Round 1 - #6 Bruce Springsteen vs #11 Ramones

YellowSnow

The Boss vs the birth of Punk

GrundleStiltzkin

#11 The Ramones

Opposite of abundance

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Opposite of abundance

Lot of soul searching for me on this one. The 1st Ramones LP and the 3rd, Rocket to Russia are amongst my all time favs. Their influence cannot be overstated I think on the history of rock music. All that said, Jake Browning sucks, and Springsteen has mor great albums and a creative peak that lasted much longer- i.e, 1973- 87. Ramones started to run out of good ideas after only a few years.

Swaye

#11 The Ramones

The Boss could get run over tomorrow for all I care. FTG

PurpleThrobber

Christ - this is an NIT matchup.

Wood smash 18 year old Courtney Cox though. Perky nips.

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

PurpleThrobber said:

Christ - this is an NIT matchup.

Wood smash 18 year old Courtney Cox though. Perky nips.

The rock intelligentsia / punditry doesn't agree and there's where a lot of these ranking are coming from. Not saying they are right, so don't twist.

Mad_Son

#6 Bruce Springsteen

This was a tough one.

Southerndawg

#11 The Ramones

Swaye said:

The Boss could get run over tomorrow for all I care. FTG

Agree. Cheers Redman.

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

Southerndawg said:

Swaye said:

The Boss could get run over tomorrow for all I care. FTG

Agree. Cheers Redman.

Be the Boss of a member of Tony Soprano's crew and then Popoff.

JoeEDangerously

#6 Bruce Springsteen

YellowSnow said:

Southerndawg said:

Swaye said:

The Boss could get run over tomorrow for all I care. FTG

Agree. Cheers Redman.

Be the Boss of a member of Tony Soprano's crew and then Popoff.

For a shitty guitar player he's fucking arrogant about it. Bruce can shred though and fans rarely get to witness it.

Swaye

#11 The Ramones

@Doog_de_Jour I thought our forbidden love had a chance until I saw you vote for Springsteen.

Kaepsknee

#6 Bruce Springsteen

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

salemcoog said:

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

Plagiarizing shit my ass fucko. They tore up the script basically got the whole Punk and New Wave thing going.

dflea

#11 The Ramones

salemcoog said:

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

lol

Jesus.

Dennis_DeYoung

#11 The Ramones

The Ramones are top 10 rock band. Bruce is a fag for white people who don't understand irony and middle class Black people like Obama that need to say they like a white guy, even though they really don't and he seems relatively enjoyable on some level.

Bruce started out as a bad Bob Dylan fake then on his trajectory toward adult contemporary artist, he hit a sweet spot with Born to Run. Everything else is garbage.

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Ramones are top 10 rock band. Bruce is a fag for white people who don't understand irony and middle class Black people like Obama that need to say they like a white guy, even though they really don't and he seems relatively enjoyable on some level.

Bruce started out as a bad Bob Dylan fake then on his trajectory toward adult contemporary artist, he hit a sweet spot with Born to Run. Everything else is garbage.

YellowSnow

#6 Bruce Springsteen

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Ramones are top 10 rock band. Bruce is a fag for white people who don't understand irony and middle class Black people like Obama that need to say they like a white guy, even though they really don't and he seems relatively enjoyable on some level.

Bruce started out as a bad Bob Dylan fake then on his trajectory toward adult contemporary artist, he hit a sweet spot with Born to Run. Everything else is garbage.

"Now I wanna sniff some glue" is one of the great FAST STRATEGY anthems of all time.

Dennis_DeYoung

#11 The Ramones

YellowSnow said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

The Ramones are top 10 rock band. Bruce is a fag for white people who don't understand irony and middle class Black people like Obama that need to say they like a white guy, even though they really don't and he seems relatively enjoyable on some level.

Bruce started out as a bad Bob Dylan fake then on his trajectory toward adult contemporary artist, he hit a sweet spot with Born to Run. Everything else is garbage.

Anyone saying the Ramones are posers has no fucking idea what the Ramones are. They basically started a genre of music that didn't exist - taking what was good from early rock and what was good from heavy rock and mixed them. Their lyrical themes were (although not to my taste per se) groundbreaking in their 'outsider' vibe (although their songs like Rockaway Beach were sort of a fast strategy white guy update of a Chuck Berry/Beach Boys narrative).

And they did it all with total lack of self-awareness. Their fucking main songwriter had a lobotomy for fuck's sake - and after the Ramones, he unironically tried to be a rapper named Dee Dee King.

Christ.

Kaepsknee

#6 Bruce Springsteen

YellowSnow said:

salemcoog said:

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

Plagiarizing shit my ass fucko. They tore up the script basically got the whole Punk and New Wave thing going.

Kreist. Right because noone had ever heard of the Stooges, Pistols or Bowie before them.

And New Wave isn't anything close to Punk.

But then again you had Elvis fucking Costello in this shit tourney....

Dennis_DeYoung

#11 The Ramones

salemcoog said:

YellowSnow said:

salemcoog said:

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

Plagiarizing shit my ass fucko. They tore up the script basically got the whole Punk and New Wave thing going.

Kreist. Right because noone had ever heard of the Stooges, Pistols or Bowie before them.

And New Wave isn't anything close to Punk.

But then again you had Elvis fucking Costello in this shit tourney....

David Bowie was not Punk.

The Pistols got their musical direction from the Ramones: ask the Pistols - they basically formed when the Ramones played in the UK.

The proto-punk bands were the Stooges and the MC5. Both were amazing.

Kaepsknee

#6 Bruce Springsteen

Dennis_DeYoung said:

salemcoog said:

YellowSnow said:

salemcoog said:

The Ramones are posers who did nothing but plagiarize.shit.fucko. I'm guessing it's the millenial fags that are driving their success here.

You know like the ones that never saw them gayme.

Plagiarizing shit my ass fucko. They tore up the script basically got the whole Punk and New Wave thing going.

Kreist. Right because noone had ever heard of the Stooges, Pistols or Bowie before them.

And New Wave isn't anything close to Punk.

But then again you had Elvis fucking Costello in this shit tourney....

David Bowie was not Punk.

The Pistols got their musical direction from the Ramones: ask the Pistols - they basically formed when the Ramones played in the UK.

The proto-punk bands were the Stooges and the MC5. Both were amazing.

Disagree.

This is Punk and it's before any of those bitch hipped Ramones fags did anything.

https://youtu.be/zLnPd7lzT4g