Who's better?

[GirlinContempt]

Poll question: Who's better?

or

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. I'm going to go with the band on the top...

The dude on the right has ass-kickin' hair.. I think I might go that route.

[GirlinContempt]

2. Public Image Ltd?

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. Yeah...

I refuse to vote.. The last time I voted my country got fucked.

[GirlinContempt]

36. oksure

[WCGreen]

4. PIL rocks like there is no tomorrow...

saw them way back in 89 or 90....

[GirlinContempt]

5. They do, they rock very very hard

But, then again, Killing Joke is pretty effing amazing.

This sounds like a problem for the INTERNETS

[WCGreen]

7. I loved Encyclopedia Brown....

His above the garage lab and workshop...

But when I was a kid, he had red hair and glasses...

Way cooler than the Hardy Boys....

[GirlinContempt]

8. He could solve this for me!

[GirlinContempt]

6. .

..

[GirlinContempt]

9. And, christ, how is it I can't find "The Order of Death"

??

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I don't know either. But...

Because you are who you are, I shall look into both.

[GirlinContempt]

11. I am who I am

and I is who I is.

What does that MEAN?

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I think it means you need to go save Olive Oyl.

[GirlinContempt]

24. She seems to be doing ok

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Alright, just go kick the shit out of Bluto or something

[GirlinContempt]

31. Done and

motherfucking DONE

[sundog]

12. killing joke - jaz coleman, youth

how can you go wrong?

i'm partial to them because of all the side work they did with other artists

[GirlinContempt]

13. Yeah, thats cool

I just look at PiL, and I mean, they inspired other bands that I love, so that gives them extra bonus points.
But Killing Joke get extra bonus points for being so rocktastic
But but but :crazy:

[sundog]

14. at the same time, jaz coleman

gets serious negative points for working with sarah brightman :puke:

on the other hand he did work with mission uk & had his classical collaborations (which busted him out of his own box)

youth gets points in my book for the orb, the verve, james, beth orton & all the remix work he did in the 90's

[no name no slogan]

15. It's a toss-up for me

Although I must admit to owning all KJ's stuff (and some of the hard-to-find vinyl singles from early on, too), but not quite all of PiLs.

If it's based on most recent output, I've have to say Killing Joke. Their 2003 self-titled album was amazing.

[GirlinContempt]

18. Its so hard to pick

[asthmaticeog]

16. I guess it depends.

Is this specific to the band lineups pictured? Because faced with a choice between getting fisted by a long-haul trucker with acromegaly and listening to that particular P.I.L. incarnation, I'd have some thinking to do.

[GirlinContempt]

17. Just the bands in question

any era, any incarnation.
Who do you choose? Who DO you CHOOSE?

[asthmaticeog]

19. Then I choose P.I.L.

Their first three albums were life-altering for me. Killing Joke, I like just fine, but over P.I.L.? Nyet.

[GirlinContempt]

20. Am I the only person who liked

"This is what you want, this is what you get"?

[asthmaticeog]

21. I liked it OK when I was 14.

Also, at age 14, "Porky's" was my favorite movie.

[GirlinContempt]

22. Oh shut up

Don't be such a cock

I guess I'm 14 cause I dance to it ever time E.B. plays it at the club.

What was your favorite album, Mr. Too Cool For Me?

[asthmaticeog]

26. MEOW!

My fave was/is "Metal Box." Unless I'm in a foul mood, in which case "Flowers of Romance" does the job like nothing else.

[GirlinContempt]

29. See, Flowers

didn't do a whole lot for me. At least, not as much as other albums.

That picture is terrifying me.

Did you not like First Issue?

[asthmaticeog]

32. I like First Issue.

Just not quite as much as the other two of the first three.

[GirlinContempt]

33. See, I've been in throes of ecstasy over

Killing Jokes self-titled this weekend. In between martinis, shots and fantasy metal that is.
But for some reason, listening to Killing Joke always gives me the urge to take PiL to bed with me.
I wonder why that is.

[asthmaticeog]

34. Because Keith Levene was so babe-a-licious?

:shrug:

I've been obsessively spining Clinic's "Internal Wrangler" all weekend. Sooooooo coooooool...

[GirlinContempt]

35. mmmmmmmmmmmm yum

I've been obsessively spining Clinic's "Internal Wrangler" all weekend.
I think I just fell a little bit in love. That totally makes up for the Star Wars.

:hide: KoolZip better not see that

[no name no slogan]

37. Which self-titled, the new one (2003)

Their first was also self-titled, too (1980). Both are pretty incredible, IMHO. And interestingly enough, both have a version of "Wardance" on them.

I saw them about ten years ago on the "Pandemonium" tour, and they were nothing short of brilliant. :)

[GirlinContempt]

38. the old one

:)

[no name no slogan]

39. GREAT album!

I first got that one on vinyl some time in the mid-80s.

And interestingly enough, I was back at my house, cleaning out stuff and getting ready for the closing, and I found this stub:



Talk about wierd coincidences.

[GirlinContempt]

40. Awesome!

:) Yeah it is a great album.

But MAN do I hate stabbing westward :puke:

[no name no slogan]

47. The best thing about Stabbing Westward

is the Wesley Willis song about them. Otherwise, they're useless. :D

[GirlinContempt]

48. SW is a terrible excuse for music

As if you aren't all up ons the Dalek wars.

[GirlinContempt]

25. Uh ohes

I think I hurt your fweelingses ;)

[asthmaticeog]

27. I have no fweelingses.

They were surgically removed when I was five - they got infected.

[GirlinContempt]

30. But, if I can't

hurt you in the feelings, where am I gonna hurt you?!

[swag]

41. If it's the line-ups pictured, Killing Joke is better,

though if it's a Lydon/Levene version of PiL, I'll take them.

PiL post-Flowers of Romance was garbage.

Both bands hit the same wall that the Stranglers, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Gang of Four hit in 1982. That is to say, they all went to shit.

Killing Joke and Gang of Four were two bands that ultimately redeemed themselves, much much later.

PiL never did redeem themselves, though they were the most marvelous thing going from inception through Flowers of Romance. They couldn't hack the loss of Levene (far greater, even, than the loss of Wobble).

1983: Lydon's subsequent incorporation of that nondescript bunch of once contextually great, now name-brand post-punk hacks begging to cash in on something, prolonged some agony for fans during subsequent records and tours. Pointless records and tours. Shit.

I still keep looking for something that follows that early PiL thread. Closest I've found is Miles Davis stuff: Dark Magus and Tribute to Jack Johnson, though PiL was more likely on Miles' thread. I ceased long ago being a musicologist.

Phone interviewed Jaz Coleman once. A darned good conversationalist, that one.

[GirlinContempt]

42. As I said to asthmaticeog,

it's just the band. The pictures were just google results.

See, and I liked This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get.
Past that I can mostly agree with ya, but I really enjoyed that one.

[swag]

43. Okay, well, I am glad I do not have to choose.

And you cannot make me.

[GirlinContempt]

44. Are you SURE I can't make you?

I can be VERY persuasive ;)

[AntiCoup2K4]

45. Forced to choose, I would probably pick...

....Mr. Rotten and friends.

[GirlinContempt]

46. Seems like the tides are turning in their favour