US Band Tournament - Round 2 - Van Halen vs The Monkees

[VladimirIlyich]

Jump is shite.

[TheHowieLama]

 

[TheHowieLama]

 

[TheHowieLama]

 

[Jose Jones]

The draw has really fucked this tournament a bit.

Top acts like Nirvana, Pixies, Blondie, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads all out.  We've got loads of fillers still left in.

[Pete]

 

[TheHowieLama]

18 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

The draw has really fucked this tournament a bit.

Top acts like Nirvana, Pixies, Blondie, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads all out.  We've got loads of fillers still left in.

Thats the beauty of a knockout format.

[Mudface]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Thats the beauty of a knockout format.

It needs to be a league format. Four lots of 16 bands playing against each other in divisions with promotion and relegation- see how things lie after 10 'seasons', and use that as seedings for a 64 band play off initially in groups of 4 based on their co-efficients.

 

But no, we've gone for the easy option. Typical.

[TheHowieLama]

#stigshotballs

[Bjornebye]

Stop crying and fucking get on with it. 

 

I'm putting Journey & The Eagles back in for the next round. The winners of this can fuck off as can Chic if they beat Metallica. Disco dancing bastards. 

[Mudface]

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Stop crying and fucking get on with it. 

 

I'm putting Journey & The Eagles back in for the next round. The winners of this can fuck off as can Chic if they beat Metallica. Disco dancing bastards. 

^

FIFA

[TheHowieLama]

Like he is running Venezuela.

 

To think we binned of @SasaS for this power grab.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Like he is running Venezuela.

 

To think we binned of @SasaS for this power grab.

I was worried he hadn’t been around for a while. He posted a few times today. I might have been a bit of a bellend too him. I’m sure he isn’t arsed like. 

[Mudface]

26 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I was worried he hadn’t been around for a while. He posted a few times today. I might have been a bit of a bellend too him. I’m sure he isn’t arsed like. 

If it helps, I couldn't take part in the scheme he PMed me. Shame though, looks like it would have been interesting.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Stop crying and fucking get on with it. 

 

I'm putting Journey & The Eagles back in for the next round. The winners of this can fuck off as can Chic if they beat Metallica. Disco dancing bastards. 

Metallica is just shit loud music for dick cheese smelling thundercunts.Chic are not my thing either.

[Jose Jones]

9 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Thats the beauty of a knockout format.

I approve of the format and Stig is doing a fine job, but this has turned into the equivalent of the two manc teams getting home draws against third division teams all the way to the final while all the other premier league teams are knocked out in the first two rounds.

[Mook]

I've been thinking about the 'They don't write their own songs or play their own instruments' thing a bit & there's a lot of snobbery involved (I include myself in that).

 

When you think about it, a lot of the greatest music has come from there, whether it's Elvis, Motown or Michael Jackson's Thriller LP. Surely if the music is great, it shouldn't really matter where it came from. We all know Eddie Van Halen could play rings around anyone in The Monkees but does that mean Jump is better than Last Train To Clarkseville? Personally I'd rather listen to The Temptations than most things & they wrote/played fuck all of their songs but it's great music regardless. The other thing it comes down to is if they're really a 'band' & you could easily say that The Monkess are not & so don't belong in this competition.

[Bjornebye]

10 hours ago, Mudface said:

If it helps, I couldn't take part in the scheme he PMed me. Shame though, looks like it would have been interesting.

Hang on he PM’d a scheme ?!?!?!

[KMD7]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Metallica is just shit loud music for dick cheese smelling thundercunts.Chic are not my thing either.

Absolute bollocks

[KMD7]

50 minutes ago, Mook said:

I've been thinking about the 'They don't write their own songs or play their own instruments' thing a bit & there's a lot of snobbery involved (I include myself in that).

 

When you think about it, a lot of the greatest music has come from there, whether it's Elvis, Motown or Michael Jackson's Thriller LP. Surely if the music is great, it shouldn't really matter where it came from. We all know Eddie Van Halen could play rings around anyone in The Monkees but does that mean Jump is better than Last Train To Clarkseville? Personally I'd rather listen to The Temptations than most things & they wrote/played fuck all of their songs but it's great music regardless. The other thing it comes down to is if they're really a 'band' & you could easily say that The Monkess are not & so don't belong in this competition.

Great post

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Hang on he PM’d a scheme ?!?!?!

Just messing. It made more sense halfway through last night's second bottle of wine.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, KMD7 said:

Absolute bollocks

Opinions are like Stig's arsehole,everybody's been there.

[Juniper]

2 hours ago, Mook said:

I've been thinking about the 'They don't write their own songs or play their own instruments' thing a bit & there's a lot of snobbery involved (I include myself in that).

 

When you think about it, a lot of the greatest music has come from there, whether it's Elvis, Motown or Michael Jackson's Thriller LP. Surely if the music is great, it shouldn't really matter where it came from. We all know Eddie Van Halen could play rings around anyone in The Monkees but does that mean Jump is better than Last Train To Clarkseville? Personally I'd rather listen to The Temptations than most things & they wrote/played fuck all of their songs but it's great music regardless. The other thing it comes down to is if they're really a 'band' & you could easily say that The Monkess are not & so don't belong in this competition.

 

All good points.

 

Essentially, for me, anyone who's been manufactured isn't a band. They are a musical group or act. Even on Day Dream Beliver they were putting on blag scouse accents to try and sound like The Beatles. It's a good song but I can't stand the vocals for that reason.

 

Proper bands have paid their dues, have played the spit and sawdust venues probably at times to fuck all, got attention before someone took a punt on them and gave them a record deal. Then what follows is a mixture of talent, label backing and good fortune/luck to get the attention of the masses - then, with legendary bands, have sustained that career. 

 

It's a lot of hard work being in a band that people don't see. It's not all drink, drugs....etc as people tend to romanticise over. It's a lot more boring than that and a lot more hard work.

 

For every photo of your favourite rock star holding/swigging a bottle of Jack Daniels backstage with the bottle cap still on is another 30 photos of them sober as a nun in the studio, but of course that's not 'Rock N Roll' and all that nonsense.

 

Acts that have been manufactured and have been thrust into the limelight via a TV show aren't a band, despite what they may later become as they essentially have been given a leg up. Even when The Monkees started writing their own stuff near the end of their career they were still playing other people's music. 

 

Hence my earlier comparison to One Direction. Another 'band' who were created for a/on a TV show and completely manufacturered.

 

Basically, what I'm trying to say is anyone who voted for The Monkees loves One Direction.

 

No dig to Stig for putting them in, for me though they aren't a 'band'

[SasaS]

 

15 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Like he is running Venezuela.

 

To think we binned of @SasaS for this power grab.

 

14 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I was worried he hadn’t been around for a while. He posted a few times today. I might have been a bit of a bellend too him. I’m sure he isn’t arsed like. 

I've been (not particularly aggressively) monitoring this sad descent into authoritarianism from my exile. 

[Bjornebye]

43 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

 

I've been (not particularly aggressively) monitoring this sad descent into authoritarianism from my exile. 

Fuck back off.