Thin Lizzy vs Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Boys Are Back In Town is a good song, Sweet Home Alabama is a hateful song, qed

thin lizzy have two great songs; skynyrd have like a dozen

if you allow me exactly one i'll probably take 'jailbreak' tho

yeah comparing catalogs is a bummer bc thin lizzy dont have the sheer beef that Skynyrd has

thin lizzy rules but fuck man, skynyrd can pretty much take all comers, hands down

Sweet Home Alabama is a hateful song, qed

Like both really.
Have tended to prefer the early 3 piece to the twin guitar Lizzy but may need to reinvestigate teh later stuff more.
BUt am a bit partial to Eric bell era.

Wish I'd seen more of the film on Skynyrd taht was on Sky Arts yesterday. Missed the beginning and was a bit falling asleepthink I switched over to a couple of things to avoid ads and didn't get back fast enough so missed more chunks.
Do like the early stuff at least. & live .
I know 1st couple of lps are great, may be good up to the plane crash but not familiar with the later stuff of that era.

Also forgive me if I'm wrong, but "Thin Lizzy has two great songs" sounds like a take that was informed strictly by classic rock radio.

Lizzy by a country mile.

Lizzy, all day every day.

Lizzy's peaks are higher

Skynyrd's generally underrated as an albums band

Lizzy is sui generis

Skynyrd's a southern rock band, a very good one

not voting

I was going to say I didn't really know Skynyrd beyond the 3-4 songs they play on classic rock radio, but I just checked and I didn't know the titles (Call Me the Breeze?) and they have a lot more songs that get play. I should probably explore them a bit more. Anyway, I love their sound (beefy hard southern rock) maybe better than the actual songs. Those records sound great and the band is tight. Hope you like the blues, though.

Lizzy has a great sound as well. Love the rhythm section and that twin guitar attack. Agree with JCLC that Lizzy's peaks are higher and the reason is Skynyrd don't have Phil Lynott. His stuff just means so much to me: the little asides he sings on stuff like The Boys Are Back in Town and really all over Jailbreak just kill me. All the fairly standard romantic songs given a twist with an outsider's perspective. You never get the sense in a Skynyrd song they are singing about a specific person the way you do in Lizzy. Lynott such a romantic.

Both great pool shooting/beer drinking bands. Skynyrd influenced a million terrible tone cowboys and bar bands. Lizzy a big influence on the evolution of metal.

Lizzy wins.

Both great bands; preferences might depend mostly on tolerance for southern rock.

Skynyrd doubters who only know the radio hits should listen to the first album for a better sense of their range. The second album is just as good; the third and fourth were rushed but show how they were continuing to develop a sound that was already rock-solid on the debut. You can ignore everything released after 1977.

I love Lizzy's twin guitar leads, songwriting, and lead vocals, but Skynyrd's are better, and Skynyrd swings harder.

Skynyrd hardly put a foot wrong 1973-1977, they were so ferocious. The 42-minute Old Grey Whistle Test performance of theirs on youtube is Exhibit A. Since I learned my rock from US aor radio I know Lizzy from "those two" songs, which are obviously great, but further investigation is needed. I have to look up how many albums they have (gee, way more than I thought). I remember being flabbergasted to find out Lizzy were Irish, bc especially in the vocals they seemed very specifically American.

a more difficult choice than I expected

shouldn’t this be Thin Lizzy vs. Allman Brothers Band though????

I wouldn't think so?

tbh Allman Bros vs Skynyrd would be a nightmare of a choice

shouldn’t this be Thin Lizzy vs. Allman Brothers Band though????

If that had been the case, I'd vote TL. But as it stands, LS by miles.

Allmans are more of a jam vibe, Skynyrd and Lizzy were song bands

Allmans are pretty sui generis themselves, often approaching things with a feather touch, but that's not always the mood I'm in. Skynyrd is always a mood I'm in.

Van Zandt is a really sharp and self aware lyricist if that's a factor

i was thinking of the twin guitar leads

Not better than Phil Lynott. (xp)

disagree

Van Zandt is a really sharp and self aware lyricist if that's a factor

Despite my general disinterest in lyrics, this is the main reason I'm voting LS. The lyrics to "Was I Right Or Wrong" are a perfect example; just the couplet "Then one sunny day, the man, he looked my way/And everything that I dreamed of, it was real" is so brilliant.

Van Zandt could write affecting songs about childhood that are surprising in their lack of irony or condescension: "Simple Man," "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe" (compare the latter to the saccharine "Mister Bojangles" to see how Van Zandt's life experience improved his treatment of a similar theme).

He could also be persuasively vicious, sometimes in unexpected ways, as when the snarling "Saturday Night Special" short-circuits the aggression of gun culture.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Crushed

Wow. I barely know any Thin Lizzy.

Sinister result

Dublin 1 Jacksonville 0

damn u irish mafia

this is worse than the plane crash

Trash results.

why u braek ronnie’s heart ;_;

some serious US voter suppression going on w/the timing of this poll

When I created it the 20th seemed far enough away, didn’t realize it was the next day

lmao

dublin to baton rouge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBTgmPgFxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyJWTqaOs8

Lotta “boopity-bappity” in the rhythm of those Lizzy tracks

these threads are kind of a bummer because they put two great bands against each other

Led Zeppelin vs Greta Van Fleet, say, might be a little one-sided though

It reminds me of this (non poll) face off

TS: ramones vs buzzcocks

these threads are kind of a bummer because they put two great bands against each other

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 20, 2020 8:08

Thankfully, it's not in the realm of that story "Sort by Controversial", where finding the biggest 50% up/50% down-voted Reddit items will serve as the means to tear a relatively like-minded community apart, but I could totally see Skynyrd vs The Lizz as getting quite contentious here.

(Imagine the vote's closeness had Lynott and Co chosen to call themselves Thyn Lyzzy).

Lynott Skynyrd

Now that's a mash-up someone with Ableton Live and some dexys should begin crafting stat

come on guys it's not that hard to understand why a board with like 80 votes in a pavement poll went for thin lizzy and over the sweet home alabama band.

As the person who ran the Pavement poll, rest assured I voted for "the sweet home alabama band."

Cool story you’ve already told two times itt

?

Give him three steps

boopity?

bappity?

Cool story you’ve already told two times itt

― ingredience (map), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 1:55 AM

Nah, son. You made a dumb correlation and it was false. But go off.

oh hi bitch. your special snowflake taste or the fact that you ran a pavement poll have nothing to do with the very reasonable assertion that indie rock fans would prefer thin lizzy over the band who wrote 'sweet home alabama,' which has undeniably acquired a racist knuckle-dragger aura from decades of willful association with racist knuckle-draggers, no matter how ardently you burn for lynyrd skynyrd or how hard they boogie (there are a lot of great 70s rock bands who didn't write 'sweet home alabama'!), and acting like you're scandalized or shocked about the results of this poll is just another performance of your tiresome and intensely egotistical shtick of having oh-so-uncategorizable music taste.

Uh

That's...a take alright

daaaang map's got a barrel that's blue and cold

His dick?

what's beef?

That's some old school ILX right there.

Beef is when you make Garu G start your jeep

when you need two copies of Big & Rich just to sleep

beef is when I FP you
guaranteed to get a threadban, too

lol map's a clown

decades of willful association with racist knuckle-draggers

alabamans?

Think he's talking about the very very post-plane crash "God and Guns" Skynyrd that nobody here listens to