Fishbone Or Bad Brains
esskay
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At their creative peaks who do you prefer Fishbone or Bad Brains? Different styles of music naturally but a lot of the songs hold up well after 20+ years. With the live shows w/original line-ups it's a toss up. Good times back in tha day in the '80's
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Fishbrains
Bad Bones
Feel free to poach those for your next project ;)
Bad Brains over everything.
Love Fishbone. Huge part of my experience growing up was set to a Fishbone soundtrack. And for the record, I still think that "Give A Monkey A Brain..." is a criminally underrated album. Seen them many times live and they never ever disappointed. In fact I remember one particularly amazing show back in 1996 when it was Goodie Mob (who had just come out with "Soul Food") and De La Soul (fresh off the release of "Stakes Is High") opening for them. Fishbone was the backing band for Goodie Mob and RIPPED it. De La did their thing and it was kind of when they really hit their stride as live performers (having seen them when "3 Feet High..." was out they were pretty terrible back then.) Then Fishbone came out and melted my face off. Angelo did a whole thing at the beginning and the end with a solo Theremin and spoken word performance. They had Joi as one of their backup singers and halfway through their show they had her do several of her own numbers and covers. Truly one of the greatest performances I've ever seen, no hyperbole.
But nobody touches Bad Brains. Ever.
me too.
but adding 24-7 spyz to the discussion (unless it's a joke) is even more lame.
its a joke. and the only reason they are bieng compared is bacause they are black.
they werent hot at the same time.
oh they bohth used guitars in the 80s. its so tired.
I've never had much use for those if-my-mother-had-wheels-she'd-be-a-wagon type arguments, but I grew up with a lot of dudes who were adamant that if Bad Brains/Fishbone were white, they'd just be considered a really good punk/thrash-funk (jesus, did I just type that?) band, rather than godhead. The irony is that I also had to listen to a lot of dudes--ostensibly on the "other" side--whose defense of both bands boiled down to: "But they are black--that's why it's cool!"
It never felt that way to me (I bought the yellow tape just before a school trip to New Orleans, and listened to that shit for most of the thirteen-hour ride, and a couple summers later I got sonned when a dude who borrowed my dub of The Reality Of My Surroundings peeled back the label and exposed the fact that my Maxell had previously housed Hot Rocks 1964-1971; I tried to tell him, "Hey, I taped over it though, right?" but he still clowned me), but I've heard variations of that sentiment from enough unrelated quarters that I believe it's a real "thing" with a number of folks.
You're of course right, but what I'm talking about here is what I think might be one of the reasons that lies further behind this particular comparison, a comparison which I don't think I've ever heard a black person make.
If you've ever heard a black perspective on this comparison besides "There really is no comparison," I'd be interested to know about it.
i hear you, but its that highlighting of the racial link that i feel diminishes the critique.
now one can compare any two groups but lets not front here like the skin color isnt the primary criteria here, despite dude talmbout "these are just two groups that i liked in the 80s".
like i said before both group had creative peaks at different times.
weve been down this road before.
But which band fell hardest?
These turds are basically the same records in essence.
Tripping. That's a great album.
Cosign.
That album is great.
But it was thier last great album.
Minor Threat or The Clash?
Even "Chim Chim" has 5 or 6 really good songs on it, they didn't fully jump the shark until Fish and John Bigham left the band.