GUIDED BY VOICES vs STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

possibly 150

They played 100 in a row on NYE, here in LA. Anyone here go see it?

STP has probably 20 good songs out of 150, whereas GBV has probably 20 good songs out of 125,000.

almost giving STP a sympathy vote for the funniest music video of the '90s, "Sour Girl"

GBV was actually pretty damn consistent in the prime era

Does Pollard have a "Range Life" type song

"Clownin' on Weiland" unfortunately sounds like a crap Flaming Lips song from about 1989

anyway brb making a POISON IDEA vs. UNREST poll

"Sour Girl" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
vs
"Teenage FBI" featured on the Buffy soundtrack

definitely goes to GBV

These polls are making me realize how many storied alt-rock bands have (sadly) deceased singers.

sorry, GBV never pushed a single pleasure button for me, something Interstate Love Song does with ease

Never got around to exploring GBV and I doubt I’ll do it in the next six days so STP it is. Overplayed as it is, interstate love song remains undeniable. Big Empty too.

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

fuck you all

i have a really tough time getting through purple great as its singles are. tiny music is their best i think. i owned shangri la-dee-da (i lmao every time i get to type that album title out) when i was a teenager and played it enough to like just about every track on it but i feel like i'm the only one

Purple is great, 'Interstate Love Song' is fantastic, but this match-up is Henry the STP Hawk taking futile swings at a bemused Foghorn GBV. That, I say, that band ain't right!

The funny thing is that none of the bands in these recent polls seem like they would GAF about a “fight.”

Future polls:
PJ Harvey vs. Garbage
Dino Jr. vs. Guns 'n' Roses
Sonic Youth vs. Genesis

Placebo vs. My Chemical Romance

Not a lot of productive dissonance in a few of those...

but... huh?

JIMMY RAY VS FINLEY QUAYE

Jimmie's Chicken Shack vs Sugar Ray

Stone Temple Voices

jesus christ, Jimmie's Chicken Shack. the music industry could not have come up with a more sterile, faceless band if they tried.

and yet at the time, I loved "High" *shrug*. i suspect I liked anything by this band cos it had something food related in the name and I am always hungry

Yeah I bought that CD :-( they were on MTV’s oddville

me and my brother used to joke that "Falling Out" was about taking a shit. it kind of is, musically.

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

It's a good one, for sure.

xp

I didnt like his voice as much after purple

Tiny Music has the best ratio of great/good non-singles.

One of my favorite 2010s songs is a non-Pollard from the double LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzw0kn-GfU

Pollard would write a lyric with the phrase "humble kidney pie."

re: tiny music, i routinely forget how good "adhesive" is too. it sounds like a psych emo song with a trumpet solo

best album track on purple is "unglued" imo

which my best friend and I loved when it first aired cos "masturbation" is the third word

I loved "Lounge Fly", but only cos I recognized the part of the song that was used on MTV

"Adhesive" is rad

young me had a hard time adjusting to Tiny Music's expansion into other genres and wearing more of their 70s influences on their sleeves

adult me is all about that shit. like I hated "And So I Know" with a passion then, but right now this shit makes me wanna get in a goddamn jacuzzi with a mai tai

I love "Adhesive", it was one of the many tracks where I wondered if he sucked helium out of a balloon before recording though.

also hate the Ju-On esque "i told you five or four times" gross vocal thing at the end of "Art School Girl"

The move toward Bowie/Zeppelin/Lennon was exactly what pulled me in.

yeah I was just spinning through Tiny Music and I really dig it much more now than I did as a kid. really let the DeLeos play to their strengths

which my best friend and I loved when it first aired cos "masturbation" is the third word

Barbarella is masturbation

lol

Btw unglued is awesome and super fun to play on guitar. Same w silvergun superman.

Kitchenware & candybars is a good tool song

Tiny Music has the best ratio of great/good non-singles

I kinda think this might be No. 4 instead actually

Brad, just have to say real quick that I have mad respect for your musical opinions even when they diverge wildly from my own. Your enthusiasm is palpable.

huh, never read the credits for 12 bar blues before

Sheryl Crow – accordion
Brad Mehldau – piano

also thanks to this thread i'm listening to a ton of stp and i think i've been underrating no. 4 for ages. "down," "heaven & hot rods," "church on tuesday," "sour girl," all pretty great. lmao that "no way out" is basically a nu-metal song though

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

good new song, must be a Tuesday

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Shart Temple Fartlets

KING SHIT AND THE GOLDEN BOYS vs VELVET REVOLVER

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.