I like the Sex Pistols, but I'd go with the Ramones. I like their songs better, and they are more of a band on record. I don't like the fact that when the Sex Pistols recorded their album, they were not an effective band due to the lack of competent bass player.

Didn't Steve Jones end up playing bass on the record? You could argue that, given their main songwriter had been discarded by the time the album was recorded, they were more of a manufactured band than ever before; the band playing the music had only part of hand in its composition.

I prefer the sound of the Ramones - that remarkably fast, energetic guitar and the harmonies are a more pleasing contrast to my ear. And they wrote so many more great songs.

Coincidently, I went to the Ramones museum in Berlin today, which is two small rooms filled with memorabilia. Quite cute, and worth the €2 entry. I found the exhibit below funny:



Here's a puzzle for you: what are these notes for, and what do they mean? They were written by Joey Ramone before a German gig.

I also liked this Jack The Ripper-like cover:



I was introduced to Dee Dee King:



And this is probably one of the sillier pieces of merchandising that I've seen:



All in all, a great twenty minutes spent.

sparky wrote: I found the exhibit below funny:

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'Wie geht es euch?' - 'how are you?'(to the audience)

242sumner wrote:

sparky wrote: I found the exhibit below funny:

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'Wie geht es euch?' - 'how are you?'(to the audience)

Correct!

"MUE NICK GERMANY" was to remind him that they were playing in Munich, Germany.

MCI, etc was a list of people, sponsors and organisations to thank.

Phonetic it in.

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sparky wrote:Didn't Steve Jones end up playing bass on the record? You could argue that, given their main songwriter had been discarded by the time the album was recorded, they were more of a manufactured band than ever before; the band playing the music had only part of hand in its composition.

Bass was handled by Steve and Glen.
They hired Glen as a studio musician to play on the songs that he wrote.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

sparky wrote:Didn't Steve Jones end up playing bass on the record? You could argue that, given their main songwriter had been discarded by the time the album was recorded, they were more of a manufactured band than ever before; the band playing the music had only part of hand in its composition.

Bass was handled by Steve and Glen.
They hired Glen as a studio musician to play on the songs that he wrote.

I sit corrected.

This point of mine is weak, anyway; it evokes this romantic idea of the group as a unit which I am not sure applies to what the Sex Pistols were. I agree with Mr Chimp's split of the two as pop/rock, only in this case I am being a pop tart.

I would just like to express my disgust that the Ramones are winning this poll.

First, they clobber the Beach Boys...this was understandable.

Now, they're beating the fucking SEX PISTOLS. What gives?


Fuck this shit...I wanna know where Nina stands.

Pistols. This is basically a contest between Malcolm and Joey (imo). And because he was banging Annabel Lwin when she was super freaky hot, Malcolm wins.

The music you ask? Feh. Whatever. Punk didn't start with either one.

Ramones, in my eyes, had one good album and a lot of fucking boring ones. Then, they became a fucking corporate joke.

The Sex Pistols had one good album and no fucking other ones.

Pistols.

Minotaur029 wrote:I would just like to express my disgust that the Ramones are winning this poll.
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Ya know, Republicans now hold the majority on this board.

Ramones, easily.

Sex Pistols recordings are depressingly lacking in ambition and imagination.