Bracket A Velvet Underground Flaming Lips New York Dolls XTC Sonic Youth The Pretenders Abba Janes Addiction BRACKET B Yes Mott The Hoople Buzzcocks 13th Floor Elevators Talking Heads Devo Temptations Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Replacements Circle Jerks Carpenters Husker Du Modest Mouse T Rex White Stripes Radio Head BRACKET D Pixies Iggy and the Stooges Wilco The Byrds Joy Division Guided By Voices Coldplay Motorhead
The fact that Radiocrap beat The Cult makes me sick. Yep, y'all are correct. "I'm a creep" beats the hell out of "She Sells Sanctuary" Riiggghhhtt. I'm going back to my poll.
I'm not in Fatty's hilarious club, where voting for anyone at all over also ran bands like AC/DC or The Cult earns you the ultimate in rolly eyes, but I have to say it is ****ed up to pit Talking Heads against Devo. In the words of David Cross, that sh*t ain't right. But here goes anyway. Bracket A Velvet Underground Flaming Lips New York Dolls XTC Sonic Youth The Pretenders Abba Janes Addiction BRACKET B Yes Mott The Hoople Given the competition, both these bands should be eliminated this round. Buzzcocks 13th Floor Elevators Talking Heads Devo So uncool. Temptations Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Replacements Circle Jerks Carpenters Husker Du Modest Mouse T Rex White Stripes Radio Head BRACKET D Pixies Iggy and the Stooges Another horrible matchup given all the bands that shouldn't even be in this round, but The Pixies are like the damn Beatles. Sorry, Iggy. Wilco The Byrds Another toughie, but Wilco's Wilco. Joy Division Guided By Voices Coldplay Motorhead
First off, the song is called "Creep", not "I'm a Creep". Second of all, it is probably the one song that Thom Yorke and the rest of the band despise because it is the only song that jabronis like yourself know as it probably came on before "She Shook Me All Night" or "Thunderstruck" one day on your radio. Votes are in bold: Bracket A Velvet Underground Flaming Lips New York Dolls XTC Sonic Youth The Pretenders Abba Janes Addiction BRACKET B Yes Mott The Hoople Buzzcocks 13th Floor Elevators Talking Heads Devo Temptations Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Replacements Circle Jerks Carpenters Husker Du Modest Mouse T Rex White Stripes Radiohead BRACKET D Pixies Iggy and the Stooges Wilco The Byrds Joy Division Guided By Voices Coldplay Motorhead A couple of toughies - XTC is a band that I will eventually get into, but I had to go with the New York Dolls since I have their debut (hadn't listened to it in ages). Radiohead's and Pixies' competitors are very solid bands but I feel that Thom & Co. and Black Francis & Co. are the stronger bands. Finally, the last and hardest of them all was the Motorhead against Coldplay matchup. I like both of these bands, but #1, I have a feeling that Coldplay will get more votes because they are a more known band and #2, when you do something as kickass as "Ace of Spades", you deserve to move on to the next round.
BRACKET A Velvet Underground XTC Sonic Youth Abba BRACKET B Yes 13th Floor Elevators Talking Heads Temptations BRACKET C Replacements Hüsker Dü Modest Mouse Radiohead BRACKET D Pixies Wilco Guided By Voices Coldplay (edited to add umlauts to Hüsker Dü)
Flaming Lips New York Dolls The Pretenders Janes Addiction BRACKET B Mott The Hoople Buzzcocks Devo (should of gone all the way but I know yall will pick TH, but it's understandable) Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Circle Jerks Husker Du T Rex White Stripes BRACKET D Iggy and the Stooges The Byrds Joy Division Motorhead That was hard as hell. Some of them were a coin flip.
Bracket A Velvet Underground - velvet underground did more heroin Flaming Lips New York Dolls XTC - xtc! xtc! xtc! Sonic Youth - *** The Pretenders Abba Janes Addiction *** - im just going to pretend "strays" never happened BRACKET B Yes - *** Mott The Hoople Buzzcocks 13th Floor Elevators - texans get the nod Talking Heads - i just like them better Devo Temptations Dead Kennedys - *** what an odd matchup BRACKET C Replacements - *** Circle Jerks Carpenters Husker Du - *** Modest Mouse T Rex - *** White Stripes Radio Head - *** how the hell did white stripes beat mars volta? what is wrong with you people! BRACKET D Pixies - *** - both could be final 4, but pixies win out. Iggy and the Stooges Wilco - *** The Byrds Joy Division Guided By Voices - *** like both, but bigger gbv fan. might have voted new order over them though. Coldplay Motorhead - motorhead beats radiohead-lite.
Bracket A Flaming Lips New York Dolls Sonic Youth Abba BRACKET B Yes Buzzcocks Talking Heads (this was so hard to choose between) Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Replacements Carpenters Modest Mouse Radio Head BRACKET D Pixies The Byrds Guided By Voices Motorhead
Bracket A Velvet Underground New York Dolls Sonic Youth Janes Addiction BRACKET B Yes Buzzcocks Devo Temptations BRACKET C Replacements Carpenters Modest Mouse Radio Head BRACKET D Iggy and the Stooges The Byrds Joy Division Coldplay
My thoughts exactly. P.S. On a side note how come Bob Marley and the Wailers has never made it on any bracket? Go Figure.
The Temptations vs. Dead Kennedys? Are you talking about The Temptations? How the hell did they end up in this poll? Coldplay vs. Motorhead. LOL, I'd rather see these two bands fight it out for real. Can you imagine Chris Martin vs. Lemmy in The Octagon? I'd pay a lot of money to see that.
Bracket A Velvet Underground ( love the lips. i used to sing "do you realize" to my first born son as a lullaby. but, selfish as i am, i can't vote against the VU ) XTC The Pretenders ( i don't go all nostalgic for abba, don't like jane's addiction much, abstain ) BRACKET B Mott The Hoople ( yes equals no ) Buzzcocks Talking Heads ( devo is great, talking heads rule ) Dead Kennedys ( another selfish choice ) BRACKET C Replacements Husker Du T Rex ( love the mouse but... ) Radio Head ( white stripes- overrated, radiohead, underrated ) "Airbag" In the next world war In a jackknifed juggernaut I am born again In the neon sign Scrolling up and down I am born again In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a deep deep sleep of the innocent I am born again In a fast german car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe BRACKET D Pixies ( easy choice, the pixies are really, really good ) Wilco Joy Division Motorhead ( motorhead is so "just okay". coldplay is ****ing lame. LAME. )
maybe b/c he is viewed as a "solo" artist, even though it was billed bob marley AND the wailers. like prince and the revolution kool and the gang and as far as mars volta loosing to white stripes, i will again submit that if you are only going to be a two piece band than one of your members cannot suck as bad on their instrument as the drummer does. i just heard mars volta for the first time about a month ago (never was a big at the drive in fan, though i did see them once). those guys are doing some absolutely amazing stuff. ive been listening alot to both of their records. all you prog rockers should give it a listen. equal parts punk, psychedellic, prog rock, metal and even cumbia-style latin rhythms. they also do yes proud by averaging about 10 minutes a song.
Bracket A Velvet Underground Janes Addiction BRACKET B Buzzcocks Dead Kennedys BRACKET C Modest Mouse Radio Head BRACKET D Coldplay
I am going to get their 2 albums but I am a little worried that this band used to be a part of At-the-Drive-In which makes me think they might be an emo rock band. Can you tell any influence of Floyd in their songs? What other bands do you think influenced them? Thanks.
