Thank you to everyone who has participated in the rankings thus far. Right now we are seeing some solid first round matchups, but a lot can change if we get more people to participate.
In an a effort to encourage others to participate, because I know how long it can take to put these lists together, I will keep the rankings open until next Sunday, March 1.
Here are the songs again, I hope you enjoy this and thanks again to all that have played so far. Also, feel free to pass this on to anybody else you think might have an interest in this.
Also, don't forget to submit one extra song as your number 65th choice for the play in match up.
JP
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Happy
Oasis - Supersonic
Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
AC/DC - Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
The Clash - London Calling
Blur – Parklife
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Prince - I Would Die 4 U
The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Nirvana - Drain You
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Radiohead - The Bends
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
Ride – Twisterella
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beirut - Postcards from Italy
Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Libertines - Death on the Stairs
Pixies – Debaser
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
New Order - Perfect Kiss
The Cure - Pictures of You
The Who - My Generation
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
Doves - There Goes The Fear
Stereophonics – Dakota
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Pearl Jam – Porch
The Jam - Town Called Malice
The Police – Roxanne
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
B-52's - Rock Lobster
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Kings of Leon - Slow Night So Long
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a 17-Year Old Girl
Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
Pink Floyd – Fearless
The Strokes - You Only Love Once
Metallica - Creeping Death
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Beck – Girl
The Ramones - Blizkrieg Bop
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
65th Seed
Right now the leading vote getter for the 65th entry is....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N_qX_r4Iw
Feel free to submit others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N_qX_r4Iw
Feel free to submit others
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Tournament
Now I knew before I started putting this project together that I would not be able to make everyone happy with this list. Nobody can. In fact, if I were to go back and put this together again, I am sure I would come up with a different 64.
Well, after 5 days of thinking about it, I put together a list of 64 songs that I thought we could turn into a tournament. My selection process had no define lines with the exception of one, no duplicate artists. Now this is what made the selection process a bit difficult. Sure, you can go through and pick a ton of rolling stones, Beatles, Dylan and Who songs, like Rolling Stone magazine did, but what fun would that be.
When making these selections, I tried to put together a good collection from different genres. Some old, some new, some rock, some roll, some pop and some metal. Regardless of where theses songs may fall, they all have one thing in common, they are all great tunes. Now in order for me to get down to 64, I had to leave behind many good tunes. You will notice that there is no rap, hip-hop, funk, R&B, reggae, Philadelphia Soul, Regular Soul, U2, The Eagles and Aerosmith. The reason behind this is because I needed to narrow this down and if I included those genres, there is now way I could have narrowed this down to 64. And those other bands, well, I just don’t like them.
These songs, I have not put in any particular order, so that is where I need your help. I gave you 64 songs, now I need you to help me rank them for the tournament.
This will be set up just like the NCAA Basketball tournament, so we will have 4 brackets of 16, with songs ranked 1-16 in each bracket. Now, I know that 64 songs is a lot to go through, but rank what you can. Even if you can only rank your favorite 8 songs in the list, that will help me set up the top 2 seeds in each bracket.
UPDATE: also, if you want to submit an additional song for the list, feel free. What I will do is have the most requested song off the list, play the song with the worst ranking in a play-in game, just like the tournament. The play-in game winner will then play the best ranked song in the opening round.
And just to clear up any confusion, please rank the songs from 1-64, with 1 being your favorite and 64 being your least favorite.
