TAKING SIDES : RUSH OR HAWKWIND ?

And Motorhead. Again I've only heard about one Ramones track ever.

never heard rush. until about 3 weeks ago.

bought one of their albums second hand for a couple of quid. i think i wanted to see if the voice of geddy lee really was so high.

felt quite embarrassed buying it (bought it at same time as shalamar's friends - which earned me a strange look and an 'amusing' comment from the record shop man).

got it home (the rush album) and put it on. no, no it isn't good. i did want to like it, although i really don't know why. it isn't unremittingly awful or anything but i don't want to hear it again.

i imagine hawkwind to be much worse

don't rush have ironic acceptance. and hawkwind not? i'm semi- guessing here

As for the Ramones and Motorhead - both utterly, magnificently, totally, mentally CLASSIC to the max.

Jesus, never thought I'd see Hawkwind mentioned here. Hawkwind are great, still probably the best live band I've ever seen. Unfairly described as on the shite end of '70s prog, they're more an English off-shoot of the kind of German kosmische music everyone likes.

Rush I don't know. The little woman claims they're quite good. Apparently their lyrics celebrate the philosophy of Ayn Rand, which is at least interesting.

rush had their moments - proggy on 2112, fly by night and farewell to kings. more radio-friendly on permanent waves, moving pictures, and signals. these days i think they sound like It Bites. not good.

I would miss the first side of "2112" though.

Absolutely terrible lyricks in both cases, don't you think?

I wonder if any hawkwind-types have heard "sea shanties" by High Tide? Simon House's pre-hawkwind band. They are quite possibly the heaviest heavy rock band I've ever heard!

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To be honest, nearly all the lyrics of all bands are shite.

ANyway, I like some Rush and I don't know *too* much Hawkwind. BUT, I think if I were to have to listen to one repeatedly, I'd go with Hawkwind. Rush can get really annoying.

My friend Chris Barrus made the hilarious observation that from his point of view Radiohead are the Rush of today -- "they make these beautifully produced triptychs that say nothing to me."

"Alex would you like some wine or a beer?"
"Gah grrr how can you even ask that is apples and oranges they are completely different!!"
*Bemused host hands over both*
"Pfff snort ridiculous *glug glug* sheep *glug* pabulum *glug*"

Har har har "THe oNe" never mentioned that the book he'd rather be reading is "Atlas Shrugged" ;)

not even a contest. so far above and beyond that's it's laughable. rush are not fit to lick their naked stage dancers. i mean, come on... orgone accumulater, space is deep, that song about people stacked up like insects in high rise suicides... hawkwind are fucking GRATE!!!

Is anyone still listening to snakes and ladders ?

Rush, obv. Hawkwind was just noise, while Rush has had a lot of great moments even though I wish Geddy Lee would give up trying to be Robert Plant and try to sing rather than scream.

Am saddened by lack of love for Hawkwind upthread. So much for old-ILM :P

You could enjoy so much more music and have such a betterbalanced life, dude, if you just... etc... um Gaerth's response was almost protoLex, wasn't it? In fact, now I think about it uh xpost, and Colonel Poo otm. What a strange sentence to write.

jesus. hawkwind. what a painful thread.

'I wonder if any hawkwind-types have heard "sea shanties" by High Tide? Simon House's pre-hawkwind band. They are quite possibly the heaviest heavy rock band I've ever heard'

Norman's OTM, I bought this great album on his recc.

Alex's post upthread is pretty remarkably OTM and to the point.

Old ILM at its best.

Anyway, Hawkwind because they are "just noise".

Who would trivialize and diminish the power of noise by appending the word "just"?

What do those two have in common? Aside from an obvious love for sci-fi, they had Lemmy and Geddy - two of the three gods of the Rickenbacker bass. (Chris Squire was #3.) And they both continued on making records forever, long after I lost interest. But the first decade-or-so of their respective recording careers was pretty darn fab. Hard on the ears, certainly (like all noise); but what are ears for anyways?

Hawkwind or Rush? Let's just say that these days I'm far more inclined to choose Hawkwind to listen to. But I'll never like Hawkwind as much as I once liked Rush.

No contest. "Space Ritual" just destroys everything in its path.

Agreed

Myonga Vön Bontee totally otm

My friend Chris Barrus made the hilarious observation that from his point of view Radiohead are the Rush of today -- "they make these beautifully produced triptychs that say nothing to me."

I'm much more favorable to Radiohead these days, but I still have the same basic view.

i wonder what this dude

Why don't you go listen to Britney Spears because you obiously have no taste.

thinks about snakes & arrows

I definitely would pick Rush since they are one of my all-time favorites. In fact, I'm going to their concert in Austin in a week and a half.

Snakes & Arrows is a great album - can't wait to hear some of the new songs live!

hey guys guess my answer

"The Necromancer" vs. "Sonic Attack"?? Two gloriously flawed, ridiculously fun bands.

rush cannot imagine a reality in which a band as great as hawkwind exists

Rush

rush cannot imagine a reality in which a band as great as hawkwind exists

-- omar little, Monday, April 14, 2008 5:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

well said.

http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/parenting/2011/06/27/rush_bathrooms.JPG

At last night's Rush concert in Concord.

lol

lemme tell you something about a Rush concert: you're never going to see more tucked-in t-shirts

wave after wave will flow in the tide and bury the world as it does
tide after tide will flow and recede leaving life to go on as it was

hawkwind's a lot more fun than rush. i don't even see how this was a debate.

well there were some people with different opinions and

dirt hippie who offers you LSD and a joint with his sexy lady friends vs. dude who corners you at a party to talk about the Singularity

hawkwind rules and i wouldn't want to live without them but the number of awesome rush songs way outnumbers hawkwind's

Hawkwind after Lemmy gets the boot isn't nearly as cool and good as Rush, so by records it is a bit more of a toss up. I'm sure it was probably a hell of a lot of fun seeing Hawkwind live in the early 70s. I'm sure Rush opening for Queen or Kiss would have been fun too though.

i think this is only an argument in england. it's a very transatlantic argument to have.

Hawkwind must not be as obscure in UK? Cuz here they are only marginally more well know than like Edgar Broughten or Acid Mothers Temple andif you subtracted the Lemmy connection I don't even know

Yeah, I definitely can't imagine Canadian or American teenagers having this argument in 1986. Rush vs Van Halen maybe.

Except maybe if they were really into Voivod or something.

It always makes me laugh how the only BOC mailing list is a dual purpose BOC/Hawkwind mailing list

I mean I get the idea but no

Also the first time I ever read the name Hawkwind was in a British record rag where they said side 2 of My War "sounds like Hawkwind at 16 rpm"