Bohannon --vs- Neu! - The Poll!

Bohannon!

Only have one Bo album and it's OK; not as good as any Neu!

i love neu! but damn, bohannon just keeps on giving with every new thing i find.

Neu!hannon. Too close to call.

Bohannon! By a million miles! Though Neu are still okay!

i actually took the easier route with this poll cuz sometimes when i listen to bohannon i think of can but i don't know if i would want to choose between can and bohannon cuz i do love can so. so, basically, i am a wimp cuz even though i think neu are way okay too hamilton's trance beats will win everytime for me over neu's admittedly awesome superhighway rhythms.

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I have one Bohannon album -- I don't remember what it's called, but my favorite jam from it is "Happiness", and I think the rest of it is mostly instrumental -- and I loooove it, but NEU! '75 is probably my most listened to album ever, so it wouldn't be fair if i didn't give it to them.

AllMusic says Bohannon played in RAMP, but he's not credited on Come Into Knowledge (at least on the website and i don't have the jacket handy) -- is he on there? that might bump it in his favor, since it's a total masterpiece.

i always thought of bohannon as a tighter CAN but they really are closer to neu! now that i think about it...

Bohannon hannon. Bohannon.

Bohannon's drumsticks are WAY bigger than Klaus Dinger's (R.I.P.) drumsticks.

in purchasing Gittin' Off the other day, i was chuffed to see a stamp on the front cover that inexplicably reads: "Thanks - Beta."

I love Neu! but I've never even heard of Bohannon, is that odd? I will not vote but i will google

Bohannon.

I love Neu! but I've never even heard of Bohannon, is that odd? I will not vote but i will google

this ^^^

neu is a band you hear about. bohannon is a band you'd rather hear.

BOHANNON!

Them amg clips are pretty aight. What album(s) should I keep an eye out for?

Talking about Bohannon, that is.

Bohannon - S/D

neu is a band you hear about. bohannon is a band you'd rather hear.

-- elan, Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:08 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

no question

thanks strgn

glad i voted bohannon as i started that other thread.

i'd say any 70s albums are amazing and as you get into the 80s, they're not bad, just not as good. Stop/Go is his masterpiece, but in all my years collecting records, i've never seen an original copy out there. it has both his extremely hard, trancey, disco rhythms (where talking heads stole their schtick - called out on Genius Of Love) and a side of slow amazing, hip hop sampled track. luckily there are reissues.

yeah, def check out stop & go

La Dusseldorf>Bohannon>Neu!

I won't choose, you can't make me

Bbbb...Oooo...Hhhh...Aaaa...Nnnn...Nnnn...Oooo...Nnnn...BOHANNON

It's the summertime blues

La Dusseldorf>Bohannon>Neu!

IK,R? is wise, but Harmonia > all, and if anyone sounds even slightly like Deluxe combined with Stop/Go let me know, cz you've found my new favourite band.

may not affect the voting here, but i've just leonardo'd a few current bohannon faves/discoveries.

also, if y'all ever run across the on my way record, grab! the A1-2 punch of "come dance with me" and "maybe you can dance" is total awesomeness.

I love Neu but I gotta say Bohannon by a mile. If only because of the depth+quality of his/their catalog. I've got six or so of the albums from the 70's and every one has at least two stormers on it.

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i'm walkin mighty cool
i'm walkin mighty cool

Reading through this thread I thought it was would have been Bohannon, 35-2.

was

I had never heard Bohannon, but listened to thison the bus this morning and had a way better time than I ever had listening to NEU!

this on

19 people who have not heard Bohannon.

Despite all the best efforts of the Tom-Tom Club.

I have not heard Bohannon.

i tried to get you to listen to bohannon 3 years ago!

SOUNDS LIKE EGE BAMYASI

Bohannon's the best, every song is in the time signature of "1"

feelin the love but let us not forget how great neu! were

yeah, no, neu were rad. definitely.

they're both rad, but next to each other... the answer is clear.

yep. it's clearly Neu!.

I voted Bohannon, but It doesn't seem as clear cut now as it did

It's chalk and cheese though isn't it? I think a Bohannon vs DJ Pierre poll would be less of a category mistake.

