1996: In the Meantime vs. Tattva

i like both but voted for the one what made by the guy named royston

from this classic ILM thread:

commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996

lol xp

Voted for Kula Shakur. Wankers, but it's not like they made Urge Overkill look humble like those other guys.

Thanks, LLB. I never ever thought I would have an occasion to vote for Kula Shaker on ILM in my life, but here we are.

Can the winner go on to face Gay Dad?

This is really hard - - - "Tattva" blew my mind when I was 15 and I listened to K religiously through til college or so, but gun to my head, I'd rather hear "In The Meantime" right now. So, that.

after you reminded me of the existence of "Hey Dude" yesterday i realized how much more i like that than "Tattva"

I like "In The Meantime", it's fun to sing that "woohoohooheehoohoohoohoo wo-oo-oo--oo-oo-oo-oo" part

rules that it's in Rock Band 3

even when britpop was "a thing" in the USA everyone knew that Kula Shaker was a step too far; I couldn't help but think of George Harrison hearing it & saying "what hast I wrought"

Even though I noted what an irredeemable piece of shit Resident Alien was in the other thread, I do still like "In The Meantime". I mean, it was enough to get me to buy the irredeemable piece of shit. Kula Shaker never inspired anyone to do anything but snore.

i have plenty of love for the bassline from itm

^otm

man i hadn't listened to tattva in years and it is irredeemably lame

itm is one of those songs where even at the time i couldn't reconcile the equally strong feelings of "why the hell am i listening to this" and "this is awesome"

otm

my dislike of Bowie wannabes is so strong that even my opinion of Bowie sometimes suffers for it, but "In The Meantime" is alright with me

No fan of tattva, but "in the meantime", I can't stand

• The Bowie delivery
• The ubiquitousness of it in 1996.
• Its status as a "recurrent" track when I was doing modern radio.
• The whole Liv Tyler thing.
• My always getting it confused with the Helmet song.

But I do always root for a bass-playing lead singer. Can't I vote for Type O Negative instead?

after you reminded me of the existence of "Hey Dude" yesterday i realized how much more i like that than "Tattva"

― some dude, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where do you stand on "Mystical Machine Gun?"

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i stand in a place of not wanting to re-listen to any other Kula Shaker songs besides those 2 and that surprisingly decent cover of "Hush"

Love how "Flag post for moderation" is an option here. Voted "In The Meantime", but wouldn't it be great if option #3 won out here? I honestly have no idea if I've ever heard another song by either of these bands. Did either have a follow-up hit?

::tries to yell "Mungo City," finds that a hand is covering his mouth, is dragged backstage::

I guess I didn't know "In The Meantime" was the title of that song. I had to listen to it to remember it. It's okay. "Tattva" is no great shakes either, but something about the Spacehog song bugs me. "Tattva" is innocuous, so wins by default.

However, both videos should be shot into space never to return.

In The Meantime by a Mungo City mile

Miles are much shorter in Mungo City, iirc.

The city I live in, the city of Mungo.

^dont forget to glass yourself with a jar

The record will show I did not actually use the words "Mungo City..." oh damn!

"In The Meantime" rules

After the band was dropped by Elektra Records, Spacehog signed with upstart label Artemis Records and released its third album, The Hogyssey, on April 10, 2001. The album continued the band's neo-glam approach and featured the singles "I Want to Live" and "At Least I Got Laid", as well as a funk version of Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra".

voted Flag Post for moderation, I didn't need to end up finding out about this shit

yeah but this poll is comparing individual songs, not the band as a whole

"I Want To Live" and "At Least I Got Laid" were ok.. kinda forgettable overall

How are you even in a position to have an opinion on that.

Ginger baker, bagel, trout farm!

xp "forgettable" meaning like, everyone else forgot them except me

Ginger baker, bagel, trout farm!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, May 21, 2012 2:45 AM Bookmark

still love this

Hey that Spacehog song starts with a Penguin Cafe Orchestra sample

^ probably common knowledge but I had never heard that spacehog song before

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sorry-about-the-swastika-says-kula-shaker-singer-mills-1268161.html

just to remind people that a vote for kula shaker is a vote for nazism

I knew about the singer's "oooh i love a good swastika" scandal, but I didn't know about this.

Five years ago, Mills was unknown. He and Marcus Mac-laine, who was the partner of Mills's actress mother Hayley for 12 years, had formed a band called The Objects of Desire. According to Maclaine, they gave it the motto "England will rise again". The group did the usual round of clubs and backstreet venues making a limited impact on the music scene.

But in 1993 the band was lined up to play a far bigger gig at Wembley: a conference entitled "Global Deception" at which speakers included a notorious anti-semitic propagandist Eustace Mullins and a leading US militia writer, William Cooper.

Cooper, who stepped in as compere at the conference after the right-wing, militia-supporting DJ Anthony J Hilder failed to appear, has reprinted the anti-semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was used by the Nazis to justify the Holocaust. Mills later went on to thank Cooper on Kula Shaker's hit album K, which reached number one in the album charts in September last year.

just a bit of harmless nazism

o_0 <(Holy shit!)

balance:

Mills responded to the allegations by fax and his responses were incorporated in the article. Mills admitted having played at "Global Deception", but claimed not to have fully understood the nature of the event. He indicated that he now felt that the swastika, which has origins outside Nazism and different meanings in different parts of the world, was hopelessly connected to Nazism in the West. He indicated that it was the outrage that his comments had sparked that had led him to this conclusion. He also offered an unequivocal condemnation of far-right-wing ideology.

"I think there is no better example of my naivete and insensitivity than the swastika comments . . . my comments derive from my long interest in Indian culture, from which the swastika has its origins . . . I apologise to those who have been offended by my comment and humbly ask that they accept that I am completely against the Nazis, their crimes and any other latter-day form of totalitarianism. For the record I have never been an anti-semite especially as my dear grandmother was Jewish . . . I loathe totalitarianism, far right thinking, oppression of all forms, denial of human rights and all things that would limit the free spirit of humankind. I stand for peace, love, generosity and learning."[15]

Now, there is one word that smells off in this..

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That Spacehog song was actually amazing!

How is the vocal in any way Bowiesque?!

i care not, i still think that 'in the meantime' is fucking brilliant.

as indeed are several other tracks on the bands debut album.

subsequently, i have just one-clicked the bands follow up album for pocket money.

better than gay dad though ?

hmm, not so sure on that one.