I want to fire a bazooka at your face for this comment.
Dukes of Stratosphear OWN this thread. I can't stand XTC (despite putting a White Horse on one of their covers, and imitating the Avengers in videos) but the Dukes are possibly one of my favourite psych bands ever.
Kate, Dukes of Stratosphear ARE Xtc.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
Go ahead. But it doesn't alter the fact* that "Your Charms" is one of the greatest 3-and-a-half minutes of pop ever, and that nothing TWP did was anywhere near as spectacular.
* NB: This is not a fact.
― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
"Kennedy" still shits all over it from a great, splattery height.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:33 (twenty years ago) link
Fugazi to Minor Threat & Rites of Spring
Chinese Stars to Six Finger Satellite
― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
Weeeeell, not 100%. The Dukes do have Iain Gregory in the band, too. But close enough.
And Kate, XTC have sounded far closer to the Dukes since the Dukes' birth, except with a more modern studio sound.... so, I'm kinda confused by your comment, too.
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
Blind Faith > Cream
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
Lots of people will probably also say:
Primus > Possessed
But I don't.
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Tomasino Jones (tomasinojones), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
IN WHAT UNIVERSE?
― kephm, Monday, 7 July 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
Burning Airlines > Jawbox (oh I'm sure I'll get it for that one...maybe if I heard more Jawbox I would feel differently)
Mars Volta > At the Drive In. Er, having only heard about two tracks from each.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
seconded.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 11:08 (twenty years ago) link