| Author | Message | ||
     Michael D Member Username: Michael_d Post Number: 7 Registered: 06-2005 |
Here a blog from the Sydney Morning Herald Website asking: Are the Go-Betweens more important than INXS? Check it out and comment away... http://blogs.smh.com.au/entertainment/archives/club_metro/002892.html | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 14 Registered: 06-2005 |
sealion dion has sold 25 million + albums, nico sold zilch. go figure | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
Celine who? | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 31 Registered: 12-2004 |
I don't know if there is any value in comparing the Go-Betweens and INXS. Their style, audience, and place within music history are, shall I say, Worlds Apart. However, I would claim that the Go-Betweens are the most influential Australian band that has never been commercially successful. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 24 Registered: 07-2005 |
To my mind INXS are the worst band in the world?The Go-betweens probably the best. INXs repesent all that is bad in "rock".The Go-betweens the antithesis. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 78 Registered: 04-2005 |
I don't really understand why the article was even necessary--the question of "who's better: the commercial band that sold a zillion records or the band that most knowledgable listeners agree was artistically superior and more influential to future alternative musicians?" is so old and wasn't that interesting in the first place. Art vs. commerce, yawn. It's like pondering the question "what's the greatest American band of the '60s...the Monkees or the Velvet Underground?" The answer is so obvious it's not worth wasting time discussing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 77 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees. | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 19 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't know, Padraig; the Velvets might have been a bit dour but they did pen the odd decent tune. Particularly after John Cale left. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 94 Registered: 03-2005 |
AFTER John Cale left?!?!?!? Is there another two chord song anywhere that even approaches the power of "Heroin?" What about the two left-thumbed folk rock psychedelia of "All Tomorrow's Parties?" How about the buck-toothed torch ballad "Femme Fatale?" Or "Sunday Morning" sounding like it was written by Goffin-King while they were mainlining? Or "Venus in Furs?" That first album is what really made the Velvets' reputation. Even the Monkees have some truly great moments, "Listen to the Band" and "Porpoise Song" being particular favorites for me. | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wasn't being entirely serious, Randy. This board needs some smileys... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 95 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ooops. Sorry. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 79 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nor was I. I love some Velvets stuff. Don't have any Monkees albums, though would not turn off the radio if they came on (not that ABC News Radio is likely to play a Monkees song any time soon). Best American band of the 60s was The Beach Boys. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 48 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw some Monkees albums going really cheap in a store in Clarkesville last week. If anyone's interested. please contact me off board. Gotta run now or I'm going miss the last train, and the love of my life who's (hopefully) going to be waiting for me at the station. Anyone on board here ever do it in the toilet of a moving train ......? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 96 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have all the Monkees' albums. |