I apologise for yet another vs. poll, but this needed to be done.

Personaly I have gone for "Big New Prinz", by far the best out of the two. As I really rate "Hip Priest" extremely low, not my cup of tea what so ever.

Your turn?

Hip Priest for me

Why?

1. On the best Fall Album
2. Balances the "quiet" and "loud" sides of the Fall
3. Lyrically superior
4. Features Burns and Hanley P in twin drum mode
5. Is allegedly about Johnny Cash

Having said that I adore Big New Prinz but HP just wins on merit.....

Really??

As anyone would know who listens to the Mercora show, Johnny Cash is one of my favourite solo artists, if not the best.

'Hip Priest', seeing as I attempted to steal the drum beat for a song for one of my bands.

Both good though.

Nearly went for Hip priest, went for Prinz for the pure bottom shaking riff instead.

Too hard to choose.

Jim

I heard BNP (eeek! :unsure: Or have I uncovered a Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds-style hidden code) first, and I reckon it sounds better after familiarity with HP. It's not only a particularly stompin' number, but also gains power and resonance from its relation to one of the most legendary and powerful Fall songs. HP is almost ritualistic in feel, and is really the essence of the band at the time boiled down to something skeletal but monolithic. Simultaneously stark & lucid, and mysterious and atmospheric. Both songs are massive and great in different ways.
Another poll in which I shall abstain -_-

Hip Priest, for sure. The whole vibe of the song is just more to my taste. Love the high vocal parts. One of my all-time faves.

Yep, and me, for the same reasons.

big new prinz i love to tap the beat to this song on my stomach and erica's butt. its so catchy, and its a fucking classic. this song fucking rules.

Chase, you've topped yourself with this quotable comment.

What do you do when you are listening to Bolero or Flight of the Bumblebee?

Hip Priest...more for the Peel version which I've been into lately. The loud parts on the Hex version have never quite meshed with me...they sound poorly produced or something--in a bad way. Love both versions though as well as both songs.

it depends, i love to tap my hands to the tunes mostly of middle mass and big new prinz. middle mass to me would be great to play for a bunch of drunken british men dancing around. big new prinz should be played for the unappreciated people in the work force.

On "I Am As Pure As Oranj," when "Hip Priest" turns into "Big New Prinz"... MAMMOTH!

BNP... Less faffy, more meat.

big new prinz

"Hip Priest" - it surprises more.

Big new Prinz for me. I'm surprised its polling up so well against Hip Priest which seems like one of those God like Fall songs that no other can touch (generally, not personally)

Same here.

Hip Priest is a wondeful effort and I don't like it very much.

I find it depressing that a band as innovative as the Fall had to record a "rockin" version of one of their old songs.

"Hip Priest" is staggeringly brilliant, one the band's very best songs, with a subtle mood and atmosphere. An eerily calm song, punctuated with explosive bursts of beautiful noise.

There's not much going for the other song here, which is vastly, vastly inferior.

The mood, surprises and effects of Hip Priest does not hold water anymore, it gets tiresome after a few listens.
I can never get enough Big New Prinz though.

i have a better chance of having sex playing bnp then hp.

Can't get enough of either. Voted for BNP. (No, not 'that' BNP)

calm yourself chase :o
is that why you were drumming on erica's behind?
is this quirk still appreciated a year later? B)

You woman finds crappy music to be an aphrodisiac then? A related question: Is getting laid sufficient reward for having to suffer through crap music?

lol that was in the past erica and i are no more, so ladies i am single out there

Respectfully, sir, don't you know how to rock?

Hmm... I don't know. Ohio, eh?

Sure, but the bellybutton lint song "BNP" doesn't inspire any such thing.

Fair enough. I agree that rocking is about the only thing to do with that song. If it does not inspire rocking then so be it.

For the record: others have rocked.

But it doesn't rock. Put aside the fact that it isn't a particularly good song, it simply doesn't even have any "rocking" in its favor. I actually don't even dislike the song, it just isn't anywhere near as potent, beautiful, or original as "Hip Priest."

Well, reasonable minds (if you'd take the leap, and grant me the admittedly unmerited honor of assuming that I have one) disagree.

I have no point, nor agenda, as I don't think one can try to convert another who has heard both songs plenty times. I state, merely, my viewpoint: Big New Prinz does indeed get me jumping up and down and distracted from my work*, whereas Hip Priest leaves me cold, bored, and at times even embarrassed.

I think the reason that I love the "Pure as Oranj" version so much is that it busts what I percieve as the pomposity of "Hip Priest" with humor, power, and that intangible and supposedly subjective thing known as "rock."

Your words "potent, beautiful, and original," I think, eloquently express your appreciation of "Hip Priest." I promise to turn it up loud and keep trying, although I'll probably always like it better when it transforms into a perverted glam explosion, with the most unlikely of call-and-response.

*esp. opening "Kurious Oranj" and live on "As Pure as Oranj"

Has to be Big New Prinz, cant say I agree with the poster who says this is a souped up version of an old song, more like its the song he was searching for from the start. What is the Gas Track, by the way? Which album is that from?

Big New Prinz because it it causes me excitement each time I hear it. Hip Priest might be more original, not only due to its status as the older brother, but I prefer it only when I'm in a special mood.

Big New prinz - punishing bass line.

Hip priest is a weird one - its not bad but often when i put Hex on this is the song i skip most.

Drink the long draught, then check the records. :beer:

I checked the track record and went with Hip Priest but all have something to recommend them.

Can't comment till I've heard the 'Pure As Oranj' version, which is winging it's way to me as we speak.

Of the two better known one's, I prefer New Big Prinz over Hip Priest, but I'm fond of the live versions on 27 Pints and Various Years which combine the two.