West Coast vs. West Coast

sonned francisco

appalling result.

actually, it's not. it's just different from how i voted. the beach boys were a pretty good band i guess.

From the tenor of the posts, that's about what I expected. Thank goodness for El Cerrito.

why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkwvz2JD2PQ

That's a good one--familiar, think I have it on a compilation. "Free Advice" is my favourite by them.

yeah grace slick's vocal part in that is awesome. bay area acid rock was good stuff.

Voted LA, but I expect this to be a lot closer

i think people here might hate the grateful dead more than the doors because they are insane

I'M NOT CRAZY

dead has considerable support on ilx, they did pretty well in a series of polls putting them head to head against their peers last year. someone should probably redo all of those, see if the numbers have changed.

interesting. i know that "jam bands" as a rule aren't popular here, but i have always liked the dead's studio recordings better than their live stuff. touch of grey is my favorite dead song by light years... which probably marks me as someone who doesn't like them very much, but i think they are more palatable than the doors who are tedious and self-important in my view. i voted san fran because of the psychedelic rock scene and sly stone.

you are both too old and too young for the doors, the lizard waits for you but you do not yet know it.

L.A. just comes at this from too many directions imo. Apart from the mega-huge rock groups, it was EASILY the biggest garage rock scene in the whole country (Standells, Love, Music Machine, Seeds, Leaves, etc.) and a major pop hub.

I don't expect much agreement, but I think the Nuggets bands as a whole are overrated. Not their most famous songs--those are great. (You can get a lot of them in one place: Nuggets.) I've collected a fair amount of music from the Standells, Music Machine, Seeds, etc. over the years, and once you get past the "Moulty"s and "Pushin' Too Hard"s, there's not a lot. There's not a garage album I've ever heard that's nearly as good as the first Moby Grape LP.

I know, I know--the ghost of Lester Bangs just gave me the finger.

There are certainly garage band greatest hits albums that are as good or better than the first Moby Grape LP. The Music Machine had an incredible run of singles, the first three of which were big-time double A-sides:

"Talk Talk" / "Come On In" (1966)
"The People in Me" / "Masculine Intuition" (1967)
"Double Yellow Line" / "Absolutely Positively" (1967)

I've got this one:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GMBEJY7KL.jpg

They do a great "Cherry, Cherry," I'll give you that.

are albums the point?

Who knows? Whoever came up with this poll didn't set the parameters very clearly.

knew LA would take this but damn

don't think I even voted :-/

this is relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq19haZ0w7s

haha wow, I missed these results! groovy.