Clash v Sex Pistols

[nino_savatte]

Out of the two available options: The Clash.

 

[lights.out.london]

You can't do it like that, though. As has been said.

How do you mean?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

why do you think this?? your posts do baffle me sometimes!!!

I think it because I think they were both utter shit.

The clash were namby pamby plinky plonk pussies. I can never quite feel the guts in the sex pistols. Lydons voice is horrible. Whiny whiny whiny. All too clean. They sound like busted.

 

[lights.out.london]

lol

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I quite like bodies and maybe 1977 a little bit.

 

[rutabowa]

I think it because I think they were both utter shit.

The clash were namby pamby plinky plonk pussies. I can never quite feel the guts in the sex pistols. Lydons voice is horrible. Whiny whiny whiny. All too clean. They sound like busted.

i didn't think you liked the ramones all that much either

 

[danny la rouge]

How do you mean?

Well, it's been said on the thread; the Pistols' legacy isn't just the recordings they made.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i didn't think you liked the ramones all that much either

I like the spirit of the Ramones and at least I like a couple of their songs.

 

[Iam]

Well, it's been said on the thread; the Pistols' legacy isn't just the recordings they made.

Good job, really.

 

[lights.out.london]

Good job, really.

Righteous.

 

[danny la rouge]

Good job, really.

I like Never Mind the Bollocks; it's a good album.

 

[Iam]

I'm in the "has some good tracks, but mostly filler" camp, I'm afraid.

Besides, I like shouty Americans in short trousers, and am therefore usually sent away from punk threads by Pistols fans...

 

[danny la rouge]

Besides, I like shouty Americans in short trousers,

Get off the thread, yank kid!

 

[Iam]

*shuffles off*

 

[lights.out.london]

*plays Black Flag*

 

[lights.out.london]

*plays Black Flag*

 

[turing test]

If you compare the Punk albums the Clash released to Bullocks-the clash are obviously more sophisticated both musically and lyrically. The best songs of their first album stand above anything on Bullocks.

Never the less Bullocks was the first Punk album I heard and I still enjoy it.

 

[Left]

American hardcore punk - Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Husker Du, etc - is better than both of those imo.

Out of those it would be The Clash. I'm sure Never Mind the Bollocks was revolutionary at the time and all that but I wasn't around and musically it doesn't really do much for me.

Don't understand the hate for Sandinista and Combat Rock, I think they're great albums (although the former is a bit over-long).

 

[Taxamo Welf]

I think it because I think they were both utter shit.

The clash were namby pamby plinky plonk pussies. I can never quite feel the guts in the sex pistols. Lydons voice is horrible. Whiny whiny whiny. All too clean. They sound like busted.

Ramones mate,

THE FUCKING RAMONES

 

[Taxamo Welf]

American hardcore punk - Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Husker Du, etc - is better than both of those imo.

ok, but you clearly don't recognise the parameters of the debate.

 

[Left]

ok, but you clearly don't recognise the parameters of the debate.

What do you mean?

 

[turing test]

Don't understand the hate for Sandinista

I don't either. They are right that it's not really a punk album, but it is very good imho.

 

[savoloysam]

Used to prefer the Pistols but The Clash have a much longer shelf life. As Strummer himself said they (The Pistols) were the hand grenade that was thrown into the room just at the right time and blew the doors wide open for everyone else to come on in. Great article in the Guardian today about the jubilee publicity stunt on the Thames. This is what the Pistols were all about. Winding up the establishment and they did it very well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/29/sex-pistols-queen-jubilee-boat

True after the first album The Clash weren't true punk, they were more of a political rock band and were extremely clever at mixing all kinds of musical genres.

In summary both bands were equally important but for different reasons but on the music alone it's the Clash for me

 

[Jeff Robinson]

1 werD: anchor butter.

 

[alsoknownas]

The Clash! I have lots of reasons for this. Never Mind the Bollocks stands as a mark of unbridled genius but the creative output of The Clash was way richer.

i prefer The Specials though!

Prince! The Specials! Me and you share musical tastes big time .

 

[savoloysam]

1 werD: anchor butter.

Jaguar. Levi's.

 

[Kaka Tim]

"the clash were lacking in raw energy"

Utter and complete fucking tosh. In their prime they were pure fucking electricity. And has there ever been a more passionate and committed performer than strummer?

 

[stavros]

I can't remember how I voted in this. Both have their merits, and I wasn't alive for either of their original incarnations.

 

[killer b]

listen to the clash more, but prefer PiL to both. the first pistols album better than the first clash album, mind.

 

[William of Walworth]

I've been a Clash-preferrer pretty much from the start.