Music Cup Round 7 - Dead Artists

First topic message reminder :

I really wanted to call this round 'coffin botherers' but I refrained so as not to offend the sensibilities of the wider forum.

Last round was a romp for transgender anthem Lola, followed by Rod Stewarts ode to a slightly morally corrupt woman sleeping with a schoolboy.

Back on more solid ground with this round, so please select your TWO favourite tracks from the poll. Maybe leave a reason why you voted for what you did, or even better, insult the selection of some of the rubbish tracks here.

The next round will be a bit of a narrower field, and I want your album openers. I.e. songs that are first on the album upon which they were originally released. I am taking a stand and refusing to accept compilation/best of albums because they will be all good songs.

Get them into me by Monday morning if you can and we'll get this hopping along.

Leaderboard is on the last round thread if you are so inclined to view it.

Il Gialloblu wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Il Gialloblu wrote:Gone for Macho Man and Stevie Hyper D.

Cash, Lennon, Marley etc are just too predictable to get excited about anymore. Especially 'Hurt'. Could have bet my house on it being on the list here, if I had one. It's been done to death and it still keeps popping up and getting votes.

Good lord, Gia.  Has super_insecure hacked your account.

Reading that back; yeah, it was pretty downbeat. I stand by it though. How about a round of 'Bands/Songs You Like But Nobody Else Knows'? Get people youtubing and discovering new stuff? Mix it up a bit.

Not a slight on sodhat's running of the game by the way, doing a sterling job, Sir. Just the nature of it (the game) I guess.

IG. YouTube a song called Stoned and Starving by a band called 'Parquet Courts'. They're the next big thing.

They both have the intro but its a little bit more forceful on Child. I prefer (and meant) slight return, just I always call it voodoo chile cos that's what it was called on the album I first heard it on and it just stuck

sodhat wrote:

chris.wilkerson13 wrote:I may be wrong but Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child slight return are just insignificantly different recordings of the same song, I believe Chile the original

Voodoo Child is the one with the wah-wah guitar intro. The one Hogan used as his entrance in the WCW days. Chile is more bluesy, and long.

You were doing so well up to that point.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

sodhat wrote:

chris.wilkerson13 wrote:I may be wrong but Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child slight return are just insignificantly different recordings of the same song, I believe Chile the original

Voodoo Child is the one with the wah-wah guitar intro. The one Hogan used as his entrance in the WCW days. Chile is more bluesy, and long.

You were doing so well up to that point.

The fact you understand the reference is still a win for me.

I think the reference might have been suited to his audience as he knows I'll know what he means!

Its cos apparently 24 is that age for me where once something gets stuck in your head it will remain that name however much you mean it to be someone else. Its similar to someone ive played football with for months being called Steve, but I have been calling him Pete since I met him and only found out last week I was wrong

seanmichaels wrote:
IG. YouTube a song called Stoned and Starving by a band called 'Parquet Courts'. They're the next big thing.

Not bad michaels. A little bit lo-fi for me but I could vote for them in a future round. Cheers for sharing.

Adam D wrote:I have voted for Elvis but American Trilogy is my favorite.

snap

sodhat

sent you my round 7 picks , dont think they will get many votes but they are my 2 of my alltime favourite albums

All along the watchtower, Hurt

Kudos to whoever went for the 1812 overture, if I'd remembered "classical" I might have gone for the Allegri Miserere! Or Lotti.

However i have gone for Redding and Voodoo Child. Glad someone has voted for mine as it is far less well known than many on that list

Or Nessun Dorma by Pavarotti, which still gives me goosebumps.

The 1812 is just a mishmash of the Russian & French anthems with a bit of cannon-fire & bell-ringing for effect.  Very listenable but a bit lazy on Tchaikovsky's part.

I just had to re-vote. I completely missed Grace by Jeff Buckley and that is a top tune. Kudos to the selector.

sodhat wrote:I just had to re-vote. I completely missed Grace by Jeff Buckley and that is a top tune. Kudos to the selector.

Why, thankyou

A flipping wrestler has 4 votes. What an earth is going on here. I have never heard it and have no intention of listening to it but I already know it is not worth 4 votes.

This whole process is deeply flawed and with that in mind, I am out sodhat.

Until the next round when I will be back in.

