Taking sides: "Shot by both sides" vs "Lipstick"

"Shot By Both Sides" for:
a) being a manifesto (or maybe anti-manifesto);
b) being in the charts at the same time as "What Do I Get?";
c) inspiring "Chequered Love" by Kim Wilde.

Shot By Both Sides for being a lot better than Lipstick.

^this

Bloody hell, am I the only person who prefers "Lipstick" then?

Either/or is going to be the nemesis of humanity.

http://dcist.com/attachments/dcist_chrisklimek/2007_1009_EitherOr.jpg

Didn't do him any good did it?

SBBS solo slaughters the Lipstick solo

well the guitar sound in general, it's in like a better key and sounds all taut and nervy and insane, Lipstick just sounds like Shelley had less of an idea what to do with the riff than HD

OTM

d) John McGeoch RIP.

"Shot by Both Sides," not even close.

shit, he's been dead for four years, that's crazy

There are some great videos of Magazine on Rockpalast or something on Youtube but I think it's Robin Simon on guitar by that stage, alas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MbXEJwcec

The beginning of time.

"Lipstick" for best ever lyrics of You Don't Love Me paranoia. Said sentiment later returning in a sublimated state in "You Say You Don't Love Me."

Not to knock "Shot" of course.

Always wondered if that riff was borrowed from King Crimson's "Red". (Could be.) I'll give this one to Magazine, tho I'll still take Buzzcocks everytime, bandwise.

Lipstick, for my late grandma both buying me Singles Going Steady and telling me she liked the song a lot. And for it being the better song.

Magazine always beat Buzzcocks.

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Magazine always beat Buzzcocks.

-- Geir Hongro, Friday, 21 March 2008 09:30 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

This is arguable. Wrong, but arguable.

this shouldn't really be a binary question.

there should be a slider and we set a position on perfection - which is actually slightly on the lipstick side. I feel I've just made this a chris morris sketch.

I like Buzzcocks better, but "Shot By Both Sides" beats "Lipstick", it's simple as that.

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The Buzzcocks were a lot better when Devoto was in the band...

Actually, no. I mean, he had left by the time of "Ever Fallen In Love", hadn't he. That one was a beautiful piece of pop punk, while Devoto didn't show his best side musically until Magazine.