Talking Heads

Heads.

And what Wolf said goes for me, too. Except I agree with the Floyd and Queen selections. :o

RUSH! HOW could you vote against Geddy, Peart and Lifeson?!

Talking Heads

Talking Heads. And all of you who voted down The Beatles are surely going to rot in a flaming hell where the only music to be heard is Britney Spears tunes rearranged as Muzak.

Stop Making Sense (vhs/dvd), at that college concert was subtle build up from nothing... They ended up a tight art form...

The Heads

Heads for the win.

Nirvana (3)
vs
Jimi Hendrix Experience (2)

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=bands

another tuff one....
dammit.


Im watching Audioslave/Rage concerts right now.... I keep hearing jimi hendrix influences... (probly my imagination)

I go with Jimi... ( i'd like to hear a jam with him and Primus)

Jimi!

hENDRIX

(oh crap, now I'm watching the Foo Fighters, which may not exist without the Nirvana thing ... including todays' Queens of Stones, and Eagles of Death Metal, also)

Screw it, the Foo Fighters are a jumping good time band, second to Me First and the Gimmee Gimmes...

Dammmm that grundge influence, is hard to see what's more influential.

Nirvana, though I understand the "importance" and talent of Hendrick.

It is tough, but I have to go with Jimi. Can't have my old fart status revoked.

Back in 1972, the Beatles WERE MUZAK. Progressive Rock got no air play on the radio. I got tired of people asking me why I didn't like the Beatles like everyone else did. They thought I listened to obscure stuff: Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Gryphon, Trimvirat, Renaissance --- that was when you used a lower-case 'a' in 'alternative'.

Nonsense...I am a huge Prog Rock fan, and I've never thought the Beatles to be Muzak. Hell, I think Glenn Miller was a genius, I can't get enough Nat King Cole and I practically worship Scott Joplin. None of that ever stopped me from blasting out "Selling England by the Pound", though.

I suppose that I hold the Mop Tops as something of a rarified quantity, though. In my own mind, they are above most others in terms of cultural significance, and quantity and consistency of quality.

talent over angst appeal

Hendrix

And if Hendrix were still alive, I'd wail on him for killing himself.

The Experience win

Santana
vs
Yes

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=bands

Yes

Yes

Well, you have broad tastes. Good for you. I just can't do it. No Doubt.

yes

yes

Oh, by the way, the search engineer asks...

Did you mean Grateful Dead?

Zep. The End.

Yes, for a clean sweep.

I am losing it. I must have looked at that a hundred times and thought, something's not quite right here...

Yes wins, closing out the round.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=bands

Since most matches were completed in an hour it seems we have room to expand the format for the elite eight.

The next four matches determine the final four. They will be in a BEST of ELEVEN format. In this format it will take SIX VOTES to WIN the match.

Again, SIX votes to WIN.

Ready --

Pink Floyd
vs
Queen

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=bands

That's a really hard one. Very different bands, but both are great.

I'm going to go with Pink Floyd.

Floyd. Sorry, Freddie.

Pink Floyd

Queen

QUEEN.

(I frickin' hate Pink Floyd.)

Floyd

how can I decide? I love both too much to betray the other

I SHALL LET ITUNES DEICDE!

...aaaaand iTunes wont work. No wait, there it goes!

Floyd it is.

floyd of course.....

FLOYD. and it's not close

Well, Lumber, that is one thing that were are in violent agreement about.

Floyd, man, totally. My band does Echoes and Fearless.

bet my CD does echoes better than your band.....

Depends on which night . . . and which night . . .

QUEEN

....soo not happy that Santana are gone!

Sorry folks, but this gender-challenged individual hates Queen. No Doubt.

If it weren't for the Beatles, there may not have BEEN progressive rock.

pink floyd

Word. Indeed, members of Yes said they were directly influenced by the Beatles. And I was a Yes groupie.

But, as a teenager in 1972, The Beatles == Britney Spears. ALL commercial stations were ONLY TOP-40. It was horrible.

To me, Prog was post-Beatles Rock. Much more sophisticated. Learn from their ansestors, and brought Rock to the Next Level.

But, what do I know. I'm just a girl. No Doubt.

Floyd takes the match.

Grateful Dead
vs
Jimi Hendrix Experience

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=bands

Musically, I think....overallllllll, .....i prefer Jimi. he's just so fucking groovy.

.......but the Dead created a lifestyle.
That's pretty big. I followed them around the country for a substantial amount of my youth.

so,

um......er The Grateful Dead

good i dea increasing the vote number. yer smart. SMRT

Dead. :cool:

Sigh. Another hard one.

I'm going to go with the Dead.

Graitful Dead

BTW, I never anticipated a future world where, in a forum rock voting thing, the Top 8 would include Talking Heads, Pink Floyd and Yes. Some how in the last 30 years the world veered off in the right direction. Amazing.

I still say Rush deserved on there more than Talking Heads. And the fact that Nirvana made it as far as they did disgusts me.

EDIT: My prediction is Floyd vs. Yes in the finals, with Yes winning by a whisker... or Floyd winning by a whisker, I don't reeeeally know. I see Zeppelin vs. Floyd and Yes vs. the Dead in the semifinal, with Yes and Floyd triumphing.

Hendrix.

Well, I'm bummed out that The Cranberries didn't make the Final Four. But, the matchups were brutal.

Still, where were Blondie, No Doubt and Jefferson Airplane?

I guess they settled for the National Invitation Tournament. ;)

jimi hendrix [all along the watchtower]

I'm glad No Doubt didn't make it, I'm sorry. But Ziggy/David Bowie and the Spiders should have been on here, as should have the Alan Parsons Project, The Allman Brothers Band, The Boomtown Rats, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, CCR, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Iron Maiden, the Black Crowes, Motley Crue, Mr. Big, Niacin, Primus, The Ramones, Racer X, Ratt, Scorpions, Sex Pistols, Spinal Tap, Steppenwolf, the Stray Cats, Tally Hall, The Temptations, Three Dog Night, Van Halen, Weather Report, Whitesnake, XTC, and ZZ Top.

...heh.

This is a toughie but I'm going with Hendrix. His version of All Along the Watchtower is powerful, freaky stuff. And he did an ode to bipolar disorder. Cool.

eeeer!! :rasta:

I'm going with the Dead.

But saying one is better than the other is like saying an ice cream cone is better than shrimp.