Sex Pistols v Clash

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Musically Clash and also longevity , Pistols iconic, NMTB LP game changing, Raw, powerful and demanding to be heard.... Live Clash all day although the Pistols Brixton comeback concert is awesome , Jones guitar wall of sound, Cooks steady pounding, Lydons drones , Strummers delivery, Jones/Strummers jerky pop tunes

Whereas talking about musicians and sound quality, there is no way to compare Sex Pistols and The Clash. The Pistols were not the best at playing instruments: a drummer that could only play one beat, a guitar player that only knew 3 chords but what a sound they made .....

Compared to Sex Pistols, the Clash had pretty decent musicians: Topper is by far one of the greatest drummers in punk rock, Mick Jones has proven himself as a good guitar player and Paul Simonon was not an amazing bass player, but tracked some great bass lines on ‘Guns of Brixton’ and ‘London Calling’, the band’s greatest hits.

Winner - Sex Pistols ... despite making only 1 LP and maybe 2 years existance what they packed into that time was incredible...

 
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Another tough one, the Pistols were the inspiration and probably other than the Beatles the most influential band of all time but just because of their body of work you’ve gotta go for the Clash😊
 
magic said:
Another tough one, the Pistols were the inspiration and probably other than the Beatles the most influential band of all time but just because of their body of work you’ve gotta go for the Clash😊
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Indeed - Pistols after 78 don't exist for me. The comeback shows were just too fill their pockets. I had free tickets for one show but turned the down.

The Clash have been with me since 77, only band that mattered. I can't remember the last time I played a Pistols record in the house but the Clash get played monthly at a minimum, would be more but there's so much new music to listen to as well.

London Calling is the greatest album of all time. It showed how the band learned and developed. The Pistols could never have done that.
 
Hmm, a real toughie this, but as much as I love the Pistols first album and singles, they were carp after Lydon left. So the Clash for me who had afar greater body of work
 
The three of them said that sacking Glenn Matlock was a huge mistake and was "the beginning of the end". They would have made more albums. Nobody will know what might have happened.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Were you there roofie, at the Rock Garden?

I wasn't, I was a tad too young but I suspect you might be a little older than me. I know 3 people who did go, they all said the same thing, life was never the same again!
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Only "slightly" older;)
I wasnt there for that gig but I saw them all over the country.
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I was at the RG between 79-81 it changed my whole life when it came to music. Clash all the way for me. Joe Strummer with his energy and varied music genre from Reggae and heavy Punk (well it was at the time) was a big part of my youth.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
The three of them said that sacking Glenn Matlock was a huge mistake and was "the beginning of the end". They would have made more albums. Nobody will know what might have happened.
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Would they have still gone on to become such an iconic band if Sid hadn't joined though?

They'd have made more albums without a doubt but they wouldn't have left the same legacy.
 
r00fie1 said:
Only "slightly" older;)
I wasnt there for that gig but I saw them all over the country.
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From Newcastle to Middlesbrough, Leeds to London and Bradford to Bridlington & more I saw them.

I have the full set of those Rock Garden pictures from the Gazette, I swore I wouldn't share them online but somehow they surfaced, but not from me.

One of the three I know who went is clearly visible in that picture. Like most of us he is not as resplendent in the hair dept these days.
 
r00fie1 said:
Thankfully, coming out of the glam rock, American soft-soggy-rock and TOTP era......soon to be replaced by the anti-racist Ska / Two-tone movement, punk rock and British bands(y)
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It was May 77, majority of "kids" had not adopted the punk "uniform" at this point.
 
Pistols all the way for me. First album I ever bought was NMTB. I then heard Deep Purple in Rock and flogged my early version of NMTB (without the song titles on the reverse) to buy that. Still listen to both.
 
I can't split the 2 bands. NMTB is by far my favourite album by either. I've had the first Clash album since I was a kid but it never did much for me but when the Clash moved on from that they've done loads I really like so as a body of work better than the Sex Pistols. Still listen to both bands on occasion. 2 groups I'm more into and really love come from these bands and that's PIL and Big Audio Dynamite both superb.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
The three of them said that sacking Glenn Matlock was a huge mistake and was "the beginning of the end". They would have made more albums. Nobody will know what might have happened.
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Yeah as a group that was definitely the biggest mistake.
When they made their Filthy Lucre tours in the 99s Lydon said 'We wrote the songs, and now we want paying' and 'Sid Vicious was just a coat hanger filling a space on the stage'
 
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