Rock N Poll: Round 2, Heat 11
 

Okay, here we go. Let's see who else will rise to the third round.

First in.

Any Van Halen in this round?

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1. George Harrison's Wife.
2. Why not just call it Teenage Waste Land?
3. Bernie Taupin's wife.

Remember, kids, that Baba O'Riley is mistakenly known as Teenage Wasteland. This song better make it out of this heat or Sofa King will be getting an angry-whiny PM from me.

#1 The Clash, Should I Stay or Should I Go
#2 Rage Against The Machine, Killing In The Name Of
#3 Black Sabbath, Paranoid

casey jones and truckin' by the grateful dead need to make it into one of these polls. i missed a few votes, so i'm sorry and disregard if they already had their chance.

Elton John is not, nor has he ever been "Rock n' Roll"

I agree. He's actually metal.

I only voted for The Who.

The Who
The Clash
The Dominoes and Derek

Weak heat. Pretty disappointing for the 2nd round.

They had the misfortune of being in the same heat with I Ran by Flock of Seagulls and, as you might expect, they were obliterated.

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good lord! how many votes does frazod get?

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The Who gets way too much love on this site.

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Paranoid, that is Ozzy's trademark song* (r.i.p. Randy Rhoads)

LA Women, the Doors need to move on at some point

Should I go or should I stay, Thanks Mr. Fax for setting me strait that it was Clash and not Cheap Trick, however I could swear they did a cover, I couldn't find it anywhere.

I like almost all of these songs. I'm a huge Clapton fan and almost voted for Layla. Also grew up with Highway and Paranoid. But there are few songs that get me rocking like Killing in the Name Of.... So that's one of mine. I'm also a sucker for The Doors and The Who even though their popularity was in the 70's when I was but a wee lad. So there you have it:
RATM
Doors
Who

This is an interesting heat for me, because it contains lots of songs that I couldn't name, but I know the music. My rankings are:

Tiny Dancer, Elton John - Clear #1, primarily because I like the song. I don't know what it's about, but I like it.

Killing in the Name Of, Rage Against the Machine - Before the tournament I wouldn't have picked Rage Against the Machine, but this is a good song. #2 vote.

Layla, Derek and the Dominoes - Like the guitar. #3 vote.

Should I Stay or Should I Go, The Clash - Fun song and I like it, but that doesn't get you into the third round. It almost does, though.

Baba O'Riley, the Who - I think it ranked higher for me in the second round than in the first, but no vote.

Paranoid, Black Sabbath - I like it, but it's not something I'd listen to a lot.

LA Woman, The Doors - It's an okay song. Nothing against it, but that's not worth a third-round slot.

Highway to Hell, AC/DC - It's actually not a bad song. Probably the strongest 8th-place song I've had in the tournament. But it's still 8th.

Thanks. First couple vids had embedding disabled so I just took the first one that didn't.

My head is about to explode. It all keeps circling around to Valerie Bertinelli. How have I missed her influence on American society so badly?

I could tell you what it's about, but you might not like it. Oh, what the heck, I'll tell you anyway. It's about finding a way to live a fulfilling life with a small penis.

Blue jean baby?

Tiny dancer in my hand?

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
only you and you can't hear me

I think you get the picture.

And now you do what they told you. Now you're under control.

Love me sum old school 70's Elton John, but hes not rock, so i cant vote for him here.

What genre is he then?

The Who, The Clash, Derek and the Dominoes

Thats a good question....

What genre is Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and all the classic MoTown stuff which these polls are curiously missing??

That's the magic of music. We get to experience worlds that we otherwise cannot imagine.

So, who all didn't vote for Tiny Dancer? Hmmmm?

I think you answered your own question. Elton John is still rock.

I'd just say pop. I like a lot of his stuff, but it isn't rock.

It's sort of like Johnny Cash being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nothing wrong with Johnny Cash, but seriously, that's just reeruned. It would be like putting Favre in our Ring of Fame.

Yea, id have to say that too....Im a little too young, but im thinking that music categories were alot more broad back in the 60's and 70's....everything today is so specialized and segmented. If Stevie Wonder and Elton John came out with the same music today, in no way would they be considered Rock and Roll.

Don't you ever say that again around here, or I'm going to go all metal on you.

This is crazy how I was always able to pick the top 3 in the first round but now my own choices suck.

What's your record in Round 2? I'm 12 of 27 through the first nine rounds, which is not a happy place to be.

Do not know. I'm probably less than that. I think I ended up around 90% for the first round but now I'm closer to 40%. Don't think any of my choices will make it out of this poll.

To be fair though, I changed my voting for this round. I was voting more classics last round. Now that I've analyzed your instructions I'm voting strictly for the songs I'd rather listen to on my iPod.

I'm right there with you.

However, it's not our choices that suck.....

And I think your criterion is the way to go. It's easy to pick a song because "common knowledge" says it's a classic. But I think here we want to pick out the best song based on our own collective tastes. Otherwise, I'd just put up a Stairway to Heaven vs. Freebird poll and call it good.

I assume Stairway to Heaven will win. Not my first choice by any means, but I really don't see anything else topping it.

i think a lot of people are voting, "What song are you most likely to hear during the drive at 5 on your favorite classic rock station?"

