Ramones vs. AC/DC

Hardest poll ever.

AC/DC, because of the "Highway To Hell" and "Back In Black" albums.

bah, I say! mutt lange killed AC/DC...the man has a horrible production style.

tempted to say ramones, because AC/DC went to shit once brian johnson joined, and this state of affairs has defined them for a long time. however, in truth, the purple patch for both bands was relatively short and occurred early on in their careers.

their numerous highs and arguably more numerous lows are on a par with each other, so it comes down to who I listen to more – and, more specifically, "it's alive" vs "if you want blood..." – and these days, it's the DC.

Very hard call, particularly as AC/DC were one of the first bands I discovered all by myself on the radio. I probably grin just as broadly when I encounter either band's music by chance, but in the end I have more Ramones records, listen to them more often, and know them better. So, I'll go with the R.A.M.O.N.E.S.

'70s AC/DC > '70s Ramones > '80s Ramones > '80s AC/DC > stuff they both did later

AC/DC wins.

AC/DC, by a big margin

hmmm...i am sort of surprising myself by voting for the ramones. i love both though. but the ramones seem like, i dunno....bigger than ac/dc or more, something that i don't feel like explaining.

RAMONES x 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Sorry. Still, if I could quantify

1. critical acclaim for a band (CA)
2. popular support for band through album sales, merchandise and touring (PS)
3. personal opinion for a band (PO)

My (CA+PS)/PO ratio would be off the fucking charts with AC/DC.

But by dividing by your PO for a band, the more you like them the smaller their result would be!

In my case,

CA = 10 (out of 10)
PS = 10 (out of 10)
PO = 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002 (out of 10)

(10+10) / 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002

SCIENTIFIC PROOF

But by dividing by your PO for a band, the more you like them the smaller their result would be!

This may be true. In fact, it is true. But I didn't mention that at the END, you invert the answer!

AC/DC, more songs that mean more to me. And I guess just more songs, which since both bands were pretty consistent (and consistently great), more = better.

"but the ramones seem like, i dunno....bigger than ac/dc or more, something that i don't feel like explaining."

Replace AC/DC and ramones and vice versa and this is exactly how I feel. AC/DC just seems bigger to me. The Ramones seem like kids stuff after their debut, in my opinion (which I know is not a popular view).

all of my reasons for preferring the Ramones to AC/DC are detailed in this thread

Ramones is a little more diverse in style, AC/DC is musically stronger. It's a draw for me, since both are respectable bands.

lolz "respectable"

honest, I find "lolz" the most stupid reaction I human being can show. It's not respectable, you know.

most stupid= not respectable either
make that a stupidest

I'm not sure you want to invite attempts to outstupid "lolz", but if it has to go there, it has to go there.

haha the sock made a funny

The funny thing is that when I was a teenager I used to say that Ramones was music for stupid people, much to the chagrin of some of my friends. OTOH, even Joey Ramone at his most catatonic could come up with something better than "lolz".

RE sock: see the above about "lolz".

you were funnier when you were making stuff up about the basic, mathematical standards of beauty underpinning all music

"Making up" stuff about the mathematical standards of music.... Hmmmm
So what you trying to tell me is that you're not stupid, just ignorant. Is that it?

pot::kettle

You mean the basic music theory has no mathematical foundations, is that it?

you mean that

no I mean that the basic mathematical underpinnings of music vary from one musical culture to the next

about the most accurate generalization you can make is that all music can be expressed mathematically. beyond that, there are no hard and fast rules that apply.

