TS: Kool and the Gang vs. The Velvet Underground

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Both had connections with Pickwick Records (De-Lite wasn't sold to Polygram until the mid-to-late '70s). "Funky Stuff" is massive, and "European Son" is nothing to sneeze at, either. Talk.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Did Kool sing about sucking on ding-dongs too?

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Funky Stuff is superior to European Son. But in most other respects, The Velvet Underground wins.

― jz, Friday, 24 February 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but think of the cross-cover version possibilities.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

"Can't get enough . . . of that HEROIN! I've tried, I've tried!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

any excuse to play Summer Madness will do me

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

TS: "Summer Madness" studio vs. live.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

whilst i almost never ever ever listen to indi-rawk but often listen to jazz and funk and jazzfunk i fear i must say the velvets.

mighta been fairer had you said, say, VU vs. parliafunkadelicment

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Or we could go with chanted vocals and say Kool vs. Stooges.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Nico vs Millie Jackson

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I fear Millie would eat her for lunch and spit out the bones.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

not much there but the bones...

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Funnily, they are probably two of the few female artists I can stand to listen to

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

... so well done there!

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

xpost to mullygrubbr: True.

I wonder if Millie might've found something in the Velvets' repertoire worth covering; she did, after all, deal with Bad Company and Merle Haggard, among others . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

female artists vs males
xpost

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

I think Dadaismus answered my question with his "Sister Ray" allusion above . . .

xpost

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm having wonderful thoughts thinking of what Millie might have done with "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" - complete with monologue! And what about "Ferryboat Bill":

"Ferryboat Bill, won't you please come home
You know, your wife has married a midget's son"

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

ha!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, she could've rendered "Berlin" null and void.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Millie does Lou: Still sucking on a ding dong (arista, 1979)

1. Caroline says fuck you

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

2. "European Son of a Bitch"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

3. Penis in furs

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

4. "Metal Machine Music? Hell No, I Can't Hear Myself Think"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

5. Lady Godiva's Gynecological Operation

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

6. "The Colored Girls Say Whaaat?"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

7. "New York Telephone Conversation (I SAID, "Royalties, Bitch!")

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

close quote

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

8. "I Wanna Be WHAT? Sheeeit."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

9. Venus in furs (straight version)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

10. Sweet Badasssss Jane

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Kool & The Gang released some really great singles, so I'll pick them. Not too musically similar to each other though :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Geir, you like "Tonight"? I just heard that a couple of years ago. Really cool post-"Beat It" rock.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

11. "Murder Mystery? You Wanna Talk Mystery? Have You Seen This Lead Sheet?"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

VU.

Dr. C to thread so we can disagree.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

lemme guess - you like the VU over Kool and the Gang.

tha doctor saw both in 1978 and hates em equally.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I just have a sneakin' suspicion that the good Doctor will prefer Kool & The Gang.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

for me, its kool and the gang all the way.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

i don't believe you chaki

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

tha doctor saw both in 1978 and hates em equally.
-- mullygrubbr (fan...) (webmail), Today 12:12 PM. (later) (link)

I don't believe you mullygrubbr

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

no im serious. i raelly love early kool.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 24 February 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

no, ok you cauht me in a lie grouty

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Haha

http://spinn.svt.se/images/s3-simp-muntz.gif

― Nelson Muntz (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 24 February 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

"From now on I'll keep my eye on the road instead of on my Kool and the Gang air freshener".

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

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