Taking Sides: Mansun vs. Kula Shaker

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I'd advise caution before clicking on that Pendragon album cover jpeg, it really is a horrible cover (& a pretty horrible rekkid as well)

I just remembered "Railings" guest vocals howard devoto! ++++points for Mansun.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

permission to judge a book by its cover!

― Miles Finch, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Devoto also co-wrote the Mansun bside "Everyone Must Win"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, we did this in the pub a few months ago! It quickly degenerated into TS: Levellers vs Afro Celt Sound System.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

pashmina's post is tremendous. although i remember my brother buying a load of six by seven albums and i found them all dreary.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

but that's besides the point, of course. "wide open space" was played in the pub tonight, and i enjoyed it plenty.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Mansun.

They had some great pop songs, but they worked really well as a whole on the album too.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Wide Open Space" is a completely great track.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link

although i remember my brother buying a load of six by seven albums and i found them all dreary.

I always sorta think of them as a pop(ish) Mogwai. This is very much a compliment.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

Inexplicably revisited both bands recently. Neither have aged especially well.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link

I actually saw both bands perform live ... and have relatively no memory of either occasion.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link

Kula Shaker, I'm still ashamed to admit, gave me that post-baggy neo-psychedlic summer fun whizz bang fizz feeling, plus, well, that irrational hormonal "oh my god, I want to dangle myself in your proto-aryan gene pool" thing.

christ almighty

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link

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