Should I see Status Quo or Linkin Park?

BetterThanThou · 03-04-2014 6:49am #1

I've got a hard decision on my hands here. I'm going to the Download Festival in the UK in a bit more than 2 months time. Overall, I've managed to come to a decision with all the clashes, but I can't decide on Linkin Park or Status Quo. Basically, Linkin Park were one of the bands I've liked since I first got really into music when I was around 11/12, I loved the first half of their discography, but the second half I won't touch. Now Status Quo, I never discovered until recently, as I was under the impression they were a "rock and roll" type band, but I learned they're actually 70's hard rock, which is one of my favorite genres. And I think they're great. So basically, my music tastes of today would tell me Status Quo, but Linkin Park has the nostalgia factor. So the best option is a poll on AH!

comongethappy · 03-04-2014 6:55am

Singing priests.

There is always a third way.

Richard Hillman · 03-04-2014 6:55am

Eh. .. The Quo. No debate to be had

MRnotlob606 · 03-04-2014 6:57am

ohh here we goooo

stefan idiot jones · 03-04-2014 6:59am

Linkin Park stand for all that is wrong in rock/metal.

Dual vocals? DUAL VOCALS!!!!!!!!! FFS.

Dancor · 03-04-2014 7:00am

Go see the quo. They won't be around much longer.

MRnotlob606 · 03-04-2014 7:02am

Dancor wrote: »

Go see the quo. They won't be around much longer.

why , whys that , why ? tell why ? why why ? why ? why

stimpson · 03-04-2014 7:05am

Easy choice. They're both shite.

stefan idiot jones · 03-04-2014 7:06am

Dancor wrote: »

Go see the quo. They won't be around much longer.

I remember their twentieth anniversary box set coming out in 1982. 1+9+8+2=20 years in the business and their farewell tour.

1982.

1982.

With that track record they might be around for a time yet.

P.S. One of the best intros to a song ever. Whatever you want.

03-04-2014 7:15am

Well according to the lineup Linkin Park are performing their debut album in full. So even if you don't like their later stuff it wouldn't really matter. For the nostalgia factor I think it may be worth it.

Also saw Crazy Town on the lineup; I can't believe they're still a thing! :eek:
Lest we forget.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE

same ol sh1te · 03-04-2014 7:19am

Dancor wrote: »

Go see the quo. They won't be around much longer.

They've been doin farewell tours for 20 years or more

o1s1n · 03-04-2014 8:06am

Deleted User wrote: »

Well according to the lineup Linkin Park are performing their debut album in full. So even if you don't like their later stuff it wouldn't really matter. For the nostalgia factor I think it may be worth it.

Also saw Crazy Town on the lineup; I can't believe they're still a thing! :eek:
Lest we forget.....

Sums up how awful the lineup is at Download this year.

Caliden · 03-04-2014 8:17am

Deleted User wrote: »

Well according to the lineup Linkin Park are performing their debut album in full. So even if you don't like their later stuff it wouldn't really matter. For the nostalgia factor I think it may be worth it.

Also saw Crazy Town on the lineup; I can't believe they're still a thing! :eek:
Lest we forget.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE

Lyrically that song is genius...

come my lady, come, come, my lady.....
Dirty bugger

Donkey Oaty · 03-04-2014 8:18am

If you go to Chipping Norton's Cornbury Festival in July you will get a rare chance to see Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

Dyr · 03-04-2014 8:20am

If linkin park were playing in my living room i wouldnt get out of bed.

Quo. Just remember to put denim patches on your denim jeans

Duggy747 · 03-04-2014 8:20am

Crrrrrrrrrrraaaaawwwwleeeeennn.........innnnn...........mmmmmaaaaiiiiiii..............skkkkkkkkkkkiiiiiinnnnn!!!

*shudder*

Hated the Linkin Park phase.

Just go get monged off your tits.

Banjo String · 03-04-2014 8:23am

The Beasty Boys will be there this year too.

They have just released a 3 part discography cd this month.

Parts B and C are included with the box, but you gotta fight. For your rights. To Part-A.

Dravokivich · 03-04-2014 8:31am

Not much in it really. You've a choice between one band who sound like they are always playing the same song, or another band who've only ever re-written the same song.

tritium · 03-04-2014 8:33am

So many folks living in a time warp

Go see Linkin Park, really good live

Banjo String · 03-04-2014 8:44am

tritium wrote: »

So many folks living in a time warp

Go see Linkin Park, really good live

Will Linkin Park still be as popular in 40 years? Test of time.

Canis Lupus · 03-04-2014 8:49am

o1s1n · 03-04-2014 8:52am

tritium wrote: »

So many folks living in a time warp

Go see Linkin Park, really good live

Linkin Park formed in 1996, so I'm sure someone of a younger generation could say the same about yourself. :pac:

Adamantium · 03-04-2014 9:16am

Right so you're telling me......... So its not Oasis or Blur?

dd972 · 03-04-2014 9:17am

Quo, the sands of time are running out !

