Thin Lizzy vs Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Thin Lizzy 22
Lynyrd Skynyrd 13


calstars, Sunday, 19 January 2020 03:37 (five years ago)

The Boys Are Back In Town is a good song, Sweet Home Alabama is a hateful song, qed

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 19 January 2020 03:52 (five years ago)

thin lizzy have two great songs; skynyrd have like a dozen

if you allow me exactly one i'll probably take 'jailbreak' tho

mookieproof, Sunday, 19 January 2020 06:23 (five years ago)

yeah comparing catalogs is a bummer bc thin lizzy dont have the sheer beef that Skynyrd has

thin lizzy rules but fuck man, skynyrd can pretty much take all comers, hands down

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2020 06:38 (five years ago)

Sweet Home Alabama is a hateful song, qed
Now what, I say, what. I mean, it's a "fuck you" kinda song to be sure, but hateful?

Voted Lizzy but they're both great fuckin bands.

☮️ (peace, man), Sunday, 19 January 2020 10:31 (five years ago)

Like both really.
Have tended to prefer the early 3 piece to the twin guitar Lizzy but may need to reinvestigate teh later stuff more.
BUt am a bit partial to Eric bell era.

Wish I'd seen more of the film on Skynyrd taht was on Sky Arts yesterday. Missed the beginning and was a bit falling asleepthink I switched over to a couple of things to avoid ads and didn't get back fast enough so missed more chunks.
Do like the early stuff at least. & live .
I know 1st couple of lps are great, may be good up to the plane crash but not familiar with the later stuff of that era.

Stevolende, Sunday, 19 January 2020 11:35 (five years ago)

Also forgive me if I'm wrong, but "Thin Lizzy has two great songs" sounds like a take that was informed strictly by classic rock radio.

☮️ (peace, man), Sunday, 19 January 2020 11:36 (five years ago)

Lizzy by a country mile.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 January 2020 11:50 (five years ago)

Lizzy, all day every day.

Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 January 2020 12:05 (five years ago)

Lizzy's peaks are higher

Skynyrd's generally underrated as an albums band

Lizzy is sui generis

Skynyrd's a southern rock band, a very good one

not voting

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 19 January 2020 12:39 (five years ago)

I was going to say I didn't really know Skynyrd beyond the 3-4 songs they play on classic rock radio, but I just checked and I didn't know the titles (Call Me the Breeze?) and they have a lot more songs that get play. I should probably explore them a bit more. Anyway, I love their sound (beefy hard southern rock) maybe better than the actual songs. Those records sound great and the band is tight. Hope you like the blues, though.

Lizzy has a great sound as well. Love the rhythm section and that twin guitar attack. Agree with JCLC that Lizzy's peaks are higher and the reason is Skynyrd don't have Phil Lynott. His stuff just means so much to me: the little asides he sings on stuff like The Boys Are Back in Town and really all over Jailbreak just kill me. All the fairly standard romantic songs given a twist with an outsider's perspective. You never get the sense in a Skynyrd song they are singing about a specific person the way you do in Lizzy. Lynott such a romantic.

Both great pool shooting/beer drinking bands. Skynyrd influenced a million terrible tone cowboys and bar bands. Lizzy a big influence on the evolution of metal.

Lizzy wins.

The Traveling Wilkes-Barre's (PBKR), Sunday, 19 January 2020 14:08 (five years ago)

Both great bands; preferences might depend mostly on tolerance for southern rock.

Skynyrd doubters who only know the radio hits should listen to the first album for a better sense of their range. The second album is just as good; the third and fourth were rushed but show how they were continuing to develop a sound that was already rock-solid on the debut. You can ignore everything released after 1977.

I love Lizzy's twin guitar leads, songwriting, and lead vocals, but Skynyrd's are better, and Skynyrd swings harder.

Brad C., Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:09 (five years ago)

Skynyrd hardly put a foot wrong 1973-1977, they were so ferocious. The 42-minute Old Grey Whistle Test performance of theirs on youtube is Exhibit A. Since I learned my rock from US aor radio I know Lizzy from "those two" songs, which are obviously great, but further investigation is needed. I have to look up how many albums they have (gee, way more than I thought). I remember being flabbergasted to find out Lizzy were Irish, bc especially in the vocals they seemed very specifically American.

Josefa, Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:21 (five years ago)

a more difficult choice than I expected

uncrut gems (crüt), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:25 (five years ago)

shouldn’t this be Thin Lizzy vs. Allman Brothers Band though????

uncrut gems (crüt), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:27 (five years ago)

I wouldn't think so?

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:49 (five years ago)

tbh Allman Bros vs Skynyrd would be a nightmare of a choice

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:54 (five years ago)

shouldn’t this be Thin Lizzy vs. Allman Brothers Band though????

