The way Kate & Cindy sing together reminds me most of the way Exene & John Doe sing together, which would've been a better poll tbh.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
Not really, I've never heard X.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
Er, how is that anyone's fault besides yours?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
I don't think they're particularly well known outside the US.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
But, you know, carry on regardless, Make ILM Great Again.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
X are great, check out any of the 1st four albums
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
this would have been ABBA if it wasn't for our recent poll, but all i have been listening to for about a month now is The B-52's. they are better than i originally thought.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
(xp) Well, I could be completely wrong but not only have I never heard them but I've never heard them come up in a conversation ever - and I had a conversation about Killdozer today!
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
It is very easy to not hear X in North America fwiw.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
(Voting for Fleetwood Mac)
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
been revisiting X lately and honestly see how we are / big black sun feel like the sweet spot, not the legendary first two
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
Joanie you're getting close to Geir territory
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
Joanie is approaching Lord Sotosyn territory with that X comment.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
I still think this whole poll stinks
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
Surprised Joanie has any time for any of the LA punks tbh!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
Both of these groups succeeded in the only way that truly great artists do, they created their own little universe and aesthetic and had the songs to go with it, there's really no other band like either of them and it's churlish to say one is better than the other because both these bands became exactly what they were meant to be, and how many of us do that?
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
B-52s for me, easy.
― WmC, Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
<i> see how we are / big black sun feel like the sweet spot</i>
I could cosign this on the right day.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, More Fun... /Big Black Sun I mean. See How We Are is a bit post-peak.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
Apologies 4 derail
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 November 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
I actually think ABBA is best enjoyed in album form, and they finished off with a real classic album.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 29 November 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
Also many xxxposts
But I think someone could cover "Roam" by the B52s and it could work
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
I was thinking that and "Deadbeat Club". And of course, Sinéad did it with "Ain't It a Shame".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 29 November 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
The B-52's seem to have a sort of uncoverability akin to the Sugarcubes, where it's essential that it is them performing the songs, but the songs themselves are quite strong. I dunno. I just never liked ABBA that much. The Bee Gees were more interesting to me.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Gibb bros are light years ahead of ABBA imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
So, Οὖτις, no sitting on the fence here, ABBA yay or nay?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
I will rate ABBA above Fleetwood Mac fwiw
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
mostly because their songs work on that archetypal pop level that JCLC was referring to, their best material is catchy and bouncy as hell. FM doesn't have anything like that imo, their appeal is more tightly bound up with the personalities of the players and their band mythology, which bores me. (Which is just to say that other bands, like the B-52s, say, have better mythologies and personalities lol, or at least ones I just find inherently more interesting or appealing)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I don't think of FM that way at all, though. Looking at JCLC's criteria, "Landslide" has to be one of the most-covered songs of the last 50 years. As often as not, guitar students don't even know it as a FM song ime.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
M doesn't have anything like that imo, their appeal is more tightly bound up with the personalities of the players and their band mythology, which bores me.
lol what
With that rhythm section? With that (former) guitarist? Maybe to sell copies of Rolling Stone the mythos worked.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
in what world aren't "Don't Stop" and "Gypsy" bouncy as hell
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
(No data to back the first claim, which I pulled out of my ass. Point is that it has clearly been covered a lot, and successfully.) 2xp And yeah, "Never Going Back Again" is an all-time great fingerpicking song.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
ABBA are great of course. B-52's are basically my favourite band right now. I'm voting for Ace of Base.
― jmm, Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Don't turn around
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
all that jmm wants is another bABBAy
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Kate and Cindy made/make harmonies like few in the world of rock/pop and are as in-tune with each other as Hazel and Alice.
B-52's all day.
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
fun fact: ace of base are nazis
― dude the new bond girl’s gonna be named ‘firehose o’piss’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
bump
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
how do all these Fleetwood Mac songs get stuck in my head, must be their personalities and backstories that I don't think about at all?
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 November 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
what can I say, I've never had a Mac song stuck in my head
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 November 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
whereas "Take a Chance on Me" was burned into my brain (via the Muppets!) as a youngster.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 November 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
Both bands are about the best at what they do. You could make an awesome split 7" in the sky with the B52s and Abba covering a tune of each other.
― earlnash, Friday, 30 November 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
I enjoy the timbre of the B52 vox more - Roam gives me an ASMR, goosebump type reaction, while is ABBA is just like “more champagne please.” Also gotta keep in mind the difference in production styles, B52s all crisp and treble, ABBA hazy and lush
― calstars, Friday, 30 November 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
ABBA, the Mac, the B-52's -- all awesome, y'all are cracked.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
Mindbogglingly, heartbreakingly cracked
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
Agnetha and Frida's voice are undistinguishable to me, while I can mostly tell which part is Kate and which is Cindy. This is not a pro or a con, just an observation.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 30 November 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
That's not a dis though
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
This is the ABBA song I discovered in the last two years that affirmed their holyshitness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsznMjw-BsI
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Practically the last thing they recorded, this song and the two songs from the Under Attack single are what happened when the ABBA boys got hold of Oh No It's Devo and decided to give it one last crack at staying relevant.
― everything, Friday, 30 November 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
Tin roof... justice.
(I would've voted ABBA though)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
Love Abba, but they never wrote anything as ferocious as "Private Idaho" (although "S.O.S" comes close).
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
My favourite Abba song was always this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbZqnC2oN4I think it is an outlier in their oeuvre. So much punch, so much drive, almost a punk song from 1973. After that it was all downhill.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
Post a controversial music opinion
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I love 'Ring Ring', it's one of my karaoké hits! Wouldn't say it went anywhere downhill after though. 'Bang-A-Boomerang' also has plenty of punch and drive. This band, even their lesser known singles would be another band's classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CsJCa2TlXU
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
"Private Idaho" is such a dope song
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
First five seconds of "Ring Ring" could be a Blondie song.
― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
My favorite early ABBA deep cut
https://youtu.be/wz3ygKyvKaM
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link