New field of 64: best song
I'm ready, let's do this; let's start from scratch or
you can review the previous thread. If you don't understand field of 64, you will once I publish the link for the tournament. Or you could browse through the
previous field of 64 links to get an idea of how the tournament works.
First, though, we are just trying to find 64 songs which will compete for the title of best song, and then we're trying to "seed" them into a tournament setting where they will compete songo-a-songo.
Put forth your nominations: which songs do you think should compete? And anyone may "second" nominations that are put forth. Seconding will count towards seeding.
My nominations come from the earlier thread.
Rhapsody in Blue
Wichita Lineman
Ring of Fire
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Careless Whisper
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Greensleeves
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Bohemian Rhapsody
I'm adding Beatles:
A Day in the Life
Hey Jude
From the earlier thread:
Hallelujah Chorus - Handel
Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor
Wishing You Were Here - Chicago
I am the Mercury - Jimmy Spheeris
One for Daddy-O - Nat Adderly
Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller
I may add more in a bit.
Moon River--Henry Mancini
Black Cow--Steely Dan
The Story in Your Eyes--Moody Blues
Beach Boys, anything off of Pet Sounds. Pick one.
Just suggestions...don't use if they suck and I just don't know it. ;)
If you're putting up Black Cow, I'm putting up Aja.
For Pet Sounds, we'll go with "God Only Knows", and I'm seconding.
I was thinking God Only Knows, too. In fact it's stuck in my head.
I can never pick a Steely Dan song. I'm a huge fan. I'll second Aja if you want to leave off Black Cow? Same album anyway!
We'll wait for Flint for his opinion here.
I just saw youtubers of Fagan explaining the chords for "Josie" and "Peg" and he might as well have been speaking conversational French.
Good idea, Flint knows from Steely Dan!
Just my two cents, and it's kind of already shaping up this way, but I think that each band should only get one song entry. That way it doesn't come down to 15 Beatles songs going head-to-head.
Makes sense to me.
UT, I just watched a little bit of Fagen talking about Peg. You think YOU don't understand it! My ex, the piano player, will love it though. I'll have to send the link.
It is very hard to choose since there are so many that can be called 'best songs'
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Time Of The Season - Zombies
The Tracks Of My Tears - The Miracles
Kashmir - Led zeppelin
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament Funkadelic
Woke Up Laughing - Robert Palmer
Athena - The Who
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers
Wasted on the Way - CSNY
Tangled Up in Blue - Dylan
Death letter
Bang bang
Rocket queen
Outshined
7 Nation army
Crazy fingers
Little wing
Pigs (3 different ones)
Three days
This is too hard...
Little Wing! Of course! Personally, I prefer the SRV version.
Seconding Aqualung, too.
ha we both chose Kashmir. I'm not sure why because I love all Zeppelin. I agree it's hard. I second Pigs too.
Brass in Pocket--Pretenders
this is too hard.
But imma second Sailing to Philadelphia by Knopfler
I Want to be Seduced - Leon Redbone
Is that a song or a question?
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
November Rain - Guns N' Roses
Lean on Me Or Ain't No Sunshine
-Bill Withers
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ( In the Garden of Eden )
The Man Who Sold The World- David Bowie
Unchained Melody _ The Righteous Brothers
Under The Boardwalk- The Drifters
creep - but only
this version
ok.. i'll stop. i could list 64 songs... you have a process for selecting the 64...like taking everyone's first song first, and so on?...so that a spaz like me doesn't tilt the whole thing?
Der Kommisar - Falco
Blinded by Science - Thomas Dolby
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Eat It - Weird Al Yankovick
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
(Stuck in the 80s much? yeah, I know. But many of my nominations are already up)
Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennitt
LJ should be shot for daring to suggest Rick Astley.
I'll second Eat It. And Sweet Dreams.
you can 2nd, and you know you like Rick.
you can 2nd, and you know you like Rick.
You've some confusion about the first letter of that word.
If a song really sucks, can we un-vote it? I mean...we can second songs, can we detract them based on thumbs down? If we can, please please please don't include Unchained Melody. *shudders* It's seriously the most overrated wedding dance tripe ever to cross the pike. ;)
seconding the unseconding.
(I need to get out more.)
Seconding 'Ain't no Sunshine'.
Putting forth
'Us and Them' - Pink Floyd
'Tupelo' - John Lee Hooker (
This version.)
Pick Up the Pieces--Average White Band
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)--Parliament
Maybe Unchained Melody belongs in a 'Most covered song of all time' thread right behind Eleanor Rigby.Neither are my favorite songs but they are/were very popular. This thread isn't your favorite rock songs of all time anyway.:p:
Most are though like this one.
Battle Of Evermore - The Love Mongers
(Cover by Ann Wilson of Heart )
That's true, what's popular isn't necessarily any good. So, the trick is to sift the good from the merely mainstream. That's what the final 4 will end up being, the good, if'n I know me some musicians!
Case in point: Old Time Rock n Roll can bite me...but EVERY band EVER covers it. ;)
Seconding 'Ain't no Sunshine'.
Putting forth
'Us and Them' - Pink Floyd
'Tupelo' - John Lee Hooker (This version.)
