Band Face Off - Round 51

[trackaghost]

Michael's little sis fought off the dancing (and fawning) skills of Paula Abdul and the famous ass of J-Lo in the last round.

Round 51: prog rock for Gaius. (And I've included Rush, just cos I can)

By the way, who do you all think I should put Neil Diamond up against? He needs a face off!

The results so far...
Round 1: Petty defeats Springsteen - 36 to 19
Round 2: Led Zeppelin defeat The Who - 22 to 19
Round 3: Madonna defeats Sheryl Crow/Kate Bush - 24 to 13/10
Round 4: The Beatles defeat Rolling Stones/U2 - 23 to 16/14
Round 5: Guns N Roses defeat Bon Jovi/Metallica - 17 to 13/12
Round 6: Heart defeat Blondie/The Pretenders - 23 to 16/6
Round 7: The Beach Boys defeat The Kinks/The Byrds - 24 to 10/10
Round 8: Johnny Cash defeats Elvis Presley/Roy Orbison - 20 to 19/7
Round 9: Abba defeats The Carpenters - 25 to 15
Round 10: Prince defeats Jimi Hendrix/Lenny Kravitz - 24 to 15/3
Round 11: No Doubt defeat Garbage/Hole - 27 to 11/9
Round 12: Bob Dylan defeats Neil Young - 26 to 25
Round 13: Dolly Parton defeats Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt - 20 to 17/9
Round 14: Marvin Gaye defeats Aretha Franklin/Stevie Wonder/Diana Ross - 14 to 11/10/2
Round 15: David Bowie defeats Lou Reed/Iggy Pop - 38 to 5/2
Round 16: Talking Heads defeat The Clash - 21 to 19
Round 17: Billie Holiday defeats Ella Fitzgerald - 25 to 7
Round 18: The Eagles defeat Lynyrd Skynyrd - 30 to 17
Round 19: The Doors defeat Jefferson Airplane - 22 to 17
Round 20: Elvis Costello defeats Sting - 19 to 13
Round 21: Eurythmics defeat Depeche Mode/New Order - 27 to 7/6
Round 22: Duran Duran defeat Tears For Fears - 21 to 15
Round 23: Tori Amos defeats Alanis Morissette/Jewel - 21 to 11/8
Round 24: REM defeat Coldplay - 34 to 9
Round 25: The White Stripes defeat Beck - 19 to 18
Round 26: Pink Floyd defeat Radiohead - 30 to 9
Round 27: The Killers defeat Franz Ferdinand/Maroon 5 - 15 to 14/5
Round 28: Nirvana defeat Pearl Jam/Soundgarden - 15 to 13/4
Round 29: Elton John defeats Billy Joel - 31 to 11
Round 30: Creedence Clearwater Revival defeat The Band/The Grateful Dead - 25 to 7/7
Round 31: Aerosmith defeat AC/DC/Van Halen - 20 to 11/7
Round 32: Whitney Houston defeats Celine Dion/Christina Aguilera/Mariah Carey - 10 to 9/9/8
Round 33: Joni Mitchell defeats Carole King/Jackson Browne/James Taylor - 15 to 14/4/4
Round 34: Patti Smith defeats PJ Harvey - 24 to 7
Round 35: OutKast defeat Eminem/Kanye West - 18 to 9/4
Round 36: Bonnie Raitt defeats Eric Clapton - 22 to 13
Round 37: Nick Cave defeats Leonard Cohen/Tom Waits - 10 to 9/9
Round 38: Loretta Lynn defeats Patsy Cline/Tammy Wynette - 15 to 13/7
Round 39: The Cars defeat B-52's/The Go Gos/Devo - 15 to 14/6/2
Round 40: Queen defeat Black Sabbath/Deep Purple - 21 to 13/4
Round 41: Tina Turner defeats Bette Midler/Cher - 22 to 10/6
Round 42: Bob Marley defeats Sly & The Family Stone - 19 to 16
Round 43: Roxy Music defeats T-Rex - 17 to 11
Round 44: Ryan Adams defeats Wilco - 10 to 7
Round 45: Peter Gabriel defeats Phil Collins - 23 to 9
Round 46: Sarah McLachlan defeats Natalie Merchant/Maria McKee - 14 to 9/4
Round 47: Red Hot Chili Peppers defeat The Black Crowes/Oasis - 13 to 9/8
Round 48: Salt N Pepa defeat TLC/Destiny's Child - 11 to 7/5
Round 49: The Pixies defeat Sonic Youth/Jane's Addiction - 9 to 6/5
Round 50: Janet Jackson defeats Paula Abdul/Jennifer Lopez - 14 to 10/3

[strandinthewind]

Rush - hands down - at least to me.

I think they are just brilliant and killer in concert!!!!!

[Richard B]

What's a prostitutes favorite rock band?

Yes!

lol.


Oookay...bye now!

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Michael's little sis fought off the dancing (and fawning) skills of Paula Abdul and the famous ass of J-Lo in the last round.

Round 51: prog rock for Gaius. (And I've included Rush, just cos I can)

Woohoo! So many of my friends seem to hate Rush for no damn good reason. SO this one's for you, Geddy! I always had your back!

And everybody has to vote on this one. Remember: If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

By the way, who do you all think I should put Neil Diamond up against? He needs a face off!

I was wondering if you were ever going to do Neil. Perhaps Burt Bacharach? Although he's always been much more just a songwriter as opposed to also being a performer. But he did release an album of his own this year that, like Neil's, seems to be something of an attempt to up his "cool" factor.

