Skid Row vs Manic Street Preachers

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CDs have had their day, of course. Just like the popularity of 'films' has crumbled in the wake of the 'slide show', and publishers don't even bother to bind books anymore because ppl just rip out individual pages now. People who are over-enthusiastic about change are a bit suspicious, I find. It's like, obviously the world as it is doesn't suit you so you have to make everyone else suffer. Maybe you feel this way because you want to assert some sort of 'will to power' but society is always telling you not too? Because you belong to a soi-disant privileged demographic?
If the latter is the case you can claim that all the angst and turmoil comes from being guilty and consumed with remorse for everything bad your demographic has supposedly inflicted on the world, but you must NEVER ever raise a mouse-peep of protest re yr own existential pos. Unless you're dumb white trash of course. They're the plumbers and covert operatives who do all the shit work and who can be disposed of afterwards by an establishment who are SIMPLY APPALLED that ppl with such attitudes were employed and of course it won't happen again and we're having an inquiry. "Exactly why is your life becoming a landslide sir?" (Also, I never understood why ppl fight so hard for the right to self-actualisation when s-a is just another recruiting tool aiding the cultivation/colonisation of potential new 'markets' and YOU fuckin' fell for it bitch, what are you gonna do, go on daytime TV with the rest of your aging coven? You are? Oh)Your freedom of speech won't feed my desires

dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually MSP win because - and I am saying this after quite careful consideration to dispel the overwhelming stench of elitism that is genuinely unintended by me - I had to turn the Skid Row CD off after three tracks because I ACTUALLY STARTED TO FEEL DUMBER WHILE IT WAS ON. Like the room was filling up with carbon mongoloidoxide or something. (This never happens with, say, Ratt)

dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(OT - what sort of ppl are *impressed* by pyro, anyway? I'm genuinely curious)

dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

As much as it pains me to admit it, the Row's "Slave to the Grind" flattens practically anything the Manics tried to pull off in the rawk capacity. That said, I doubt Sebastian "mothertrucker" Bach could ever manage anything quite so elegiac as "If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next," and don't even bother suggesting "I Remember You," because that was krap.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny you mention that one - "SttG" I find amusing because they try to rock that "Ballroom Blitz" thing but fail due to the tinkertrain drums - compare to Tommy Lee's playing on Motley Crue's similar but vastly superior "Red Hot"

dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Which came first? Skid Row's "Slave to the Grind" or Suicidal Tendencies "You Can't Bring Me Down"? I can't mentally separate the riffs of these two songs in my head and am too lazy to go dig them out of my disc collection. And yeah, "Red Hot" fits in there too. Well sussed out, Dave!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in England, right, where everybody has a reflexive unthinking prejudice against all things American and 'stupid'. So one day I thought I'd have some fun, which believe me is a major fuckin' undertaking here, and said to somebody 'hey put on this CD I got here. It's kind of like Sweet crossed with Slade with a bit of '77 punk thrown in.' I play it. "Drums pretty loud." "Yeah, it's a bit Chinnichap isn't it, Dave Clark Five even", I smirk. "This is cool what is it?" "It's SHOUT AT THE DEVIL by MOTLEY CRUE! Ha ha ha! You're rockin' along to the Crue, brah!" Take him about a month of fuckin' Pulp to wash the stain off his soul, I reckon

dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

What if we assume they both suck equally hard, line them up against a wall and execute both bands with flamethrowers, taking special attention to start with Sabastian Bach's hairspray hardened coif?
How does that grab ya?

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The hairspray would explode, killing all of you.

Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay. Thermite grenades fired from a long-range launcher. Aim at his FACE...AT HIS FAAAACE!

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)


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