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CL's Favourite Albums: Blue vs Bridge Over Troubled Water

Addick in SW16
Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
in Not Sports Related
The first of the Quarter-Finals.


Album Name: Blue
Artist:Joni Mitchell
Release Year: 1971

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Track Listing:

1. All I Want
2. My Old Man
3. Little Green
4. Carey
5. Blue
6. California
7. This Flight Tonight
8. River
9. A Case of You
10. The Last Time I Saw Richard

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1vz94WpXDVYIEGja8cjFNa

Album Name: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Release Year: 1970

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Track Listing:

1. Bridge over Troubled Water
2. El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
3. Cecilia
4. Keep the Customer Satisfied
5. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
6. The Boxer
7. Baby Driver
8. The Only Living Boy in New York
9. Why Don't You Write Me
10. Bye Bye Love
11. Song for the Asking

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0JwHz5SSvpYWuuCNbtYZoV

In the previous round, Blue was paired with The Verve's Urban Hymns. Bridge Over Troubled Water had a slightly closer battle with Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.
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Comments

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Blue
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Yeah, Blue
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Just at a gig with my mate, he votes bridge over troubled water as my proxy
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    What a bastard decision. So I'm on a desert island just with record player, amp, speakers and a handy 13 amp mains socket. I just have two records, Which one do I throw into the sea ??? I think, if I keep Blue I'd just be in some forever nostalgic, slightly lovesick, Canadian mood, but Joni's voice would keep some sort of belief in humanity in my heart and trousers. BOTW would I think keep me in better nick, its mix of joyful and nostalgic songs, we could me going, as long as i could scratch El Conda Pasa into implayable condition. Its BOTW.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    BOTW
  • 24 Red
    24 Red Posts: 578
    This is a hard one. BOTW is without doubt more iconic and less idiocentric, easier to hum. But I just listened to Blue again for the first time in several years and it's amazing.

    So Blue.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    BOTW
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    No disrespect but, Blue.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    Bridge over troubled waters for me.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    BOTW
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  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Bridge over troubled water.

  • Nadou
    Nadou Posts: 1,725
    Love Bridge Over Troubled Water, but Blue wins it for me.
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    edited October 2017
    Blue.
    Not exactly comparable, I would pair Blue with Janis Ian's 'Between the lines' or Carrol King's 'Tapestry' for a challenge.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,676
    Bridge Over Troubled Water.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Bridge over troubled water.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    I feel sick
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    I feel sick

    By who..?
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    I saw on the internet the other day that if you cover Paul Simon's face from the eyes down on the cover, it looks like Art Garfunkel has a big Pancho Gonzalez moustache.

    So it's Blue for me!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    Blue
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Blue
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    You can send Blue off in a big yellow taxi. BOTW for me.
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    Bridge over troubled water gets my vote.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,909
    BOTW
  • Addick in SW16
    Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
    11 - 8 to Bridge Over Troubled Water so far.

    If votes die down towards the middle of the week, I'll consider posting another one for the second half of the week, but only if there are no more votes after a couple of 'bumps'.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    edited October 2017
    Blue : - )
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    BOTW for me.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Blue. It's nothing short of genius. And it stems from complete and utter honest feeling.

    I'd have voted for it over Rumours, which was what BOTW came up against last round.

    Also, My Old Man holds a special place in my heart. It was my brother and his wife's first dance at their wedding, which I was (sort of) DJing for, so I had to do the introductions etc. It was a particularly beautiful moment in a day chock full of them.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,623
    BOTW. The fact that it beat Rumours to get into the qtr finals in one thing but to lose out to JM would be a travesty - but I supppose the fact that both Wigan & Millwall have been to a final in the last few years shows that in the end some crap still reaches the top.

    BOTW. (hopefully the mod might count this twice)
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Blue
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    BOTW

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