So this mega-shitty radio station up here is doing this promotion, where they'll play the "game" between the two bands, play like an hour of songs from both, and accept texts for votes to score the matchup.

the lineup is pretty shitty, but it's an interesting concept i think

fill yours out, and perhaps we'll get some of the more knowledgeble posters to create new bracket styles



or perhaps this thread will be an epic failure.

EITHER WAY

3/24/2008 9:17:03 PM

Why are Foo Fighters a #1 seed?

3/24/2008 9:17:59 PM

i told you it was shitty

3/24/2008 9:19:06 PM

nickelback - 3 seed
the rolling stones - 5 seed

ok

nice topic for discussion, though

3/24/2008 9:23:43 PM

yeah, i'd rather someone redo the seeds and bands.

3/24/2008 9:24:22 PM

Man you know the 00s suck when Nickelback is a 3 seed

3/24/2008 9:24:28 PM

my final four: Queen (tough choice between them and Lynyrd Skynyrd), Guns&Roses, Green Day, and Nickelback


feel free to flame. I prefer country music person to rock, but I enjoy the music from those bands occasionally.

3/24/2008 9:30:34 PM

I'm calling Coldplay with that infamous 12-5 upset.

3/24/2008 9:32:13 PM

^^well, you just announced to the internets that you are a douchebag with a terrible taste in music

congrats!

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3/24/2008 9:32:20 PM

There's so much wrong with that bracket, I don't have time to go through it all.

But why are The Doors considered 70s music? Why are Black Sabbath a 10 seed? Clapton 13? Smashing Pumpkins 12? Live? They couldn't think of 16 bands from the 90s better than Live? The fucking Hooters? And that entire 2000s bracket is absolutely terrible.

I feel bad for anyone who actually listens to this radio station.

Also, someone hook them up with a graphics program that's better than MS Paint.

3/24/2008 9:33:14 PM

^

3/24/2008 9:39:35 PM

3/24/2008 9:40:39 PM

my morning jacket

3/25/2008 7:44:34 AM

also, Jimi Hendrix died in 1970.

90s: Pavement

3/25/2008 7:47:13 AM

haha WOW at the bands on there lol

3/25/2008 7:58:23 AM

Seether
Killers
Breaking Benjamin
Disturbed

who/what are these bands?

3/25/2008 8:02:09 AM

don't mind that, its just music that the normal person listens to...

3/25/2008 8:09:20 AM

I saw an article in the Observer here about a bracket style battle but it was for One Hit Wonders of different decades. Thought it was pretty interesting.


But ^that up there is just terrible

3/25/2008 8:09:53 AM

Quote :

"yeah, i'd rather someone redo the seeds and bands."

so hows about making it better instead of bitching about how bad it is

bunch of women.

3/25/2008 8:13:41 AM

90% of the 90s, 00s bands wouldnt make my CBI

theres too many bands to effectively do something like this regardless though

3/25/2008 8:23:39 AM

I will say

Pearl Jam as the #1 seed for the 90s works.

(bands that can be considered) 90s bands worth switching out for some, if only to de-grungify and de-sublime/green day/offspring-ify the list:
Radiohead
Wilco
Pavement
Blur
Tribe Called Quest
Built to Spill
REM
Sonic Youth (or 80s)
Outkast
Flaming Lips (push to 00s)
Phish
Ween

3/25/2008 8:36:21 AM

maybe if they narrowed it down to a certain decade or genre

but this doesnt really work

sounds like some shitty thing 96 rock would do, btw

3/25/2008 8:37:29 AM

my 90s list would be ginormous, id have a hard time narrowing it down to 16 i think

3/25/2008 8:44:38 AM

built to spill #1

3/25/2008 9:30:23 AM

that bracket is so shit it's not even worth discussing

3/25/2008 9:50:26 AM

then make one that's not.

i like the concept a lot, just not the execution.

3/25/2008 9:58:53 AM

^

3/25/2008 10:00:15 AM

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3/25/2008 10:01:25 AM

i agree with mdalston's list even if a few of the groups i wasnt huge on, they all deserve to be considered over most the groups on the radio station's list. Foo Fighters if being considered need to be in the 90s imo. Their 3 best albums came out in the 90s. Their 2000+ selves wouldnt be considered. Other 90s groups that should definitely be considered:

Fugazi
Hum
Sunny Day Real Estate
Deftones
Botch
Converge (although JD came out in 2001 and is arguably their best)
At the Drive In

There are plenty of other smaller bands that were huge for me but the ones I just listed were bands that I feel like are very well known/influential bands from the era amongst music fans.


[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM. Reason : ]

3/25/2008 10:19:18 AM

Fugazi and the Deftones MIGHT make the list...


but those others... 90% of people have no idea who the hell that is... and a commercial radio station's idea is to appeal to the broadest demographic (18-49 year olds). That said, it's a purely mass appeal business decision to include these bands.


I'm not picking on you specifically, though... Overall, you have to take this for what it is.

but the fact that Nirvana ISN'T the #1 seed in the 90s is frankly a little strange.

3/25/2008 10:29:31 AM

no worries, i understand that what im looking for is not what a 2008 radio station is looking for in this kind of competition. my bands were more of if someone was doing a competition on here or something.