That lick reminds me of voodoo chile
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Fascination Street - The Cure
Losing My Religion - REM
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
My Immortal - Evanescence
Slowest Parade - 10,000 Maniacs
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
And You And I - Yes
Tainted love - soft cell
Big Brother - Bowie
Even in the quietest moments - supertramp
Icarus, born on wings of steel - Kansas
Epitaph - King Crimson
Karn Evil 9, first impression, part 1 - ELP
Closer to the Heart - Rush
Free Hand - Gentle Giant
Green Shirt - Elvis Costello
Breakdown - Tom Petty
Invisible Sun - The Police
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Keep going! And we have 99 songs, so seconding currently guarantees that an entry will make it...
I second
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Losing My Religion - REM
Closer To The Heart-Rush
seconding:
outshined
Kashmir
Brass in Pocket
tainted love
into the mystic
personal jesus
us and them
There are so many good ones.
I'd like to second Shock the Monkey.
And add:
Train in Vain--The Clash
Where It's At--Beck
Glycerine
I never cared for you
Shine on you crazy diamond
Nutshell
Helplessly hoping
Southern cross
Jimi thing
Sober
I second:
Nutshell!
Helplessly Hoping
Sober
Black
It was hard not to second more of both your lists and spexx too.
great songs
My list really goes on forever, so hears a shortened version.
Dream On - Aerosmith
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Desperado - Eagles
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In / The 5th Dimension
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', The Righteous Brothers
Funeral for a Friend /Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel
Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley
Tangled up in blue
Subterranean homesick blues
Knockin on heavens door
Don't think twice its alright
Terrapin suite
I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
Lit Up - Buckcherry
Rockin' In The Parlour - AC/DC (Dave Evans)
Ride On - AC/DC (Bon Scott)
For Those About To Rock - AC/DC (Brian Johnson)
Archangel - Samhain
Crash Course In Brain Surgery - Budgie
Your House - Alanis Morissette
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Let It Burn - Ignite
Anti-Social - Anthrax
Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
Dig Up Her Bones - The Misfits (Michale Graves)
American Nightmare - The Misfits (Glenn Danzig)
Automatic - GG Allin
Fire Woman - The Cult
Pussy Liquor - Rob Zombie
More Human Than Human - White Zombie
Black No. 1 - Type O Negative
Demolition Boys - Girlschool
Orgasmatron - Motorhead
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
The Wild And The Young - Quiet Riot
A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath
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I'll list the rest of my 64 later.
I was gonna work out a list, but you people have got things pretty well covered.
Seconding is still appreciated
Smooth - Santana
All Along The Watchtower - J.Hendrix
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
Possession- Sarah McLaughlin
Judith - A Perfect Circle
Tuonela - Amorphis
Catch The Rainbow -Richie Blackmore
Seconding:
Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Southern Cross -CSN
seconding:
Simple Man
Dream On
The Boxer
Glycerine
Shine on you crazy Diamond
Watchtower
Seconding:
Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
I'll third this one, because I want to see it in the running.
SOMEONE SECOND 'WHOLE LOTTA LOVE', DAMMIT!
[COLOR=Silver][size=1]I can tell already that this thing is going to make me nuts.....[/size][/COLOR]
Seconding :
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Moon River--Henry Mancini
I Alone
Even in the quietest moments - supertramp
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Greensleeves
Bohemian Rhapsody
Adding: (Because Im a big Bacharach fan I couldnt pick just one)
One Less Bell to Answer
This Guy's in Love with You
Casino Royale" Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
The Look of Love"
A few from the nineties that I like:
Linger - The Cranberries
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Waterfalls - TLC
No Rain - Blind Melon
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Shine - Collective Soul
And because Im also a Neil Diamond fan:
Holly Holy
I am I said
Sweet Caroline
Plus, I forgot to add to my first list:
American Pie
Jesus Christ Superstar
Im seconding :
The first time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
1979- Smasking Pumpkins
Clocks - Coldplay
All Star - Smash Mouth
John Lennon - Imagine
Where is Flint! Maybe Friday at 5pm was not the ideal time to start the thread.
John Lennon - Imagine
Where is Flint! Maybe Friday at 5pm was not the ideal time to start the thread.
Bloody Well Right!
Supertramp
Feelings
:D Just Kidding!
Jayhawks - Blue
Yay Jayhawks!
They're not on my top songs list, but I love their sound and played my cassette of
Hollywood Town Hall until it warped.
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Godzilla - BOC
OH Girl - Paul Young
If you Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
The Wizard - Uriah Heep
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
Patches - Clarence Carter
Smoke on The Water - Deep Purple
Rock Star - Nickleback
I Need You Tonight - ZZ Top
Only one Way to Rock - Sammy Hagar
Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzie O
Jesus Is Just Alright - Doobies
Bad Company - Bad Co.
Nights Like This - Paul Rodgers
How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
Night Owl - Little River Band
Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Thunder Island - Jay Furgeson
Theme from "Excorcist" - Tubular Bells
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Still in Saigon - CDB
Blue Jean Blues - ZZ Top
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
Lady Blue - Leon Russell
Fooled Around & Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
Dog Days - ARS
Mental Health - Quiet Riot
more later...
My favorite k.d. lang song is "The Mind of Love", but I don't know if anybody else knows it?
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes - it's not one of mine but it belongs on the list dammit.
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
Melissa - Allman Bros
Crying - Roy Orbison. I know "Oh Pretty Woman" is his most famous hit, but if you ever saw him close a show with "Crying", you vote this one. It stops your heart.
mack the knife - bobby darin.
