| Result: | % | % | Votes | ||
| Running Order Squabble Fest | 34 | v | 66 | All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit | 463 |
Discussion during the voting…
| Result: | % | % | Votes | ||
| Running Order Squabble Fest | 34 | v | 66 | All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit | 463 |
Discussion during the voting…
Two fat feet
Once again a tricky one to call. DPAK was the one where it started for me so it would take something special to dislodge it. Squabble is another of my all-time favourites although it’s one of those which I think gets a leg-up from one particular line – which in this case is possibly the ultimate HMHB line in that it ticks so many boxes, combining a football chant, the gig circuit, obscure bands and being very, very funny if you get it.
I do think though that its legendary status will see DPAK through. My vote goes to Squabble Fest but I expect to see its arse well and truly kicked – DPAK to win with 66% of the vote.
30 October 2015
Cygnus
Pretty much my thoughts TFF – DPAK was where it started for me also but Squabble really did make me laugh when I first heard it; it’s great live also so a close call once again. DPAK just but I prefer Squabble to many other songs in this round; the agony and ecstasy of the cup eh?
30 October 2015
flintlock
There are no imperfections whatsoever in either of these songs.
I’ve voted for one of them, but now I’m thinking I should have voted for the other one.
30 October 2015
Beltane beard
I love Squabble Fest and it’s portrayal of dodgy bands getting uppity.
However in this tie I can’t vote against a song that perfectly summed up my childhood experience of Scalextric, whilst using in its lyrics one of my other favourite hobbies: that being huge exaggeration.
I predict it to win by a margin of fifteen billion votes.
30 October 2015
Hazelsound
My other half lost his enamel DP badge this week. Sad. This vote will make up for his loss. It’s the right decision – however tough it might be.
30 October 2015
Talking to plankton
Toughest tie of the round for me. I’d have liked to have seen both make at least the quarter finals. Trumpton/DPAK 7″ single was my introduction to HMHB and the tales of scalextric and subbuteo resonated beautifully. Against that is a great song of small bands and small festivals with the brilliant line, ranking alongside the line about a tennis racquet and Kendo Nagasaki. Voted DPAK, kind of wish I’d bottled it and abstained.
31 October 2015
Dickhead in quicksand
By coincidence, one of these is only going to make it to this stage this time round too.
31 October 2015
Chigley Skin
Not really relevant to how I voted, but just comparing the two songs, it strikes me that in spite of the dated references to old-school bands, Squabble is one of those tracks which will be always be timeless and relevant in its general theme. “There-is-no, way-on-earth, that they should be on after us,” in that brilliant tone of disgust and disbelief, just nails the constant character of pompous, wanky, guitar-toting herberts who’ll infest the world of live music for as long as it’s there.
On the other hand – and it breaks my heart to say it – DPAK has just become a little time capsule of childhood from a different age. You surely can’t get that instinctive glow of recognition and accompanying silly grin from “fifteen billion hours to set the track up” or “a goalkeeper with no arms and a face like his” unless you really did spend your weekends discovering how fast you could send your Brabham round the hairpin until it launched itself out the bedroom window, and having blazing rows about whether the whole ball was over the shooting line prior to Workington’s crucial eighth goal against Liverpool. It doesn’t change the brilliance of the song, but it does make it sadly inaccessible to any younger listeners whose travelling armies of synthetic supporters have only ever existed on a console. (Indeed, in one of my wannabe-Nigel moments years ago I cooked up the line “Your kid’s only goals are consolations”, and keep meaning to use it somewhere. Not the kind of thing you shoehorn into a best man’s speech or write in a Christmas card, so it may as well serve as my closing thought on DPAK here).
31 October 2015
SIMON P
I’m definitely on a loser here. I admit – I’ve never really liked DPAK. Don’t ask me to explain why, either, it simply doesn’t do much for me. As it’s a regular in the setlist though, it’s useful at live shows for a trip to the bar / toilet, though. See also: Evening Sun, Bob Wilson.
1 November 2015
WARDEN HODGES
I’m with you on this Simon P – even though I own a DPA top , I’m not a great fan of the song even as a 16 year old back in the day. Did like the notion of the song of course but much better songs on DHSS.
1 November 2015
Gipton teenager
I used to work with a PA company back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Squabblefest absolutely nails the situation I found myself in on more than one occasion. Lots of shit bands with…
1 November 2015
toastkid
Slightly perverse voting on this. DPAK is a classic, but because it’s the *other* track that non-fans know, and i’ve heard it a million times, i wilfully opted for ROSF, which, to be fair, does have some tremendous playing on words. (or would “plays on words” be more correct?)
2 November 2015