There should also be a Rat Pack face-off: Frank v. Dean v. Sammy...

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

By the way, who do you all think I should put Neil Diamond up against? He needs a face off!

Barry Manilow
Paul Anka

Yup. They were all around at the same time and completely AC and the better one being the Diamond.

[jannieC]

I saw Rush in concert for the first time not too long ago and was blown away. They are incredible.

[Beachwood Mac]

My vote goes to Genesis as long as it's the band led by Peter Gabriel.

Originally Posted by trackaghost

By the way, who do you all think I should put Neil Diamond up against? He needs a face off!

how about Tom Jones?

[face of glass]

All bands with their merits. I actually like Rush the least; they jumped on the prog train far too late anyway, but of course have deserved their fan base. Just don't bring Power Windows anywhere near me and we can live in peace.

ELP: moments of brilliance (think the first album, Tarkus or BSS) but even during their peak period they could be inconsistent (Trilogy).

Tull: High quality stuff from 1968-1972, patchier afterwards but stuff like Heavy Horses still rocks my boat.

But it is the ones who achieved transcendental, almost religious moments in their music that stand out the most for me, the pretentious fool.

Yes: Peak period from 1971 to 1977; only Tales leaves me cold. Several key pieces of the genre belong to them ("Roundabout", "CTTE", "Gates Of Delirium", "Awaken"), and they're the only band out of this bunch that I've seen at concert. Professional, even sometimes funny, show all the way. "I Get Up I Get Down" and "Soon" bring me to tears and the harder parts of "CTTE" and "GOD" send shivers down my spine.

Genesis: My favourite of them all. I don't give a damn if From Genesis To Revelation sounds immature (I still like it), I don't care too much for their post-Gabriel career where they alternated between good quality pop music and banal pap; it is the albums released between 1971-1974 that do it for me. They were the least skillfull players of this bunch but knew how to utilize their limited skills to the maximum effect; Steve Hackett in particular never wasted a note in anything he played. And with Gabriel they had one of the greatest frontmen of all time; someone who could alternate between various roles on stage within a single song with ease and make you believe in all of them. The closing moments of "The Musical Box" and "Supper's Ready" are among the best ever outros in the history of music; the flashing solos in "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight" are headspinning; the mellotron + guitar intro to "The Fountain Of Salmacis" is utterly beautiful, and so on, and so on. And Gabriel's vocal deliveries throughout are impeccable (with the entire "Supper's", "Knight" and "Carpet Crawlers" being my favourites).

Too bad that Crimso didn't make it though, but I bet Robert Fripp would have opposed to being included in a poll like this anyway.

[shackin'up]

TARKUS.

so ELP got my vote.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by face of glass

I don't give a damn if From Genesis To Revelation sounds immature (I still like it), I don't care too much for their post-Gabriel career

I think that is their best!
And after gabriel it's over. They should have changed the name. That would have led to my vote this round. But they didn't.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

Woohoo! So many of my friends seem to hate Rush for no damn good reason. SO this one's for you, Geddy! I always had your back!

And everybody has to vote on this one. Remember: If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.



I was wondering if you were ever going to do Neil. Perhaps Burt Bacharach? Although he's always been much more just a songwriter as opposed to also being a performer. But he did release an album of his own this year that, like Neil's, seems to be something of an attempt to up his "cool" factor.

There should also be a Rat Pack face-off: Frank v. Dean v. Sammy...

Rush is amazing. Their lyrics are really smart. Limelight is my favorite lyrically.

Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme

[DavidMn]

Rush. Neal Pirt is a helluva drummer!

[SteveMacD]

While I have great respect for all of these groups, I can't say I'm a die-hard of prog rock, which is funny, as all my friends are prog-rock junkies. Rush and Yes are my two faves on the list by far.

I've actually been on a big Rush kick lately. Geddy's voice is an acquired taste, to say the least. Their songs don't really go anywhere, per se, but I really love the killer guitar intros. How can you not love that intro to "Limelight?" The song itself is okay, but that intro is to die for. Plus, they seem to have a sense of humor, which is a major bonus. Alex appeared on a classic episode of Trailer Park Boys, and Geddy was on the Rick Mercer report, appeared on the "Strange Brew" and South Park soundtracks. I think the deciding factor here is that they covered TWO Buffalo Springfield tunes on that album of covers.

Yes has always been a favorite. I even got to see them live a few years ago. The only thing is that they, like Fleetwood Mac, have had so many incarnations, some better than others, that it's really hard to say that "this was the greatest prog band," as there were several bands in there, with only Chris Squire being the constant. The "classic" version, IMO, had a lot of heart. Their songs actually said something meaningful and their abilities as musicians were second-to-none.

Genesis is in a similar boat with Yes. On the one hand, there was "Lamb Lies Down...," but on the other was "Invisible Touch." Their music itself was interesting. Their lyrics generally do little for me, but I will say their delivery is cool (i.e. "I Know What I Like").

ELP. I've never been a big ELP fan. I know, I'm supposed to really like them, but they've just never done it for me.

Jethro Tull. Well, there's the obvious Fleetwood Mac connection with Bob Welch and Glen Cornick forming Paris. That having been said, I'm still only 50/50 on the Tull.

Now, the obvious question: Where are the Moody Blues?

[ryan8472]

Rush. I love them.