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battle of the bands! subhumans/culture shock/citizen fish

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Why is there no "All three a bunch utter fucking wibble - noisy wibble, granted, but wibble nonetheless. What a fucking win treble." option?
 
The Subhumans were/are a great band, songs like Subvert City, Where`s the Freedom, Religious Wars, Joe Public and many others piss on what passes for punk music today. Powerful rebellious music but also with a sense of humour. They were popular in the States too, i read an interview with the guy from Queens of the Stone Age who was praising them as an influence.
I last saw them at the Fulham Greyhound in `85, but i`ve heard they still play sometimes. I saw Culture Shock a few times and had some of their records, but it`s the Suhumans for me. (The Canadian Subhumans were cool too!)
 
culture shock always struck me as more genuine... even though i was just a wee boy at the time.
 
I'm also in the all three camp . If someone put a gun to my head and make me choose I'd say the Subhumans....... or maybe Citizen Fish....
 
It's got to be Culture Shock - all three are great, but Culture Shock have (had) the edge, both musically and lyrically for me... Not to mention the best t-shirt (Onwards and Upwards)...
 
I went along to see Citizen Fish a couple of weeks ago just because my neighbor's band was supporting them. Wasn't expecting to enjoy it at all but they were surprisingly good live, so I'm voting for them... maybe if I'd ever seen the Subhumans or Culture Shock live I might have given them more of a chance.
 
This has a lot to do with age I reckons, I prefer Culture Shock cos that was around in my yoof, I'm a bit young for Subhumans, Mr Loo is 4 years older than me and would definately say Subhumans.

Close run thing now though between Subhumans and Culture Shock with Citizen Fish limping in in third place.
 
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