More seconds. My seconds are:
Moon River - Henry Mancini
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
And You And I - Yes
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
all Neil Diamond
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
We have 215 songs and 53 with seconds
ut, On my old Saturday Night Live Music a Go-Go VHS tape, Orbison doing Crying was one of the handful they showed the whole clip. It is hauntingly beautiful. Wow. He was amazing.
I remember that SNL. It was so awesome.
So, I'm reminded too of:
Pick a Stevie Wonder. Pick one. I dare ya.
Alive--Pearl Jam
(If either mentioned before then I'm seconding.)
These were both inspired by their live performances on aforementioned SNL tape. Wonder did Overjoyed, but there are so many I couldn't pin it down. Sir Duke?
I'd like to second 25 or 6 to 4.
Whipping Post -Allman Brothers Band
Albatros - Fleetwood Mac
War Pigs- Black Sabbath
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Mustang Sally - Buddy Guy version
Have You Ever Seen The Rain -Creedence Clearwater
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Seconding - Frankenstein -Edgar Winter Group
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidys version only!
King of the Road - Roger Miller
Seconding:
Mustang Sally - Buddy Guy version
Theme from "Excorcist" - Tubular Bells
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
mack the knife - bobby darin
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidys version only!
You don't like Israel Kamakawiwo's version?
I like
Eva's version so much better. It seriously just
sends me.
Seconding....
Hello It's me - T rundgren
Mellisa - Allman bros Pand
Whipping Post - " "
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Ever Seen the Rain - CCR
Tambourine Man - Byrds
Over the Rainbow - Vincent Price (Dr. Phibes Rises Again)
You don't like Israel Kamakawiwo's version?
I do
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Yay...someone else who remembers The Abominable Dr. Phibes!
Yes, Vulnavia. I remember...
I second Freebird. It's about time someone mentioned it.:)
Aren't you supposed to be in a bar, really drunk and listening to a local band, waving a lighter, and yelling "FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBIRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD" ?
Theme from "Excorcist" - Tubular Bells
I second
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
War Pigs- Black Sabbath
Train in Vain--The Clash
Where It's At--Beck
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
Bohemian Rhapsody
Kashmir - Led zeppelin
Funeral for a Friend /Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Linger - The Cranberries
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Clocks - Coldplay
The Wizard - Uriah Heep
Some of these may be thirds
Nominations are closed, the field will be set soon.
Puh...how could I forget Natalie?...yeah, and...I forgot Norah Jones, but mostly I forgot:
Pussy Control--Prince. :D
It could have been worse. I showed remarkable restraint.
I know it's closed, but if it weren't I'd add
I Can't Get Started
and
I Can't Get Next to You
what the fuck is taking so long at this point?
I have a last bit of coding to do and it's driving me batty. Any minute now...
I thought maybe you were waiting on that asshole Flint to give us a Steely Dan song. ;)
And just because it's been bothering me. I hate Freebird. Really. It goes on and on and on and on and it's raucous and repetitive. I feel the same about Layla...after the actual singing is over. Sorry. :bolt:
The field is set.
You can see the full name of the song, and the seeding, if you mouse over the shortened song name.
In future I will make this thing longer so that longer names can fit in there.
Let me know, y'all, if there are any display errors from your browser.
Some match-up consfusion?
Whole Lotta Love
Aqualung
Personal Jesus
Sweet Dreams
Crazy Diamond
We'll start once we know things look good and these little errors are fixed.
It should have been Into the Mystic, not a second Little Wing.
Does it look better now P&M?
Yeah, Flint sucks.
No Steely Dan, at all. Only the best band evah.
Into the Mystic and Crazy Diamond still need a match-up.
Looks good, but Aqualung is the only on that doesn't highlight.
Doesn't highlight, what does that mean? Is it fatal? Should we just begin?
Best of 5 votes wins, to start. Seed number is in parenthesis. Seeding for this one was pretty arbitrary, based on randomness and seconding...
Who should advance...
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
or
Whipping Post - Allman Bros.
Vote right here in the thread.
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Whipping Post - Allman Bros.
[SIZE=1]although I personally love EJ [/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]ah crap I'm having second thoughts.[/SIZE]
sorry Elton but you just don't translate over a cult following
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Yeah, hang on... in previous iterations, wasn't it like 2 out of 3? Once it had two votes, it won the round.
it's best of five now - 3 votes to win.
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Aqualung?
current field of 64It's best of 5 in the first round so we don't have another *ahem* holy grail debacle.
Aqualung. Debacle? Fuck you, your precious Monty Python lost fair and square.
Big Tootsie fans are we? :D
Whole Lot of Love
When you put Aqualung up against Whole Lot Of Love it's sure to lose.
Meh
Whole Lotta Love I guess
Personal Jesus?
- or -
Tambourine Man?
current field of 64this is where the version matters.
I'd say personal Jesus if it were Cash's version....but it's listed as the original, so I have to vote for Bob.
Tambo man
Actually, jim, the Tambourine Man listed is the Byrds version...
I do prefer Dylan's version (PS: Bob Dylan attended Bennington for a short time in the late 50s or early 60s), but my vote still goes to
Tambourine Man.
