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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2019 6:41:57 GMT -5
The 4 wildcard songs that are staying in the game to complete the top 64 are: 1. Watching the Wheels - John Lennon (5 votes) 2. Super Freak - Rick James (4 votes) 3. Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton (3 votes) 4. Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (3 votes) Which brings us to round 2, heat 1 - up now. Here's a playlist of the top 64 to take us through the rest of the game: 1981: Top 64
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Post by kds on Jan 18, 2019 8:15:15 GMT -5
The immensely overplayed but still great Don't Stop Believin'
AC/DC
The Police
Tom Petty
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Post by filledeplage on Jan 18, 2019 9:15:00 GMT -5
Who Can it Be Now?
Don't Stop Believing
Spirits in the Material World
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 8:19:59 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 1:
1. Tainted Love - Soft Cell (5 votes) 2. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (5 votes) 3. Spirits in the Material World - The Police (4 votes) 4. The Waiting - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (4 votes) 5. Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work (3 votes) 6. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC (3 votes) 7. Mickey - Toni Basil (3 votes) 8. Wrack My Brain - Ringo Starr (1 vote)
Round 2 continues with heat 2, now up!
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Post by kds on Jan 19, 2019 10:09:09 GMT -5
Tough for me to leave out the Stones and Who, but going with
BOC
Nicks / Petty
Lennon
Journey
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Post by Will/P.P. on Jan 19, 2019 12:56:53 GMT -5
Nicks/Petty - one of my favorites by Stevie. I got to see them do it live at the Cow Palace.
John Lennon - "Woman" sure seems to be doing well in this poll.
Stones - "Start Me Up" is not the best from this album, but good enough to get my vote this round.
Some of the others I like about equal. I picked "Stray Cat Strut". Because the Who track looks to be a goner. Only one vote?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 17:56:26 GMT -5
Stray Cats, J. Geils, Stones and John L.. I sincerely hope "Woman" wins!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 8:09:30 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 2:
1. Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones (6 votes) 2. Woman - John Lennon (6 votes) 3. Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats (4 votes) 4. You Better You Bet - The Who (4 votes) 5. Centerfold - J. Geils Band (4 votes) 6. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks w/ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (3 votes) 7. Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult (3 votes) 8. Who's Crying Now - Journey (2 votes)
In the three-way tie for the fourth spot, Centerfold was kicked out due to having the lowest number of accumulated votes.
Round 2 continues with heat 3, now up.
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Post by kds on Jan 20, 2019 9:52:17 GMT -5
George (with Paul and Ringo)
Foreigner
The Police
Queen
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 6:40:15 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 3:
1. Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie (6 votes) 2. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police (6 votes) 3. All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (5 votes) 4. Girls on Film - Duran Duran (4 votes) 5. Urgent - Foreigner (3 votes) 6. Our Lips are Sealed - The Go-Go's (3 votes) 7. Tempted - Squeeze (1 vote) 8. Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks (1 vote)
The top 4 songs are moving on to round 3. Let's continue round 2 with heat 4, now up.
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Post by kds on Jan 21, 2019 8:00:55 GMT -5
Foreigner
The Stones
And........I guess Human League and Depeche Mode
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 6:49:44 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 4:
1. Don't You Want Me - Human League (4 votes) 2. Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner (4 votes) 3. Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (4 votes) 4. Primary - The Cure (3 votes) 5. Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers (2 votes) 6. Waiting on a Friend - The Rolling Stones (2 votes) 7. You Make My Dreams - Hall and Oates (1 vote) 8. Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (1 vote)
The top 4 songs are moving on to round 3.
Round 2 continues with heat 5, now up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 6:55:34 GMT -5
Two familiar ones this time round--one I tolerate ("Physical") and one I like ("Stand And Deliver").
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Post by kds on Jan 22, 2019 8:05:27 GMT -5
Loverboy
Lennon
Joan Jett
Clapton
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 6:44:40 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 6:
1. Private Eyes - Hall and Oates (8 votes) 2. I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett and the Black Hearts (6 votes) 3. Physical - Olivia Newton-John (5 votes) 4. Watching the Wheels - John Lennon (4 votes) 5. Working for the Weekend - Loverboy (4 votes) 6. The Boy from New York City - Manhattan Transfer (3 votes) 7. Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants (2 votes) 8. I Can't Stand It - Eric Clapton (2 votes)
The top 4 are moving on to round 3. In the tie for the 4th spot between John Lennon and Loverboy, JL had the higher accumulated vote total.
Round 2, heat 6 is now up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 7:10:57 GMT -5
Damn, damn, damn. The only one I know is the dreaded "Super Freak" so I'll sit this one out.
