OPO: Galaxie 500

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I've been listening to their three album a lot lately and I'm trying to pick a favorite song by them. So many to choose from and it changes so often! It used to be Fourth of July because of its one-liners and that great epic ending but lately I'm leaning towards something off of On Fire. Strange or Another Day are great and Isn't It a Pity was what turned me on to them. The other day though I listened to Here She Comes Now and after previously thinking it was a just a "pretty good" cover I reevaluated it and I think its currently my favorite Galaxie 500 song. It also made me listen to the VU original again and the cover put it to shame. They transormed the original from a little throwaway on White Light to this absolutely gorgeous ballad. How great are the backing vocals coming in on the chorus the second time?

― Jingo, Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

'ceremony'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

tugboat

― Stephen C (ihope), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Their songs are so similar, it makes this tough. I'll go When Will You Come Home

― garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Sunday, 25 December 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Ummm... "4th of July."

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Snowstorm

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I hate the OPO threads because I can never Pick Only One.

Force me at gunpoint and I'll say "Temperature's Rising".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Or "Pictures".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

damn. on fire is my favorite album...

i guess i'll go with "Snowstorm," right now in observance of christhmus.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

am i allowed to say "don't let our youth go to waste"?

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

i can't answer this question. if it was 'destroy only one' the answer would be 'flowers'

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 25 December 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

i take offense to calling "here she comes now" a "throwaway" track...

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Sunday, 25 December 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

it's impossible for me to only pick one galaxie 500 song, and i don't think picking ten would be much easier. but i think "king of spain" would be my "destroy only one."

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Sunday, 25 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

When Will You Come Home, through it's video on MTV, is what introduced me to them, so I always come back to that. The guitar solos just totally do it for me. Either that or Another Day, which I find just heartbreaking and love Naomi's singing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

aw, what's wrong with flowers?

x-post.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Standing in line eating my Twinkies...

― Neuromancer, Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i take offense to calling "here she comes now" a "throwaway" track...

yeah, that's bonkers. i love g500, but i actually don't think they did a very good job with that one. but don't let our youth is lovely, as jody points out.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

another vote for tugboat

― TRGEE, Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Tugboat--specifically, the last minute and a half of it. Probably the best two-chord song I've heard.

― ajlee, Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I always loved how unhinged the guitar riff in "Strange" sounds coming right after "Snowstorm"... that Dean's voice cracks a couple times during the song only helps.

... but I'm also tempted to go with their cover of "Cheese and Onions."

― Jonathan Fischer (j fischer), Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I always loved how unhinged the guitar riff in "Strange" sounds coming right after "Snowstorm"... that Dean's voice cracks a couple times during the song only helps.

... but I'm also tempted to go with their cover of "Cheese and Onions."
ugh.

― Stephen C (ihope), Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

gotta be "Way Up High".

― sleeve, away, Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

sorta tough but it's gotta be "Fourth of July"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

easy "Strange"

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Another vote for the "Ceremony" cover.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

"Temperature's Rising"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

I think I would say Fourth Of July. Just everything about it is so perfectly on.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

"Blue Thunder"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

ok...not their best song but i feel it is the best cover of a new order song ever is the version of "ceremony" they released.

― elgin again (golf and games), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

"Blue Thunder," though not the version ruined by saxaphone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

"Tell Me"

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Listen, the Snow is Falling

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

haha, I just listened to that on Copenhagen not a half-hour ago, and actually thought about posting it here. nice coincidence.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

"Tugboat"

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

god this band just keep blowing me away, 20 years after I first heard them. right now, the guitar solo on "Victory Garden" is my fave solo of all time.

Has there ever been a poll of Galaxie 500 cover versions??

― Duke, Sunday, 4 April 2010 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

I remember making up a mix cd of Galaxie 500/Luna covers and thinking "Christ! This is pretty much a list of my favourite bands!"

― AnotherDeadHero, Sunday, 4 April 2010 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Surprised, looking this over, that "Oblivious" got no takers.

― Michael Train, Sunday, 4 April 2010 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

'Strange'

without a fucking doubt

How weird are you? This planet wasn't built for you. Bottled in this song

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:41 (sixteen years ago)

the version of "Summertime" on the Copenhagen live disc is out of this fucking world.

― Duke, Sunday, 4 April 2010 21:53 (sixteen years ago)

"Tugboat"

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 5 April 2010 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

'plastic bird' is really getting under my skin these days. though about half a dozen of their songs have been my favourite at some stage.

― charlie h, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 03:02 (fifteen years ago)

i think i'll settle on king of spain pt 2

― final ritchie (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

the version of "Summertime" on the Copenhagen live disc is out of this fucking world.
agree

― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

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