Ants Marching
- or -
Melissa
did we ever discuss possibly allowing unlimited unique voting for a set interval ...like 2 or 3 hours or whatever, and taking the total at the end of each period?
Why not do it like polls?
Why not do it like polls?
a poll a day, and we'd have a winner in how many days?
It doesnt have to be one a day. There are how many rounds? Just like a wrestling tournament.
We'll need to consult Vince McMahon.
Next vote I'll put up more than one song and we can vote simultaneously. That'll speed it up.
Well crud, I like me some Dave Matthews, but I'm going to have to go with sweet Melissa.
eta: 'cause it's really a very pretty song. :)
I thought you needed votes for progression. ;)
i was holding off, because I've voted on every song so far....
but the apathy has gone too far.
Ants!
I'm ambivalent about apathy.
I like both of those songs equally.
*flips a coin*
Ants go marching
Ants it is.
Now, please vote for up to five of the following battles:
Sweet Dreams are Made of This vs. Train in Vain
Free Bird vs. Sultans of Swing
Moon River vs. Outshined
Shine On You Crazy Diamond vs. God Only Knows
Frankenstein vs. One Headlight
You may vote one of these, or two, or all five, however you prefer.
Sweet Dreams
Sultans of Swing
Moon River
Crazy Diamond
And for the first time I'm voting
Sweet Dreams
Sultans of Swing
Moon River
Crazy Diamond
Frankenstein
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
Sultans of Swing
Moon River
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Frankenstein
Sweet Dreams vs Tarin in Vain shouldn't be a first round matchup, IMHO.
The seeding is a little rough.
One last vote needed!
Train in Vain (lennox sux)
Sultans
Moon River
God Only Knows
One Headlight
Final match still pending... Frankenstein 2, One Headlight 1...
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
Sultans Of Swing
Frankenstein
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Elton John's version of Moon River or Chris Cornell?
humm going to go with
Outshined
Vote for any or all:
Blue vs. All Along the Watchtower
Nutshell vs. Bittersweet Symphony
Witchita Lineman vs. Little Wing
Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Whiter Shade of Pale
Clocks vs. Greensleeves
Current field of 64All Along the Watchtower
Bittersweet Symphony
Bohemian Rhapsody
Clocks
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
Sultans Of Swing
Frankenstein
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Elton John's version of Moon River or Chris Cornell?
humm going to go with
Outshined
Moon River, as written by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, song from Breakfast at Tiffany's, often performed by Andy Williams.
watchtower
nutshell
little wing
Bittersweet Symphony
Whiter Shade of Pale
Clocks
Vote for any or all:
Blue vs. All Along the Watchtower
Nutshell vs. Bittersweet Symphony
Witchita Lineman vs. Little Wing
Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Whiter Shade of Pale
Clocks vs. Greensleeves
Current field of 64
watchtower
nutshell
litlle wing
rhapsody
Moon River, as written by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, song from Breakfast at Tiffany's, often performed by Andy Williams.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.
It is precisely why I voted for the other.
All Along the Watchtower
Nutshell
Little Wing
Bohemian Rhapsody
Greensleeves
Changed vote.
Any time!
This kid in HS once sang Moon River, but I was pretty sure that wasn't the one I was referring to.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.
Well, when you ask a dumb question...
If you click on the link UT supplies with many of these posts, you will find this information. Just mouse over the song in question. According to the Cellar field of 64 chart, it's the Mancini version, which incidentally, peaked at number 11 on the charts according to Wikipedia.
Current field of 64Moon river makes you want to go dance on a hill full of Daisies. OH no...that's already been done.:rolleyes:
I can't stand that song.
Well, when you ask a dumb question...
If you click on the link UT supplies with many of these posts, you will find this information. Just mouse over the song in question. According to the Cellar field of 64 chart, it's the Mancini version, which incidentally, peaked at number 11 on the charts according to Wikipedia.
Current field of 64
I didn't ask a dumb question dumb-ass
I didn't vote for it because it wasn't this version
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I didn't ask a dumb question dumb-ass and keep yer fucking advice to yourself troll.
Glatt, a troll? I don't think so Sky.
When someone tail posts you only to add the word dumb in reference to yourself, twice in a row, then that feels trollish to me.
I didn't vote for it because it wasn't this version
That's a good version too spexx. I didn't vote for it because it wasn't he EJ version.
Sky,
You asked a question that was already answered in the chart, and when Shawnee tried to help you, you responded with "thanks for stating the obvious." Which is not a nice way of responding to someone trying to help you.
So maybe I shouldn't have said it was a dumb question, but *shrug*.
I LIKE Shawnee.It was sarcasm which she is able to get and if she doesn't she is more than capable of responding for herself.
Shawnee. If I hurt your feelings. I'm sorry. Do I come off as a meanie?
glatt
Thank you for the 'sort of' half- ass apology.
No it's all good. sky and I do that sometimes. No harm, no foul.
Lord, don't let me be the cause of problems between two dwellars (if I am not one of the two.) ;) Seriously, I cause enough trouble.
glatt, you're very kind.
Next five
Us and Them vs. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Eat It vs. Kashmir
I Alone vs. Tubular Bells
Losing My Religion vs. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
I Am I Said vs. 25 or 6 to 4
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/field.phpI Alone
Us and Them
Kashmir...duh
I'm not even sure what Kashmir is, but I have to vote for it. Eat it? no way.
so:
Kashmir
Us and Them
Losing My Religion
Kashmir with a big gay intro:
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Kashmir
Tubular Bells
I Am I Said
Us and Them
Losing My Religion
Us and Them
Kashmir
I Alone
Losing My Religion
I Am I Said
Kashmir with a big gay intro:
I know that one, and am glad I voted for it.
