Taking Sides: Trouble vs. Saint Vitus

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DOOOOOOOOOOOM!

― dave q, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually I like both of these, Trouble's later albums are better produced and written by the earlier stuff is more demented, Xtian Sab Division (they denied being Xtians but were neurotic about profanity when I met them), and they're still unfairly neglected, unlike Vitus who have that SST cred.

― dave q, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Born Too Late!

― Kris, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fuck everyone, it's vitus. VITUS. that monolithic, slabby, mind- numbingly simple, stoned, fried, muddy, crap guitar sound. their first album is monstrously heavy, stupid metal crap that accentuated everything you wanted to hear from 70s metal (magic! zombies!) and cut out the bullshit. they also did one of the best fucking songs ever with wino - "i bleed black," which features the classic line "nobody dares to care - i can tell by their eyes/they're just a bunch of fuckin' UNAWARE SQUARES."

trouble = christian led zeppelin imitations. "psychotic reaction" wasn't even a count five cover.

― your null fame, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

Anyone seen Trouble in recent years? They're about to go on tour...I'm trying to decide whether it's worth it to go see them.

― Johnathan Redgers (Pearl Hooch), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

The answer is Trouble, no trouble. I never saw what was so great about Vitus, SST cred or not. Second-rate Black Cheer with a more plodding rhythm section and nothing to say. Killer guitar tones but little to support it. And a laughable singer (altho Wino was better than the original guy.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Sunday, 11 February 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

Love both.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 11 February 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm playing manic frustration now and it's kicking my ass. 'come touch the sky' is one delirious cracker of an opening tune

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

I like both but this is clearly Trouble. I'm even digging the new one so far. and they were incredible live a few weeks ago.

― gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:59 (nine years ago)

also like the The Skull release of a few years ago.

― gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 02:00 (nine years ago)

six years pass...

Fell down a wiki hole as I revisited Trouble—a band I loved as a teen but haven’t listened to in 20+ years. Apparently the singer died of Covid last year.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 18 August 2022 05:43 (three years ago)

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