86. Rock Around Barack vs. Matter of Time

[stip]

[Stardog Champion]

Matter of Time was fine for its purpose. I've listened to Rock Around Barack exactly once.

[stip]

I'll mirror Stardog's thoughts. I can't even bring myself to listen to Rock Around Barack a second time. I assume that's what I linked. I'll never know for sure.



Matter of Time needs the River Cross treatment, though. It really improved once the band got their hands on it.

[stip]

I do kind of like the 'matter of time' stuff in the second half of the song

[The Town]

Rock Around Barack, sight unseen

Matter of Time <

Spoiler: show

and

[Thurman Murman]

WTF kind of match up is this?

[wease]

It’s a crime that one of these shit turds will advance but either Pilate or Unemployable will be eliminated.

[VinylGuy]

jesus, what the fuck is this match

i refuse to vote

[PHATJ]

This match is ass cancer

[LetMeSleep]

I refuse to even listen to these again.

[digster]

I'm inclined to give it to Rock Around Barack because it's so spectacularly bad. There's almost an audaciousness to it when trying to understand how anyone ever thought that was a good idea. Matter of Time is a different and less fun form of bad, where you forget you're listening to it while you're listening to it.

[tragabigzanda]

both songs are written from a place of political/social intention, putting the lyrical concept ahead of the music. Rock Around Barack far excels in delivering something actually palatable relative to the subject matter.

[Thurman Murman]

So Matter of Time is going to make it further than Parting Ways, Given to Fly and Footsteps...

[tragabigzanda]

So Matter of Time is going to make it further than Parting Ways, Given to Fly and Footsteps...

I'm fine on all counts