Us and Them
Kashmir
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Us & Them
Kashmir
Tubular Bells
Have you Ever Seen the Rain
25 or 6 to 4
Us and Them
Kashmir
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
25 or 6 to 4
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
I Alone 2, Tubular Bells 2
I Am I Said 2, 25 or 6 to 4 2
break the ties
Tubular Bells
25 or 6 to 4
All The Young Dudes vs. I Wanna Be Sedated
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) vs Even In the Quietest Moments
Dream On vs. The Boxer
Pigs (3 Different Ones) vs. Where It's At
Sweet Caroline vs. War Pigs
The FieldThese matchups are killing me.
The Boxer
Sweet Caroline
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
I Wanna Be Sedated
Even In the Quietest Moments
Dream On
Pigs (3 Different Ones)
War Pigs
I Wanna Be Sedated
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Boxer
Pigs (3 Different Ones)
All The Young Dudes
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Boxer
Pigs
Sweet Caroline
All The Young Dudes
The Boxer
Where It's At
War Pigs
Dudes 2, Sedated 2. Break the tie!
Vote for as many as you like:
The Wizard vs. Linger
Imagine vs. Glycerine
Helplessly Hoping vs. Simple Man
Shock the Monkey vs. Comfortably Numb
Black vs. Black Velvet
The current field of 64And I did not pair Black vs Black Velvet on purpose. If I did, I would've put Us and Them against And You And I, and Pigs against War Pigs, and I Alone against I Am I Said.
The Wizard
Imagine
Simple Man
Comfortably Numb
And Clocks against 25 or 6 to 4 (which many people don't know, but the song is about that time of night, 3:34-3:35 AM)
Linger
Glycerine
Comfortably Numb
Black Velvet
The Wizard
Black
Glycerine
Comfortably Numb
And I did not pair Black vs Black Velvet on purpose. If I did, I would've put Us and Them against And You And I, and Pigs against War Pigs, and I Alone against I Am I Said.
what WAS the method?
In this case I just sorted by number of seconds, which led to too much randomness in the grouping because most songs had two or three seconds.
Imagine
Simple Man
Comfortably Numb
I'm way too unfocused to know, but if it's still on the block I'll pick 25 or 6 to 4. Ahhh, Chicago in their best times. Love the horns.
Linger
Imagine
Edit: and Comfortably Numb (but I think that one already won)
All the Young Dudes
Even In the Quietest Moments
Where It's At
Dream On
War Pigs
Linger
Helplessly Hoping
Black
Helplessly Hoping 1, Simple Man 2
Black 2, Black Velvet 1
Wheee the
last of Round One:
Ain't No Sunshine vs. Closer To the Heart
Into the Mystic vs. And You And I
Enter Sandman vs. House of the Rising Sun
Closer To the Heart
And You And I
House of the Rising Sun
Ain't No Sunshine
Into the Mystic
House of the Rising Sun
Ain't No Sunshine
Sandman
Ain't No Sunshine
And You And I
House of the Rising Sun
Into the Mystic 2, And You And I 2
OK! The hard work is done.
All of Round 1 is completed. Round 2...
Whipping Post vs. Whole Lotta Love
Shine On You Crazy Diamond vs. Little Wing
Is it still 3 out of 5?
Whole Lotta love
Crazy Diamond
Whipping Post
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Whole Lotta love
Crazy Diamond
Whole Lotta Love
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Whole Lotta Love in a squeaker! LJ will be relieved.
now...
Sultans of Swing vs. Bohemian Rhapsody
Moon River vs. Clocks
Bohemian Rhapsody
Moon River
Sweet Dreams are Made of This vs. Frankenstein
Tubular Bells vs. All the Young Dudes
fieldWhole Lotta Love
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
the vote between Shine on you Crazy Diamond and Little Wing has me stumped.
and if Whole Lotta Love had lost to Whipping Post, I would have hunted the voters down and done bad awful things to their persons.
actually, I'm bound to hate you all by the end of this Field, so change your identity now and move to Prague.
Frankenstein
All the Young Dudes
Frankenstein
All the Young Dudes
the vote between Shine on you Crazy Diamond and Little Wing has me stumped.
agreed, truly offensive
and if Whole Lotta Love had lost to Whipping Post, I would have hunted the voters down and done bad awful things to their persons.
WLL= nice but overrated. *duck and cover*
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
All the Young Dudes
WLL= nice but overrated.
if by 'overrated' you mean awesome in it's elemental intensity and simplistic guttural response, then I agree.
My problem with Whole Lotta Love is twofold: it's not the best LZ song by far. In fact, I can't stand it. Give me Over the Hills and Far Away, anyday.
The other thing is that our local "rock" station thinks it's the ONLY song LZ ever produced...so it's the only one I ever hear on the radio. Of the dozens of wonderful Zeppelin tunes, all they ever play is the raucous and repetitive Whole Lotta Love (zzzzyuuuuummmm) Whole Lotta Love (zzzzyuummmmm) Whole Lotta Love (zzzzyuuuummmm.)
