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Fromt he Hüsker Dü thread:
If you dont particularly like Husker Du, what are your favourite 80s American Underground bands?

To me the obvious answer is The Replacements. What other genres can be divided into to opposing or at least different bands?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

But I don't like either of them. Why can't the answer be the Feelies or something?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure, whatever. I was thinking Stones Vs The Beatles or something.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I see. You mean the sort of thing where you say "there are two types of people: (Beatles / Sex Pistols / Nirvana) people and (Stones / Clash / Pearl Jam) people," right? I can never sort out many those divisions are circumstantial and self-reinforcing and how much they actually mean something, however small. They really do often mean things, subtle telling things -- but there's always the fear on some level that you're just thinking that in hindsight because they were both really successful.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What I want to see is the "favorite Beatle" test mapped onto N.W.A., like "actually I'm more of an MC Ren kind of guy."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be scarred it would morph into Wu thread and we'd get a J*yZ Vs N*z effect.
Someone would of course make a thread asking for your favorite member of the S1W shortly afterwards.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like either of them either. I would pick Sonic Youth, Swans, Pixies, Feelies, Pere Ubu, R.E.M., Devo, Dinosaur Jr., or Big Black.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus H CHRIST, it was just an example. An antimatter to the one band with its own legion of followers who seem to share very little incommon.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Who would be the antimatter to They Might Be Giants?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Mountain Goats!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, sorry, I see the point of the thread now.

how about?:
Massive Attack --- Portishead
Steve Reich --- Philip Glass
west coast rap --- east coast rap
Spacemen 3 - My Bloody Valentine

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

or even better:
Spectrum --- Spiritualized

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream --- Stone Roses?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

David Gray --- Avril Lavigne

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan --- Brewer & Shipley

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oasis --- blur
def jux, anticon --- rest of hip hop

― schnell schnell, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Tupac --- Biggie

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

vanilla ice --- snow

― schnell schnell, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

grateful dead -- pink floyd

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Public Enemy --- Cypress Hill

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

bikini kill --- huggy bear

― schnell schnell, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

take that --- east 17

― schnell schnell, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

backstreet boys --- n*sync (they do have that star thing don't they?)

― schnell schnell, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince (or whatever that stupid fuck calls himself these days) vs. The Time

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Who would be the antimatter to They Might Be Giants?

Why Ween of course!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the Jackson 5 --- the Osmonds

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

brady bunch -- partride family

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

uh,,,,,,, there's a 'g' missing

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe not opposing, but at least different:
Neu! --- post-'74 Kraftwerk

― willem (willem), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

wire - linda rondstadt

― brando (brando), Monday, 17 February 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince (or whatever that stupid fuck calls himself these days) vs. The Time
-- William R Henderson (cabinessence...), February 14th, 2003.

Prince = "that stupid fuck?" Has anyone ever been more wrong about anything in the whole history of ILx?

― paul cox (paul cox), Monday, 17 February 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince may be many things -- irritating, smelly, short, self-obsessed, narcissitic, perpetually erect, pretentious, long-winded, greasy -- but I think one would be hard-pressed to make a case for "stupid."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Warrant vs Poison

― dave q, Monday, 17 February 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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