Happy Mondays - Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)/Bummed/Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches vs. Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction/Lies/Use You

Oh, and the obvious one is debut album released 1987

*Controversy over homophobic comments/lyrics.

Did not know that about the Mondays, but not one bit surprised.

This has the Happy Mondays’ two best records, and GnR’s only two good ones. However, there’s only really one good song out of the four on Lies, which fails to counterbalance however many there are on the Illusionses.

On the other hand, I’d like to hear God’s Cop with Adler drumming.

(I don’t remember homophobic lyrics from the Mondays, but the comments were ridiculed by other members of the band in the same interview, in between Shaun making them.)

(Along the lines of “I don’t want gay blokes coming around me being all gay” “lol you weren’t saying that when we were partying at that gay bar on Sunday night, what are you on about” “I don’t want nobody touching my bum man” “stop trying to look tough in the paper, dickhead, nobody cares”)

No homophobic lyrics from HM, just comments made during infamous NME interview.... GNR had the homophobic lyrics.

lol this one is hard because Appetite for Destruction is my favorite out of all of these but the Mondays started good and got great and G'n'R started great and got mediocre. I guess I'll vote Mondays because if I had to listen to all three releases by either band I would much rather listen to theirs in toto.

No contest, Mondays.

GnR has a couple of songs that I like if I hear them out in the wild.

Happy Mondays all the way.

two bands made up of real fuckin knuckleheads

i can't really dishonor 13 year old me so gotta go GnR

do the Mondays really not have any homophobic lyrics? that would be pretty remarkable if so

I mean, 'Enery seems to be about someone spreading HIV.

Squirrel and G-Man is underrated.

Not by me.

I wonder how G’n’R would’ve sounded with John Cale producing.

*both bands had members that wore bucket-related headgear

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