My big brother was a huge LZ fan, as were many, and had all the albums. WLL is just so...overdone, I guess. IMHO
They do the same thing with Steely Dan and Reeling in the Years.
Frankenstein (frahnken-steeen)
Pigs (3 Different Ones) vs. Linger
Black vs. Ain't No Sunshine
fieldPigs 2, Linger 2
Ain't No Sunshine 2, Black 1
Tambourine Man vs. Ants Marching
All Along the Watchtower vs. Nutshell
the fieldTambourine Man
All Along the Watchtower
Tambourine Man
All Along the Watchtower
Tambourine Man
All Along the Watchtower
Epic matchups developing
Us and Them vs. Kashmir
(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles vs. The Boxer
Nice
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? vs. 25 or 6 to 4
Imagine vs. Simple Man
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Simple Man
Simple Man
Have You Seen the Rain
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Simple Man
25 or 6 to 4
Simple Man
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Lennon worship is over (if you want it)
War Pigs vs. Comfortably Numb
Into the Mystic vs. House of the Rising Sun
Comfortably Numb
House of the Rising Sun
Comfortably Numb
Into the Mystic
War Pigs
Comfortably Numb
nah nah nah.:p:
I like CN better too, but was just voting opposite C-man, as he's knocked out my last few votes.
Black Sabbath is about as melodic as a dying calf in a hailstorm.
Into The Mystic
War Pigs
There are way better Pink Floyd songs than Comfortably Numb.
House Of the Rising sun like Comfortably numb are over played so maybe
that effects my vote somewhat.
Comfortably Numb
House of the Rising Sun
Numb in a squeaker!
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Sweet 16
Now... BEST OF 7, four votes to win...
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Mr Tambourine Man
zyyyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm
I like CN better too, but was just voting opposite C-man, as he's knocked out my last few votes.
Black Sabbath is about as melodic as a dying calf in a hailstorm.
There's more going on with that song than melody, vocals and Ozzy swinging his head like a pinwheel. :p:
Same with Whole Lotta Love, although not my favorite Led Zeppelin song there is so much more going on musically as to merit a vote.
No, I agree with that. In fact, my ex (who I can best describe as a percussionistic jazz-fusion lovin' Berklee college of music piano player) even once couldn't believe I was dissin' AC/DC. He said, basically, even if you don't LIKE the music...if you knew anything you would see how good it is musically, especially the "bass line" in Shook Me---(?)---music peeps, is that the phrase I was looking for?
I do really like Zep...just think it's the worst of their popular songs, that Whole Lotta.
I'm just difficult and I do love some nice melody and percussion and jazzy sounds.
I SAW Ozzy when I was in HS. :)
We are debuting "Whole Lotta Rosie" at the Ashton Tavern tomorrow night so... this question is relevant to my interests.
AC/DC is basically, let's take blues rock and bash you over the head with it. Most AC/DC songs have three notes, except for Angus's solo which has 29. It is not "good musically". I would say early to mid Stones can be just as simple, and yet much harder to pull off, because it has hidden swing to it which can't be duplicated. And yet, AC/DC does in fact rock, simply because it's so pure of heart and loudness. It's instinctive, it kicks you in the crotch and you can't ignore it.
Thanks. Was hoping to hear from the bass player. :)
I don't know a lot...though ex tried to teach me some things. I would surprise him from time to time if we were listening to some fusion and I'd notice something in the background, or something in the way it was arranged.
Some day there will be a road trip to see your band, UT. I'll throw Bri in the trunk and we'll just show up.
I see Linger is still lingering on. will someone please shoot that bitch? I think the next field of 64 should be for the worst song ever.
[petulant baby]Well, this one was flawed since the beginning with the obvious omission of STEELY DAN and the heavy-handed heavy guitar raucous stuff that I've been hearing since HS and it still sounds like nails on a blackboard and having heard it 9000 times it only produces yawns and chills whereas I could hear Black Cow 50 million times and still think it's beautiful[/still pouting over that]
I've been voting for the lessers of the evil, imo. Kinda like voting for president.
Just messin'. I mess. Sorta. ;)
But, for the rockers: :devil:
... it kicks you in the crotch and you can't ignore it.
I avoid anything that kicks me in the crotch.:nadkick::bolt:
Whole Lotta Love, if only because it's the Byrds not Dylan we're voting on.
Mr Tambourine Man
I agreed with Shaws assessment of Whole lotta love from a couple days ago. no where near one of the best LZ songs.
Whole Lotta Love has 4.
Bohemian Rhapsody
- or -
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
It's epic falling to epic now...
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
- or -
Kashmir
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Diamond goes through
Clocks
- or -
Comfortably Numb
comfortably numb.
anyone who votes for Coldplay is a dick in my book
Comfortably Numb. It's more of a vote against clocks, not that I hate coldplay completely, but clocks is an abomination.
Yeah
Frankenstein
- or -
All Along the Watchtower
All Along the Watchtower
Considering 'Frankenstein' (That's Fronkinstine!) is an instrumental, it's going to lose in a 'Best Song' contest...
OK then
Linger
- or -
Simple Man
simple man
quick! We need one more.......
Ain't No Sunshine
- vs -
Into the Mystic
Into the Sunshine
psych..... I abstain.
Very tough call.
Into the Mystic.