3/25/2008 10:33:51 AM

Fuck Fugazi, descendants ftw

3/25/2008 10:44:06 AM

all you fucking idiots just fill out a sheet the way it is and then we'll create a new one

we all know Jimi died in 1970

and that music in the 00s sucks ass

and pavement should have been on there

and so should any other obscure band you hold on to dearly

but for the love of god, just fill it out the way it is and we will have fun

3/25/2008 11:35:08 AM

guns and roses at 6?

anyway, i would hate to make choices in the 80s bracket, with Metallica, GnR, Rush, and Ozzy all in the same bracket (where is Black Sabbath?)

90s and 00s are pretty easy though

3/25/2008 11:50:40 AM

BUT THERE IS NO PANTERA

3/25/2008 11:52:27 AM

this was hard. some of the games were painful. (especially 00s) because of how terrible both choices were. other times the first round matchups they picked were better than nearly all the other teams in the bracket (ie incubus and white stripes, either one of them would have walked away with the bottom part of the 00s probably).

some of them are just hard to pick between, how do you compare REM and Van Halen? The result was Van Halen getting too many technicals for physical fighting amongst their own team and REM won on default.

i was inconsistent too in how i picked them because it was hard to be even remotely serious with this thing. some was who i liked, some was who i thought influenced more bands and some were upsets meaning i actually liked the other band better . i personally would pick ozzy over tom petty anyday but i gave Tom the upset for fun.

Im going to cheat and list:

Queen
Smashing Pumpkins
U2
Foo Fighters

in that order from the final 4 even though it couldnt happen that way.





did i mention this was a painful excercise?

[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 11:57 AM. Reason : ]

[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM. Reason : ]

3/25/2008 11:55:57 AM

Quote :

"don't mind that, its just music that the normal person listens to..."

so if people choose not to listen to terrible music, they aren't normal? wat

3/25/2008 12:02:46 PM

i'm not even going to explain how much this bracket sucks, because that would be redundant.

how does a band win a round? people text in their votes? is it unlimited votes? i want to test my vague knowledge of mainstream music and fill it out the way an average radio listener would.

3/25/2008 12:13:52 PM

i could see the average radio listener today having linkin park all the way

3/25/2008 12:14:42 PM

3/25/2008 12:30:05 PM

and in the 00s bracket you had no choice but to chose either the Foo Fighters or Audioslave. Has mainstream music really sucked that much in the past 8 years?

3/25/2008 12:34:57 PM

on that bracket, the white stripes should beat anyone in the 00s

foo fighters haven't been relevant (or good) in over a decade

3/25/2008 12:51:44 PM

i swear 4-5 of those bands in the 00's are the same/use same musicians

3/25/2008 12:53:54 PM

ok here's my mainstream rock music station listener bracket. i have zeppelin winning as a hope, but i have a terrible feeling that nickelback would take it all. i based most of my matches on who has the most hit radio rock songs. so here it is:

3/25/2008 12:54:04 PM

Quote :

"on that bracket, the white stripes should beat anyone in the 00s foo fighters haven't been relevant (or good) in over a decade"

That doesn't matter since I really don't like the White Stripes.

3/25/2008 12:56:58 PM

prolly cause you're a badass with a heart of gold

3/25/2008 12:57:48 PM

^^^Would that be the zombie hendrix raising hell in the 70s bracket for you? Shameful


Also CalledtoArms, that is the worst possible bracket imaginable. Its like a permutation was created to find awful, and your bracket was the result. You've got Bob Marley taking the stones, and Queen beating Pink Floyd and LZ. And thats just the beginning

Nutsmackr has some kind of sense in his picks, I think his is somewhat arguable, except for the whole Ramones taking out LZ, the boss, and clapton



[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM. Reason : .]

3/25/2008 12:59:15 PM

^x6 yea but since they only have them, FF, in one (i would have put them in the 90s) I took their whole career. Im not a big white stripes fan but I would have had them as one of the last 3 bands (FF, Incubus, White Stripes) had they not faced Incubus in the first round.

Despite Incubus getting lumped into the nu metal genre, they have some great creative jazz influenced guitarwork and musicianship as a whole on their first several albums...all of which (except for one 2001 album) came out in the 1990s though...another band who shouldnt be in the 2000s heh

[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ]

3/25/2008 1:00:10 PM

Quote :

"Also CalledtoArms, that is the worst possible bracket imaginable. Its like a permutation was created to find awful, and your bracket was the result. You've got Bob Marley taking the stones, and Queen beating Pink Floyd and LZ. And thats just the beginning"

first of all, i stated right away that I did not take the entire thing seriously and even picked some bands over others that I wouldnt have normally picked, just for fun and upsets since the entire thing is ridiculous. so i hope you didnt take mine that seriously.

Im not a big fan of the stones or marley even though I can listen to both as background music. I just wanted an upset.

I truly believe that musically Queen was one of the best bands of all time and definitely one of the top bands of the 70s if not the best. They had the best vocalist of the decade (imo) and Brian May is a killer lead guitar player. Their songs are truly musical arrangements similar to classical music rather than what you expect from rock music.

Led Zepplin was great and influential and I love them but honestly their music wasnt that original, not to be the best band of the 70s.

Pink Floyd vs Queen came down to a coin toss (hence the 2OT) as they were extremely hard to pick between. both innovative bands but both so different.

i could easily see people picking other bands from that era though. the 90s, I dont see what you could argue with much, besides the OBVIOUS joke with green day over STP. the 00s not much to argue with except maybe white stripes.

You read too much into my bracket.

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3/25/2008 1:09:33 PM

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3/25/2008 1:10:25 PM