i really like Take That. it's either Take That or BSB
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
NKOTB were supercute tho. hmm
Boyz II Men you disgusting savages
― Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Pope (crüt), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
wtf @ u
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone remember a hardcore band at the time made up of 12-year-olds? Christgau gave their album or B+ or something...All their songs were about getting too much homework and stuff like that. Completely blanking out on the name.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
old skull?
― Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Pope (crüt), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
That's it--thanks.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
before voting please consider the video for the first take that single. 'do what you like'. thank you.
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
They were 9, not 12; Christgau gave them a B, not B+; and, according to him, they sang about Reagan and AIDs and homelessness and hot dogs, not homework. But their album came out right in the midst of New Kids mania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtEmcruWTso
I like "If You Go Away" a whole bunch more.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
No Boyzone no credibility...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAOE2E9zxks
― "Did you see the sign on my car park that said 'Dead King Storage'?" (snoball), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
No wait, Boyzone = no credibility
― "Did you see the sign on my car park that said 'Dead King Storage'?" (snoball), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
Boyz II Men you disgusting savages― Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Pope (crüt), Monday, February 11, 2013 6:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Pope (crüt), Monday, February 11, 2013 6:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
This poll question is a bit like being asked what type of cancer you'd like to have.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
BSB by a very long way (musically)
NKOTB - before my time but i couldn't even name a song - they don't seem to have entered the pop canon at allTT - maybe my lack of caring about them is coloured by the fact that their peak coincided with the very brief period of my life when i'd dismiss bands because i wasn't ~supposed~ to like them, boy bands were for girls etc. but then i did like several songs by east 17 (their british rivals, americans) and there are no TT songs i feel would make me reconsider nowadays. given how fucking boring gary barlow is now, and what a contemptible fool robbie williams turned out to be solo, i was probably right all alongBSB - SO many classics, both the ballads ("show me the meaning of being lonely" 4eva) and the bangers (they basically invented max martin with "larger than life" etc). i own their greatest hits and pretty much everything on it is a keeperNS - i really like the obvious singles of their latter years, they were never inescapable over here though; feel like i'd probably like more of their stuff if i heard it, but the time has passed really
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
weirdly i can't remember actually being attracted to any of the dudes in any of these bands
obv justin, but only after he left
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
first Take That vid is ALL TIMEplease consider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqAXZI0s0s
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
lex you were RONG about take that
admit it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Boyz II Men are so far above any of these four it's comic, they do not deserve to be named in this company. I have a lot of love for Take That and the Backstreet Boys have some jams for sure but "Water Runs Dry" is fucking bitchin' by any reasonable standard, come on, and that's post-peak Boyz.
N*Sync I think has the best musicians/singers/dancers of this lot but I can't stand that Swedish-hit-factory/Baby-One-More-Time sound, something about it creeps me the fuck out. NKOTB are a laugh riot. That leaves BSB vs. Take That, and BSB are in the same production line as N*Sync aren't they? They sound better to me though. Still, Take That have "Sure" and "Back For Good" which are both aces in my book, plus being American I could basically ignore them and never have to think about them if I didn't wanna, so Take That wins. Also whichever one's rocking the dreads on that one sleeve - Robbie Williams? - earns your vote with some of the most heinous dreads ever rocked.
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yaaaay I knew I liked you for more than yr pretty scarves Mr Tyler
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
HOWARD had dreadsand they weren't that heinous
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
well I'll let these dreads speak for themselves
http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu11/take_that_lurve/Take%20That/Howard%20Donald/howardspeak3.jpg
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
you just made 19 yo me swoon fyi
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
Wikipedia with inadvertent Take That slashfic
During the Beautiful World Tour in 2007, Donald suffered a collapsed lung after performing a series of gymnastic stunts on stage, and was kept on a hospital ward for the two days, while the rest of the band performed as a threesome
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
BSB have "I Want It That Way".And nobody else on this list does.
― jetfan, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Boyz II Men are so far above any of these four it's comic, they do not deserve to be named in this company.
Yeah, I didn't even consider aligning them with this bunch. They were a whole 'nother thing.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
a whole other layer of bland? The early post-New Jack singles aside, I still haven't learned how to appreciate those massive ballads.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
BSB.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/you-can-t-keep-calm-if-you-love-take-that.png
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
idk anything about nkotb or take that but bsb had so many more good songs than nsync
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
boyzIImen weren't really marketed this way (i think my feelings on bIIm are halfway between aero and soto's - loved all the uptempo hits and 'uhh ahh', generally had no time w/ the megahuge slow hits w/ the notable exception of 'water runs dry' which is more adult than anything anyone associated w/ the above acts has recorded STILL including solo), the east coast family boy band entrant was this - http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/617/969/1600/img.jpg. new edition were profoundly better than any of the above also (at every hitmaking step of their career - maurice starr boyband, jam-lewis adults, supergroup reunion)(better solo goes w/o saying i hope) and predate the above just enough to justify the exclusion. the boys and hi-five were never quite as big phenoms either, though their music smokes nkotb at the very least. nkotb and bsb/nsync are different eras really. take that bridges the two but that's cuz boy bands never really go away in the uk. jackson five vs new edition might be interesting, i'd have to give it to j5 but it's a real contest at least. goes w/o saying also that tony defranco smokes these clowns also.
