Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain/Wowee Zowee vs Fugazi - Repeater/Steady Diet Of Nothing/In On The Killtaker

this seems like a choice between types of guys
lackadaisical guys vs intense guys

These polls are getting stupid. And I even did the Native Tongues one. Not voting this time.

lackadaisical guys forever

intense guys are hilarious. "ooh, you're so intense!"

Back in the day I would have voted Fugazi, but I much prefer listening to Pavement these days. All the furrowed brow 90's stuff feels less appealing to me now.

one person's lackadaisical is another person's vapid and self-satisfied

which offshoot bands had the best kids song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYn_iuPueKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBwXGlAbc3o

Re: lackadaisical, I often think of Malkmus in Slow Century talking about the Wowee Zowee singles (Rattled by the Rush and Father to a Sister of Thought) as the follow ups to their sort of hit "Cut Your Hair". Paraphrasing, he said, "I was smoking a lot of pot, but they sounded like hits to me."

Both lackadaisical and intense could be positive or negative depending on your orientation toward that type of guy.

And your experiences.

one person's lackadaisical is another person's vapid and self-satisfied

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 1:26 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I'm the another person in this case

I love both bands, but in this one I have to give the slight edge to Pavement. If this was Kill Taker/Red Medicine/End Hits (my Fugazi loving prime years), it would def by Fugazi.

These polls are getting stupid. And I even did the Native Tongues one. Not voting this time.

― avoid boring people, Tuesday, 22 October 2024 15:12 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm enjoying them but I'm not forcing anyone to join in.

Honestly I know Fugazi are a better band. And I like them. But if I had to listen to three albums in a row I’d choose Pavement bc intense men make me uncomfortable in heavy doses.

I love both bands, but in this one I have to give the slight edge to Pavement. If this was Kill Taker/Red Medicine/End Hits (my Fugazi loving prime years), it would def by Fugazi.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 1:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this is what i was saying obliquely upthread. and that run is relatively lackadaisical, for fugazi at least.

These polls are getting stupid. And I even did the Native Tongues one. Not voting this time.

― avoid boring people, Tuesday, 22 October 2024 15:12 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm enjoying them but I'm not forcing anyone to join in.

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 7:21 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes i would advise the poster quoted to avoid threads he finds boring

they should change their name to *avoid boring polls* and that way they would remember not to click on them.

i have a really good idea for one of these that barely anyone will vote in, don’t ruin it for me

Do it, Ivy.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235644083395?_skw=fugazi+te2413&itmmeta=01JAN85S6HF89WC7ES9B342Q66

This must be the hundredth pavement thread

Fun fact: The Edge loves Fugazi

Does The Edge post on ILX?

I guess we need to ask fact checkin cuz

mashing that Fugazi button so hard

i understand the reflex but this is pavement's three best albums against one of fugazi's best albums

(if you rate fugazi that much higher overall, then okay!)

― mookieproof

mookieproof otm

I do not understand the love for Kill Taker, I mean of course they were one of the best bands on earth when it came out, but there is just not enough space in the sound of that record for me, it is so claustrophobic and full

(I realize that may be what some folks love abt it)

I came back around to Fugazi in a big way when Red Medicine came out, but the two albums between Repeater and that left me unenthused

Sleeve, Kill Taker is the only Fugazi I’ll never listen to again - everything about it felt WRONG, repulsive

Loving these threads.

Paaaaavement all the way.

Sleeve, Kill Taker is the only Fugazi I’ll never listen to again - everything about it felt WRONG, repulsive

Repulsive? How?

both of these boring US bands can go suck a fuck!

lol

Yeah happy mondays is SO much more interesting

that rhetoric doesn't work on me, because in the main, much of my fave music is US music. Just not any of this shite.

sorry for the negativity. i just think even if pavement vs fugazi is a mildly interesting question that says something about you, the 'first three albums' thing feels very arbitrary. especially for these 2 bands! they have almost eerie symmetry of a similar amount of music over mostly the same time period! like, fugazi means a lot more to me overall, but i'd have to vote for pavement here mainly because they peaked early.

It was slim is an alien that came up with the 1st three album thing but I thought it was a great different idea and ran with it. I decided to expand it out from just being SST bands.
I was going to do Orbital vs Underworld next but since a new album just came out I prob won't bother as I assume everyone would rather discuss that.

Anybody is free to run their own if the subjects are not to their tastes.

I mean, don't let me stop you, I'll shut up. With changing display names I don't even know who you were last time I was posting here regularly a decade ago, but clearly I left a bad impression then and am not doing much better now!

They were c-man a decade ago.

lol no skot

I have no issues with you some dude dont worry

though it is scary when I come across people who know who CRW is in his professional life.

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so much for xStraightXEdgex.

Slackers rule!

love both these bands too much, couldn't bring myself to vote in the poll

my poll was gonna be chameleons vs. comsat angels first three albums

heh that's funny, as I had been considering The Sound vs Comsat Angels

i think i've narrowed down my very favorite Pavement album tracks: cream of gold, the hexx, shady lane, old to begin, father to a sister of thought, stop breathin', summer babe, in the mouth a desert.

been listening to them on the headphones today at work.