GUIDED BY VOICES vs STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

Bush vs Live

hmm.

for good music or for LOLs?

cos Live wins the latter easily

Yeah but do they have an album produced by Steve Albini?

Bush actually hand a handful of songs that I still actually like a lot. and a bunch I thought were armpit funk

"Greedy Fly", "Everything Zen", "Tendency to Start Fires" were fun tho

"Machine Head" was awful for its "oh lookie octave guitar riff meant to sound intense and edgy and sounds like a kid in a Sam Ash showing off for his dimwitted friend"

"Swim" was a good deep cut too I guess

Bush vs. Sutter

I was fond of 'Bonedriven' at the time and still vaguely am.

"Swallowed" is aight and has the '90s edgelord neon cross video

Live , I actually like Secret Samadhi and lots of Throwing Copper, but Ed Kowalczyk had some of the weirdest intonation of any singer ever.

lightning "creshes"?

Both bands had good songs

Both bands played hard

and yeah I know the hall of fame thread it inspired. but I remember thinking "why does he think that word has more than one syllable" half the time

xxpost

"Dolphin's Cry" was a bridge too far

Bush was a bigger influence on fashion (with those shotbead necklaces) than any band in these polls too

Sponge vs Afghan Whigs

Sublime vs Smashmouth

No idea why but 'I rushed the lady's room / Took the water from the toilet / Washed her feet and blessed her name' left an indelible mark on me.

Silverchair vs I Mother Earth

Smog vs The Toadies

Smile vs Hum

Vic Chesnutt vs Tim McGraw

I genuinely want us to poll all of these.

Foo Fighters vs Built to Spill

Days of the New vs Sebadoh

interstate love song is incredible, but so are like two dozen gbv songs

― mookieproof, Thursday, January 2, 2020 7:00 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is how i break it down to some extent

this is unfair. both are dope and STP is clearly gonna lose by a lot.

isn't there supposed to be some kind of seeding process so matchups like this don't happen

in the finals yes but this is merely the 3 seed vs 14 seed match

GBV, by default, as 10 minutes ago I wasn't 100% sure I'd heard STP. Turns out that I know "Vasoline" and "Plush", at least. The former is... not bad, actually.

(Also discovered a weirdly pertinent upcoming local event: "together for the first time in Australia will be Live, Bush and Stone Temple Pilots!" Bless.)

GBV has songs that sound like "Still Remains."

I probably like "Lady Picture Show" better than "As We Go Up We Go Down"

There are about 35 bands mentioned in this thread that are worse than the two being polled.

These are two of my favorite bands and I hate this poll.

High-functioning alcoholism vs. you name it.

Neko Case vs Kenny Rogers

Pearl Jam vs Fugazi, battle of the principled ticket sellers

I'm not sure I've ever heard Stone Temple Pilots.

... LOL Britishes.

Tbh this is obv a disaster as a poll but I did think GBV worked as a great foil for STP, maybe teasing out what the latter band actually did well rather than just their rep

...like I def expect STP would've done a killer version of Buzzards and Dreadful Crows or even Smothered in Hugs

The Beatles vs. The Jump in the Saddle Band

If I were going to do another of these, I'd probably go with Helium vs. Belly

GBV
Those who would vote for STP are uncultured swine

dave q come home

this poll is insulting

anyone itt who think GBV have <100 great songs just doesn't know the catalogue

which is obv no easy task but pls

Hell, there are 100+ great songs on Alien Lanes alone.

just in terms of polished "big" rock

Isolation Dills >>>>>>> STP greatest hits

^Drills

anyone looking for a starting point, Human Amusements at Hourly Rates has to be one of the two or three best indie rock "greatest hits" ever (not much competition, I know)

If your band doesn't have an album that tops GBV's odd-and-sods boxset bonus disc King Shit and the Golden Boys then your discography in general is likely to pale in comparison.

voted STP to help the ratio a bit but im probably ready to do a gbv deep dive here soon.

i think tiny music is better than purple and i find it weird that ppl don't agree

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

not a wide enough margin

STP was robbed.

JCLC otm

EZOTM

17 Inbreeder Coldfront

Time to take ILX home

Stone Temple Pilots: A thinkings man's Candlebox.

Lol anybody with a pulse is a thinking man's Candlebox

this must be the poll that comes right before Led Zeppelin vs crying babies on airplanes

Crying baby on an airplane v. Weiland's millionth rendition of the chorus on the 12" dance mix of Interstate Love Song.

Lol, I just looked up that song and it's only 2:52. I could have sworn it was close to 5 minutes.

The second album
12 gracious melodieesss

"interstate love song"'s economy is part of why i think it's a really awesome song. two verses + two choruses + that riff

obv i do not begrudge stp haters, i've been there

they're so funny tho. look at all the good jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OimhTa1hoU

between the start and end dates of this poll, another GBV album was announced

While you wrote your post, Bob recorded seven new songs.