Pete wants Sunshine but she'll have to sign on and she isn't half the procrastinator I am...
Sunshine.
Ain't no...that is.
yeah....I'm reneging on my abstention.
Into the Mystic
because Van IS the Man
Van IS the man, but I never would have chosen that song to show it.
well....we WERE born before the Sun.....
which song would you have selected to represent the little drunken Mc?
The field!
All the Young Dudes
- or -
The Boxer
I'm going to be at the gym when Whole Lotta Love comes up again. Consider this my mail in vote.
Can't do that, wouldn't be prudent... but Sundays are light sometimes so maybe the vote won't be up when you get back.
Plus I should really concentrate on other things too so maybe I won't be around to tally the vote in a timely fashion
All The Young Dudes.
Even though I like S&G very much I like Bowie more plus we need something of another genre and that song is one of the best of all time too.
Interesting factoid about the Boxer. It took over 100 hours to record. :eek:
A little about Into The Mystic.
Listed as number 7 on the All Time 885 Greatest Songs compiled in 2004
Moondance( of which Into the Mystic is a song thereof) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and has continued to be a highly acclaimed album in the 2000s
In March 2007, Moondance was listed as #72 on the NARM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the "Definitive 200".
In December 2009, it was voted #11 top Irish album of all time.
Teh boxer.
My friend played Into the Mystic on a boombox at his mother's funeral just a few months after she spoke at my wedding. Makes me cry....
yeah , When people play songs at funerals it is a great way to mess up a song forever. Same with Mclaughlin's Angel song played at my aunts funeral. I just can't listen to it without it provoking strong sad emotions.
This reminded me.
I have decided on Walk To The Paradise garden for my moms funeral when the time comes.
I didn't go looking. I heard it one day and just knew I wanted that one. I don't know if that is sick or morbid to plan but it has to happen at sometime. I just don't see how she can go on like this for very long. The song inspires all of the peace I hope is there waiting for her when she does go. I don't want her to of course. She is suffering. I don't know how long people can suffer but I just can't see very far out in the future for her.
I'm sorry...what a downer :( That just spilled out.
All The Young Dudes.
Even though I like S&G very much I like Bowie more plus we need something of another genre and that song is one of the best of all time too.
Bowie? :confused:
Ladies and Gentlemen... your Elite 8
At this point I would say "Simple Man" is the surprise underdog. But does it have the legs to beat one of the greatest rock anthems of all time?
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Mr. Tambourine Man?
Whole Lotta Love
(Love the blackberry)..... Voting from the car on the way home from the gym. Jinx is driving.
Bowie? :confused:
To be fair, he DID "help" write it (most people agree that he probably basically wrote it himself) and played it live pretty consistently in the 70s.
To be fair, he DID "help" write it (most people agree that he probably basically wrote it himself) and played it live pretty consistently in the 70s.
Thanks.
Bowie did write it and sang his own dang song which as been included in his Albums.
The song originated after Bowie came into contact with Mott the Hoople's bassist Peter Watts and learned that the band was ready to split due to continued lack of commercial success. When Mott rejected his first offer of a composition, "Suffragette City" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars), Bowie wrote "All the Young Dudes" in short order specially for them, allegedly sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room in Regent Street, London, in front of the band's lead singer, Ian Hunter.
David Bowie's own studio version from 1973's sessions for Aladdin Sane, went unreleased until 1994 when it appeared in mono on the semi-legal album RarestOneBowie. It was subsequently included, again in mono, on The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974, the 30th Anniversary edition of Aladdin Sane, and the 2-disc US version of Best of Bowie. A stereo version circulates unofficially among collectors, as does a version consisting of the backing track for Mott the Hoople's version with Bowie's guide vocal. A variant of this version, combining Bowie's vocal on the choruses with Ian Hunter on the verses, was released on the 2006 reissue of All the Young Dudes. Bowie's first released version was in 1974 on the David Live double LP. Bowie
Gotta go with Tambo Man again.
Thanks.
Bowie did write it and sang his own dang song which as been included in his Albums.
...even though we ARE voting on the Mott the Hoople version.
Sorry Bob, I tried. :lol:
OK wait a minute.... I fucked up.... I was looking at the wrong place
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
All Along the Watchtower
To be fair, he DID "help" write it (most people agree that he probably basically wrote it himself) and played it live pretty consistently in the 70s.
Yeah, I've seen him do it, but he wrote it for Mott, they made it famous, and that's what we're voting on.
Oh, Whole Lotta Love.
Did you know that they used to blare Whole Lotta Love over the tank speakers in Viet Nam to scare Charlie?
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If thats true then. . . I'll have to give it a go even though...
OK then!
Bohemian Rhapsody
- or -
Simple Man
i have to listen to them both now.
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TOTALLY Apples and Oranges.
One of these songs is a single three note riff for 7 minutes.
bracket
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
- or -
All The Young Dudes
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Is it wrong that I'm an uniformed voter?
I know I like Crazy Diamond, and I'm voting for it with this post.
What is this young dudes song, and how did it make it this far?
It's a joke song written by one artist to embarrass another. It needs to be ousted.
Not true
ohhhh and . . . .
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
i think i'm already beaten but i have to say.... all the young dudes. Shine On is gorgeous, but it's no anthem. Dudes is so cross-generationally powerful, shine on is just a nice ode to a lost friend.
