velvets vs. sabbath

A pointless comparision, really. Both were great at their best and horrible at their worst.

Voted Black Sabbath because I love "Changes" :)

Ohhh no, here we go again, can't remember when we came so close to love before!

Wow, i can just imagine the 4 New York intellectuals/snobs cowering in the corner while the Sabs are fucking rampaging on stage.

Sabbath, in an utter bloodbath.

haha--why, Bill? why???

next in the series could be:

pistols vs. clash
zeppelin vs. stones
james brown vs. p-funk

actually went with the Sab here, but that's just probably 'cause i've been burned out on ol' Louie Louie for...um...decades now? good grief...

"Venus in Furs" vs. "Iron Man"

Posted this on the Sabs v Stooges poll, but Sabs > Stooges > VU

Bill? i meant Hoos, of course.

(must. remember. to. put. crack-pipe. down. when. posting).

ridic.

james brown vs. p-funk

^actually to me this is a blowout win for james, no contest

how about if you add Sly & the family on George's side?

obviously the velvets if only for influence's sake. the music's also much better.

Voted Sabbath without a second thought. (but oh how I love duh VU)

I don't really see the point of the comparison.

i'm really glad that I've never heard anybody say "Velvets" or "Sabs" in real life, out loud.

welcome to ilx xp

i'm really glad that I've never heard anybody say "Velvets" or "Sabs" in real life, out loud.

---haha otm (and there's another one)

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VU. The clincher for me is those first few seconds after ‘… and then my mind split open…’

STOP MAKING THE POLLS SO SHORT!!!!

I nearly didn't get to vote in this one.

Sabs > Stooges > VU

seconded, with extreme vigour.

Thirded

Word.

I need to buy like an ounce and work out what's so great about Sabbath, cos this is not making sense to me

Don't most bands have riffs? I guess they disguise them... it bugs me cos I really like shit like Earth...

There's riffs and there's riffs...

I'm kinda with John this seems like a fairly random poll, I'm hard-pressed to think of a single common trait the bands share.

It's not a random poll, it's the obvious cage rematch that hadn't happened after Sabs vs. Stooges and Stooges vs. VU.

(Don't ever make me have to choose between VU and Hawkwind, though. I would probably explode)

quite. what possible common ground could there be between two noisy black-clad 1960s guitar bands that were hugely influential on generations of bands to come and remain enduringly popular among people who own more than one bong?

wait so being "hugely influential and popular" count as "common traits" now? wtf

also VU vs. Stooges poll isn't over yet

also Sabbath are not "noisy" - certainly not in the way VU are. Everything about Sabbath's output is very tightly controlled and methodically played - there's no atonality, no free-form improvisation, no dissonance.

(ooh but they both wore black!)

Oooooooh scary

http://z.about.com/d/classicrock/1/7/I/9/velvetundergroundc.jpg

Dougie has black trousers on tho

lolz love Lou's pants!

and his "and WHERE do you thing YOU've been all this time?"

..stance.

i like sterl's pants in that pic. therefore, velvet underground defeats sabbath.

Sterling's trousers are the best things I have ever seen in my LIFE.

I totally want a pair.

Everything about Sabbath's output is very tightly controlled and methodically played - there's no atonality, no free-form improvisation, no dissonance.
"FX" on Vol 4?

xxxpost I was being facetious. well done for picking up on that.

but point being that you can pick and choose your criteria for comparison. there are as many areas of similarity between these two as there are differences, and there are certainly enough of the former for them to go head-to-head. it's not exactly fennesz vs peter, paul & mary.

i don't listen to either too much

Then you've come to the right thread

Has to be Sabbath for me. Ironical, since I'm more fond of listening to the velvets with more frequency, yet when I'm in the mood for some sabbath it comes joined with such an intense pleasure I can let go for all the dusty months.

Also Iomi has crafted some of the best guitar riffs in rock history, whereas the velvets...

If you like the orange pants, you can still vote Sabbath. See below

Plus the Orange amps are great.

from "lol" to "holy shit!" in 30 seconds

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HA HA!

Fairly close run, and a high turnout!

yeah, surprisingly close. where'd all the indie fuxors go?

Close? They won by like 25%!

um

By that, I mean they got 125% of the votes that Sabbath got.

So they actually won by a margin of just over 11%.

Why was that so close? I'm hoping at least half of Sabbath's votes were from people taking the piss.

Not mine. It's not that hard to conceive of preferring Sabbath to VU is it? I've always thought the VU were over-rated, myself, which is probably due to ignorance, but there we go.

I'm hoping at least half of Sabbath's votes were from people taking the piss.

funny, I'm hoping the same thing about the velvets votes.

" I'm hoping at least half of Sabbath's votes were from people taking the piss."

Worst post ever.

I'm hoping at least half of Sabbath's votes were from people taking the piss.

― rjberry, Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

hahahahaha wow

suggest banned.