ts: "street life" vs "street life"

I like Roxy Music as much as the next guy, or almost as much, but I love the crusaders' "street life" with my heart and soul

Didn't listen to the Roxy Music one before voting, to be honest.

"street life" in a heartbeat.

yeah i had 'street life' at the top of my roxy music ballot so it's among my three or four faves and roxy music is who i say when someone asks me my favorite band (unless i think they don't know who roxy music is in which case i say the rolling stones). and yet i gotta vote crusaders.

if one of the options was the really bad recent kelly rowland song, the answer would have to be something else. i don't know either of these though.

jesus christ dude you ain't ever seen sharky's machine???

nah

lol i turned into archer for a second there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG9ROB_2Zk

this is as good as it gets dude

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I hate to do this to Roxy, but Crusaders

Crusaders easy, futile as i know my vote will be

I've never heard the other "Street Life" before... I tried to listen to it, but had to stop befofe the end, I just couldn't handle it. The way the singer guy pronounces words is so obnoxious, like he's disgusted by the vowels! Who wants to listen to that?

"Street Life", on the other hand, is a 11 minute epic with an striking intro-to-proper-tune transition and some of the most sublime strings in disco. So the choice is easy.

the singer guy

Tuomas flexes the effortless chops of the seasoned trolling veteran

Tuomas obviously knows that starting in 1985 the singer guy started having problems with consonants not vowels.

the singer guy

Tuomas flexes the effortless chops of the seasoned trolling veteran

Huh? It is a guy, isn't it? Or if it is woman, her voice is really masculine...

clearly obscure Glam Rock also-rans Roxy Music never made it further east than Tyneside

Well I know the band name, obviously, but I think this was actually the first time I'd heard any song by them, I don't think they've had hits in Finland... For some reason I had thought they were some kind of a synth pop act, but I guess I've mixed them up with someone else?

ffs you might not be familiar with their output but you must at least have heard of their singer Brian Eno

Several ppl want to listen to Roxy Music Tuomas

Oh yeah, Brian Eno, that's what I knew them of! Though TBH I've never really listened to his music either, I just that know that he "invented" ambient. That "Street Life" doesn't sound very ambient though, he must've come a long way.

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love the randy crawford one, internet too slow to play the other one right now

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The way the singer guy pronounces words is so obnoxious, like he's disgusted by the vowels!

what. the man adores vowels. just listen to how he extols the ooo sound in the word "do".

we're seeing a backlash: lex called Ferry a Tory cunt with a horrible voice in the Terje thread.

lol

how is this a question

Crusaders, no contest.

cool it with the hyperbole guys, it is a contest just not a close one.

i'm interested to see how many votes roxy music ends up getting. not a lot of defenders stepping up itt even though it's a totally decent roxy music song.

actually i voted roxy music full disclosure.

I love both of these whole-heartedly and unconditionally. Impossible to call; abstain.

otm, but voted roxy to shore up against the landslide.

that's three guaranteed votes for Roxy then

I don't know any Roxy Music outside of Avalon. Anytime anyone tries to get me to listen to it, it slides right back out of my ear line it was never there. I listened to this whole song the other day ( after voting for the Crusaders, natch) but I can't remember a note of it.

I can hum it for you.

Love both but voting for Roxy. A giant earworm: Manzanera's insistent guitar hook, Ferry's prattling as if he were alone on stage, the odd emphases, "Lovin' you is all I can DOOOOOO."

This poll is a 10-cent masquerade.

recall everyone that Street Life came in at no. 3 (or 4?) on the Roxy poll. it's a much-loved song in these parts, no doubt about it.

i don't think anybody who i haven't FP'd is questioning the quality of either of these songs

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I love Roxy, but I'm Voting Neil Diamond as write-in. You might get hurt, get hurt, get hurt....I think he really knows what he's talking about!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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No, just uninterested in posting to say "WHAT THIS ISN'T EVEN A CONTEST CRUSADERS ETC"

HEY GOOD LOOKIN BOYS GATHER AROUND

I voted for Crusaders, but this is better.....hell yeah, Roxy!!

tight results, nice outcome!

i feel like my vote matters !