TS: Monty Python vs. Spinal Tap

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Better albums?

Better when accompanied by visuals (TV/Movie)?

My vote goes for the Python's, because their music generally didn't require visual aids--I have no fun at all listening to Spinal Tap albums.

― Ian Johnson, Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

spinal tap, by a million billion miles

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Bottoms drive me outta my mind
How can I leave this behi - ii - iiiind?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

¿remember 'the rutles'? not officiala monty pithon, but still – was it suppost to be funny? becuas it wasn't.

spinal tap.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 27 February 2003 06:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God, absolutely utterly no competition whatsoever - Monty Python of course.

It's like comparing Bill and Ted with Derek and Clive......

― russ t, Thursday, 27 February 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Täp, but MONTY PYTHON ÜBER ÄLLES!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 27 February 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

sure, them Tap made one really, really excellent film. Monty's made several, besides their music was usually 'bit better too. ;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 February 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"¿remember 'the rutles'? not officiala monty pithon, but still – was it suppost to be funny? becuas it wasn't.
spinal tap."

Yes, it was "suppost" to be funny. If the script is weak at all, that's probably Eric Idle's fault, but you can't diss Neil Innes' songs, surely. Those pastiches are damn near perfect, so much so that most of them stand up as quality original compositions.

Incidentally, Idle's been attempting to revive the Rutles for a while, but without Innes' involvement as they fell out over the rights to the material. I hope for our sake he never succeeds.

Oh, Spinal Tap Vs. Python - I'd go with Python, if only because the breadth and range of their material dwarves Tap's comparitively small output.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 27 February 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't stand Monty Python, it's a little to gay and annoying for me. Spinal Tap is awesome

― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Friday, 28 February 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a little to gay and annoying for me

Good lord, that's the most depressing thing I've ever read in my life.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 February 2003 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

That's for sure. Jeez Louise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

wha?

― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Friday, 28 February 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

naga pampa - surely ther prize for the most toe-curling post I've read so far.

"Too gay"..?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Please.....

― russ t, Friday, 28 February 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Stone Temple Pilots

― dave q, Friday, 28 February 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely there's an innocent context for the phrase 'too gay', like for example - supposing there's this guy who just happens to be gay, who owns a gay bar in the city's 'gay district'. This week's issue of the trade publication 'Gay Bar Management Weekly' appears in the mail, and being an ambitious person he reads it closely and finds a hypothetical article that might say 'The gay bar industry is very cyclic in nature and what works one season is out the next, the coming trend in gay bar design is to make it look as unconventional as possible, so nobody would even think it was a gay bar in a million years. Kind of like those neighborhood pubs in England that they turn into aircraft hangars and museums and shit.' So this guy wants to keep up with the times and hires a decorator, with the goal in mind of making the bar look the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of what it did last month, so sometimes when the decorator says "What's your opinion of this flooring" he might OCCASIONALLY shake his head and say, "Nah - too gay!" See?

― Acme Contexts-4-all-occasions, Friday, 28 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Monty Python for me; Spinal Tap are too heterosexual.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Monty Python for me.
Spinal Tap - too negro for me.

― russ t, Friday, 28 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a penguin on top of my pc monitor set!
gotta Looooove the pythons.

― rex jr., Friday, 28 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Choice quotes from each:

Spinal Tap...

"I like how he puts Yngwie J. Malmstein on all his pedals, so as not to be confused with all the other Yngwie Malmsteins."

Monty Python...

"Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical (sp?) aquatic ceremony!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

for "Knights of the Round Table" alone, Python wins

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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