Elvis Cup Rd 1: Blood and Chocolate V Brutal Youth

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:07 pm

This is an awesome tie!!!!

Could go to the wire. Many of the younger EC fans came in on Brutal Youth and it's a fairly nostalgic record. However, there are those (not me) who regard B&C as his best ever record.

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:31 pm

It was close, but B&C has to have my vote.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:49 pm

Brutal Youth

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:42 pm

I was struck by how many BY songs featured on 'Live By request', buut B&C is sure to do it.

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:50 pm

this is a really tough one......but i guess i´ll go with brutal youth.....that album contains many of my favourites songs......

Watching_Detectives · Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:38 pm

After much deliberation, I have decided to go with Brutal Youth.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:42 am

Expected this to be closer. Oh well.
Get your votes in soon. The batch of first round matches will be posted soon.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:23 am

Brutal Youth was my first EC record bought on my own when I was 15. I retain no recalled fondness for it whatsoever, apart from 'Favourite Hour', which is one of my faves. It is liked.... sporadically. Blood & Chocolate for me in this round.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:34 am

BY easily, B&C has never quite done it for me.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:18 am

Yeah, gotta be B&C...I love the revengeful venom in it, kicking off with the sound of a frantic heart beat bass and someone screaming Blood and Chocolate'...brilliant. Battered Old Bird one of the finest songs he's ever written.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:46 am

B&C 4 me.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:10 am

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Brutal Youth can do no wrong.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:14 am

B&C for me. All that vitriol. Nice.

There are individual songs on BY that I love, but somehow it doesn't hang together for me as well as B&C does.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:16 am

BY for me. You could put All The Rage on any album and I'll vote for it.

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:33 pm

I love both of these albums, but Blood & Chocolate definitely takes it for me.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:20 am

No contest, Blood & Chocolate (though I've recently re-evaluated BY and like it much better now, thank you). I love this album -- which was not that well received by reviewers or many fans (at least the one I knew) on its release. I always knew it was genius.

lipstickvogue · Post by **lipstickvogue** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:47 am

hurts to pick but B&C has I Want You and that seals it for me.