Taking sides Mud vs Leonard Cohen

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Go for it...

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tiger Feet kicks songs of love and hate into oblivion, but then again he did write Hallelujah. So the Canadian troubadour wins by a nose.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Put it this way. When your date comes downstairs in a beautiful, £1000+ dress, you can point at her and say: "Do not dress in those rags for me - I know you are not poor..."

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha, yeah "Tiger Feet" is so amazing; I used to play it all the time when I used to DJ, and nobody knew what it was. Of course, Mud had a few great singles, whereas Cohen has many great albums, so Cohen gets the nod.

― Sean, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is this juxtaposition? Why not Mozart vs. Aphex Twin? Mud are dud. Cohen is a genius.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alex don't you read the threads you contribute to?

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No I never read what I write ;-).
But this thread needs an explanation. Like Dr.C. gives it at the current end of the thread you referred to Billy. Something like:
Bubblegum vs. Songwriting, Fun vs. Seriousness, Lightness vs. Darkness. And then we become philosophical. Those two just have not enough in common to compare them on whatever scale.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Both are music!

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who's the dud in mozart vs. aphex twin?

― ethan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Little of value in either for me, though I do think "Dyna-Mite" is GRATE. Shame this isn't The Sweet vs. Leonard Cohen: no doubt of what side I'd be on there.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw Robin - don't get me started about The Sweet! Magnifico!

Blockbuster/Teenage Rampage/Ballroom Blitz is as important a trilogy as Anarchy in The UK/GTSQ/Pretty Vacant. Blockbuster - best glam record, best intro ever bar none.

Late-period Sweet = underrated. Love Is Like Oxygen, Fox on the Run... ace!

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's funny Dr.C. The Sweet were one of my favourite bands when I was 14 or something. And I think I still would like them though I have no record by them and never had. They probably are one of the summits of Glam. And Slade were quite good as well. The first record I ever bought was Destroyer by Kiss and I really loved it. But Mud never did it for me. Not even as a young teenie.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slade ≠ glam, Slade = punk. Don't let that hat with the mirrors glued on it fool you.

Mud is better than Lenny:
1. for reason g gave yesterday on some other thread
2. because they thought of doing "Lonely This Christmas" (a perfect Cohen song if ever there was one) and Lenny didn't
3. because Tiger Feet is best UK single of the 70s, bar none.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Tiger Feet" isn't even the best single to be in one of the Top 2 positions in January 1974.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mud don't make you slit your wrists. Tiger Feet has a better dance than that one about shagging in a hotel.

Yes Mud.

Cohen is humourless, Mud are funny and the guitarist was prettier.

― Trevor Dull, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cohen humourless??? News to me!

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dont know mud @ all but in cohens defense i think his best songs are the subtle ones kept in the back of albums. Songs like Field Commander Cohen or Queen Victoria which are complex in there symbolic structures and w. a dry wit underneath.

― anthony, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mud's Rob Davis (guitar, earrings, dress) co-wrote Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Everyone knew that, right?

― Dr. C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ween didn't paste themselves with gas-masks over any Mud album covers. Ergo, Mr. Cohen.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

I'm happy that this thread exists.

Mud for me. That Tiger Feet and Dyno-mite are superior to anything performed by Cohen is self-evident. Major points against Cohen (although it's not his fault) because earnest Canadian artists continually encore with string-soaked versions of completely average songs like "Halleluah" after painstakingly thanking "the master" in sickeningly reverential tones. Fuckez Offez as they say en Montreal.

― everything, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Well, since this is the only Mud thread

https://twitter.com/frankosonic/status/222742412630568960/photo/1

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:41 (thirteen years ago)

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