Legs.Eleven · 03-04-2014 9:39am

"Should I slash my bum with a rusty knife and sit on a packet of salt 'n' vinegar crisps orrrrr spend the afternoon chewing on a big ball of wool".

That's what that choice basically sounds like to me.

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-04-2014 9:44am

My father brought me to see them when they played the RDS in 1988

too loud for a childs ears:)

BetterThanThou · 03-04-2014 9:48am

This thread has made my mind up, people are right, time is running out with Status Quo, even if they do keep touring, their quality may decline in the next few years. And, Linkin Park are Download regulars, and I aim to frequent this festival, so chances are, I'll get another chance to see them in a few years.

BraziliaNZ · 03-04-2014 10:21am

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Eh. .. The Quo. No debate to be had

Did Les Battersby lend you some Quo records?

120_Minutes · 03-04-2014 10:24am

BetterThanThou wrote: »

So basically, my music tastes of today would tell me Status Quo, but Linkin Park has the nostalgia factor.

That's a statement I thought i'd never see.

LordSutch · 03-04-2014 12:49pm

Linkin park, whats that

Oranage2 · 03-04-2014 12:51pm

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

"Should I slash my bum with a rusty knife and sit on a packet of salt 'n' vinegar crisps orrrrr spend the afternoon chewing on a big ball of wool".

That's what that choice basically sounds like to me.

The answer is the wool right?

Jonny Blaze · 03-04-2014 12:54pm

You should 'see' the error of your ways.. and start listening to decent music!

131spanner · 03-04-2014 1:00pm

Status Quo, definitely Status Quo!

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 1:03pm

or you could just burn the money instead, theres a certain power to be had from knowing you just wasted 70 quid by burning it rather than giving it to someone else to 'burn' for you (in this case the promoter)

J_E · 03-04-2014 1:14pm

Save your money.

snapjiggy · 03-04-2014 1:16pm

Status Quo any day of the week!

chrissb8 · 03-04-2014 5:12pm

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Linkin Park stand for all that is wrong in rock/metal.

Dual vocals? DUAL VOCALS!!!!!!!!! FFS.

Is there a rule to screaming in to mics now or something? Or for music fot that matter?

The Backwards Man · 03-04-2014 5:19pm

Whatever you want.

Vito Corleone · 03-04-2014 5:20pm

Why don't you go see a good band instead?

The Backwards Man · 03-04-2014 5:22pm

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Why don't you go see a good band instead?

Whatever you like

P_1 · 03-04-2014 5:51pm

Cans by the tent sound like a better option to be honest. Failing that go to see whichever one has the better band playing after them

TPD · 03-04-2014 6:08pm

Status Quo on the off chance they play 'Pictures of Matchstick Men'.

orangesoda · 03-04-2014 6:19pm

Sell your ticket and see Lacuna Coil at Bloodstock.

I dont mind Linkin Park but I find them rather dull now.

Stained Class · 03-04-2014 7:10pm

No arguement. Has to be Quo.

The classic line-up is back for one last tour.

Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster & John Coughlan.

Arise ye Rockers!:cool:

donegal__road · 03-04-2014 8:30pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Also saw Crazy Town on the lineup; I can't believe they're still a thing! :eek:
Lest we forget.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE

skip to approx 30 seconds in on this clip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5w8wwbuAs

Irish Guitarist · 03-04-2014 9:17pm

I like Status Quos sixties psychedelic phase. I have a box set of their sixties singles and there's some good stuff on it. Admittedly it was derivative of a lot of other bands that were around at the time but I much prefer it to their seventies output. I especially like Pictures Of Matchstick Men. I doubt they play any songs from that period live though.

Everything they've released from the seventies onwards sounds very samey to me. I love the intro to Whatever You Want but don't care much for the rest of the song.

If Linkin Park were playing in the street outside my house I wouldn't open the curtains to see them.

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 9:19pm

Status quo!? Jesus what an awful awful band.
Linking park is an easy choice above that, then again I'd go see dublin gospel choir over status quo

stop animal cruelty · 03-04-2014 9:20pm

oh giddy up oh giddy up oh giddy up.....

Yamanoto · 03-04-2014 10:10pm

No idea what the appeal of Quo is.

12-bar blues gets boring quick even in a single song, but to have built an entire career on the same repetitive riff really is quite some achievement.

Music for Clarkson's everywhere.

cena · 03-04-2014 10:32pm

Where is link in park playing

Stained Class · 03-04-2014 10:40pm

Quo started to disintegrate from the early '80 onwards.

Once the classic lineup of Rossi,Parfitt,Lancaster,Coughlan, split up, the band turned into a parody of itself.

From '82 onwards the band became an embarassment & stayed one for many years afterwards.......

It wasn't always like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8THWF09D9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4x3jiTnZnM

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

Their Tunes weren't all the same. Really they weren't.

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