Song Vs Song.
 

Same song Title. Two different artists. which do you prefer and why? I will put a poll up and after a week proffer another pair of tracks. Suggestions are welcome but please don't post actual vids or I will just remove them :D I will include no cover versions either.

First pair for your deliberation. Machine Gun.


Unfortunately I like both and like them for different reasons but more thoughts later.

Gotta give it to Hendrix. That's one of the better Portishead tracks I've heard but I'm not a big fan.

Absolutely no contest, I don't like that Portishead track.

jackhammer, omg, i read this 8 times and I don't know what you're asking me. Do i critique the two performances, or do I draw up what I'd imagine to be the love child of these two acts version of the song its just not clear...

Portis Head.

What's the better song? Simple as that. Same song titles but different artists and genres.

Portishead are utter ****e, so obviously hendrix.

Hendrix

I don't mind Postishead but that song just gets on my nerves.

I like a bit of Portishead every now and then, but the Hendrix tune is the better one by miles.

I do like some Portishead, but that song is not working out for me so much. It definitely can't compete with what has to be one of my favorite Hendrix songs.

Hendrix... this is going to be one of those polls.

I went with Portishead, it's an absolutely stellar track. I like me some Hendrix too, but I'm gonna keep it interesting.

I may just do this every couple of days instead of once a week. Yeah I think Hendrix will win but it's all a bit of fun and who knows you may hear some new toons along the way!

Portishead. I'm not wacky about that specific Hendrix song, and the riff from Portishead's Machine Gun is incredible.

I like this weekly thread idea alot, maybe next week you could do Holiday by The Beach Boys, Green Day, Weezer, and Atlas Sound, a song vs. song vs. song vs. song.

I have found a few tracks that have 2, 3 and even 4 artists so I may well do that.

I do love a bit of Hendrix, but Portishead hands down. Such a good song.

After deliberation I have gone for Portishead. As much as I like the Hendrix track, The PH track is simple but extremely effective and kudos to them for having the balls for making something anti commercial when they could have easily created another 'Coffee table top' album and raked in the cash.

That's really not one of Hendrix's better songs IMO and I like the Portishead song a lot so definitely Portishead for me.

So Jackhammer, are you going to do Metallica's "One" versus U2's "One" at some point. :D

Its simplicity is brutal. Cold, stark and aggressive; i think its a beautifully artistic piece personally.

I agree. And it's a little outside the box for Portishead which I also appreciate about it.

:eek: Two not very good songs together! Who knows eh?

Well I like both of them, so there! :p:

If only the drum and bass sound was better on AJFA :( In rock and especially metal, a bad snare sound really ruins an album for me.

I really don't understand the allure of this Portishead song. It sounds like it was made by deaf people.

That's why I voted for my man Jimi. Plus it's a great Hendrix song.


Vote Hendrix ya'll.

The allure is that it's a really good song. :p:

Precisely :finger:

I don't understand how so many people can like such terrible music.

Why is that hard to understand for someone who likes Windir? :D

8 to 8... I'm so proud of Music Banter right now :D

I'm kinda scared that a lot of the newer members will just vote for Hendrix because of his name and not give the Portishead song an honest listen though

Yeah, because Portishead are so less well known than Hendrix in the scope of the past year or so?

Um, Yes.

You're right, they are a lot less known than Hendrix.

Seriously dude, trip hop has a small enough following as it is, and you compare them to the dude that every high schooler thinks is the only guitarist worth talking about.

You cant be serious

They're higher rated on last.fm and imho that says a hell of a lot.

All that says is that the sort of people that use last.fm are the sort of people that would like Portishead more. It's hardly a good representation of the average high schooler's taste.

Seriously Comus why is Portisheads music so ****e and terrible*? They are basically a prog band with samplers instead of guitars. They don't play boring, banal, safe commercial music. Their music is exploratory, inquisitive and forward thinking. Everything that I know you look for in music.

Even if their sound is not conducive to you, to call them terrible and ****e* is a narrow minded statement and I granted you with a lot more intelligence than that.

* your words.

It was listening to the Portishead song that caused me to vote for Hendrix. Seriously that Portishead song sounds like a drunk man liked in a band room closet w/ the lights turned off.

First of all Prog=/=Good. Second, they are utterly awful, I can't listen to more than 5 minutes of any of their albums without feeling physically ill. It's personal preference, but in my opinon they are ****e. People can enjoy them, fine, I just won't understand it.

EDIT: I love how you immediately associate someone who dislikes a band you like with low intelligence.

Dude you're dp is of the Residents, a band that have made a career out of producing material that sounds like a drunk man locked in a room full of instruments with the lights turned off.