Paj! Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 MATCH 22 Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos Hey - Pixies ----------- Match 1: Led Zeppelin vs. Train Match 2: Faith No More vs. Oasis Match 3: Sigur Ros vs. Foreign Beggars Match 4: Maximum The Hormone vs. Santana Match 5: Avril Lavigne vs. Lady GaGa Match 6: Radiohead vs. Polysics Match 7: Jeff Buckley vs. Kings Of Leon Match 8: Lamb vs. Iron Maiden Match 9: Malcolm Middleton vs. Rihanna Match 10: Blondie vs. Regina Spektor Match 11: The Offspring vs. Bauhaus Match 12: Tegan & Sara vs. TV On The Radio Match 13: Placebo vs. Britney Spears Match 14: Postal Service vs. CSS Match 15: Portishead vs. Lia Match 16: Fall Out Boy vs. Tori Amos Match 17: HIM vs. Megadeth Match 18: A Fine Frenzy vs. Goldfrapp Match 19: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds vs. Family Force 5 Match 20: ? Match 21: ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairdriver Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 As much as I appreciate that the Pixies are lovely, and I would vote for them over alot of other crap in this competition, this is Cornflake Girl we are talking about. Like, I love the bit where she actually starts singing with a powerful voice at the "the man with the golden gun" bit. Lovely. Tori Amos for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoDesiato Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I vote for Pixies. Tori Amos has some decent stuff, but this song didn't do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Tori Amos gets my vote, found the Pixies song a bit boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan-likes-trees Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Gah, first im up against myself and then im up against Tori Amos. Both excellent, though Im going Pixies as the bass and intro are delicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twozzok Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Cornflake Girl Actually quite good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Tori Amos. Didn't really like this Pixies song to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolness Bears Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Tori Amos Cornflake Girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Cornflake Girl Actually quite good Why are you so surprised? Of course, Tori gets my vote. While 'Hey" wasn't great, it showed promise of them as a band, and I keep getting them recommended, so I'll look them up in the near future. But Cornflake Girl, though somewhat sick of it, being a HUGE EWF (Ears With Feet, a.k.a a Tori fan) as I am, It's still so utterly awesome. Cornflake Girl - 6 Hey - 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenno182 Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Normally would chose The Pixies herebut "Hey" is pretty shit so Tori Amos gets my vote. Good tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Cornflake Girl - 7 Hey - 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZourceman Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Jeez "Hey" was pretty mild. Cornflake Girl was great. Not quite sure what the lyrics meant...but its less important to me if the song in general is executed as well as that, so yes. Tori ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I love The Pixies, so I vote for them. The Amos song was played on MTV too much when I was a youth waiting for good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Cornflake Girl was by far the superior song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Jeez "Hey" was pretty mild. Cornflake Girl was great. Not quite sure what the lyrics meant...but its less important to me if the song in general is executed as well as that, so yes. Tori ftw. In general, Tori Amos lyrics are derived from umpteen different emotions/sources, meaning the listener has to piece them into their own interpreatations. I haven't tried in particular to analyse/look into Cornflake Girl, but I know it's partially "about" female circumcision. From HereInMyHead.com; "I read the Alice Walker book, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and there's umm, in that book, the mothers take the daughters to the butchers to have their, let's say their genitalia removed. And even though it's a patriarchal culture that she's talking about, and that this custom was put into practice a long, long time ago by the patriarchy, it's the mothers that take their daughters. And, what I was singing about was, it's funny how from generation to generation women really betray each other in the ladies' room. There is a whole secret society that happens, and a lot of times a mother will say 'I'm doing this for your good' whether it was binding the feet in the Eastern cultures or whether it's marrying your daughter to this gangrene, smelly-breathed, old, decrepit, rotting scumbag that's 80 years old with dough. 'You know, this is really the best for you,' when the truth is, it's the best for everybody else. And, that's an extreme of women's relationships brought to just like, your girlfriend that you're hanging out with, but betrayal is betrayal, and I was thrown in to many situations as I was reading that book where girls, my girls, we were just dissin' each other. The things that we were doing, umm, it's like I would have never imagined that we could be so unsupportive of each other, and it was just happening while I was reading this book, and Cornflake Girl is the betrayal really of girls." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I've never heard of any of them before. I prefer Tori Amos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokhed00 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Both pretty dreary, but Tori Amos gets it by a whisker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Cornflake Girl - 11 Hey - 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyellowbloke Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Hmmmm, not my favourite of Pixies songs and Tori Amos I'm not entirely convinced by, partly because I remember having it stuck in my head for days when I was a kid although I didn't know any of the lyrics which made it all the worse, (Wow cool story, now get on with it). Alright, I'll go with the popular vote and say Tori. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Cornflake Girl - 12 Hey - 3 My day is being made as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Cornflake girl, I like singing along to 'You bet your life it is', loves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 It is one of her best to sing along to, as you can alternatively sing realy low or really high depending on your mood. Yoo BATE YOOR LOIFE it uz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 Closing this now, as I THINK Warner is clamping down on all videos by their artists on Youtube, meaning I have to skedaddle a match with my last nomination up now. Tori Amos wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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