thanks to all who have participated already. this looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Well, here you go. Here are the 64 songs.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Happy
Oasis – Supersonic
Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O60kvW1dyCw
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huaCEYIvaXE
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
AC/DC - Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)
The Clash - London Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO1b-5RsAs
Blur – Parklife
The Doors – L.A. Woman
Prince - I Would Die 4 U
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Guns ‘n’ Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Nirvana - Drain You
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zPbBMbnjI
Radiohead - The Bends
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68KxXeeHXHk
Ride – Twisterella
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beirut - Postcards From Italy
Elvis Costello – (What's So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Libertines - Death on the Stairs
Pixies – Debaser
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
New Order - Perfect Kiss
The Cure - Pictures of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l54xuQmwks
The Who - My Generation
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae9l36SlyZM
Doves - There Goes the Fear
Stereophonics – Dakota
Arcade Fire - neighborhood #1 (tunnels)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5HpeA_WSo
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Pearl Jam – Porch
The Jam - Town Called Malice
The Police – Roxanne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kG-7I_Y6k
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Kings of Leon – Slow Night So Long
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for A 17-Year Old Girl
Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggjfnX20nw
Pink Floyd – Fearless
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1fl_U1dKU
Metallica - Creeping Death
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
New Pornographers – Sing Me Spanish Techno
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Beck – Girl
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Well, after 5 days of thinking about it, I put together a list of 64 songs that I thought we could turn into a tournament. My selection process had no define lines with the exception of one, no duplicate artists. Now this is what made the selection process a bit difficult. Sure, you can go through and pick a ton of rolling stones, Beatles, Dylan and Who songs, like Rolling Stone magazine did, but what fun would that be.
When making these selections, I tried to put together a good collection from different genres. Some old, some new, some rock, some roll, some pop and some metal. Regardless of where theses songs may fall, they all have one thing in common, they are all great tunes. Now in order for me to get down to 64, I had to leave behind many good tunes. You will notice that there is no rap, hip-hop, funk, R&B, reggae, Philadelphia Soul, Regular Soul, U2, The Eagles and Aerosmith. The reason behind this is because I needed to narrow this down and if I included those genres, there is now way I could have narrowed this down to 64. And those other bands, well, I just don’t like them.
These songs, I have not put in any particular order, so that is where I need your help. I gave you 64 songs, now I need you to help me rank them for the tournament.
This will be set up just like the NCAA Basketball tournament, so we will have 4 brackets of 16, with songs ranked 1-16 in each bracket. Now, I know that 64 songs is a lot to go through, but rank what you can. Even if you can only rank your favorite 8 songs in the list, that will help me set up the top 2 seeds in each bracket.
UPDATE: also, if you want to submit an additional song for the list, feel free. What I will do is have the most requested song off the list, play the song with the worst ranking in a play-in game, just like the tournament. The play-in game winner will then play the best ranked song in the opening round.
And just to clear up any confusion, please rank the songs from 1-64, with 1 being your favorite and 64 being your least favorite.
thanks to all who have participated already. this looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Well, here you go. Here are the 64 songs.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Happy
Oasis – Supersonic
Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O60kvW1dyCw
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huaCEYIvaXE
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
AC/DC - Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)
The Clash - London Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO1b-5RsAs
Blur – Parklife
The Doors – L.A. Woman
Prince - I Would Die 4 U
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Guns ‘n’ Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Nirvana - Drain You
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zPbBMbnjI
Radiohead - The Bends
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68KxXeeHXHk
Ride – Twisterella
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beirut - Postcards From Italy
Elvis Costello – (What's So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Libertines - Death on the Stairs
Pixies – Debaser
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
New Order - Perfect Kiss
The Cure - Pictures of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l54xuQmwks
The Who - My Generation
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae9l36SlyZM
Doves - There Goes the Fear
Stereophonics – Dakota
Arcade Fire - neighborhood #1 (tunnels)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5HpeA_WSo
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Pearl Jam – Porch
The Jam - Town Called Malice
The Police – Roxanne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kG-7I_Y6k
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Kings of Leon – Slow Night So Long
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for A 17-Year Old Girl
Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggjfnX20nw
Pink Floyd – Fearless
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1fl_U1dKU
Metallica - Creeping Death
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
New Pornographers – Sing Me Spanish Techno
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Beck – Girl
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Great Music Tournament
As the middle of February approaches, some people get excited about the upcoming hallmark holiday. Others, maybe looking toward the upcoming change of seasons, while the rest may think about Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, celebrate Black History Month or just think about the joy of taking out books at their local library since February is Library Lovers Month. Now I am sure people look forward to other things, but so what.
Now for me, I see pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training while college basketball teams make their final push to make the tournament. This is one of the best times of the year for me. The College basketball tournament may be the best playoff system in all of sports and on top of that when spring training begins, all baseball fans are optimistic about what their team might do in the upcoming year.
