British Band Tournament ... (Like the Sitcoms)

[Bruce Spanner]

7 minutes ago, The Golden Eel said:

Just want to be the first to say: The Offspring, fuck me. 

Sold more albums than Nirvana when Nevermind ‘exploded’. Mad facts! 

 

Ignition, smash and Ixnay are decent enough albums for 14 year olds as a gateway to proper music, some songs even stand up now.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Sold more albums than Nirvana when Nevermind ‘exploded’. Mad facts! 

 

Ignition, smash and Ixnay are decent enough albums for 14 year olds as a gateway to proper music, some songs even stand up now.

My mate had the Americana album and used to hammer it when we played FIFA or Footy Manager. I picked them simply because of 'The Kids aren't alright". Love that song 

[The Golden Eel]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Nobhead. 

Somebody was going to say, I just wanted to be at the forefront of the slagging. 

[Bruce Spanner]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

My mate had the Americana album and used to hammer it when we played FIFA or Footy Manager. I picked them simply because of 'The Kids aren't alright". Love that song 

Ixnay was a ‘darker’ sounding album from Smash and I always wondered what they would have become if they’d not done a 180 and chased the skate punk cash with the Pretty Fly nonsense. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Ixney was a ‘darker’ sounding album from Smash and I always wondered what they would have become if they’d not done a 180 and chased the skate punk cash with the Pretty Fly nonsense. 

Ha true. Novelty bollocks but it made them a lot of money. 

 

Linkin Park stayed dark and they are (were) a fucking superb band. Hybrid Theory is a masterpiece. I'm not a goth/emo by the way. Chester Benningtons voice was unreal. 

[cloggypop]

15 minutes ago, Remmie said:

I for one will be astonished when an all 60s final also happens in the US tie

It will be The Eagles versus Journey. 

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

We should first do Canadians and learn from it.

 

I will vote for whoever is up against Nickelback.

[SasaS]

33 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Sounds a bit democratic. Not sure how we can blame Stig for omissions. 

We still can, for example, if he is going to tally up the mentions, he gets 12 wildcards to add, for his trouble. Also, we can give each of the first 20 list posters one wild card to add to the final 64 (lets say the democracy produces 32 bands). For each poster over 20, Stig loses one wildcard, o stimulate more people to do the lists. Stig gets 5 guaranteed wildcards.

[Bjornebye]

15 minutes ago, SasaS said:

We still can, for example, if he is going to tally up the mentions, he gets 12 wildcards to add, for his trouble. Also, we can give each of the first 20 list posters one wild card to add to the final 64 (lets say the democracy produces 32 bands). For each poster over 20, Stig loses one wildcard, o stimulate more people to do the lists. Stig gets 5 guaranteed wildcards.

Spoken like a true tory 

[cloggypop]

Linkin Fuckin Park? Kinell. 

[The Golden Eel]

There's an argument for not posting your absolute favourite 20. There's a couple of mine that have no hope of getting in, so what's the point in even posting them... May as well post some other ones that have a better chance 

[cloggypop]

I'm fuming with myself for forgetting Fugazi. Just went with the first 20 I thought of. 20 is nowhere near enough. 

[Bjornebye]

I've just done the draw for the next round....

 

2 absolute bastard ties that I have no idea which way they will go. A massive contender will be leaving before the quarter finals...

 

And.... The draw I was dreading because it's going to lead to me getting banned has fucking happened on the bastard anniversary of their chart battle. Cant believe it. Colonel Kurtz will say I've fixed it, I absolutely haven't and have the proof if anyone wants to see. I was hoping my boys would get The Stones so I couldn't have much complaining. 

[SasaS]

Blur.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, SasaS said:

Blur.

Thats exactly what a Tory would say. 

 

If anyone even tries to even pretend that Blur have done anything close to Definitely Maybe then I'm posting on their works social media to tell them they are employing a paedophile. 

[Remmie]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Thats exactly what a Tory would say. 

 

If anyone even tries to even pretend that Blur have done anything close to Definitely Maybe then I'm posting on their works social media to tell them they are employing a paedophile. 

Some of their tracks have been shite (charmless man) but nothing they've done is anywhere near that egregious 

[VladimirIlyich]

Should make a list of popular genres and pick the top 5 or 6 from each genre to go into the contest.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Should make a list of popular genres and pick the top 5 or 6 from each genre to go into the contest.

Val Doonican vs Motley Crue could be quite the tie 

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Val Doonican vs Motley Crue could be quite the tie 

Val's dress sense for me every time.

[Code]

What happened to the last 8?

 

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Rolling Stones

The Smiths

Blur

New Order

Radiohead

Queen

I can only see one winner here.

[Bjornebye]

11 hours ago, Code said:

What happened to the last 8?

 

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Rolling Stones

The Smiths

Blur

New Order

Radiohead

Queen

I can only see one winner here.

Im starting it today for fuck sake 

[SasaS]

11 hours ago, Code said:

What happened to the last 8?

 

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Rolling Stones

The Smiths

Blur

New Order

Radiohead

Queen

I can only see one winner here.

There usually is only one.

[johnsusername]

I can't believe The Who went out. Fucking hell. Just listening to Alice Cooper on Radio 2 talking about how great The Who were and what an impact they had on the US music scene. 

[easytoslip]

Gerry Rafferty made some good stuff, he's not been mentioned on any. 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, easytoslip said:

Gerry Rafferty made some good stuff, he's not been mentioned on any. 

Yeah The Humblebums deserved to be in it.