TS: Billy Corgan vs. Stephen Malkmus

feel uncomfortable even having to cast a vote for one of these straight white male pieces of human trash, but malkmus

well obviously. courntey love's "He’s just a sub-mediocre kind of guy who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense” is just searing

I'm far more pro-Courtney than most but I wouldn't take her opinions on people in Kurt's inner circle as gospel. I think people are just loath to admit that people who are famous at least partially for being "nice" might genuinely be nice because they don't like their output.

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

A few of Grohl's ideas about rock purism are dumb as shit, but I have a friend who knows him and I believe her when she says he's genuinely nice and a pretty dope friend.

always thought he was a good guy, never dug his music and sort of resent him for being as popular as he is, but hey. great guy

http://www.nme.com/news/courtney-love/80347

i believe every word

paul simon is cute!

feel like this is comparing neil young and don henley

malkmus is definitely a henley, spot on

TS: Malkmus vs. Madona

corgy vs. malky

could corgy pull off 'ege bamyasi' with such swag though?

prob not - but the cars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJG-FEnzMY

Rhinoceros, Mayonnaise, Soma, and Drown vs. sideman on American Water and Tanglewood Numbers.

Don't know which way I'll lean, honestly.

ugh you had me goin there for a second dude

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

This is the Kurt Cobain who can be heard covering Led Zeppelin in the early Nirvana tapes, right? Just checking!

A few of Grohl's ideas about rock purism are dumb as shit, but I have a friend who knows him and I believe her when she says he's genuinely nice and a pretty dope friend.

I have a friend in Alexandria, VA who has a professional relationship with Grohl and says the same.

Dave Grohl is rich and satisfied.

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

This is the Kurt Cobain who can be heard covering Led Zeppelin in the early Nirvana tapes, right? Just checking!

the foo fighters do not sound like zeppelin, they're alt MOR crap

At this stage Dave Grohl's phonebook is more interesting than Dave Grohl

xp I'm just skeptical that anyone here can channel the thoughts of a 20-years-dead guy who like things as disparate as Zeppelin, Tad, the Vaselines, Bowie and the Beatles and claim that we can "all agree" on what he would and wouldn't like.

he would be playing noise sets and making tape collages

he would've attended the superbowl last year

he would've attended played halftime at the superbowl last year

Phil D otm

he would've attended played halftime wide receiver for the Ravens at the superbowl last year

he would be as beloved as eddie vedder right now

xp The Ravens weren't in the last superbowl.

They would have been with Kurt at wide-out.

somehow appropriate that this has devolved into sportstalk Malk and Corgy both being secret jocks

Most of Malkmus's solo albums, even Mirror Traffic, feel pleasant but unnecessary, and I spent much of my adolescence blasting Siamese Dream and making excuses for Mellon Collie and most of Adore, but I like American Water more than anything the Pumpkins ever did, and as far as I know Malkmus never bragged in his livejournal about having threatened to break a trans woman's arms and legs if she sullied his hetero good name, so the point goes to Malkmus.

I didn't know about the trans woman :/

I mean, there are already plenty of reasons to find Corgan insufferable, but that kind of clenched it for me.

I just feel it's easier to tell Malkmus to shut up.

well he likes to seem intellectual
and to be a musician he went to school
the way he acts is so uncool
you know i can't stand him

you better tell that steve to shut up
you better tell that steve i'm gonna beat him up

The photographer Naomi Petersen (RIP) was my dear, dear friend. She was a good friend of Grohl's and we all went to see Metallica together in DC in 92. This was at the height of Nevermind frenzy. He's just a really nice, really upbeat guy.

I've heard nothing but how genuine DG is, dude's really like that.

But that said, I've never been able to get into Foo Fighters. It's like blue static, where every song is either "Everlong" or not "Everlong".

I have no problem believing Grohl is the nicest Bob Lesfetz fan on the planet

voting malkmus even if i understand why people prefer someone who tries too hard over someone who sometimes doesn't try hard enough

i am disappointed that this is the question that really gets ilx talking

what is the question you would like us to talk about

i don't care about this!!!!

i didn't say i had a better idea
i just said it was disappointing

how about: which is more disgusting, mice or rats?

rats

ok how about which is more disgusting, rats or jell-o salad with meat floating in it?

ugh they are both so gross

rats. rats can bite you.

it's relatively easy to get jell-o salad with meat floating in it out of your apartment

nothing is grosser than greasy fat rats.

except Billy Corgan

rat in a cage

despite all his rage he is still just a rat in a jello meat moat

xp :-(