Rage Against The Machine vs Atari teenage riot vs Asian Dub Foundation vs PWEI

[bluestreak]

I thought they were great. The way they made loads of clattery noise and shouted a lot about revolution. When I was a young man, that got me, right there.

 

[killer b]

actually they were the noise RATM weren't they? similar schtick

yeah, i guess. they did a song with tom morello at one point didn't they?

i've a remix of 'destroy 2000 years of culture' which is good enough to make up for 10 albums of bollocks output anyway.

 

[isitme]

rubbish - they were the least self-important, ambitious band ever. They totally failed to take themselves seriously

they were really into sloganeering and hijacking imagery.

and they so weren't the least self important band ever. you really remind me of my mate when i was 17 with these pronouncements like that

 

[isitme]

ATR fucking rocked

it was like, lots of shouting about revolution, and lots of noise, and guitar riffs

all at the same time

it just beat everything ever

 

[Iam]

PWEI, mainly because ATR are dull, and RATM are a fucking bad joke.

 

[dodgepot]

girls aloud don't even approach that sort of level of pop music. they are as good as kylie or maybe even madonna, but I mean really, if we are honest they are fucking shite

absolute bollocks. girls aloud are pop perfection.

anyway, The Incredible PWEI FTW. there is no competition.

unspoilt by progress

 

[dodgepot]

PWEI were the ultimate tryhard band for me

tryhard? PWEI??! you fucking sure, love?

they did what they did with consumate ease, and they did it very very well

 

[Augie March]

ATR please.

 

[isitme]

absolute bollocks. girls aloud are pop perfection.

anyway, The Incredible PWEI FTW. there is no competition.

unspoilt by progress

they really aren't, they aren't even as good as the spice girls. they are piss boring

 

[dodgepot]

not even as good as the spice girls??! don't make me laugh. they are far superior to them.

 

[perplexis]

ATR, without a doubt.
Rage and their funk-rock can fuck off, PWEI make me entertained very occasionally, and ADF just aren't in the same league of hardcore as ATR.

 

[dodgepot]

i can't believe people are actually voting for RATM over the poppies.

what a sad, sad world we live in

 

[The Groke]

i can't believe people are actually voting for RATM over the poppies.

what a sad, sad world we live in

Every time you speak of the poppies it makes me think of that thread where we established that it was likely you who inadvertently tried to eat my mate's head at their Shepherds Bush gig.

 

[The Groke]

Which reminds me - I finally found those old pictures from that night recently.

I'm the one with the stupid hat and face.


The one on the left was the guy whose head you gnaw-butted.

 

[dodgepot]

who's the one in the middle?

 

[The Groke]

Just this guy we bumped into who kept harping on about some band he was in.

 

[Onket]

Most straightforward poll ever.

 

[twistedAM]

Great poll. Causing a bunfight between blokes of a certain age.

Where's the Hitler 3000 option?

 

[Refused as fuck]

Asian El Jefe Foundation.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

They are all shit, though for some reason I do have two PWEI albums.

 

[dodgepot]

which ones?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I thought they were great. The way they made loads of clattery noise and shouted a lot about revolution. When I was a young man, that got me, right there.

Me too.

But on the basis that I still listen to them quite regularly, the Asian Dub Foundation get my vote.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I love the early Asian Dub Foundation stuff, when they were just, I dunno, angrier, but PWEI fucking rule.

 

[Cloo]

I saw ATR live - they took it so seriously. It was adorable!

Bless those Germans.

 

[dodgepot]

the poppies only creeping ahead? they should be rocketing into the lead!!

shame on you, urban75

 

[Iam]

No surprise to find so many people voting for Rage round these parts, though, is it?

 

[dodgepot]

true - young people = stupid

 

[rapattaque]

Done my bit.

 

[dodgepot]

well done

 

[Taxamo Welf]

i genuinely meant 'they are all shit' - sorry.

I respect all of them for being genuine about their politics, but i couldn't listen to any of them. PWEI i just cannot stand at all. Apparently some of their earlier stuff was ok, but i have heard their agit-pop stuff and its cringeingly bad. RATM are just embarassingly adolescent both musically and lyrically to me (probably cos i was an adololescent when everyone thought they were good), metal funk rap - yuk. ATR i respect for trying to totally create a new movement and break punk and hardcore out of the guitars and drums into the 21st century, but what Alec came up with was just so abrasive and essentially er, shit, it didn't catch on.

oh ADF? fucknose, i just don't like them.