I would agree that it's a strong contender, but any given Sunday. This is why they play the games. Probably some other saying, too.

Well, that's just wrong.

We're trying to find the best song, not the most famous one. I bet that's why Cadillac Ranch lost.

It's speed thrash metal you dumbass.

Elton John is definitely rock. In the mid-70s when KY-102 was at it's peak they had a TV advertisement and Elton John was featured right along side Led Zeplin, The Who, Pink Floyd and all the other bands of the day.

His Greatest Hit Volume I was issued by the US government to every kid, right along with Rumors, Frampton Comes Alive, Boston, Hotel California, etc.

My father-in-law got all bent out of shape when he heard the song "The Bitch is Back", just like parents do nowadays.

It is just a distortion to not consider Elton John to be rock.

I basically agree, although I think it's OK for everyone to decide on what criteria they want to use. I think it's OK for DJ's Left Nut to decide to only choose "suckage" if he doesn't choose any of the other songs. I think it's OK for Phobia to choose the songs he likes the most right now. I think it's OK for KC Tattoo to only choose songs either made by Guns N Roses or covered by them. I think it's OK for Mr. Flopnuts to vote on the basis of his Rolling Stones most influential rock of all time cheatsheet. The only thing that's not OK is for anyone to pay attention to Reaper's definition of metal.

My personal criteria is that I only vote for songs that Omaha finds cheesy.

"Tiny Dancer," "Layla," "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

That's what happened to Signs.

Rainman, we've got to make a loser's bracket.

Though I'm not a real fan of GNR, I don't see how GNR's "Sweet Child O'Mine" loses. It's got the legitimacy of a rock class but not the staleness of Stairway or Freebird. I'm interested in knowing what everyone thinks is the favorite at this point.

AC/DC, Rage & Sabbath

In his heyday, Elton John was definitely considered rock & roll... and so it remains today.

I have been voting for my favorites through out this contest.

btw thanks for sharing Rage against the Machines.. I could start being a fan of there music just havn't ever paid that much attention to them. They have an attidude that Rock N Roll is about. Stick it to the man style.

I think that anybody who has heard Killing in the name of will probably think it will win overall. I don't know how that doesn't define Rock and Roll.

I'm amazed that Johnny B. Goode isn't winning every heat, even the ones it's not in.

I am hard pressed to have a "favorite" GnR song, they all rock.

Coma, Estranged, November Rain, Don't Cry, One in a Million, Sweet Child, just a few that are above and beyond any thing else out there. imhgnfnrfo

Try playing Estranged on guitar, that is brilliantly done by Slash not many could pull that off.

I adore November Rain. Might be one of my a/t favorites. GnR and my life were timed perfectly with one another.

Have you heard this Phobia? This I love from the new GNR Chinese Democracy.

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I'd say it is pretty damn good even if it's not with Slash, Buckethead can play too.

So we definitely need to do this loser bracket idea.

Frankly, I'm a little worried about voter fatigue if we continue beyond the bracket. You're welcome to pursue it, but I think it won't get as good a participation.

And also, there's no way any Springsteen songs could be put in anything called "loser bracket". It'd have to be a "misunderstood" bracket.

We'd leave those out.

What if we just included "Signs" and voters could opt to vote for it or suckage, and if it gets more votes than suckage does, it wins.


And why are you not supporting my new cause in my sig? I thought we were friends,and I care deeply about getting this holiday off the ground.

No voter fatigue here. Saved my vote in the hope it'd be the one to doom "Highway to Hell" but alas, I'm going with "Layla," "Baba O'Reily" and "Killing in the Name Of."

You know - I didn't really care for it. Way too much Axl screetching. Maybe in a lower register...

Fair enough evaluatation, I still like it with the screetching ha ha... It really took me a while to get use to the new GnR but they have been growing on me and the more I listen to it the more I like it.

See, this was my point......how the genre has gotten so fragmented over time. John is no harder hitting than Phill Collins, Stevie Wonder or Bruce Hornsby, yet nobody considers them Rock and Roll. All of them great artists though.....

Like i mentioned earlier, if Elton John released the same songs today, no way would modern rock radio even touch it.

Its just strange to me.....

For the love of god, please do not let Highway to Hell beat out Baba O' Riley or Paranoid.

Elton John's early stuff seemed to have a lot of rock in it, I think. I suspect that he's mellowed over age. I think he was viewed as one of many flamboyant rock acts in that era, a la David Bowie.

I'm working hard to drum up votes for Tiny Dancer to knock out Highway to Hell.

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Yea, i kind of picked up on that....Dude played the Pinball Wizard in Tommy.

:doh!:

Dude!

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If RATM does not take 3rd, I will be banning RAGEEUMR

Voting for Baba O' Riley and Paranoid.

Can I vote again tomorrow? Thanks! :thumb:

If you do the signs poll and let it in if it beats suckage, then I'm down for the cause.

How do you narrow it down to 3?

LMAO

Should I Stay or Should I Go - Best song of the heat. The Clash kicked ass.

Tiny Dancer - Just a beautiful song. And I love the scene from Almost Famous.

Paranoid - Makes me want to bang my head against a wall. In a good way, of course.

Ooh, Sabbath and The Who are gaining ground, can the night crew prevent an atrocity from happening? Stay tuned...

I think Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was very much a rock album.