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Hip Priest 08.30.2006 07:46 AM

It's a jungle out there...
 
Well?

porkmarras 08.30.2006 07:55 AM

Hip Priest,your polls are becoming tougher and tougher.There a too many good ones on there but i had to go for Grandmaster Flash's 'The Jungle'.Where's the tropical inspiration from?

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 07:57 AM

Most polls I make up, some I rip off from elsewhere on the net. This is the latter I'm afraid, although I had to whittle down the number of choices and add Creedence. I thought about adding Guns 'n' Roses, but I don't like them at all.

Thanks for voting.

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 07:58 AM

I voted Creedence, just ahead of Sidney Bechet and Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

porkmarras 08.30.2006 08:00 AM

If you'd have put Guns 'n' Roses on the poll i'm sure that a discussion about their merits,non-merits and blah blah blah blah would have esued.

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 08:03 AM

You think omitting them was a mistake then?

porkmarras 08.30.2006 08:04 AM

Gosh,no!!It was a good move in every way!

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 08:06 AM

I was thinking a long, protracted and ultimately acrimonious argument, killing off board friendships and creating a forum war, would have kept my thread bumped.

Pookie 08.30.2006 08:08 AM

Mmmmm....very difficult decision.

Controversial I think, but I went with the Gun Club in the end, thinking of the live radio version you get on the Death Party reissue.

But it could have been any of the list apart from Psychic TV for me.

porkmarras 08.30.2006 08:08 AM

You start with a poll and all you need is a couple of oversensitive posters to keep the thread going.ha

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 08:09 AM

The Gun Club have two votes already, I see.

Pookie 08.30.2006 08:10 AM

Maybe not so controversial as it appears to be winning.

porkmarras 08.30.2006 08:11 AM

It's early days pookie.Wait till somebody decides to argue that band's merits.I'm sure that somebody is hiding out there or behind your back.

Pookie 08.30.2006 08:14 AM

I hope sonicl appears then. He'll argue much more eloquently on behalf of Gun Club.

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 08:15 AM

I'm not familiar with Gun Club, but I know of them. What type of combo are/were they?

porkmarras 08.30.2006 08:19 AM

Hip Priest,i invited Kate Moss into the thread because apparently if you have her as a friend she makes you popular:
 

Pookie 08.30.2006 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hip Priest
I'm not familiar with Gun Club, but I know of them. What type of combo are/were they?


"A formative influence on cowpunk and horror punk, the Gun Club in injected punk rock with doses of blues and country music. Pierce's wailing vocals were an ideal delivery for his songs, which generally had a spooky, haunted quality."

I've heard the expression psychobilly blues applied to them also. At their best, they were one of the best bands of the 80's. Ask sonicl to do you a tape, he's the expert (sorry sonicl for offering your services).

alyasa 08.30.2006 08:24 AM

I voted creedence too... and i wonder what kate moss thinks about all of this...

Hip Priest 08.30.2006 08:26 AM

Thank you Pookie, and thank you alyasa. And thank you porkmarras, I think. I'm not too familiar with Kate Moss either, except I heard she takes lots of drugs, and she's some sort of model. Does she have any other achievements under her belt?

Pookie 08.30.2006 08:28 AM

No.


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