Sex Pistols vs Spice Girls

[Firky]

One was manufacted, OK granted to some extent Malcolm Mclaren manufactured the Sex Pistols but they already existed before hand. The Spice Girls were an answer to the boy band craze.

 

[cesare]

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5

Bet you've got as far as God Save The Queen

 

[isitme]

Oh watching a loud mouth, a smack head, and two competent musicians dressed up in bondage clothes swearing at the queen was so seminal

absolutely seminal

"did that seem seminal to you?"
"seminal as fuck mate"

 

[chainsaw cat]

Ceart go leor, b'fhearr liom Gaeilge a labhairt ar aon chor.

Da chi'n eisau mynd i'r gwely gyda fi?

Hoces li spivati s'mnom?

 

[isitme]

anyway, i'm ttrying to watch batman even tho it's kind of boring me despite being good

more later

 

[Firky]

Right, without googling it and within the next 30 seconds name 4 Sex Pistols tracks

I could name about six

 

[Firky]

holiday in the sun
pretty vacant
god save the queen
anarcy in the ul
emi

ok five

 

[cesare]

I could name about six

Don't tell me, you were on a really important thread elsewhere and didn't notice the challenge

 

[cesare]

holiday in the sun
pretty vacant
god save the queen
anarcy in the ul
emi

ok five

 

[DotCommunist]

Pistols. Spice Girls were a crappy gimmick band that sold a tits-out version of femnism, a total fucking laddish style of womanhood. Bullshit, and somehow worse than Sex Pistols version of anti establishment punk ethos. Least the Pistols actually believed the generated hype.

 

[cesare]

I'd also come down on the side of the Pistols. The Punk thing did have far more impact.

 

[isitme]

Batman is just fucking awesome

Sex Pistols aren't heroes, Batman is a hero

 

[cesare]

Batman is just fucking awesome

Sex Pistols aren't heroes, Batman is a hero

They wanted to be anti-heroes

 

[isitme]

I like the Spice Girls better myself, they were fun, they never gobbed on people or took heroin

I like girls who dance about and have fun better than cockney heroin addicts

 

[isitme]

They wanted to be anti-heroes

They just wanted attention

 

[cesare]

I like the Spice Girls better myself, they were fun, they never gobbed on people or took heroin

I like girls who dance about and have fun better than cockney heroin addicts

Well, there is that. Even as a teen I wanted to take a steam cleaner to the Pistols.

 

[cesare]

They just wanted attention

Anti - attention

 

[isitme]

Well, there is that. Even as a teen I wanted to take a steam cleaner to the Pistols.

Is that a euphemism?

 

[isitme]

Anti - attention

Don't look at us, we're cockney heroin addicts with lots of Vivienne Westwood clothes and Spiky hair

We mean it man

 

[cesare]

Is that a euphemism?

 

[In Bloom]

Right, without googling it and within the next 30 seconds name 4 Sex Pistols tracks

God Save the Queen, Holiday in the Sun, Bodies, EMI.

Not exactly difficult.

 

[In Bloom]

I like the Spice Girls better myself, they were fun, they never gobbed on people or took heroin

I like girls who dance about and have fun better than cockney heroin addicts

The Spice Girls were boring as fuck. The Pistols might be overrated, but at least they were interesting (and actually capable of performing their songs live).

 

[cesare]

God Save the Queen, Holiday in the Sun, Bodies, EMI.

Not exactly difficult.

The challenge was for firky There's not a lot more mind, which was isitme's point

 

[In Bloom]

The challenge was for firky There's not a lot more mind, which was isitme's point

There's only one genuinely bad track on Never Mind the Bollocks (Bodies). So that's 10 decent songs to start with.

Honestly, I don't buy all this stuff about how they were the single greatest punk band ever, but they were far from the worst.

 

[bluestreak]

The Spice Girls: 1 good tune, no politics, 5 annoying bints, meant nothing to me.

Sex Pistols: Lots of good tunes, decent enough politics, 1 very entertaining numpty, sid's taste in underpants, rock n roll anecdotes, meant a little to me.

On the whole that's a conclusive win for the Pistols, though damned with faint praise.

 

[editor]

Honestly, I don't buy all this stuff about how they were the single greatest punk band ever, but they were far from the worst.

But it wasn't about just about the songs - it was everything else that came with it.

I can understand why people who weren't around at the time might look back with a shrug after hearing the album now, but there was a lot more to it than that. Honest, guv.

 

[Geri]

I like both.

 

[dtb]

so you set up a thread seeking to belittle The Sex Pistols because it was reported that John Lydon's security made some racist remarks...well done

 

[Cheesypoof]

The Spice Girls are very similar, they also had a massive effect on pop music, they also inspired thousands of teenagers, they also had a swathe of bands following in their wake. And they also only have about 4 songs that still sound decent

Is this a fair comparison?

no. I always thought the spice girls were shite, and am embarassment to feminism. Five ranting chavs screeching 'Girl power!' They never changed anything for me. They reversed it. Slapper hos with crap chunes.

i am not a woman who looks at Jordan and thinks 'fair play' though. She still sold her soul and her ass to make money, and money isnt worth losing your soul or dignity.

 

[Iam]

Sapper hos? What they used to sneak behind enemy lines and plant explosives?

Well I never. Bet the Pistols never did that!