― balls, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot about "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)," which certainly deserves love but fits here as an adjunct: boy band R&B (ABC, The Boys).
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
Menudo!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
corny rockist choice i know but always my fave nkotb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTo3N73hpPg
fun fact: we are now as far away from step by step in years as step by step was from sgt peppers
― balls, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
NSync performed on my high school football field freshman year.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
One of the old school guys died :-(
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
dammit, trumped by balls
story of my life
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
Jon is so cute :(d
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
someone on ILX mocking Nick Carter was the first time I read the phrase "cocaine fattey", which has a special place in my heart right next to "chazbaps"
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
this isn't very good and what happens four minutes into this broke my heart at the time but it is hard to imagine any contemp boy band coming out against a war 10 days after it started on national tv today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqSKN0e48dE
warning: contains uncut 1991. also damn jennifer lopez could dance.
― balls, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
years after nkotb (height of bsb and nsync), jam-lewis past peak, clearly taking notes from timbaland, writing credits also feature robin thicke, better than 'suit and tie'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijXcYLV1aNg
― balls, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ classic
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Give it To You is still awesome.
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
goes w/o saying also that tony defranco smokes these clowns also.
I see you workin man
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
I found Boyz II Men to be quite a chore at the time. They were practically the Four Freshmen.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
I agree with Lex re the general superiority of BSB except to note that:
BSB - SO many classics, both the ballads ("show me the meaning of being lonely" 4eva) and the bangers (they basically invented max martin with "larger than life" etc)
really it was "backstreet's back" that did this, right? I was like 14/15 when this came out and didn't really think of it as a sonic milestone at the time, I'm wondering if anyone else went O_O at the production on it.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was too young to pay attention to stuff like that but "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" was their breakthrough US hit and the song that kicked off that whole TRL/teenpop era. i also remember there being a lot of confusion about it ("Backstreet's back? Back from where?") when of course by that time, BSB was already huge in Europe/Asia.
hilarious moment while out dancing a couple of years ago, watching a crowd of corporate jock types who would never have admitted to being BSB fans go absolutely apeshit after the DJ unexpectedly drops backstreet's back in the middle of a bosh-y electrohouse set.
― Roz, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
no kidding - you play any BSB song at a bar or whatever and the place goes mental. 40 off-key people singing "I want it that way" at the top of their lungs. one guy who keeps jumping the "don't wanna hear you saaaaaaaaay" prechorus every fucking time (ok, it's me). I kinda dread to think of the kids who'll be doing this to One Direction in 15 years but this is kind of a unique thing to Backstreet from what I've seen, you play NSync or Britney or Xtina Aguila and people will roll their eyes out of their god damn heads at you.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think anybody is rmde at NSync or Britney or Christina but "I want it that way" is a crown jewel in the pop canon and transcends the band and this poll
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
BSB were monstrously great from the get-go while *NSync became monstrously great as time went on
RIP 98 Degrees
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
roz and frogbs otm about BSB's effect on parties
"backstreet's back" is just...universal. every type of party, every type of person, it never fails to go down a storm.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Yes. Here are some more third rate uk boy bands with numbers for a band name:
A1: Who reached number 1 with a cover of 'Take on Me'911: Their most memorable single being 'Party People... Friday Night'
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think anyone was as horribly misconceived as the original Making the Band group O-Town
I mean, "Liquid Dreams" is seriously one of the worst songs in the universe
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Lead guy died of leukemia btw. :(
Poor Rich Cronin. I really like Summer Girls but I mostly remember his war with ONTD over some perverted emails.
― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of title is 'Party People... Friday Night'? Put friday night in brackets you monsters!!
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_hcxlA5KU
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Brian Harvey from East 17: last seen posting a video online of the forced installation of a pre-payment electricity meter at his house, after repeatedly failing to pay Southern Electric outstanding charges on his electricity bill.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCiowdcHJ0U
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 18 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
This poll question is a bit like being asked what type of cancer you'd like to have.― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, February 11, 2013 11:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, February 11, 2013 11:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 18 February 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
East 17 stay another day rules over all this pussywank
― OutdoorFish, Monday, 18 February 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Pfft gtfo noob east 17's standout will always be 'alright'
― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
And tbrr house of love and home rank higher than that christmas bellringing shit
peace out
― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
anyone talking about East 17 itt will heretofore be lifebanned forever
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't tony mortimer have a big cock, too?
― OutdoorFish, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
According to smash hits apr 95 iirc
― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
What size?
― OutdoorFish, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
I dont have an exact length confirmed, but one of his favourite pranks was to slip it into the mic holder for the slow numbers and let brian croon into the eye of it while the fans went wild
tony, what a character
― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
fair results.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
nkotb/take that: cage fite
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
take THAT
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
damn yanks
The fuck are NKOTB ranked the same as some made-up bullshit that didn't even exist? Might as well rate them with O Town or whatever.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
MADE UP BULLSHIT HOW DARE U
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
I can kind of get with Take That's poor performance, as outside of "Back For Good" they had virtually no US presence, but NKOTB having only 6 votes means ilm is skewing younger than I'd previously imagined.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
East 17 were terrible and no-one should talk about them imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:49 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
'House of Love' is as good as music can get
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
music videos too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a3ETB5QFrM
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
hate u
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link