Round 1 - #5 The Clash vs #12 Def Leppard

YellowSnow

English Civil War brewing between Punk and 80's Metal Godz

GrundleStiltzkin

#5 The Clash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzBgeI5dpc

YellowSnow

#5 The Clash

GrundleStiltzkin said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzBgeI5dpc

Doesn't get much better than this track or album for that matter. London Calling is a top 4 or 5 Double LP of all time.

I do enjoy Def Leppard from time to time, but this was an easy call for me.

Swaye

#5 The Clash

And it isn't close. The Clash is the shit.

Southerndawg

#5 The Clash

Swaye said:

And it isn't close. The Clash is the shit.

Completely different genres, but I agree. I will say though, I saw them open for the Who in the KingDome and they sounded pretty shitty. But then again, it was the KingDome, acoustically about as shitty as you can get. The Who just powered their way over the shitty acoustics, but they sounded a lot better when they played at the Coliseum.

JoeEDangerously

Def Leppard... Only metal if you're a 14 year old girl

Kaepsknee

#12 Def Leppard

This is a tough one. The Clash are a more influential Band but Def Leppard had 2 legendary albums that put them over the top for me.

Dennis_DeYoung

#12 Def Leppard

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

RaceBannon

#12 Def Leppard

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

Yes

YellowSnow

#5 The Clash

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

Black people gotta a lotta problems but they don't mind throwing a brick.

Kaepsknee

#12 Def Leppard

@puppylove_sugarsteel We need your help here.

BleachedAnusDawg

#12 Def Leppard

Def Leppard gonna lose by an arm? Say it ain't so!!!!

YellowSnow

#5 The Clash

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Def Leppard gonna lose by an arm? Say it ain't so!!!!

We'll keep the polls open for a few days on each round.

Swaye

#5 The Clash

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

I am a HUGE Clash fan, and I don't even know what intellectual means. Your argument is invalid.

GrandpaSankey

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Def Leppard gonna lose by an arm? Say it ain't so!!!!

mods?

Dennis_DeYoung

#12 Def Leppard

Swaye said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

I am a HUGE Clash fan, and I don't even know what intellectual means. Your argument is invalid.

If I had to pinpoint the moment I truly understood why your people lost the US it’d be the moment I realized members of your race produced non-intellectual Clash fans.

Well, that or when I heard about smallpox blankets.

Swaye

#5 The Clash

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Swaye said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

I am a HUGE Clash fan, and I don't even know what intellectual means. Your argument is invalid.

If I had to pinpoint the moment I truly understood why your people lost the US it’d be the moment I realized members of your race produced non-intellectual Clash fans.

Well, that or when I heard about smallpox blankets.

We are genetic chicanery.

BlastDoor

#12 Def Leppard

Trashy, effeminate hair metal needs more appreciation.

Dennis_DeYoung

#12 Def Leppard

So, when I was growing up I loved all kind of white people music. AC/DC, Disco, Wham!, Madonna, and like every boy from Kent I loved High n Dry and Pyromania.

Those were huge accomplishments in the burgeoning 'main stream metal' genre (Cum On Feel tha Noize, etc)... and we all ate that shit up. It was super and it made sense... but toward the late 80s white people started getting really weird. When Motley Crue (who I had previously enjoyed) started doing 'Girls, Girls, Girls' I knew I was about to cash out of white people life and no amount of Metallica and GnR could save it...

So, rap was ascendent that that time and for some FUCKING OBVIOUS reason, I found Run DMC, 2 Live Crew and Schoolly D waaaayyyy more fucking interesting than Poison... but the death knell for me was really Pour Some Sugar on Me.

I literally remember this video coming on MTV - I was at this guy Sean Griswold's (who was a fuckstick) house because we didn't have cable and I put up with his loser ass so I could watch cable after school with his hot mom and fat Italian step-dad... well, anyway, for some reason I wasted 8th grade going over there... but this was the video that did it for me. After this, I vowed to tell white people to fucking DIAF and I checked out of white people music for a couple years until my older brother turned me on to Sub Pop bands and then I was like 'oh, this is actually rock n roll' ... anyway... I know I voted for DL, but seriously fuck them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4

JoeEDangerously

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

Another shit band that only writers say were great just to have a band they liked and they could shit on the readers for not understanding. Shareef don't like it and neither does the common man

YellowSnow

#5 The Clash

joeEDangerously said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Clash is for intellectual wanna-bes.

I don't even count anything Def Leppard did after Pyromania. If I did, they would lose to a pile of ostrich shit.

Another shit band that only writers say were great just to have a band they liked and they could shit on the readers for not understanding. Shareef don't like it and neither does the common man

I like the part where they were rapping in 1980. Not very creative for some try hard Brit white boys.