Versus Versus Blonde Redhead

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two bands that sound nothing alike but feature asians?

aren't they both New York?

and are they not both Indie?

yeah and a thousand other bands from 1994.

Go easy, I'm just Charlie Howard's sockpuppet

versus was a lot more pop-minded than blonde redhead, who came from more of the fractured-art-noise angle

BR keeps coming out with new shit and I couldn't give a fuck. But I'd buy a new Versus record.

My favorite Versus song is "Crazy" from the Dead Leaves comp.

versus never really hooked me, i know friends were into them but it was always meh.

BH on the other hand have never made a bad record and have a few masterpieces under their belt.

blonde redhead

versus were at one point my favourite band ever. at their peak they were incredible. i need to hear the stars are insane right now...

BR have their excellent moments but don't come close

haha Blonde redHead apparently is the band i like

I feel very literal saying this, but have always felt that plodding drums held Versus back. A lot.

Blonde Redhead win on the basis of Fake Can Be... and then all the competent albums that followed. "Symphony of Treble" being one of the better noise/guitar songs I know.

blonde redhead

Versus first EP Let's Electrify was really good and I liked some other tracks, but the thing I liked was that occasionally their guitars would go 'boom' and later on that wasn't apart of their sound at all. I got that EP seeing them live first.

I never really dug what I heard by Blonde Redhead, which was stuff from a couple of their first discs, so I never bought one of their CDs.

Versus

Stars Are Insane-
Secret Swingers - all great

It's not that I don't like BR- I have three albums of theirs and they're kind of OK, which sums this dull post up.

Versus live were memorable. Saw them at Night and Day? in Manchester, god knows when. Had a crush on Fontaine Toups

Plus Minus not bad pop pickers

Blonde Redhead all the way,

Hmmm, I still like BR better, but have to say that Versus' cover of the Kinks "Shangri La" turns out to be pretty great (although it is one of the greatest songs ever written, so as long as you don't do anything stupid, a cover of it ought to be great).

They actually do do something stupid too: singing one of the most English songs ever written, mostly in a faux Davies accent, but for some reason it's la-va-tor-ies, instead of lavat'ries. Once the loud guitars come in on the first chorus, everything is ok.

I really like that Versus song "Blade of Grass." I think it was the first request I phoned in to a college radio station.

Concur with electricsound and the notion that everything through "Secret Swingers" is great. "Lose That Dress" is a fave. The later albums have their high points but aren't as consistent.

I followed all the side projects - Containe and Plus Minus were/are the best. I was vaguely disappointed by the Fontaine Toups album, Pacific Ocean is nice but generic indie rock, and Whysall Lane is kinda like another Versus album, which is good.

Hey, they didn't name themselves after a Mission Of Burma album for nothing!

i think i kinda like two cents best of all - although i get a kick out of listening to all their stuff, it's that one that satisfies most.

need to hear the whysall lane album... kinda agree on pacific ocean though they have a couple of absolute killer songs amongst the generic stuff

I've never knowingly heard either of these bands. Blonde Redhead naming themselves after a DNA song enraged me for reasons I don't honestly understand or take seriously. Only vaguely aware of Versus.

Versus has their first album in 9 years ready. First couple of songs are great! Here's one of them:

https://versusny.bandcamp.com/track/gravity-2

The new EP is great, the best thing they've done in eons. The last album in 2010 was ok but forgettable, this new one could be a real late period surprise.

Versus is opening for Unwound March 11, 2023 at Irving Plaza in NY . ( reunited bands night)

Hopefully that means Numero reissues those first two Caroline Versus records.

Versus have been playing shows for years now, with a relatively new album, too (2019).

But yeah all their early albums need reissues.

On that note, this incredible early EP did happen to get a recent reissue, highly recommended music:

https://www.discogs.com/master/2396440-Versus-Lets-Electrify

versus never really hooked me, i know friends were into them but it was always meh.

BR on the other hand have never made a bad record and have a few masterpieces under their belt.

― goole, Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:10 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Swap the bands of this post and then it becomes my post. But I don't have anything bad to say about Blonde Redhead I just never got into them (yet).