci (mispronounced name: Tredici Baci is the correct form) is a very interesting Italian-American group, while Ou, whom I listen to on spotify, I don't know if they are Italian.

@Mila, have you chosen your trio?

Well, in fact it does not respect the rules.

But, ok.

I'll combine n. 1 and n.3 in the short songs, and I'll put n. 2 in the long songs.

Choose:

- 4 songs taken from the medium-short songs
- 2 songs taken from the long songs

(Dont choose the songs you have nominated)

During the week I don't have the right listening facilities nor really the time at hand, so I come to this mainly in the weekends...

So, today I listened to the songs/tracks again and I stick with my comments, mostly.

My choices are, for the short songs:

- Ou - La Mentita
- Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
- Buster - Lord Of The Rings
- John Cale - Venus In Furs

Even four votes appears not enough, because I actually also wanted to vote for Lamomali - Manitoumani...

My choices for the long songs:
- Arthur Hnatek Trio: Monotonous
- Dongyang Gozupa - Cycle (in stiff competition with The Little River Band)