English Civil War brewing between Punk and 80's Metal Godz
Round 1 - #5 The Clash vs #12 Def Leppard
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English Civil War brewing between Punk and 80's Metal Godz
GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
Doesn't get much better than this track or album for that matter. London Calling is a top 4 or 5 Double LP of all time.
I do enjoy Def Leppard from time to time, but this was an easy call for me.
Completely different genres, but I agree. I will say though, I saw them open for the Who in the KingDome and they sounded pretty shitty. But then again, it was the KingDome, acoustically about as shitty as you can get. The Who just powered their way over the shitty acoustics, but they sounded a lot better when they played at the Coliseum.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.
I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.
I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.
Yes
Black people gotta a lotta problems but they don't mind throwing a brick.
Def Leppard gonna lose by an arm? Say it ain't so!!!!
We'll keep the polls open for a few days on each round.
GrandpaSankey
New Fish
mods?
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
If I had to pinpoint the moment I truly understood why your people lost the US it’d be the moment I realized members of your race produced non-intellectual Clash fans.
Well, that or when I heard about smallpox blankets.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
So, when I was growing up I loved all kind of white people music. AC/DC, Disco, Wham!, Madonna, and like every boy from Kent I loved High n Dry and Pyromania.
Those were huge accomplishments in the burgeoning 'main stream metal' genre (Cum On Feel tha Noize, etc)... and we all ate that shit up. It was super and it made sense... but toward the late 80s white people started getting really weird. When Motley Crue (who I had previously enjoyed) started doing 'Girls, Girls, Girls' I knew I was about to cash out of white people life and no amount of Metallica and GnR could save it...
So, rap was ascendent that that time and for some FUCKING OBVIOUS reason, I found Run DMC, 2 Live Crew and Schoolly D waaaayyyy more fucking interesting than Poison... but the death knell for me was really Pour Some Sugar on Me.
I literally remember this video coming on MTV - I was at this guy Sean Griswold's (who was a fuckstick) house because we didn't have cable and I put up with his loser ass so I could watch cable after school with his hot mom and fat Italian step-dad... well, anyway, for some reason I wasted 8th grade going over there... but this was the video that did it for me. After this, I vowed to tell white people to fucking DIAF and I checked out of white people music for a couple years until my older brother turned me on to Sub Pop bands and then I was like 'oh, this is actually rock n roll' ... anyway... I know I voted for DL, but seriously fuck them.
Those were huge accomplishments in the burgeoning 'main stream metal' genre (Cum On Feel tha Noize, etc)... and we all ate that shit up. It was super and it made sense... but toward the late 80s white people started getting really weird. When Motley Crue (who I had previously enjoyed) started doing 'Girls, Girls, Girls' I knew I was about to cash out of white people life and no amount of Metallica and GnR could save it...
So, rap was ascendent that that time and for some FUCKING OBVIOUS reason, I found Run DMC, 2 Live Crew and Schoolly D waaaayyyy more fucking interesting than Poison... but the death knell for me was really Pour Some Sugar on Me.
I literally remember this video coming on MTV - I was at this guy Sean Griswold's (who was a fuckstick) house because we didn't have cable and I put up with his loser ass so I could watch cable after school with his hot mom and fat Italian step-dad... well, anyway, for some reason I wasted 8th grade going over there... but this was the video that did it for me. After this, I vowed to tell white people to fucking DIAF and I checked out of white people music for a couple years until my older brother turned me on to Sub Pop bands and then I was like 'oh, this is actually rock n roll' ... anyway... I know I voted for DL, but seriously fuck them.