POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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?

you'll only end up like Rimbaud/get shot by Verlaine

God, that's what he's saying? Good to know.

i thought about wheatfields the other day because a student gave her final speech about van gogh/wheat fields/absinthe/potassium bromide... ok it was a little confusing, but long story short it made me think about flying nun gun imagery.

why dont you do yourself in?

that's what i'm saying ^^

is there some nz cultural or political thing i'm missing here?

didn't snapper have an album called 'shotgun blossom' or something?

^yeah, they did/do.

excellent record

has anyone read this? Positively George Street: A Personal History of the Sneaky Feelings and the Dunedin Sound

well surely SOMEONE has, i meant anyone who reads the above post

um also since i am reading the flying nun wiki

tracklist on this sdtk is O_O
WHAT is this MOVIE?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topless_Women_Talk_About_Their_Lives_%28soundtrack%29

somebody plz give me that sdtrk for my birthday!

xp no I haven't read that! I should!

how can I get it?

"I Love My Leather Jacket". But not that much, eh ladies?

http://www.nzvideos.org/topwomenCD.JPG

i guess this answers my question

Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.

apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.
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