POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

Oh it's just too aimless for me, that's all.

also this song has the same things i generally like about the best clean songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemll9u7oxg

o yeah that Weeds song is killer

I like the Clean but "Part Past Part Fiction" jumps into my head at least once a week.

tbh I think the Verlaines in their prime were way better than either

also this youtube channel has too much awesome kiwipop stuffhttp://www.youtube.com/user/chillblue:

http://www.youtube.com/user/chillblue07

Verlaines all day, every day.

during the first week I was at college I used to sit outside late at night near the closed law library and listen to this song over and over again on my walkman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR14a4ub9TI

I also listen to Verlaines the most. I am quite fond of Tall Dwarfs, as well.

ok well that gives me permission to post this then
check out the crowd when the drums (finally) kick in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_wNspWphMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPcoElI0M4

voted clean tho

Chills, but not by much.

chills! way ahead of the clean imo. brave words is a solid album.

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3ds tho

Oh, come on. Only FN band that the future will remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-iM_1h5uA

<3 <3 <3 the Axemen

I love the 3Ds freakouts; their polite songs are ok but kinda forgettable.

once I made a tape of only David Mitchell 3Ds songs (or at least the ones he sang)(+ a couple of denise numbers)(+ some other David Mitchell stuff) and it confirmed my theory that he was the reason the 3Ds were good.

can't decide; see you in 19 hours

Clean

after listening to most of what i have by both, i've changed my mind and prefer the chills, but i think i already voted for the clean.

I don't think I can vote in this...they seem like such different bands, despite being associated with the same scene. They were both, in their primes, trying for such different things, and I think they both succeeded.

always the diplomat
now put your vote into the hat

This would be a much harder call for me if it was down to their early output, but Kaleidoscope World clinches it for The Chills.

if I had to vote I guess it'd be for the clean, because I can't see there being a point in my life when I'm going to be listening to the chills a lot again.

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nice.

Wow that's p close.

This would be a much harder call for me if it was down to their early output, but Kaleidoscope World clinches it for The Chills.

er.. I meant Submarine Bells.

I think the results are exactly correct btw

dang

the verlaines were robbed

We can agree this is a draw, right?

No. WE WON, GUYS, WE WON.

i forgot to vote for the clean ;_;

so it's all YOUR fault

my poll votes have been far more decisive than my ballots in our fake democracy.

I still consider this a tie.

I blame myself. I got confused about how many days were in November and gave this poll only one day instead of the two I had originally planned.

Bah, finally got my new system up and running and look what I missed? This is sort of a classic career-breadth vs career high-points, and in my view The Clean wins the former and The Chills win the latter. I would've voted Chills regardless.

oh god so close.
new bats record sounds great btw.

haven't heard any bats apart from daddy's highway (block of wood!!!) - maybe i should

most underrated flying nun band are the gordons but they're a totally different kettle of kakapos i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4ViMA2fKs

iirc gordons begat bailter space & that is certainly a good thing indeed!

Wow y'know all this time I thought Bailter Space was formed by Hamish Kilgour or that he was a prominent member, but reading their wiki it seems he was only in the band for a couple of years and yes the line up for most of the time was in fact the same as the Gordons! (who were fucking awesome, you can still get the CD of their first album pretty cheaply iirc)

TheMoreYouKnow.jpg

Also where is Daddy's Highway reissue formed?

one band that never seems to get mentioned when NZ bands are discussed are Snapper, started by Peter Gutteridge who was an ex-member of ... The Clean and The Chills!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyIV-XLgPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtO2DzHNGc

never seen that first snapper video before, such a neat band!

Snapper is awesome! Bailter Space too!

Different kettle of fish, but I really like Dadamah as well...

someone talk to me about guns in flying nun songs

iirc there are guns in "anything could happen", "wheatfields", "pink frost" and probably a bunch of songs i don't know/don't remember

don't point that thing at me
what's up with the gun imagery?