When The Evening Sun Goes Down
vs.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train)
A local derby ensuring Cammell Laird Social Club gets at least one semi-finalist. Evening Sun didn’t qualify that impressively, but did well to beat Running Order before winning the battle of the remaining minnows against Monmore in the last 16. The Light at the End of the Tunnel qualified strongly at the head of perhaps the most difficult qualifying group, then didn’t break sweat in easily overcoming Dickie Davies and Bob Wilson.
Result
When The Evening Sun Goes Down 85
vs.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train) 160
Kingsbeef
Possibly the toughest call of all as only a tracklist separates them. But after a replay it’s TLATEOTT (ITLOAOT) by a whisker. I’m off to find a finger of Fudge and I don’t even like the stuff. Is this subliminal advertising?
30 May 2011
Dave Cooper
Chapman’s early goal seals a win for WTESGD, but it’s a close one.
30 May 2011
Littlegrafter
This is the only one that I can bring myself to vote for so far. A very easy call and an away win for the Tunnelers, despite (almost) teaching myself to play Evening Sun on my daughter’s recorder last week.
Tunnel, is definitely one that has seen its stock rise (with me) through this competition, and just like with the play-offs, its often momentum that counts in the end…
30 May 2011
Trumptonrioter
toughest one yet for me, need a couple of nights kip to decide, but this won’t be easy.
30 May 2011
Jules
Can’t fault either really, but the bassline of Evening Sun scores deep into injury time
30 May 2011
Shirt Man
Two of my faves but it has to be evening sun for me, just because of the amount of times I find myself whistling or humming the recorder solo!
30 May 2011
TWO FAT FEET
This is truly brother against brother much as Trumpton v Dukla Prague was. Evening Sun is one of those where I always forget how good it is until I hear it, as is Vagaries. I wouldn’t actually have picked either of those in the top three from Cammell Laird, but it’s a measure of just how good the whole album is that its three representatives in the finals have all survived a further two rounds.
Both these songs have so many great lines, but the winner comes direct from the kick-off. The rush of excitement and anticipation that the opening line of Light produces is rarely matched by any other track.
30 May 2011
Steve G
Its got to be The Tunnel …
30 May 2011
Judie Tzuke Fan Club
The news is: vote WTESGD
30 May 2011
C. L. Murgatroyd
Has to be Evening Sun, if only because it put Monmore out.
30 May 2011
Chungas Revenge
TLATEOTT wins this simply by being the best opening track on a HMHB album imo, oh and the bile in Nigel’s voice when he says the name Eva Cassidy.
30 May 2011
mcsquared
Not a fan of either in truth, and it dissapoints me to put one into the semis considering some that have gone out prior to this. Evening Sun wins it thanks to another man-of-the-match performance from the Bootleg Mark Chapman with little other quality on show. No need to send on the rhyme for a late winner after all.
30 May 2011
Stephen Hope
Tunnel is in your face more. The sort of tactics that win one-off cup ties. Evening Sun would be two goals behind early on because of its elongated intro. Bootleg Mark Chapman worthy of a late consolation strike tho
30 May 2011
choppyc
The “bootleg Mark Chapman” line pinches it for Evening Sun
30 May 2011
poolio
inseparable musically… so the joke in the title nicks it for Tunnel… so cruel…
30 May 2011
spoon
The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of the evening sun going down in the quarters….these are getting seriously edgy…i fear a subbuteo like riot coming on…where we’ll get banned from the site…& our mouses will get taken away from us and thrown in the bin.
30 May 2011
spoon
…or should that be mice?
If i was middle class, I’d say ‘discuss !!’
30 May 2011
Lollipop Man Darren
Hardest one yet for me; great songs both. After much deliberation, Ultimate Pyjamas nets the winner deep in injury time to break the hearts of the boys from New Mills……..
30 May 2011
aiwacat
Has to be Tunnel. Absolutely nothing against Evening Sun, but Tunnel is a tune which always gets a second play whenever it turns up on the jog-proof.
30 May 2011
Jon
Hardest one in this round. Still, surprised that either of these made it this far – neither would be anywhere near my top 10!
31 May 2011
Ben Woodcock
ARGH !!!
DAMN !!!
I had to put Stavanger Toestub on to vent my frustration at this one.
So then I listened to them …. lots. And I tried to figure out which made me smile more. It was Evening sun ….. but the only difference was the width of a gnat’s pubic hair.
31 May 2011
BIG CON
This was so close but I was pointed in the direction of “HMHB Kershaw part 1” on You Tube and there was only one winner.
31 May 2011
Brian Duffin
Dearie me!
I think that was the toughest decision yet. Couldn’t get a fag paper between them.
Plumped for Tunnel after much delibaration.
31 May 2011
Look Dad No Tunes
Love both, went with Tunnel in the end.
31 May 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of the Evening Sun not yet going down).
And for the last time it’s a bloody flute! As played by Chloe Mullet.
http://www.hope.ac.uk/comprofiler/mulletc.html
1 June 2011
TWO FAT FEET
is she going mad with a mallet in Millets?
1 June 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
Nah, that would have been her boyfriend.
1 June 2011
Chippy Minton
Tunnel, for the opening salvo of Fairtrade cocaine…class
1 June 2011
The Almost Illegal Elton Welsby
This game is so close that I can’t even remember who I voted for… and I don’t really care.
2 June 2011
Trumptonrioter
ok 2 nights kip broken by the sounds of my 16 week old daughter waking up for a feed. Played both tracks to her at 6.00am (i think i deserve a medal), she listened intently to both then upon second playing she smiled throughout tunnel but frowned quite disturbingly during evening sun. So tunnel wins it by the width of a babys smile.
2 June 2011
Kingsbeef
Quack- About that recorder. Your paste of Chloe Mullet’s page doesn’t actually prove anything that I could see. And it might be a piccolo and/or recorder or even an ensemble. And if Chloe is a flautist and a professional musical scholar I very much doubt that she couldn’t manage the recorder solo on WTESGD
3 June 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
@ Kingsbeef
I’m sure she could manage a recorder solo and I bet she could whistle it or hum it a damn sight better than Nigel. However if you are after proof I suggest you either ring her or look at the credit she receives on the CD cover.
3 June 2011
Kingsbeef
Alright Quack – You’re absolutley right. It does say bloody flute solo. I can only apologise and blame the Ipod for the fact I rarely look at album covers anymore. Still sounds like a recorder to me though.
6 June 2011