The day that Macho Man Randy Savage gets more votes in a best song poll, ahead of Marley, Presley and Tchaikovsky is a sad day indeed, Tino.

sodhat wrote:The day that Macho Man Randy Savage gets more votes in a best song poll, ahead of Marley, Presley and Tchaikovsky is a sad day indeed, Tino.

It's got more votes than all my selections over 7 rounds combined.

(Excluding my own votes of course - thank f for me.)

It's one vote behind Imagine

And Sinatra

I voted for Macho Man because I hate the majority of the songs on the list, and liked Macho Man far more than any of the people on the list. I've never even heard the song!

Marley, Lennon, Harrison, Sinatra, Buckley, all rubbish for me. Hendrix was my first vote, but I liked the novelty of Macho being in there.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I voted for Macho Man because I hate the majority of the songs on the list, and liked Macho Man far more than any of the people on the list. I've never even heard the song!

Marley, Lennon, Harrison, Sinatra, Buckley, all rubbish for me. Hendrix was my first vote, but I liked the novelty of Macho being in there.

Oh man, Azzy.

Marley = boring, all sounds the same, lazy music for me.
Lennon = boring, hate his voice, hate his face
Harrison = boring, hate him as a person
Sinatra = too 'old time' for me, I can appreciate why people like his music, I just don't
Buckley = can't stand the music

You know I loathe The Beatles and U2, are you surprised I don't like bong music as well?

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Marley = boring, all sounds the same, lazy music for me.
Lennon = boring, hate his voice, hate his face
Harrison = boring, hate him as a person
Sinatra = too 'old time' for me, I can appreciate why people like his music, I just don't
Buckley = can't stand the music

Randy Savage = person who wears lycra and rolls around on floor with other men.  Not even a musician.

Where is Jeff, he has banned people for far less than this.

Azzy, is there anything you like?

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Marley = boring, all sounds the same, lazy music for me.
Lennon = boring, hate his voice, hate his face
Harrison = boring, hate him as a person
Sinatra = too 'old time' for me, I can appreciate why people like his music, I just don't
Buckley = can't stand the music

You know I loathe The Beatles and U2, are you surprised I don't like bong music as well?

Each to their own, I guess. I have no problem with you not personally liking any of the artists listed, but categorising them all as rubbish was tough to get my head around.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Marley = boring, all sounds the same, lazy music for me.
Lennon = boring, hate his voice, hate his face
Harrison = boring, hate him as a person
Sinatra = too 'old time' for me, I can appreciate why people like his music, I just don't
Buckley = can't stand the music

Randy Savage = person who wears lycra and rolls around on floor with other men.  Not even a musician.

Where is Jeff, he has banned people for far less than this.

you'd love this Tina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exbsw5ssn4I

ChequeredJersey wrote:Azzy, is there anything you like?

Bananarama. Genesis. Erasure. Lionel Richie. The list is endless [love].

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Azzy, is there anything you like?

Bananarama. Genesis. Erasure. Lionel Richie. The list is endless [love].

I'm glad it did end

Good Genesis or Genesis when Phil Collins was allowed to do anything other than bang his drums?

seanmichaels wrote:


you'd love this Tina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exbsw5ssn4I

I can't open it seany but knowing you, it is probably a clip of some camp wrestler wearing funny coloured pants and molesting another semi-naked man in front of thousands of drooling morons.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Marley = boring, all sounds the same, lazy music for me.
Lennon = boring, hate his voice, hate his face
Harrison = boring, hate him as a person
Sinatra = too 'old time' for me, I can appreciate why people like his music, I just don't
Buckley = can't stand the music

Randy Savage = person who wears lycra and rolls around on floor with other men.  Not even a musician.

Where is Jeff, he has banned people for far less than this.

I'm here Tina. Just let me know whoo needs to go

Rowley wrote:


I'm here Tina. Just let me know whoo needs to go

Azzy, mate. Might as well get shot of michaels whilst you're at it.

Tino, your dislike for wrestling is bordering on worrying. Have you had an experience with an oiled up man in lycra that you weren't comfortable with?

Have you never seen Big E? 

Enforcer wrote:Tino, your dislike for wrestling is bordering on worrying. Have you had an experience with an oiled up man in lycra that you weren't comfortable with?

