GUIDED BY VOICES vs STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

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.

if "big bang baby" were 1.5 minutes long it'd be a pretty sick gbv song maybe

And also recorded on a minicassette that someone accidentally dropped in the bathtub.

Alternately, STP could've done a swell 'Postal Blowfish'.

Soundgarden voter here that will begrudgingly admit there are about 2-4 good STP songs that were murdered by MTV in the 93-95 era.

I have seen GBV at least 8 times.

If we put GBV up against P’ment, who would win?

Who else would be a worthy adversary for the Stockton kids?

Spiral Stairs doesn't really compare to Tobin Sprout

yeah it's pretty notable, he leaves right after Mag Warwhig, they still do a lot of good stuff after that but the classic era is over, he probably doesn't get enough credit

Not sure exactly HOW correlated Tobin is to the shift in sound exactly, but when he was involved with GBV there was more sonic variety and experiments. More and more songs just sounded like the Who after Mag Earwhig!.

isolation drills and earthquake glue are still good records front to back but yeah

I got off the boat after Mag Earwig. Classic stuff too good. Doug Gillard is my least favorite guitarist

Mag is their peak imo. It's just a perfect blend of everything I love about them (except for the lo-fi fifteen-second fuckaroundary, obvs).

interesting, esp considering the fuckaroundary is part of the charm. Even enhances the bigger moments in context of many of their albums.

Oh no, I love the fuckaroundary. Just saying that it's the major charming element missing from the otherwise perfect Mag Earwhig.

tower to the skies
an academy of lies

oh! I thought you were vaguely referring to the weirder little moments that ARE in Mag Earwhig! Gotcha.

The weird moments on Mag feel like a different animal to me than the earlier 4-track loops of a dude snoring his brains out and what have you.

fair

omg i have not read the thread just here to lol at the proposition! serious honest lol, thank you :) i have never enjoyed a STP song in my life.

Imagining bulldog skin played by the Alien Lanes crew, hot sh1t

If you're actually curious what that kind of thing would sound like, here is a really early version of Glad Girls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXzY5DE5OE

was my impression that Tobin was kind of on the way out during the making of Mag Warwhig?

afaict, bob dissolved the og gbv, made mag earwhig with cobra verde as his backing band, was dissatisfied with the record while sequencing it, and rehired the old band to record more songs

MAG EARWHIG

After recording 15 songs, Bob went back to Dayton, locked himself in the Monument Club, a customized garage in his backyard used for partying, and started sequencing and resequencing the record--36 different ways. But he couldn’t fight the urge to record more songs--first, with an actual producer, John Croslin (Spoon, Dumptruck), and then some spontaneous, basement-sounding stuff--both sessions with Jim Pollard and Tobin Sprout.

from an archived url on the matador website

Hey Brad (& everyone else), metal noms for the 2019 poll are closing tonight. Last call!

oh thanks for heads up, i wanted to nominate/vote in that!

a customized garage in his backyard used for partying

Is there a thread for things that you didn't know but probably could've guessed?

I’ve gone thru the Thank You and Human Amusements... comps over the past few days (via this thread); these are prime examples of bands whose songs I can “appreciate” but just can’t into on a personal-taste level. I’ll give the nod to STP, they were quite a singles band, and something about GBV’s sound really doesn’t mesh with me.

I'll take Thank You over most of GBV's output tbh, even though the latter are the better overall band.

Do the Challops

I cannot fathom making a judgment on the music of GBV on the basis of an album-length best-of. You gotta do the full 45,816-song plunge.

Re: curation of their respective retrospectives, STP is only helped by the exclusion of off-putting frivolities like 'Wet My Bed' while GBV is ill-served by every 'Chicken Blows' that gets dropped.

Sure but that would entail listening to nearly an hour of music! Who has the time?

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