― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 05:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I may have to go with Primitive Radio Gods here. A self-conscious and forced stab at capturing the postcollegiate GenX zeitgeist that kinda actually managed to capture the postcollegiate GenX zeitgeist for a week or two in Los Angeles.
― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Weighing up just the one hit from each against each other, PRG by a mile. 'Your Woman' was annoying.
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
This poll didn't close yet?
― billstevejim, Monday, 15 December 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
actually like both these okay. white town is a better album, prg had the better single. am i imagining a small but enthusiastic ilm re-evaluation of white town a few years ago?
― rent, Monday, 15 December 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm, voting only taking account of the singles. One hit wonders... gotta go for PRG.
― elgolfo, Monday, 15 December 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
copied and pasted from the faq on white town's website http://www.whitetown.co.uk/faq.php
I love 'Your Woman' *BUT* what is it about??? Are you a man/woman/transsexual?
Ummmm...well, that's a toughie. When I wrote it, I was trying to write a catchy pop song that had more than one perspective. Although it's written in the first person that viewpoint isn't the same as it maysound. So, these are *some* of the things it's about:Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist / Marxist movement (as I was for three years in the 80s).Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian (ditto).Being a gay guy in love with a straight man.Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-ass Marxist.
― Moka, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
drop the php from that adress :Phttp://www.whitetown.co.uk/faq
― Moka, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
White Town. Not only b/c the song is a stone cold classic, but b/c it pulled the neat trick of being a quasi-gay New Wave throwback which got regular airplay on mainstream rock FM stations in the late-90s. PRG song is nice too, but it could never be my woman.
― Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ this.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd always flip the station when the PRG single came on. meh.
I’ve always loved that White Town tune.
― Allen, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Bands that are dudes in bedrooms making new hits from previously recorded material IN THE 90s!
By this definition, shouldn't you include Moby too?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard the other group, but I love "Your Woman" (both the gender play in the lyrics and the actual tune), so I gotta go for White Town.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
frrrrm-frrm-fa-frrrm-frrrm-fa-frrrm-frrrm-fa-frrrm-frrrmbun-dabada-bun-da-bada--bun-da-bada--bun-da-bada-bunda-bunda-bundaSO I GUESS WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Absolute classic. Doing this atm
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:49 (five years ago) link
not sure you quite get how "vs." threads work
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
Wtf man. You’re dr buzzkill
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:59 (five years ago) link
Couldn’t find a better thread. No need to be an ass
Not sure you get not being an ass?
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link
classics!
― dyl, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
ass-ic or dud
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
Sorry sic, hope you have a good day
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
I've heard "Your Woman" a few times recently at the bar, seems to be a budding jukebox fave.
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
That song does feel ahead-of-its-time in my mind’s ear (haven’t actually heard it in years).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
I love both songs and fuck it I commented on this thread 10 years ago. I feel like an ilm fossil.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 June 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
Ever get that “final scene of Seinfeld” feeling — “I think we’ve had this conversation before...”?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 11 June 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
That link to his faq on his website is interesting if you want to read on the gear he used and other info on the song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 June 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
both classics but standing outside is a real game changer
― music saved my life (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
i don't know that it changed any games! gorgeous, wonderful track tho. the noise outro soundtracked a few cathartic cries during a difficult time in my life
― dyl, Saturday, 30 June 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
aw dyl <3
― music saved my life (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link