Monmore, Hare’s Running
vs.
When The Evening Sun Goes Down
The two lowest-ranked songs remaining from the qualifying stage voting get drawn against each other – it could go either way.
Result
Monmore, Hare’s Running 124
vs.
When The Evening Sun Goes Down 190
Martin
I’m gonna play Pat Boone for this one. As a West Brom fan I refuse to even acknowledge the existence of sport in Wolverhampton.
19 May 2011
Kingsbeef
Shouldn’t need to be sending on this rhyme deep in injury time for an away win.
19 May 2011
littlegrafter
Just having a play off now…
19 May 2011
Martin
@Littlegrafter That’s disgusting!
19 May 2011
TWO FAT FEET
After all this time I still have trouble remembering which song is Monmore. So no contest here.
19 May 2011
BrumBiscuit
I’ll stick with me ringtone & vote WTESGD and shout it from the nearest steeple. (St Nicholas’ in Warwick, in case you ask. And is conveniently clad in scaffolding as I write…)
Monmore’s always good live, but the hounds have caught the hare this time, perhaps.
@Martin. Bit of a dilemma for you when HMHB play Bilston, isn’t it?
19 May 2011
Martin
To be fair to Monmore, it does have one of the best ‘verses’ of them all – that Cheap Sellotape observation is pure class.
19 May 2011
Martin
@Brum I’m Moody Chops until the band come on and then the smell kinda fades into obscurity.
19 May 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
Boiling these songs rapidly, in order to distil their very essence, I ended up with ‘a goth on a bouncy castle’ verses ‘my ultimate pyjamas’ and ‘my final dressing gown’. Two very different lyrics but ones that could only have fermented in the mind of NB57.
Cursor poised over the radio buttons…..
Hovering…….
Wavering……
Evening Sun by the thickness of a muon.
19 May 2011
littlegrafter
Two things…
1) I expected it to be Monmore, but after a play off its turned out to be Evening Sun. Its all in the quality of the lyrics, granted Shit Sellotape is up there with the best, but its just not enough, to see the whole track over the line.
2) What on earth are we doing chosing one of these for the quarter finals, when Uffington, Trad Arr, Asparagus and ALL of TLP not getting anywhere near! Magic of the cup they say… Harrumph!
19 May 2011
aiwacat
I happily cast my lot for Monmore in the last round, but it’s outclassed here. Evening Sun to stride into the quarters.
@Littlegrafter. I know what you mean. Neither of these two would make the top 4 on their respective albums, in my personal rankings.
19 May 2011
EzekialpunchedDanBrown
There are questions in corners of my mind that lurk…but one of them isn’t which one of these is going through…
19 May 2011
Trumptonrioter
voting for evening sun as the bootleg Mark Chapman, I love that line along with cafe bars, idiots and pigeons. no brainer this one.
19 May 2011
Neil G
Monmore for me. The sellotape bit followed by
In bed again
Can’t be bothered getting up
Swing the lead again
I’m just waiting for the man
From Camelot
Telling me
That I’ve won the Lottery
Marvellous. I’m sure pretty sure that Evening Sun will win though.
19 May 2011
Lollipop Man Darren
Evening Sun all the way for me. I am still staggered that Monmore beat Vitas Gerulaitis in the last round; surely the giantkilling ends here?
19 May 2011
Chief Exec
Musically, Monmore. Lyrically, Evening Sun.
A toughy but on this occasion I’ll go for the music.
20 May 2011
Bobby String
Well, I’m going to buck the trend here and vote for the underdog. There are lines in Evening Sun that don’t do much for me but I like Monmore in its entirety with its shit goths bouncing on a sellotape castle with Paolo Hewitt. You could say I’m going to vote for Monmore and later rue it as Evening Sun is obviously going to win, but what the hell, it’s not a matter of life and death, it’s more serious than that! 😆
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20 May 2011
Chippy Minton
Evening Sun….Mark Chapman < funny litle verse, love it!
20 May 2011
Jeff Dreadnought
I reckon this one will be close. I can see Evening Sun sending on “sending on this rhyme deep in injury time” deep in injury time to protect a slender lead.
20 May 2011
Brian Duffin
A very close match, but the decider was scored by Pigeons in the dying seconds following some superb build-up play by Café-Bars and Idiots.
20 May 2011
Ben Woodcock
I don’t get this. Why is Monmore such an underdog ? It’s a classic !
However, I am really struggling on this one. On my third replay of the playoff on the iPod right now.
20 May 2011
Ben Woodcock
Shit sellotape ….
In bed again ….
Let’s stage a “couldn’t give-a-thon”
I could be a goth on a bouncy castle
VERSUS
Bootleg Mark Chapman
Use of the word ennui in a song
Pat Boone on the county bassoon
How do the road gritters get to work
OK – Evening sun wins it with “Are these my ulimate pyjamas – is this my final dressing gown”
20 May 2011
Sean Macreavy
Mm… I still can’t believe that these two reached the final 16 at the expense of real classics! Oh well… Poorest draw so far I reckon. Some wonderful individual lines (sellotape/ Mark Chapman et al), but a few fancy step overs do not a great team performance make. And to think that Dickie Davies Eyes and Dukla Prague have already fallen by the wayside!
20 May 2011
Simon Smith
The ‘road gritters’ line is a rote comedian’s observation. Albeit one rescued by the Judy Tzuke line and subsequent drum break.
Monmore flies the flag for the musical side of the boys and has the sass/brass and Gallagher-felcher/rue it lines.
Easiest one yet!
20 May 2011
Two Fat Feet
The point of the road gritters line is that it’s such a crass observation, one that is put in perspective once it becomes obvious he’s parodying a dj. But I admit that it passed me by until I heard Andy Kershaw getting the joke.
20 May 2011
LaL
oh dear…..a great away comfortable victory for the evening sun going down .
20 May 2011
Steve G
Monmore …. Absolute classic , always look forward to hearing it at The Robin in Bilston
20 May 2011
poolio
On my head (evening) son [sic] 0-3 at the break… cruise through
20 May 2011
evan, a cat
Nothing should be this hard… My initial instinct says I should dial a Wellergram but I think I should be off to see the bootleg Beatles.
21 May 2011
Alan K
Always go with your ring-tone.
Monmore, All over the shop; just!
21 May 2011
Dave Wiggins
Given that the Parliamentary Ombudsman once described one of my letters to a complainant as ‘disengenuous’, it’s a spiteful 1-0 to ‘Monmore’ for me. And because I prefer it.
22 May 2011
Wsag
Dave, 1-0 to Monmore too. Straight out of the trap.
22 May 2011
Chief Exec
My vote’s already been cast, but good to see that Monmore is picking up some momentum. The initial betting had it as an underdog but it seems to be going ok out of trap 1.
23 May 2011
Ferenc Puskás to you
Another late vote for Monmore here….
28 May 2011
Squire Danaher
Just voted whilst aptly wearing my ultimate pyjamas
28 May 2011