The Ramones vs. The Sex Pistols

[Joe90]

This is why "personal preference" arguments are silly. I like mushrooms. You don't. End of conversation.

Well, isn't "relevant" as every bit a subjective viewpoint as "personal preference"? Hmmm... It involves opinion, so yeah.

After all, Mego figures are relevant to you and I, but not to many of the people we work with.

Now, Phil Spector has bigger hair than Malcolm McLaren -- that's a fact!

[huedell]

This is why "personal preference" arguments are silly. I like mushrooms. You don't. End of conversation.

Really?

I don't think this has as much to do with "personal preference" as it does
the need to stretch facts to make a band into something more than
they are (or even wanted to be)

If one can't see that the SEX PISTOL's songs have less pop sensibility and
are more "balls" and "bluster"---I don't know what to tell you.

Its like this....

You may SAY that a typical Red Delicious apple has a decent amount of
orange in it----and you can use a color spectrum analyzer on it to PROVE
you have the "right" to give that "opinion" ----but that doesn't change the
fact that 98 out of 100 people on the street are gonna call that apple RED--
--end of story.

To try to sell NMTB as an album with songs that have pop hooks comprable
to the best of what the RAMONES have to offer in THAT regard is silly.

You can LOVE the PISTOLS all you want---but that doesn't turn water
into wine ----make a red apple look orange----or make Johnny Rotten
a better popsong writer than Joey or Dee Dee----not that Rotten would
WANT to be that (or admit to wanting to be--- anyway)

[Hector]

Are you guys still at it?

[Bill]

Add to that that the RAMONES buried ---freakin' BURIED the SEX PISTOLS
in this pop hook regard with:
"I Wanna Be Sedated" "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
"Beat on the Brat" "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"
"Blitzkrieg Bop" "Rockaway Beach" "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
"We're a Happy Family" "We Want the Airwaves" "Chinese Rock"
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" "Rock 'n' Roll High School"

12 names for one song?

[huedell]

12 names for one song?

Its a great effin' song