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Sunday, February 22, 2009

One more week to nominate

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

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

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

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

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.