Taking Sides: Buddy Holly vs. Jerry Lee Lewis

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The Stones/Who sussed/berserker question again, except instead of Acton/Dartford, the more exotic Ferriday LA/Lubbock TX polarity.

― dave q, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

BTW this is most emphatically NOT just DQ's usual "They're American so they're better" insinuation! In fact, my 2002 resolution is to stop constantly crapping on perfidious Albion - for the sake of my mental health if nothing else, seeing as I have to live here and all.

― dave q, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Killer's cooler. Killer married his 14-year old cousin (not Jerry Falwell!) and did "High School Confidential" and "Ubangi Stomp." But Buddy wrote pop songs. I like pop songs. Killer rocked, but Buddy's timeless. Isn't this just the first instance of rock v. pop anyhow? And pop *always* wins.

-J

― Jay, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ummmm, why?

― dave q, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

girls

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thank you, Mark: far more succinct and spot-on than I ever could have put it myself.

-J

― Jay, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My Dad's Buddy Holly album was the first music I ever fell in love with. Jerry Lee's piano stomping and white-gospel hollering has its charms but not as much as Buddy's hicupping vocals, sweet sweet melodies, and guitar licks. The Beatles and the Stones would have happened without Lewis, but not Holly. Quite a legacy for someone killed at 21. 'Timeless' indeed, but then here I find it hard to be objective. Elvis never meant jack-shit to me, Buddy I adore.

― stevo, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm going with buddy here, and not just cos his voice makes me horny. i think he songs were generally better.

― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i meant "his songs"

― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Beatles and the Stones would have happened without Lewis, but not Holly.
not to mention the Hollies! nyuk nyuk.
This one's too close to call for me. Too different in their strengths.
― fritz, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If I didn't know anything about Jerry Lee Lewis' life, I don't think I'd get anything out of the records at all. I basically don't anyway. At least Buddy Holly looks cool.
― Kris, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Are italics now dead?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bah!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

KILLER KILLER KILLER!!!! Buddy's great, but he's a fucking mummy's boy and Jerrry Lee is possesed by Satan! awlright! Kill yr. parents and go out dancing!

― horton jupiter, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dennis Quaid vs. Gary Busey.

no contest.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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