Which version of the Artist do you prefer? (Polls and Chat)

Inspired by this post in the “Artists you just stopped caring about thread”. Chatting and polling very much encouraged.

Beastie Boys
  • Early Hardcore Punk Beastie Boys
  • Rap ‘n’ rock Beastie Boys
  • Rapping over samples Beastie Boys
  • “Let’s play our own instruments” Beastie Boys

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Talk Talk

  • New Romantic Bangers Talk Talk
  • The Colour of Spring
  • Post-rock jazzy experimental Talk Talk

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Cave In

  • Mathcore Chaos Cave In
  • Proggy Cave In
  • Alt-rock Cave In

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(Always an excuse to post about Cave In).

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The Colour Of Spring is Talk Talk’s best album. These are just facts, I don’t make the rules.

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Who’s writing out Bowie and Dylan then

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I tried, but my hand got cramped up. Although I could just poll “Acoustic Dylan” and “Judas”.

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More of a Spirit of Eden man myself. More uplifting but still experimental.

  • Three Lions
  • Three Lions ‘98
  • Three Lions (It’s Coming Home for Christmas)

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Good thread

  • Early weirdy Sufjan
  • Banjo Sufjan
  • Neon Sufjan (Adz)
  • Weepy Sufjan (C&L)
  • Ambient/drone Sufjan

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Sonic Youth
  • Moody, slightly amateurish, post punk, NY experimental soup
  • FUNKY FRESH
  • Sprawling art rock, punky epics
  • Goofin’ on Geffen
  • Another fucking SYR release?!
  • Jammy, mellow, spacious, mature

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Beck
  • Lo-fi, sloppy acoustic and folk covers
  • Kaleidoscopic, magpie, experimental pop
  • Synths ‘n’ funk
  • Acoustic troubadour
  • 00’s rock with a few bleeps and bloops
  • Whatever he’s up to since 2010

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Aphex Twin

  • Danceable IDM
  • Beatless ambient
  • Whatever “I Care Because You Do” is
  • Glitchy madness
  • Piano pieces

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Tricky one, because the best Aphex records are the ones that have a bit of all of those things on them.

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Beach House

  • Every fucking song sounds the same

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  • Sparse moody alt/slowcore Jason Molina
  • Country rock Jason Molina

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Beatles

  • :notes:Ooooh!:notes:
  • Smoking a bit of weed and getting clever with arrangements
  • Psychedelic
  • Back to basics/building the foundations of 70s rock

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I’ll never understand why some people keep saying this about poor old Beach House. I mean, their sound has evolved massively from their first couple of records :person_shrugging:

This is outrageous

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Very tricky, as I like different kinds of Molina for different moods. I’ll go for the first option because he’s made more great records like this than when he was playing country rock.

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Cure

  • Post Punk Pop
  • Minimalist Goth
  • Pop
  • 10 Minute Prog Goth

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I’ve voted for both Beastie Boys and Cave In, but honestly, I love all their era’s equally.

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Which are Odelay and Mellow Gold classified under?