Erasing Sides: Black Sabbath = Beat Happening

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Pretty much a tie, right?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

I mean, they both made sloppy, barely there music, but great, heavy records.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:04 (twenty years ago)

dude, listen to beat happening when you are sober. they have maybe a half dozen good songs, TOPS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

but when sabbath went maximal (let's say beginning w/ volume 4), beat happening went drone.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

they were mining similar lyrical territory, though. a certain disengenuousness. cheezeballs.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

But who is Beat Happening's Geezer Butler?

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

Bret, obv

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to this thread, I now have a vision of Dio doing "This Many Boyfriends Club".

No, thank YOU!

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Toots and the Maytalls. Seriously, both of those bands are derivative of the ska built in 85 by tha MMB.

― SkaFanatic, Friday, 27 January 2006 07:19 (twenty years ago)

sabbath not sloppy, happening not heavy. bring back sides.

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Sabbath sloppy? Now there's the words of someone that don't play music. Or listen very well, either. They were tight as hell.

― YOU = FOOL, Friday, 27 January 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Paranoid is as tight as Black Candy

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

good bands but beat happening are more interesting in that the tension between naivete/innocence and seedy cynicism has more to say for itself than unrelenting gloom.

― naval chains, Friday, 27 January 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

but sabbath's so optimistic sometimes! at one point i would have said beat happening but now it's def. sabbath. that said jamboree and you turn me on are pretty ace.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

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