For me it's AC/DC, and always will be. I like the Ramones, and while I'll readily admit that I haven't heard nearly as much of their music as I have of AC/DC's, the songs I have heard tend to feel very samey. To be fair, I've only really heard the songs on the Ramones Mania compilation, but those are their hits and should be the very best the band has to offer, right? I honestly have trouble telling a lot of Ramones songs apart. To me, AC/DC's hits feel much more distinct, much less their album tracks. You would never mistake "TNT" for "Let There Be Rock," or "You Shook Me All Night Long" and "Thunderstruck."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics#Tuning_systems

(which you're probably skimming already)

Sorry OP for this slight detour, please carry on with the Ramones vs AC/DC thing

Ramones are smarter, funnier, more tragic, more versatile, with a broader range of reference-points and a better developed sense of iconography, plus I-IV-V pop hooks >>> 12 bar blues.

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haha you fucking moron those are all for western music

or did you skip all the parts about just intonation and different scales and temperaments ad infinitum - like I was saying, just because music can be expressed mathematically does not mean that all music is based on the same principles.

Yeah, but if the songs all sound the same, none of that really matters, does it?

Western common practice music usually cannot be played in just intonation, even when it is confined to a single key.

I mean what does that tell you.

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Yellow flag, off-topic, lose 5 yards.

Yeah, but if the songs all sound the same, none of that really matters, does it?

arguing that AC/DCs songs DON'T all sound the same is a little "uh waht" to me. barring the odd bagpipe solo (lolz), every song has the exact same instrumentation, production style, lyrical themes (ie, fucking, with special attention given to double entendres), and interchangeable chord progressions, all falling within yr standard blues-rock tempos. Highway to Hell does sound a lot like TNT or If You Want Blood or any countless others.

really the only difference in AC/DC songs is the tempo and the hooks. And they are good at hooks I don't deny it. Ramones were better at it though.

I think this really does come down to me preferring I-IV-V pop progressions over 12-bar blues though.

wtf - 12-bar blues IS 1-4-5 !

I admit I am typin fast and not explainin myself well here... I guess I'm thinking more of the differences between major scales and blues scales (ie major vs. pentatonic)

haha in my high school band that was the difference between playing a pentatonic solo in key and playing it three frets down

shakey i like the ramones better too but you are treading on some thin hongro ice with this stuff!!!!!

I'm not trying to perpetuate the digression here, but Vision & Shakey Mo: If you haven't already, you should look into the book Temperament by Stuart Isacoff -- an examination of the evolotion of various Western and n0n-Western musical scales, the fundemental underpinning of mathematics (specifically of the Pythagorean strain, if I recall correctly) & other interesting things like the relationship between various scale modes and their influence on different forms of architecture. Etc. Not sure what all this has to do with AC/DC vs. The Ramones, as both are about as straight-ahead, no-frills 4/4 as you can get, but whatevs.

Your frantic and shakey internet crash course will not do, nor will your attempts to rephrase what you said. Western music has certain scales which we have grown used to. Other musical traditions can be read in terms of specific mathematical relations as well. You denied that, remember? That'd be a good subject for a thread actually (music theory).

Pillbox, it is a fantastic book, I know it, and since you mention it let me also refer to most of Charles Rosen's books, where this subject is mentioned with different degrees of depth. I really do stop here, sorry Pillbox.

arguing that AC/DCs songs DON'T all sound the same is a little "uh waht" to me. barring the odd bagpipe solo (lolz), every song has the exact same instrumentation, production style, lyrical themes (ie, fucking, with special attention given to double entendres), and interchangeable chord progressions, all falling within yr standard blues-rock tempos. Highway to Hell does sound a lot like TNT or If You Want Blood or any countless others.

are you serious? this could easily be used as ammunition against the ramones as well. they have hundreds of songs that sound virtually identical by the same standards you are using.

how bout i just split the difference with motorhead

I heart Motorhead (I even named my hamster Lemmy), but AC/DC are one of the few bands that have managed to consistently stay in my top 10 all time favorites.

I gotta give AC/DC the edge for their rhythm section. Both rhythm sections swing, but AC/DC's swings juuuuust a little wider and deeper.

Hey where's Beavis? That T-shirt reminds me: is Metallica an AC/DC spawn?
I can kind of hear it in the drums...

i don't hear ac/dc in metallica at all

maybe post black album metallica

thank AC/DC for the Cult's makeover

AC/DC begat rhino bucket.