If that had been the case, I'd vote TL. But as it stands, LS by miles.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:55 (five years ago)

Allmans are more of a jam vibe, Skynyrd and Lizzy were song bands

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:56 (five years ago)

Allmans are pretty sui generis themselves, often approaching things with a feather touch, but that's not always the mood I'm in. Skynyrd is always a mood I'm in.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:57 (five years ago)

Van Zandt is a really sharp and self aware lyricist if that's a factor

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:05 (five years ago)

i was thinking of the twin guitar leads

uncrut gems (crüt), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

Not better than Phil Lynott. (xp)

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:13 (five years ago)

disagree

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:21 (five years ago)

Van Zandt is a really sharp and self aware lyricist if that's a factor

Despite my general disinterest in lyrics, this is the main reason I'm voting LS. The lyrics to "Was I Right Or Wrong" are a perfect example; just the couplet "Then one sunny day, the man, he looked my way/And everything that I dreamed of, it was real" is so brilliant.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:32 (five years ago)

Van Zandt could write affecting songs about childhood that are surprising in their lack of irony or condescension: "Simple Man," "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe" (compare the latter to the saccharine "Mister Bojangles" to see how Van Zandt's life experience improved his treatment of a similar theme).

He could also be persuasively vicious, sometimes in unexpected ways, as when the snarling "Saturday Night Special" short-circuits the aggression of gun culture.

Brad C., Sunday, 19 January 2020 17:34 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 20 January 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

Crushed

calstars, Monday, 20 January 2020 00:06 (five years ago)

Wow. I barely know any Thin Lizzy.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 January 2020 00:10 (five years ago)

Sinister result

We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:29 (five years ago)

Dublin 1 Jacksonville 0

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:51 (five years ago)

damn u irish mafia

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:55 (five years ago)

this is worse than the plane crash

mookieproof, Monday, 20 January 2020 01:02 (five years ago)

Trash results.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 January 2020 01:26 (five years ago)

why u braek ronnie’s heart ;_;

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 January 2020 01:36 (five years ago)

some serious US voter suppression going on w/the timing of this poll

uncrut gems (crüt), Monday, 20 January 2020 01:41 (five years ago)

When I created it the 20th seemed far enough away, didn’t realize it was the next day

calstars, Monday, 20 January 2020 01:45 (five years ago)

lmao

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 20 January 2020 01:47 (five years ago)

dublin to baton rouge

mookieproof, Monday, 20 January 2020 01:57 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBTgmPgFxs

We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 January 2020 02:21 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyJWTqaOs8

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:21 (five years ago)

Lotta “boopity-bappity” in the rhythm of those Lizzy tracks

calstars, Monday, 20 January 2020 14:03 (five years ago)

these threads are kind of a bummer because they put two great bands against each other

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:08 (five years ago)

Led Zeppelin vs Greta Van Fleet, say, might be a little one-sided though

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:33 (five years ago)

It reminds me of this (non poll) face off

TS: ramones vs buzzcocks

Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:05 (five years ago)

these threads are kind of a bummer because they put two great bands against each other

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 20, 2020 8:08

Thankfully, it's not in the realm of that story "Sort by Controversial", where finding the biggest 50% up/50% down-voted Reddit items will serve as the means to tear a relatively like-minded community apart, but I could totally see Skynyrd vs The Lizz as getting quite contentious here.

(Imagine the vote's closeness had Lynott and Co chosen to call themselves Thyn Lyzzy).

Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:28 (five years ago)

Lynott Skynyrd

Josefa, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:33 (five years ago)

Now that's a mash-up someone with Ableton Live and some dexys should begin crafting stat

Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:55 (five years ago)

come on guys it's not that hard to understand why a board with like 80 votes in a pavement poll went for thin lizzy and over the sweet home alabama band.

ingredience (map), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:05 (five years ago)

As the person who ran the Pavement poll, rest assured I voted for "the sweet home alabama band."

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:29 (five years ago)

Cool story you’ve already told two times itt

ingredience (map), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 06:55 (five years ago)

?

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 07:43 (five years ago)

Give him three steps

calstars, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 12:07 (five years ago)

boopity?

bappity?

☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:18 (five years ago)

Cool story you’ve already told two times itt

― ingredience (map), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 1:55 AM

Nah, son. You made a dumb correlation and it was false. But go off.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:21 (five years ago)

oh hi bitch. your special snowflake taste or the fact that you ran a pavement poll have nothing to do with the very reasonable assertion that indie rock fans would prefer thin lizzy over the band who wrote 'sweet home alabama,' which has undeniably acquired a racist knuckle-dragger aura from decades of willful association with racist knuckle-draggers, no matter how ardently you burn for lynyrd skynyrd or how hard they boogie (there are a lot of great 70s rock bands who didn't write 'sweet home alabama'!), and acting like you're scandalized or shocked about the results of this poll is just another performance of your tiresome and intensely egotistical shtick of having oh-so-uncategorizable music taste.

ingredience (map), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 01:29 (five years ago)

Uh

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 01:44 (five years ago)

That's...a take alright

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 01:44 (five years ago)

daaaang map's got a barrel that's blue and cold

del griffith, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:11 (five years ago)

His dick?

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:13 (five years ago)

what's beef?

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:20 (five years ago)

That's some old school ILX right there.

The Traveling Wilkes-Barre's (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:38 (five years ago)

Beef is when you make Garu G start your jeep

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:42 (five years ago)

when you need two copies of Big & Rich just to sleep

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:45 (five years ago)

beef is when I FP you
guaranteed to get a threadban, too

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:55 (five years ago)

lol map's a clown

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 03:15 (five years ago)

decades of willful association with racist knuckle-draggers

alabamans?

uncrut gems (crüt), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 03:28 (five years ago)

Think he's talking about the very very post-plane crash "God and Guns" Skynyrd that nobody here listens to

Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 03:56 (five years ago)


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