Well, I think we should take this opportunity to pay homage to this great time in the sports year and combine it with our favorite music. I think we should put together a list of 64 songs and create our own tournament to find out what song will emerge on top.
Now I am going to be gone for a few days, but I would like to start getting some songs submitted by the readers and then early next week, I will submit mine as well. The top 64 songs that get nominated the most will be in the tournament. I know that 64 is a lot, so it will take some time, but I also think that it will be more fun than work.
Well, please take some time and submit yours. If you only come up with 10, 14,30 or all 64, just submit what you got. I will start putting them together into brackets next week and we can start having a little fun with the lists.
I will submit a few to get the ball rolling.
In no particular order:
Rolling Stones – She’s Like a Rainbow
The Who – My Generation
Prince – I would die 4 U
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Happy
Oasis – Supersonic
The Smith’s – How Soon is Now
Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
The Beatles – A Day in the Life
The Clash – London Calling
The Jam – Town Called Malice
Talking Heads- This must be the place
Pixies – Debaser
Radiohead – The Bends
Nirvana – Drain You
The Animals – We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Doves – There Goes The Fear
Libertines – Death on the Stairs
Blur - Parklife
Now for me, I see pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training while college basketball teams make their final push to make the tournament. This is one of the best times of the year for me. The College basketball tournament may be the best playoff system in all of sports and on top of that when spring training begins, all baseball fans are optimistic about what their team might do in the upcoming year.
Well, I think we should take this opportunity to pay homage to this great time in the sports year and combine it with our favorite music. I think we should put together a list of 64 songs and create our own tournament to find out what song will emerge on top.
Now I am going to be gone for a few days, but I would like to start getting some songs submitted by the readers and then early next week, I will submit mine as well. The top 64 songs that get nominated the most will be in the tournament. I know that 64 is a lot, so it will take some time, but I also think that it will be more fun than work.
Well, please take some time and submit yours. If you only come up with 10, 14,30 or all 64, just submit what you got. I will start putting them together into brackets next week and we can start having a little fun with the lists.
I will submit a few to get the ball rolling.
In no particular order:
Rolling Stones – She’s Like a Rainbow
The Who – My Generation
Prince – I would die 4 U
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Happy
Oasis – Supersonic
The Smith’s – How Soon is Now
Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
The Beatles – A Day in the Life
The Clash – London Calling
The Jam – Town Called Malice
Talking Heads- This must be the place
Pixies – Debaser
Radiohead – The Bends
Nirvana – Drain You
The Animals – We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Doves – There Goes The Fear
Libertines – Death on the Stairs
Blur - Parklife
Friday, February 06, 2009
Dio, Man, Myth and Metal God
Sometime ago, a friend of mine proposed a rather interesting question to me. The question was one for the ages and of great thought. Only a select few would dare try to handle the question’s style, but since it has been some time, I believe it is time to propose that question to the rest of the world.
“Which Dio video do you think rocks the hardest?”
That is the kind of question that could melt one’s face or freak their mind. Despite the danger, it is a question we must ask and have the balls to answer. So people, which Dio video do you think rocks the hardest?
Rainbow in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ_FgL5l1og
Rock N’ Roll Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXuH7Ck34U
Last In Line
Holy Diver
Despite the awesomeness of the first three videos, Holy Diver is the answer for me. From the tough guitar riffs to the Dio with a Sword singing “ride the tiger!” nothing matches this video’s fierce ways.
Rock on Dio, Rock on!
Anyway, please discuss your answers. Not sure if you can give a wrong one.
“Which Dio video do you think rocks the hardest?”
That is the kind of question that could melt one’s face or freak their mind. Despite the danger, it is a question we must ask and have the balls to answer. So people, which Dio video do you think rocks the hardest?
Rainbow in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ_FgL5l1og
Rock N’ Roll Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXuH7Ck34U
Last In Line
Holy Diver
Despite the awesomeness of the first three videos, Holy Diver is the answer for me. From the tough guitar riffs to the Dio with a Sword singing “ride the tiger!” nothing matches this video’s fierce ways.
Rock on Dio, Rock on!
Anyway, please discuss your answers. Not sure if you can give a wrong one.
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