Jesus Jones vs Soupdragons vs EMF vs Happy Mondays

This is difficult to call! Musically, I dislike them all. I think the Happy Mondays might be the most likely to use dirty tactics such as using chairs or trash cans...so Bez would probably be the last man standing, running really slowly on the spot totally unaware of what's going on around him! :)

Sorry to parrot what is probably the official bore line, but:

First three - risible. The fourth - sometimes brilliant. Although I do have a soft spot for 'Info Freako' (as did Andy Kershaw, strangely).

I should start a thread called "Where is my milkshake, I am starving!" since it's about as useful and serious a question as this is. Reason #875 Tom should not post administrative stuff on here, and just enforce it instead.

For the record, the Mondays would win on the basis of the fact that they have one good song, which is one song more than the other ones do. Hurray for the Madchester heroes, etc.

This thread is Unbelievable!

Surely, in true WWF tradition, this should be JEEESUS Jones versus THEEEE Happy Mondays?

And halfway through the bout the Soupdragons and EMF leap into the ring tag-team style for THE ULTIMATE BAGGY SHOWDOWN, the killer move being the SHAOLIN BANDWAGON-JUMP.

If we are to be true to pop it must be EMF for "Unbelievable" – a true giant of a single. I would take that single over the entire output of The Smiths, plus the three aforementioned.

Guy. You're probably right about Unbelievable, but I can't escape the horror of all the kids who loved it but thought that pop meant shit.

Luckily, 1990 was pretty much the one time in my life that I didn't care about pop, so I don't feel I have to be true to it: "Unbelievable" is rubbish. I'm sure I'd love it if it came out now.

The Happy Mondays for Pills'n'Thrills, which at the time I hated cuz it was *too* pop. History has smiled on them all though, awwww.

Unbelievable and Wannabe have the same bassline, I'm absolutely certain. Or almost the same. They sound alike to me at any rate.

So many fish and such a small barrel... Jesus Jones "win" (ie. they're the worst). The vocal in "Right Here Right Now" is vile; eclipsed Peter Garrett in fingernails-to-chalkboard revulsion stakes for me. Just awful.

The chorus to EMF's "Unbelievable" is fine and likely a fluke. Rest of song is horrible; singer's pansy, lisping and outright crap voice ill- suited to band's (feeble) funk-"rockist" moves. Anyone heard EMF's cover of "Search and Destroy"? In "appropriate choice of material" realms, it's akin to Pat Boone's version of Van Halen's "Panana."

Recall liking what little Happy Mondays I heard at the time, esp. a one-song live vid in which Ryder did a semi-lambada with the curvy back-up singer (semi-lambada explained: replicated the steps though in no way intentionally) who was struggling to keep her top on. That was cool. As was that one Black Grape single; video with the slapper Kensit.

official line time from me too...

the first 3 are just ridiculously crap and silly.

happy mondays are more classic than, well, basically anyone ever. there are very very few things that can even hold a candle to the mondays when on top form, and they were nearly always on top form.

squirrel and g-man, bummed, pills'n'thrills, hallelujah, freaky dancin'. basically, just about everything is, like, um, double top, or something appropriate.

black grape were utter shit, mind...