Takin' Sides: The Smiths "Cemetry Gates" vs Pantera's Cemetery Gates"

someone has read my mind.

and this is a tougher decision to make than i woulda thought. lemme sleep on it.

The Smiths. I hope that some desire for a twisted form of irony doesn't distort this match.

I love The Smiths. Love them. But Pantera wins. "Cemetery Gates" by The Smiths is Smiths by the numbers - references to Keats and Oscar Wilde and such, with that 'oh aren't I clever' way of singing Moz adopts whenever he references literature, is no match for the intense pure rock fury of Pantera's song - in fact, solo just Dimebag on the guitar, with that blistering harmonic on the main riff, and it's still light years better than The Smiths' version.

Yeah, CM is my least fave track on TQID. Pantera's CM though, is probably their best song. And that solo! *YUM*