He wasn't oiled up. That was half the problem.

At least Redding is leading poll, followed by a Great Song that I didn't vote for because I'm not sure it counted with Dylan, the writer, still alive

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:


you'd love this Tina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exbsw5ssn4I

I can't open it seany but knowing you, it is probably a clip of some camp wrestler wearing funny coloured pants and molesting another semi-naked man in front of thousands of drooling morons.

Save it for when you get home petal.

Tina, do not let the naysayers grind you down on this one. Is rare around here but you are 100% correct on this one. Adults should not watch wrestling. It is like listening to heavy metal and excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

Rowley wrote:excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

Oops.

Il Gialloblu wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Il Gialloblu wrote:Gone for Macho Man and Stevie Hyper D.

Cash, Lennon, Marley etc are just too predictable to get excited about anymore. Especially 'Hurt'. Could have bet my house on it being on the list here, if I had one. It's been done to death and it still keeps popping up and getting votes.

Good lord, Gia.  Has super_insecure hacked your account.

Reading that back; yeah, it was pretty downbeat. I stand by it though. How about a round of 'Bands/Songs You Like But Nobody Else Knows'? Get people youtubing and discovering new stuff? Mix it up a bit.

Not a slight on sodhat's running of the game by the way, doing a sterling job, Sir. Just the nature of it (the game) I guess.

I'd be so up for that. Though 2 of those bands just became a lot more popular (Bastille and Passenger, though the latter is no longer really a band as such)

Rowley wrote:Tina, do not let the naysayers grind you down on this one. Is rare around here but you are 100% correct on this one. Adults should not watch wrestling. It is like listening to heavy metal and excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

The best thing I can say for Wrestling is that it gave us the Rock as an actor, who never fails to impress me at how non-1Dimensional he actually is

Rowley wrote:Tina, do not let the naysayers grind you down on this one. Is rare around here but you are 100% correct on this one. Adults should not watch wrestling. It is like listening to heavy metal and excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

and the use of lol's etc i presume?

got some kids helping me at the cricket club these days which involves communication via text messages. it is bloody painful. kk this, kk that. what the hell does that mean?

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Azzy, is there anything you like?

Bananarama. Genesis. Erasure. Lionel Richie. The list is endless [love].

You like Lionel Ritchie and you lambasted people in the last round for liking Rod Stewart????

ChequeredJersey wrote:


I'd be so up for that. Though 2 of those bands just became a lot more popular (Bastille and Passenger, though the latter is no longer really a band as such)

Jersey, my wife used to have her hair cut by the sister of one the members of Bastille. True story.

She used to rattle on about for ages before they landed on the radio. Good little band.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

Oops.

As meatloaf put it two out of three ain't bad

Would like to think Sean the use of L*L would go without say.

seanmichaels wrote:

Rowley wrote:Tina, do not let the naysayers grind you down on this one. Is rare around here but you are 100% correct on this one. Adults should not watch wrestling. It is like listening to heavy metal and excessive masturbation as things that should be grown out of as you leave your teenage years.

and the use of lol's etc i presume?

got some kids helping me at the cricket club these days which involves communication via text messages. it is bloody painful. kk this, kk that. what the hell does that mean?

It's a marginally easier way (on a phone as it only uses one key) of typing OK. Which is an abbreviation of the phonetic spelling of "All Correct" said in an American accent, according to my old German Teacher

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:


I'd be so up for that. Though 2 of those bands just became a lot more popular (Bastille and Passenger, though the latter is no longer really a band as such)

Jersey, my wife used to have her hair cut by the sister of one the members of Bastille.  True story.

She used to rattle on about for ages before they landed on the radio.  Good little band.

They are that, indeed, and their new, well known album Bad Blood is pretty strong throughout

crazygangwomble wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Azzy, is there anything you like?

Bananarama. Genesis. Erasure. Lionel Richie. The list is endless [love].

You like Lionel Ritchie and you lambasted people in the last round for liking Rod Stewart????

Dude catch the sarcasm

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

crazygangwomble wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Azzy, is there anything you like?

Bananarama. Genesis. Erasure. Lionel Richie. The list is endless [love].

You like Lionel Ritchie and you lambasted people in the last round for liking Rod Stewart????

Dude catch the sarcasm

Ok got it