And a thousand Aussie bands. Where to start?

Also Krokus, and maybe even Accept, Saxon and Judas Priest, took a few moves from AC/DC in about 1980-82. But yeah, those Aussie bands -The Angels, Rose Tattoo and their ilk, and then, fast forwarding to lamer times, Airb0rne.

Don't forget Krokus!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

this is bullshit.

about right.

A lot of silent Ramones voters seemingly.

This is a crap result.

oh man up

gabba gabba!

Never a doubt.

Today ILM, Tomorrow the World

ac/dc has never got the popular acclaim they deserved then anyway

'70s AC/DC > '70s Ramones > '80s Ramones > '80s AC/DC > stuff they both did later

AC/DC wins.

― xhuxk, Monday, November 3, 2008 9:19 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in this contest, mr eddy is totally 1,000% OTM.

though the contest b/w 70s ac/dc and 70s ramones is REAL close. as dumb and juvenile as it may be, i judge based on the fact that Joey et. al. were incapable of a song like "big balls."

AC/DC!!

ANTI CHRIST DEVIL'S CHILD \m/

ramones because ac/dc were fucking terrible

no way dogg

yeah, no. i like this poll cuz there's no wrong answer.

Ramones without a doubt, although these days I'm content enough to mainly stick to their first few albums rather than wade through their 80s/90s output (which is totally worth doing for anyone that's not done it before though, there's plenty of gems in amongst the more average-y stuff).

None of that is meant to argue against the fact that AD/DC are also pretty great obv.

both these bands are great!

AC/DC by a long shot.

I'm a bit too old for AC/DC to have been a part of my youth, although I like a few songs. Ramones were a huge life-changer.

daft question because these are obviously the only two rock bands worth listening to

maybe thin lizzy too but yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3nEAmt5AZ8

fucking hell forgot about sabbath going to bed now night ilx love you xx

um Motörhead too

Thin Lizzy v. CCR would tough.

*be*

both great but CCR's insane short period of genius is one of the great accomplishment of rock n roll

I've tried to get into Motorhead and Thin Lizzy, but so far they haven't really clicked beyond the most obvious songs/albums (same with Deep Purple). Whereas as far as my listening habits go, AC/DC and Ramones remain a satisfyingly monolithic body of work.

CCR rulesl, but they're a different kind of band.

i pull pints in a corporate bar and we have both motorhead and metallica beers on tap. ac/dc would never sell out to craft beer fuckery.

AC/DC's wine range launched in 2011 (and STILL doesn't have a Whole Lotta Rosé)

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/17/ac.dc.the.wine/t1larg.acdc.wine.jpg

Their lager came out from Karlsberg in 2015

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1219/4344/products/acdc_rock_or_bust_1024x.jpg

so technically true I guess

"High Voltage" energy drink, 2013

http://blog.metal-and-wine.com/wp-content/uploads/blog_acdc_high-voltage.jpg

mid-strength pre-mix bourbon & cola, 2016

http://assets.blabbermouth.net.s3.amazonaws.com/media/acdcbourbon1.jpg

Still no best-of album though, right?

Not officially, but there is Who Made Who and the Iron Man 2 soundtrack.

well i'll be fucked

add böc to the list of “only rock bands worth listening to” you cowards

If we try hard, we can get the list up to four or five.

BOC is the cutoff. No more rock bands worth listening to.

glad we can find some middle ground on this pressing matter.

BOC def

both great but CCR's insane short period of genius is one of the great accomplishment of rock n roll

I agree, CCR is the <3 and I would vote for them over Thin Lizzy, but there are moments where Phil Lynott’s voice just gets me in a way that Fogerty can’t (and never really tries to).

Those two bands have two of my favorite rhythm sections: so tough, but still lithe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1PfIX-GQPk

shit the actual bed