I'm new to Bohannon, but I still know he/they're better than Neu!

yep. it's clearly Neu!.

-- stephen, Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

nah bro gotta disagree w/you on this one

even a man in a sombrero with a neu shirt
i bet he picks bohannon

Wow, amazing to see Bohannon got his due!

I had only a vague memory of his name from 70's compilations. Just checked out his Stop & Go album and it is really excellent shit. Not really sure its fair polling him against Neu, but it can only be a good thing if it leads to people discovering really amazing music like this.

I only have one thing to say:

"Norrr Yorrrrk Cittayyyyy!"

twitter is saying hamilton bohannon died but i can't yet find any very authoritatve source for this

certain polls you know it's either skot or Dave q

Hope not, love his music.

seems to be confirmed :( :(

https://times-herald.com/news/2020/04/music-legend-bohannon-passes

damn! RIP

I don't know if this was C-19 related, but I dread to see any thread of a golden oldie getting revived at the moment :(

Bohannon's Beat!! is immortal!!

if i wanted to listen to bohannon now and i dont want to ever buy vinyls or metals or wax cylinders, where would i even find him?

Youtube is good he isn't well covered on spotify

I will do. I don't spotify, but i will occasionally steal the truly out of print unavail.

TIDAL coverage seems much the same as spotify's :(

Dammit. RIP HB. He never gets anything like enough credit - let's have a box set! I think he recorded like 8 albums in a row without playing a single drum roll, that's discipline and dedication to your craft!

Damn man, too much.

First song played at my wedding party was "I Found My Love on a Saturday" (which I had).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aPIyl2rjAI

It's a fucking travesty that basically all of his music is out of print (and has been for decades). Four or five albums were put on CD (in Japan I think) through the 2000s, and bought all those, but never anything comprehensive at all. The man deserves fully-remastered ultra-deluxe box set that weighs 20 pounds.

RIP Hamilton Bohannon - master of the dancefloor groove. Do the disco stomp in his memory pic.twitter.com/xFI6MdsCNA

— Birmingham 81 (@Birmingham_81) April 25, 2020

Aw man. I have an mp3 rip of Stop n’Go somewhere, I need to dig it out. R.I.P.

this has to be the worst cover in rhino's entire catalog

https://i.imgur.com/YLsmZjZ.jpg

LOL I've got that, I got it in a second hand shop in some little town in Dorset of all places.

I like how his son calls himself “Bohannon 2”

RIP

ts: bohannon 2 vs. neu! 2

love this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yXWjeLwhY

i had a cassette in 80s with stop and go, and i just ripped that 128 off youtube yesterday. Listened to it 4 times so far. Still amazing. RIP Bohannon.

Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon

Stop & Go is great mixed r&b/soul-ish fucking hyper classic to me, and it's what I remember listening to as 80s kid. I just made a Greatest Hits collect one from his later stuff, but it's mostly way less disco proper than proto-hi nrg dance music. just all 4/4 cokey party euphoria. as floor filler, this shit is fucking awesome to me. less swanning around, just the floor pounding.

Disco Stomp
Run It On Down Mr. D.J
Footstompin' Music
Andrea
Bohannon's Beat
Groove Machine
Come Dance With Me
Let's Start The Dance
Party people
Zulu
Dance Your Ass Off !
I Got To Stay Funky (Short Version)
Coming On Strong (Caroline Crawford)
Riding On Your Love (Caroline Crawford)

i had never heard of bohannon called "hi nrg," so i googled that and found this:

https://www.electronicbeats.net/rewind-steve-fabus/

and that made sense to me. So Greatest Hits is not like S&G, but I do see more why comparisons like this poll work.

i found a copy of this comp:

https://www.discogs.com/Hamilton-Bohannon-Essential-Dancefloor-Artists-Volume-4/release/235835

it seems pretty well put together to me. the problem with a lot of bohannon comps is that they include the short edits of the songs, which is really missing the point imo!

that electronic beats column is great, i will have to explore it more... these non-obvious picks by people who really know their stuff is just the kind of thing i crave

More discussion here on other Bohannon thread:

Bohannon - S/D

groove machine is off the fuckin chaaain

shame this poll didn't end in a tie