What is more basic thing to explain phenomenons : Energy or Force?

You know many physical happening are explained by considering forces or we can explain these phenomenon using energy (like energy conservation, etc.).

so i was wondering that explaining the physical phenomenon using energy method is more fundamental or explaining through considering forces?

Explaining things differently helps us to view thing differently. So either one of the methods(energy and forces) can gives us more broader vision, i.e. explanation of one phenomenon (through one of the method) can also be applied for the explanation of some other phenomenon(with some minor changes as required) and this is what i mean by fundamental.

thanks.