Music Battle Royal 3

[Soup567]

And here we are in the third installment of the Music Battle Royal series. In our last match Rush easily beat Uriah Heep in a head to head match up. Our first two matches have ended in the same way, a clear winner over that gained whopping victories over their challenger. I predict, however this next match will not be so close.

Early U.S. 70s Hard Rock Part 1
Blue Öyster Cult - Winner
Alice Cooper

Early 70s Heavy Prog Part 1
Rush - Winner
Uriah Heep

And on to the show...

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Late U.K. 70s Post-Punk Part 1

And the contestants are...

Joy Division

and

Gang of Four

Two Post-Punk bigwigs. Time to decide who goes on to the next round.




Joy Division

Essential Songs

Leaders of Men
Failures
Disorder
Day of the Lords
Insight
New Dawn Fades
Shadowplay
Wilderness
Love Will Tear Us Apart
These Days
Atrocity Exhibition
Passover
Colony
A Means to an End
24 Hours
The Eternal
Ice Age
The Sound of Music
Glass
Walked in Line
Dead Souls
Ceremony


Essential Albums

An Ideal for Living*
Unknown Pleasures
Closer
Still

*EPs are included


Gang of Four

Essential Songs

Armalite Rifle
Ether
Natural's Not in It
Not Great Men
Damaged Goods
Return the Gift
Glass
At Home He's a Tourist
5.45
Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time
It's Her Factory
Paralysed
What We All Want
The Republic
In the Ditch
A Hole in the Wallet
To Hell With Poverty
It Is Not Enough
The History of the World
Muscle for Brains


Essential Albums

Entertainment!
Solid Gold
Return the Gift

Poll will be up later.

[Soup567]

Now let's see. Joy Division was a short lived band, but delivered nothing but great material during that time. They were extremely consistent. Gang of Four was great... but after their third album the fell apart, and haven't done much good sense. In 2005 they did release one interesting thing, Return the Gift, which was a collection of reworked and remixed songs and it was pretty darn good to be honest. But if we mostly just compare Gang of Four to the time that Joy Division was around they inch a lot closer together. Gang of Four's first album Entertainment! is a perfect album. There is not a single flaw, it really helps them hold up. And because of that superb debut album, that godly set of songs, I have to give this battle to Gang of Four. I can ignore their early work. Sorry Joy Division you came close, but Entertainment! seals the deal for me.

And you know... Damaged Goods is just so damn good.

[Toki]

Joy Division.

[Soup567]

Poll is up.

[Zilla2112]

Uhhh.... Talking Heads! They'd be my favorite post-punk band (though granted, they're from the U.S., so they couldn't be in this poll).

I guess I'd go with Gang of Four, since I don't like Joy Division much, if at all.

[straf]

Hell, what a tough decision. Gang of Four is my pick though.

[SMAP]

Joy Division made two perfect albums IMO.

I like Gang of Four, but they never were amazing or anything.

[nogatoyumi]

Joy Division. That wasn't very hard.