Taking Sides: Luna vs Galaxie 500

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What Dean Wareham band is the better one? I like Luna, but I haven't gotten to many Galaxie 500 cds yet.

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500.

― nabisco%%, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I do like Luna, but Galaxie 500's records just seem to exude more delicious languid atmosphere. Seek ye ON FIRE.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer Damon & Naomi...& left my copy of (now deleted)More Sad Hits in a pub. Bugger!

― Jez, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(If anyone says Cagnee and Lacy I will poop myself.)

― nabisco%%, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500... "summertime"... i remember this is our music HATED by critics, but I loved it, it was their first record I owned.

I have Dean Wareham covering Beat Happening's "Indian Summer" on some 7" that came in a Chemical Imbalance that's the only thing I listen to of them in the past few years... the first Luna^2 album was alright, they opened for The Screaming Trees in Tijuana that year and put on a good show, a little "marquee moon".

― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500 was a case of the parts becoming greater than the sum. Both Luna and Damon & Naomi have outdone any G500 release in the years since disbanding. Luna most notably with Bewitched and their new one, Romantica. Damon & Naomi with More Sad Hits and their work with The Magic Hour.

― paul, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500. No contest. Luna are allright, but Galaxie 500 just has that presence.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cagnee and Lacy v

― Marc, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Luna all the way, no contest at all. Sorry, I just didn't go to college in the '80s.

― M Matos, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this a fucking joke question? Galaxie 500. I mean, come on, really. The 'college in the 80s' crack doesn't make any goddamn sense. Never has a band been so obviously greater than the sum of their parts, because the sum of their parts doesn't add up to much more than fuck all (although I do have a soft spot for the first Luna and D&N albums, and the D&N with Ghost one)

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500 Only because Luna is so ultra studio produced. Listen to G500's "When will You Come Home" Back to back with "Slash Your Tires" Now try to tell me that his voice in Luna isn't all studio processing. He couldn't sing his way out of a paper bag...

― brg30, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Any Luna album has been instantly better then Galaxy 500, but after a couple of weeks or so Im back to Galaxy 500 being the better band. Though Luna do a better job of Fourth Of July live.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Luna all the way, no contest at all. Sorry, I just didn't go to college in the '80s.

Ha ha and OTM because that's probably the way it does break down. I however DID go to college in the 80s (partly), so it's G500 all the way for me. I can't really compare, though, b/c I only have the first Luna album, which I think is a lot better than This is Our Music but nowhere near On Fire.

― Mark, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer Luna, mostly because Dean Wareham's voice on most Galaxie 500 releases is like nails down a blackboard for me. Studio produced or otherwise, he'd sorted it out by Luna...

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cagnee and Lacy

*Splurt*

― nabisco%%, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

G500 solely for the Copenhagen live album. Luna can't touch that, even with the new sorority girl bassist that Dean's banging.

― Yancey, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Luna, because they have better songs (except Parking Lot, it´s a fantastic G500 song)

― jens, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

luna because galaxie 500 just seem to meander too much for me. i find them very underwhelming try as i might to like them... maybe i'm missing something

― commonswings, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Urgent and key and truly outrageous: "new sorority girl bassist" = THE VOICE OF JEM!!!!

― nabisco%%, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JEM HAS JOINED LUNA!

― nabisco%%, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that Luna is Jem's band, who are their archrivals?

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THE MISFITS = THE DONNAS

― nabisco%%, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't go to college in the 80s, but I'll go with Galaxie 500, simply because their Copenhagen album was the first time I heard them, and I really liked it. Also, the pale green CD case is awesome. It's a dumb reason to like a CD, but I love how it looks- I guess it's the affect of too much art school or something. ; )

― lyra in seattle, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just dont chip those rykco cd cases cause you can't replace them, or not easily.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I have another one on my Mission of Burma album, where it doesn't look as nice, so I could always swap it over. Pale green over b&w= CLASSIC, but pale green over tan & orange = DUD.

― lyra in seattle, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

gotta say that even though dean playing g500 tribute sets feels a little bit funny, the recent live recording on nyctaper.com sounds fucking amazing. nice to hear him stretch out on guitar again.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

dunno if it's been noted on other threads, but it sounds like mike mcgonigal's oral history of the band is being expanded into a book.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

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