Semis are just huge already
Comfortably Numb
- vs -
Into the Mystic
i think i'm already beaten but i have to say.... all the young dudes. Shine On is gorgeous, but it's no anthem. Dudes is so cross-generationally powerful, shine on is just a nice ode to a lost friend.
I looked up dudes and listened to it, and I'm less ignorant than I thought. Not only do I know that song, but I like it. Just not as much as Diamond.
numbage - too many memories go with that for me not to pick it.
Ladies and Gentlemen... your Final Four
Now I think it should be Best-of-Nine for the last three games, although this may drag out a game. Let's do that. Five votes to win.
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
All tied up at 3s, great game so far, keep voting
Don't make me break this 4-4 tie!
C'mon people. If you haven't voted already, what's the better song?
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
UT - you shoulda never told 'em it was a tie!
I already knew. I don't feel like I care enough to vote, so to vote against the one I've been vehemently against since the get-go...just seems like it would be crappy of me at this stage in the competition.
Sorry guys.
to vote against the one I've been vehemently against since the get-go...just seems like it would be crappy of me at this stage in the competition.
Why is that? It would seem natural.
I think people who have not been involved should do the tie breaker too.
Or UT can make the call or someone with alot of emotional energy invested in their song can bribe me one way or the other.
I'm sort of feeling like Shawnee at the moment.
lol...That's a funny thought. ^^^
Shine on you crazy Diamond
Does that count? :p:
or someone can bribe me one way or the other.
I'll give you twice what Jim said he'd pay to vote the other way....
(Just kidding, I really don't care)
lol
I like both songs equally and that in itself isn't enough to break a tie.
I've contributed enough.
Whole lotta love
Whew, that was tough.
Thanks Stormie - for getting that over and done with.
what fine drama!
Bohemian Rhapsody
- vs -
Comfortably Numb
I'll go numb again since PF got beat out last time.
I'll go with Bohemian Rhapsody.
Bo Rhap
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango?
My hands feel just like 2 balloons. I have become comfortably nomnomnom
Floyd. Numb. Comfortable.
is it that the songs people wanted to win have been eliminated?
Like ....once your team is out of the playoffs, you could give a shit who wins the SuperBowl.... as long as it's a good game?
We're just trying to figure out which tune can beat Led Zep's maybe 5th best song... :eek:
I'll take, "What is Bohemian Rhapsody?" for a thousand Alex.
I'm actually surprised that Whole Lotta Love made the final.
I assumed that the nerdliness of the cellar would have seen to it's elimination to tainted love in round 3.
As for it not being Led Zeppelin's best song...... I vacillate....a little....but only because they have such a varied body of work. Like.... you could say Stairway is better....but that's a ballad... or... How Many More Times...but that's 12 bar blues.... or rock-n-roll....but that's almost pop.....
I just go back to the BALLS that song has. It's simple and loud....like a Thunder Storm.
I bet we could do a field of 64 Led Zeppelin Songs...
Over the Hills and Far Away
Traveling riverside blues
babe im gonna leave you
gallows pole
Ahh, yes, Gallow's Pole. I do love that one.
i gotcher gallows pole right here...
I see a bunch of dead people hanging from it! Accckkkkk!
Wait, wrong gallow's pole. Never mind.
:facepalm:
I just love that smilie.
dead hobos love my schwance
We're just trying to figure out which tune can beat Led Zep's maybe 5th best song... :eek:
I'll take, "What is Bohemian Rhapsody?" for a thousand Alex.
Is this a vote? Because people are starting to make their votes hard to count.
If you still need one my vote is Bohemian Rhapsody
Is this a vote? Because people are starting to make their votes hard to count.
that is clearly a vote for whole lotta love
my vague floyd reference was also intended as a vote for comfortably numb, since you're being a wang now.
It's 4-4 here despite wangdom
Break the tie!
Is this a vote? Because people are starting to make their votes hard to count.
Yes. 1 for Bohemian Rhapsody.
It's 4-4 here
Break the tie!
Shaw said she'd do it.
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No Floyd in the Final
Still best of 9
Whole Lotta Love
- or -
Bohemian Rhapsody
I'm surprise Floyd didn't make it.
Gotta go with Bohemian Rhapsody, Whole Lotta Love is just too grating and repetitive at times.
Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddy Mercury can sing.
I'll go with Boho Rhapsody.
I gots no love . . . no mo.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Could it be a shutout???
Comfortably Numb would have made a go of it at least ;)
Freddy Mercury can sing.
He's busy taking a dirt-nap at present, though.
Bohemian Rhapsody
:devil: Freddy Mercury :devil:
:devil: Freddy Mercury :devil:
Thanks UT...that was fun! :)
Stormie for the Win . . . . swish!
Excellent UT
Thanks - that was fun.
Well played folks! Cool stuff UT.
what should we do next?
64 best pictures of boobs?
64 worst songs?
64 most attractive people?
64 coolest letters of the alphabet?
whatever we do, I'd like to be more careful about the seeding process.
.... like.... if it was best band... have seed division by type or era instead of north south east west....
like oldies, 60-70s, 80-95, 95-current...or whatever
or bands that feature vocals, guitar, rythm sections, keyboard/pianists, etc
or genre....pop, rock, [strike]country[/strike], metal, jam band....
that's what jinx and i were talking about anyway.
