Another hopelessly disgusting POLL: Velvet Underground vs. Hawkwind vs. Spacemen 3 vs. JAMC

nate dogg

Also Echo & The Bunnymen have an amazing song called "Simple Stuff"...

jesus & spacehawk underground

aww heeeeaaallh yeah

i think they might be called jerusalem & the starbaskets though

holy shit, did you really just namecheck jerusalem and the starbaskets?! high-five!

Here it comes
Can't you hear the sound of it
Just like a big brass drum
And some cunts always scratching it
Just like a voice is pain
Just like the taste is pain
I wish that I could fly
You have to learn to fly

PSYCH! Velvets all the way suckas!

oh btw I just googled up the Jerusalem & the Starbaskets myspace page, and holy shit IT IS AMAZING! Every song sounds like a cross between "Sloop John B" and the Clean's "End of my Dream"!!!! They win the poll fersure!!!

haha nice comparisons

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fUCK!

Listening to Jerusalem & Starbaskets now, sounds remarkably Eno-esque

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nevermind

define Eno-esque

Well the vocals on "Steeple Against The Sky" are Eno-esque for one thing, and the general approach.

"Everybody Will Help You" is definitely shoegazey.

oh alright i can dig that...

I vote for all of them!

Seriously, I like Hawkwind and all, but the other three bands in this poll are the holy trinity of rock as far as I'm concerned. I could vote for the Velvets, as they sort of set the template, but I already voted for them against The Stooges and Sabbath. So I'm voting Hawkwind, just to be a dick.

Choosing is made so much harder by that JAMC box set I've been enjoying this past week.

Nate Dogg seconded

define Eno-esque

No.

I HATE YOU. I FUCKING HATE YOU.

THERE IS NO WAY I CAN DECIDE. I SIMPLY CAN'T.

Fuck you. NO.

(Though I might cheat and vote by which band has got me the most food over the years. Let's put it this way - the Velvet Underground have never made me tea. Hawkwind have never picked me fresh mushrooms in the woods. The JAMC never mixed me a White Russian.)

Hmm, well the Velvet Underground (well, half of them) were friendly and signed my ticket stub. Actually Sterling was a bit grumpy, but hey.

Decide? Well, I've played the VU more, Spacemen3 struck me as naughty suburban lads with too much disposable income and time and a supplier, Hawkwind I'm not qualified to comment apart from "six foot two? Blimey" and the J&MC changed my life or at the very least told me I was right all along...

So, I abstain.

Hey, Hawkwind is the only group among those four to NOT put "Jesus" in a song title!

Velvet Underground > Hawkwind > JAMC > Spacemen 3 > nothing

"Spacemen 3 is better than nothing?"

Velvet Underground > Hawkwind > JAMC > Spacemen 3 > nothing

OTMFM!

finally, a poll where i can unhesitatingly vote for the Undies! (although i do like the other bands, too)

quick, someon start a DDRB poll in order to drive Kate completely over the edge.

As much as I love Spacemen 3 and the JAMC, I do recognise that they are kind of second generation and I'm not going to choose them over the source material.

Which brings me back to Velvets vs. Hawkwind which I SIMPLY CANNOT CHOOSE.

it would be like being asked to choose between the left half of my brain and the right. Or being asked to choose between Art and Science.

How could I do such a thing?

Velvets = art, Hawkwind = science, right?

Well, yes. I could never choose.

What about John Cale's bass amp that was going to change the weather patterns? That was science for you.

Sabbath. riffs man.

lol kate's brain has exploded

mine too - I am abstaining from voting

I dont believe you.

"you're a liar!"

Other than being able to easily eliminate Jesus & Mary Chain this is very hard. Listen to Spacemen 3 the most, VU was probably the most important to me (greatest hits at age 15 blew my young mind) and Hawkwind is just well Hawkwind.

VU are gonna walk this aren't they?

when all other comparison fails, go back to the basics: the Velvet Underground made the best rock and roll. So the Velvets.

Velvet Underground vs the Chameleons poll just for cruts

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

They gonna walkit like they talkit or they lose (that beat)

I closed my eyes and clicked.

had to vote hawkwind. have really liked all of these bar JAMC at one stage or another, but only truly have ears for hawkwind these days. they're more gonzo, more ridiculous, more dogged, more fun.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Spacemen 3 gave the Velvets a pretty good run for their money!

A good poll after all. (judging by the number of votes, that is)

Whoa, that was really close. I'm sad about the lack of love for Hawkwind, though.

(I wonder if they would have fared better had Spacemen 3 not been in the running.)

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THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!!!!

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!!!

Thing is, I totally imagine Bob Calvert turning up in samuri gear and Gerard Malanga turns up with his whips and starts dancing towards him and Calvert just looks at him, whips out his revolver and shoots him dead.

In an actual physical fight, Hawkwind could so take the Velvets. Come on, do you think Nico would stand a chance in a cage fight with Stacia?

(that would make a million music geek boys dreams come true, but hey)

In an actual physical fight, Hawkwind could probably take out Motorhead, strength in numbers, all that.

Actually, thinking about it, Lou looks like he works out thesedays, JCale looks reasonably handy, and most of Hawkwind looked like they were just about to peg out on that BBC4 docu, so...

I'm talking about BACK IN TEH DAY not now obviously, as half of both bands are dead. :-(

'Only' one of VU dead, unless you count Andy...

... and Nico, dammit.

Nico and Sterling are both EX PARROTS. Ditto Andy. So, uh, yeah.

Surprised and saddened by the lack of JAMC love.

Same. I fully expected them to give a second- or third-place showing.

JAMC are great, just outclassed on this thread. There's a lot of JAMC love around here.

JAMC always do tend to get a bit ignored on polls like these

I'd take the best JAMC over the best Spacemen 3 or Hawkwind