Battle of the Bands: The Fixx vs. XTC

[bobthedrummer]

Vote your choice.

[davsand]

1. How DARE you ask, sir! This is Respectable Street!

It's in the order of their hedgerows
it's in the way their curtains open and close
it's in the look they give you down their nose
all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose

Heard the neighbour slam his car door
don't he realise this is respectable street
What d'you think he bought that car for
'cos he realise this is respectable street

Now they talk about abortion
in cosmopolitan proportions to their daughters
as they speak of contraception
And immaculate receptions on their portable
Sony entertainment centres.

Now she speaks about diseases
and which sex position pleases best her old man
Avon lady fills the creases
when she manages to squeeze in past the caravans
that never move from their front gardens.

It's in the order of their hedgerows
it's in the way their curtains open and close
it's in the look they give you down their nose
all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose
Sunday church and they look fetching
Saturday night saw him retching over our fence
bang the wall for me to turn down
I can see them with their stern frown
as they dispense the kind of look that says
they're perfect.

[bobthedrummer]

3. "Another home falls by the wayside

A few old cushions stuffed with pride
A hand is shaking from the rubble
This is spirit is still alive

A servant bares his occupation
Breaks his back just growing old
Never mind his views were taken
Just saw by the rules of old

Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Less cities more moving people
Hands that once were tied

A church bell rang for the occasion
The average man learns what's in store
Now he sees where his life was taken
Fighting heat, but growing old

Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Less cities more moving people
Hands that once were tied

Is this what we call education
Just watch the wheel of time revolve
But why is this not what I'm thinking
Just one mind and the unknown!

Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Cities are moving people
Who just forgot their lives"

Less Cities More Moving People (The Fixx)

[Shakespeare]

2. Dude, that's not even a fair fight.

The Fixx isn't even in the same galaxy of greatness with XTC.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Both could have been the 80's Beatles. But The Clash was the only band that mattered. eom

[harmonicon]

5. yep, the clash were the best ever NT

[bobthedrummer]

6. Then.

[harmonicon]

7. hahahahaha

I'd say ever. It's a tough call I suppose.... only considering rock and roll here, there were roughly 20 years before they started, which of course included Elvis, Johnny Cash, The Beatles... but after them I don't think there is much of anything that even could come close. I think My Bloody Valentine were maybe the last of the really great and original rock bands - I think that everything since then has been derivative to too large an extent to be comparable on the same terms.

[bobthedrummer]

8. Genres, styles, of "rock and roll"-my favorite is anything with Jimi Hendrix-from the Experience to

Band of Gypsys--yet it's arguable that it was rock and roll.

It all came out of the Blues, of course.

[driver8]

10. Amen!!

The Fixx couldn't tune XTC's guitars...

[driver8]

9. How in the hell is this vote even close??!!

XTC has been around since the late seventies and have put out several fantastic albums!

What did the Fixx do? "Red Skies at Night" and "One Thing Leads to Another"..., that's about it!

I weep for the future.