Music Cup Round 2: The 27 Club

As there's been another addition to the club in the past week I thought this would be quite a topical round to go with. Been some great choices coming in so as usual please pick your 3 favourite in the poll.


I will on hols as of Friday so I'm also announcing next weeks round, please ensure that you have your choice in as of 5pm on Thursday so I can forward them onto my volunteer guest host!

Next weeks round is...

Songs with 'love' in the title.

Oh great, more of The Doors

You were my inspiration for this round, you should feel honoured!

Submitted next weeks suggestions too

Two of my nominations are up there - unfortunately my first choice is not doing as well as my second.

Some good (and odd choices)

I'm touched

Who bought the farm in the Manics?

Richie Edwards - the original singer.

How can you not love the Doors

He was the guitarist Hobo!

Doh! What was I thinking! I meant the original Lyricist!

Of course you did

Voted for Satisfaction, Motorcycle Emptiness and Back to Black.

Perhaps showing my lack of musical knowledge- but is Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix similar to the song with the same name by the Rogue Traders?

Churchill wrote:Voted for Satisfaction, Motorcycle Emptiness and Back to Black.

Perhaps showing my lack of musical knowledge- but is Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix similar to the song with the same name by the Rogue Traders?

One is buy a legendary black guitarist, one is by the bird from Neighbours.

I think Jimi just turned in his grave.

Clarke James wrote:

Churchill wrote:Voted for Satisfaction, Motorcycle Emptiness and Back to Black.

Perhaps showing my lack of musical knowledge- but is Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix similar to the song with the same name by the Rogue Traders?

One is buy a legendary black guitarist, one is by the bird from Neighbours.

I think Jimi just turned in his grave.

Just YouTube'd it, I think I've heard it before, but I'm more familiar with the Rogue Traders song

Hobo wrote:Richie Edwards - the original singer.

oh I never knew that

Dicey Reilly wrote:How can you not love the Doors

Quite easily, however I don't think I can get into it again for fear of being ed by the admins who seem to have a soft spot for the doors

^^^^^^^^^see you can use the smiley for something :P

It's only me I think that has a love for them, my dad was a huge fan so I was brought up on him playing the albums.
It could be worse, you could have a Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny and early Genesis round!

Hero wrote:It's only me I think that has a love for them

Not at all! I think they are great too - but then that's expected from someone my age. Right Clarke?

Davie wrote:

Hero wrote:It's only me I think that has a love for them

Not at all! I think they are great too - but then that's expected from someone my age. Right Clarke?

Of course!

I like them too. I guess that is enough to ban TipToes then?

It's closer than I thought, I thought Smells Like Teen Spirit would run away with this

It's a great track without doubt, it just gets overplayed, whenver you hear a radio DJ say they're going to play a Nirvana track you know 9 times out of 10 that it'll be that one which is a shame as they did a load of really great other tracks.

I hope Smells Like Teen Spirit doesn't run away with it! It's a good song but I think it's developed this reputation as defining Nirvana's sound, and I'm not sure it does.

Like Hero says it can't help that it is ridiculously overplayed!

It's a problem all big bands suffer. Their most played song isn't always the best

Smoke On The Water
Back In Black
Another Brick In The Wall
Paranoid
Stairway To Heaven

All suffer the same fate (though when I was doing my internet radio show I would sometimes play "Smoke" because songs like that get so overplayed that people shy away from them and they end up UNDER played!)

This round is reminding me of how to play this cup game. Dont actually pick good songs, just the popular ones that will appeal to the demographic of this board.

Boo to the lot of you.

I picked.

Vodoo Child
Piece of my heart - had to pick a Joplin song even though this wasn't one of her best.
All along the watchtower - anyone who can improve on a Dylan original has my admiration.

I didn't pick a Nirvana song as my choice but I would have gone with Lithium, R@pe Me, Polly or In Bloom.

In Bloom would have been my choice for a Nirvana song.

Dass wrote:I picked.

Vodoo Child
Piece of my heart - had to pick a Joplin song even though this wasn't one of her best.
All along the watchtower - anyone who can improve on a Dylan original has my admiration.

Not only does Dass have good movie taste, he also picked my song!

Come As You Are for me, but there isn't much in it between that and an extensive chasing pack. The album of theirs I listen to most is the Unplugged album, which has a few excellent covers on it too.

I would've been torn between Smells Like Teen Spirit and Lithium.

Question:

If Richie Edwards turns up between now and the end of the round do the 2 Manics songs become void?

I'm sure that Electric would be willing to drop his current last place points for the return of his saviour.

Perhaps that's where he's gone on hols to?

I can honestly say I don't like one song on that list.

then dont vote for 3 - just mine!

scfc1992 wrote:I can honestly say I don't like one song on that list.

I'm intrigued into what you do like now because you've also mentioned you hate new music in a past post.

Are you the lone Country fan?

The Smiths, Stone Roses, Blur, Oasis, Radiohead, The Clash, Joy Division, The Jam, Inspiral Carpets, The Cranberries, Madness, Motorhead, Guns N' Roses, New Order, NWA, Pulp, The Buzzcocks, The La's, The Who, Johnny Cash, Ultravox, The Bluetones, Limp Bizkit, The Rifles

With that cross section, I am amazed there isnt anything in this round you like.

For example, Paint it Black (not my choice I hasten to add) would fit in with a lot of that music. Same goes for the Manics.

scfc1992 wrote:The Smiths, Stone Roses, Blur, Oasis, Radiohead, The Clash, Joy Division, The Jam, Inspiral Carpets, The Cranberries, Madness, Motorhead, Guns N' Roses, New Order, NWA, Pulp, The Buzzcocks, The La's, The Who, Johnny Cash, Ultravox, The Bluetones, Limp Bizkit, The Rifles

Like about 60% of that list and some of my favourite bands on that list, strange then that barring Amy Winehouse I like most of the artists in the poll

Voted for:

Winehouse - Back to Black
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Manics - Motorcycle Emptiness

My tag partner has let me down

You picked a woman and the second most talented one on that list (there are only two!) Shame on you!

Well as Hobo appears to have stolen my first choice, my second choice isnt doing to badly

i think you got my second choice - how bizarre is that!

The only song I think that might have challenged that didnt appear was 'passenger' by iggy pop (one of the stooges was in the 27 club)

Ha Ha, if that's the case i compliment you on your taste

Songs in for next round,

In future PM me which are yours Hobo

Hero wrote:

scfc1992 wrote:I can honestly say I don't like one song on that list.

I'm intrigued into what you do like now because you've also mentioned you hate new music in a past post.

Are you the lone Country fan?

lol

Sent mine for the 3rd round

Hero,

Is there any chance you can confirm which of the Manics songs is Demons?

Faster. The bottom one.

Hero wrote:Faster. The bottom one.

I had a feeling it was. Poor lamb, he's not gonna be happy.