Which Band is More Pretentious: Echo and the Bunnymen or Bauhaus (POLL EDITION)

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Cunga FTW

Bauhaus are way more pretentious, but that's half the point of Bauhaus innit? Both fantastic bands.

yeah, just WHAT about the bunnymen is "pretentious"? pompous, i can see. even incomprehensible (WTF does "the cutter" MEAN, anyway?!?) but i don't get the charge of pretentiousness WR2 them.

Cunga was poised on the tarmac, ready to leap into a single bound and win easily when Mark G just barely managed to overtake him with "Bela Lugosi's Dad". Noodle, you've gotta admit that's a pretty good screen name. Either that or come up with a new one equally as good, which I know you're capable of.

Bunnymen must be more pretentious. I don't remember Peter Murphy getting the kind of shit from people in the press as Ian McC did. But perhaps I'm misinformed.

As an unrepentant fan of both bands, I voted Bauhaus. As has been said already, theyre more pretentious cos thats their thing, right.

Mac got into shit in the press for being an arrogant twat tho, not a pretentious one.

(and thats why he's so adorable)

Echo and the Bunnymen look bored, Bauhaus look pretentious. :-)

Yeah, Bauhaus, but that's not an insult. They're all *about* pretense and fabrication and the invention of an alternate universe.

People do say pretentious when they simply mean pompous. I don't think pretention is necessarily a bad thing in music.

I woudn't put Bauhaus down as Pompous tho. Maybe I'm wrng.

Well, exactly! Bauhaus aren't pompous - they are pretentious. Echo and the Bunnymen aren't pretentious, they are pompous.

mhmm. Good enough.

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Newsflash: Bauhaus considered "Pretentious"! In other news, James Brown described as having the "Funk"!

I don't get it. Neither band is pretentious. The Bunnymen were possibly guilty of pomposity at times but we're talking about a band who were happy to walk on stage to a pseudo-football chant (^^^ Bunnymen Bunnymen Bunnymen to "Here we go" or "cheerio" or w/e) and who had collections for striking dock workers at gigs. Unless by pretentious we mean "making a pile of dough and feigning support for the working classes".

Bauhaus were theatrical, prone to striking poses, named after an art movement. I don't see that as pretentious because they never really claimed to be otherwise. Pretentiousness to me implies being something you're not, or acting like something you're not - I don't see it applying to either band, regardless of the eyeliner or big coats.

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Are there any Bunnymen lyrics as pretentious as, say, the Bauhaus line "the ultimate cruelty of love's pinions / beset his appearance"? Do lyrics get more pretentious and fustian?

i think that bunnymen lyrics were more incomprehensible than pretentious. as i said before, WTF IS "the cutter" all about?!?

Bauhaus were far more pretentious, bless'em.

And yet Northampton is one of the least pretentious places in England, go figure.