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Post by kds on Jan 23, 2019 8:08:22 GMT -5
Damn, damn, damn. The only one I know is the dreaded "Super Freak" so I'll sit this one out. I'm sorry, jk, but I'm just curious. How did you avoid hearing most of these songs from 1981? My votes this round are Rush ELO The Cars Billy Squier
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 8:17:38 GMT -5
Damn, damn, damn. The only one I know is the dreaded "Super Freak" so I'll sit this one out. I'm sorry, jk, but I'm just curious. How did you avoid hearing most of these songs from 1981? My votes this round are Rush ELO The Cars Billy Squier I listened to some radio around then and may well have heard them but if so they clearly didn't leave much of an impression on me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 6:45:44 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 6:
1. Hold On Tight - ELO (4 votes) 2. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield (3 votes) 3. Shake it Up - The Cars (3 votes) 4. Super Freak - Rick James (2 votes) 5. Take It On the Run - REO Speedwagon (2 votes) 6. Tom Sawyer - Rush - (2 votes) 7. The Stoke - Billy Squier (2 votes) 8. This is Radio Clash - The Clash (1 vote)
The top 4 songs are moving on to round 3.
Round 2 continues with heat 7, now up.
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Post by kds on Jan 24, 2019 8:03:58 GMT -5
Foreigner
Men At Work
Talking Heads
Blondie
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 9:03:40 GMT -5
Generally I aim to keep my nose out of the results but I kind of just feel like pointing out that we had low turnout on the last one, and so some of the results went to default. A single vote for Rush, REO Speedwagon or Billy Squier could have kicked Super Freak out, and I’ve been known to take late votes before…
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Post by Will/P.P. on Jan 24, 2019 17:59:21 GMT -5
Generally I aim to keep my nose out of the results but I kind of just feel like pointing out that we had low turnout on the last one, and so some of the results went to default. A single vote for Rush, REO Speedwagon or Billy Squier could have kicked Super Freak out, and I’ve been known to take late votes before… I did vote for the Rush song both times it came up. Not to sound mean spirited, but "Super Freak" got through the lines because yesterday's songs were "Super Dreck". Still, I'm putting up as many choices as are allowed. I liked some of REO's stuff, but "Take It On the Run" was not one of them. For me, the song's claim to fame was that the video was MTV's first glitch on opening day, 1 August 1981. I was watching. Said to myself, "boy, that was over quick". After a bit of black/blank screen, they put on something else. No comment on Billy's tune.
The Clash deservers the one vote they got. The Clash was about over. "Hitsville UK" topped outside the Top 50 in the UK and USA. "The Magnificent Seven" saw them trotting out Hip-Hop, and didn't make the Top 20 - even in America. Why were they looking for a new sound? Well, Sandinista! (1980) was a clue. Should have been called The Clash -Boredom and Rot Sets In. "This Is Radio Clash" is what came next, a single only release to see if they could get any excitement going. Then Combat Rock had 2, count 'em 2 good songs on my rate-o-meter - "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go". Mick Jones decided on the latter, to go, and that was that. Cut the Crap is not worth discussion. Life is wild, and then it's over. Mick had some good ideas, and I liked where he went next.
Sounds like I don't, but I love the idea of this game. Love studying charts. This one just had too many one vote and done tracks. And the worst has been getting eliminated. I believe I was more interested in the groups/artists on the fringe. The songs that weren't making the charts. I took a look at the Billboard Year End Chart for 1981 yesterday, and was surprised at how many of the top songs of 1981 were first released on an album from 1980. And was more shocked at how high some of the songs on our list made the grade. "Jessie's Girl", was #5. Wow. Better not say what I think about that tune. I had always liked E.L.O., but was not too fond when they left the orchestra behind and went Electro-Pop. I voted for "Hold On Tight", tho. One of my favorite musicians, Steve Winwood, did this sort of reinvention for the 1980s with the same results - some of it worked, some of it didn't. One of his from Arc of a Diver (1980) was released as a single in February 1981, "While You See a Chance". That peaked in the USA at #7, and was #68 on the B. Y. E. Chart. Synths were over used in the 1980s. I was very glad when Winwood went back to his original organ based sound, where he remains to this day.
I wish I had seen your post on suggestions, and hope I get the chance to do that with the next list. You're doing 1965, right? If I don't see it, please PM me where to look. I don't see every thread put up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 18:09:48 GMT -5
Generally I aim to keep my nose out of the results but I kind of just feel like pointing out that we had low turnout on the last one, and so some of the results went to default. A single vote for Rush, REO Speedwagon or Billy Squier could have kicked Super Freak out, and I’ve been known to take late votes before…
I wish I had seen your post on suggestions, and hope I get the chance to do that with the next list. You're doing 1965, right? If I don't see it, please PM me where to look. I don't see every thread put up.
I will, Will
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 6:41:59 GMT -5
Here are the results of round 2, heat 7:
1. Rapture - Blondie (6 votes) 2. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (5 votes) 3. Down Under - Men at Work (5 votes) 4. It Must Be Love - Madness (5 votes) 5. Kiss On My List - Hall and Oates (4 votes) 6. Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton (3 votes) 7. Juke Box Hero - Foreigner (3 votes) 8. Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton (2 votes)
The top 4 songs are moving on to round 3, which begins tomorrow. In the meantime, let's finish round 2 with heat 8, now up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 7:33:38 GMT -5
Hall & Oates, Falco and Stray Cats. I know five from this list so I feel entitled to pick and choose on this occasion.
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