― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
**Would that be Americans = Clash - Brits = Jam? **
Nah - I don't think anyone likes The Jam anymore here. Except me!
What do you mean by STRENUOUSLY British, Alex?
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't mean for it to sound derisive. I just mean that the Jam's oeuvre was simply littered with largely obscure (to American listeners) British references, and -- as you said above -- they refused to adhere to conventional "rock" stereotypes.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
But then again, The Jam have the 7B/Sophies game in their favour.
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Buzzcocks > Clash > The Damned > being hurt with sharp objects > Jam
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Damned > Magazine > Buzzcocks > Clash > Slits > Ruts > X-Ray >> Jam >>>> Stranglers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eater
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
XRay Spex> Magazine>B'Cocks>Jam>Slits>Eater>Clash>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Stranglers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Damned
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
;-)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually this ranking thing is silly. I refuse to accept that X-Ray Spex, Magazine and The Buzzcocks are anything less than perfect. The Jam were absoluetly great, but many faults. The Slits were great, but could have been greater. Eater are the only punk band ever really(copyright. M Sinker, but I think we should add The Desperate Bicycles and The Adverts). The Strangers were good, but very silly. And apart from a couple of singles the Damned were rub.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Van der graaf generator>magazine>popol vuh...oh, fuck it.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
See, if it came down to how many records do I own of each, I own every studio Clash record except Give Em Enough Rope, while I only own one and a half Hawkwind records (couldn't fit all of Space Ritual on the tape.)
But if you are going to talk about the evil perfidious INFLUENCE, then almost every other record I own has probably been influenced by Hawkwind but I cannot think of a SINGLE decent band inspired by the Clash.
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, OK Norm - Machine Gun Etiquette is great, I agree. They're still rubbish overall.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Extremely silly.
How do you do it? If you were to rank those bands according to which released the best individual album or which released the best individual single or which wrote / recorded the best individual song everey one of us would probably end up with something different every time - how can you possibly hope to compare e.g. The Slits 2 albums, 3 Peel sessions and a handful of singles with The Damned's 28 year career?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
That's what I do - hence The Damned on top every time. Partly because I just can't understate the extent to which New Rose changed my entire life; and partly because none of those other bands have ever been able to put on a live performance that can hold a candle to The Damned when they're on form and at their peak.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
**How do you do it? If you were to rank those bands according to which released the best individual album or which released the best individual single or which wrote / recorded the best individual song everey one of us would probably end up with something different every time - how can you possibly hope to compare e.g. The Slits 2 albums, 3 Peel sessions and a handful of singles with The Damned's 28 year career? **
Pretty much what Norman says - a highly subjective view of how much I love them TODAY.- how *happy* is good. Quantity of recds are not important. Stuff like record covers, a little *thing* the singer did with his hands on TOTP, what they were wearing etc etc are all HIGHLY IMPORTANT!!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The next person to speak ill of the Stranglers gets their trousers set on fire.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
>>>>>>>>>>>
...to mean "is really greater than." And by saying Eater (:::teeth gritting:::::) is greater than the Stranglers is to truly disrespect the Stranglers.
But don't mind me, I'm just sensitive.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
[runs away]
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Eater are greater than the Stranglers in a *pure-punk sense* because they exemplified the punk spirit of getting up and doing it. The Stranglers made better records.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Killing Joke have no place in this debate, Stew.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Cheers. That might spoil my weekend. I'll be needing my pants.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
And someone's dissing the Damned? I'd take them over Paul Weller's 'Rock of the Seventies' Roadshow any night of the week.
S
― Soukesian, Friday, 10 September 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM.
(damn, seems like i've been "OTMing" all day")
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
You're thinking of Spizzenergi, not the Jam.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Friday, 10 September 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 11 September 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link