It occurred to me that I do not have a central place with all the winners of the yearly Brackets. This thread will rectify that.
And the One Song to Rule Them All (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=22017.0) is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Winner 1960's 1 Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21787.0)
Winner 1970's 1 Baba O'Riley - The Who (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21837.0)
Winner 1980's 4 Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21883.0)
Winner 1990's7 I Alone - Live (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21947.0)
1960 5 Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
1961 2 Crazy - Patsy Cline
1962 2 Green Onions - Booker T. & the M.G.'s
1963 6 Be My Baby - The Ronettes
1964 8 You Really Got Me - The Kinks
1965 4 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
1966 4 Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
1967 2 Respect - Aretha Franklin
1968 2 All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
1969 1 Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Wild Card 60s
Week 1 1 19th Nervous Breakdown - Rolling Stones
Week 2 5 Son of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Week 3 2 Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?) - Moody Blues (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21504.0)
Week 4 3 Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21564.0)
Week 5 1 Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21636.0)
Week 6 1 You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21692.0)
1970 2 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
1971 1 Baba O'Riley - The Who
1972 15 Rocket Man - Elton John
1973 2 Time - Pink Floyd
1974 1 It's Only Rock and Roll - Rolling Stones
1975 1 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1976 3 (Don't) Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
1977 14 Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
1978 2 Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
1979 4 Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Wild Card 70s
Week 1 1 Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Week 2 1 Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Week 3 2 Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21503.0)
Week 4 2 Money - Pink Floyd (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21563.0)
Week 5 16 Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21635.0)
Week 6 2 London Calling -The Clash (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21691.0)
1980 1 Back In Black - AC/DC
1981 4 Limelight - Rush
1982 2 Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
1983 1 Synchronicity II - The Police
1984 1 Let's Go Crazy - Prince
1985 10 Would I Lie to You - Eurythmics
1986 3 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
1987 7 Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
1988 4 Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
1989 11 Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Wild Card 80s
Week 1 2 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Week 2 1 Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Week 3 1 Purple Rain - Prince (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21493.0)
Week 4 1 Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21552.0)
Week 5 6 Shout - Tears for Fears (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21626.0)
Week 6 1 Tom Sawyer - Rush (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21685.0)
1990 4 Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
1991 2 Even Flow -Pearl Jam
1992 1 In Bloom - Nirvana
1993 1 All Apologies - Nirvana
1994 1 I Alone - Live
1995 11 Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
1996 6 Jealousy - Natalie Merchant
1997 3 Everlong - Foo Fighters
1998 2 I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
1999 3 Learning to Fly - Foo Fighters
Wild Card 90's
Week 1 2 Last Dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty
Week 2 1 Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Week 3 3 Spoonman - Soundgarden (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21492.0)
Week 4 3 December - Collective Soul (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21551.0)
Week 5 1 Alive - Pearl Jam (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21624.0)
Week 6 1 Black - Pearl Jam (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=21684.0)
Thx MD......WTF... free falling won for 90....damn that was a bad year, buncha hippies stuffed the ballot box probably :peace:
My pleasure :) If you think Free Fallin' winning is bad, take a look at 1991. Shoulda been Smells Like Teen Spirit. We got Even Flow instead. Either way, light years different than Free Fallin'. And wait until the rest of the 90's rolls out ;)
Even Flow doesn't bother me as much. Liked it when it came out but like everything on "Ten" got over played, but i switch the channel when "Free Falling comes on .........Now i'm free......freeeeee Faaaallling " ... like the early Tom Petty stuff better. looking forward to the coming lists.
I remember how everyone took to Nirvana back when Nevermind dropped for the first time...everyone was listening to it. I thought it was good, because it was different, but didn't think it was anything super-amazing or groundbreaking. I guess I have better memories associated with Even Flow, personally.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on August 04, 2017, 07:33:50 AM
I remember how everyone took to Nirvana back when Nevermind dropped for the first time...everyone was listening to it. I thought it was good, because it was different, but didn't think it was anything super-amazing or groundbreaking. I guess I have better memories associated with Even Flow, personally.
the difference between a debut and a follow-up?
Just a bump in case you haven't looked at the winners recently. These Decade Brackets are shaping up to be EPIC!
Coming down the home stretch for our yearly winners.
To answer my own question posed in the 1999 voting....no 16 has come back to win. Rocket Man at 15 and Go Your Own Way at 14 were the lowest seeded to win by far.
I guess as bad as I get the seeding wrong sometimes, you guys always pull me through O0
I think the only times I've been disappointed in the seeding was when a tie caused one of my favored songs to lose. Born in the USA bit the hardest, losing in a tie to a song one bracket higher. But it's all fun and games anyway, an enjoyable diversion from that dreaded condition known as "real life".
So, MD, are you going to do brackets for all these winners to have a decade winner and an overall winner?
It's funny, I look at that list and all I can think of is "what an odd collection of songs".
Quote from: bbmike on January 13, 2018, 03:04:50 PM
It's funny, I look at that list and all I can think of is "what an odd collection of songs".
Thank you, sir! I take that as the highest compliment :)
Quote from: BanzaiCat on January 13, 2018, 01:36:24 PM
So, MD, are you going to do brackets for all these winners to have a decade winner and an overall winner?
The short answer is, yes. The long answer is really just how I'm going to do it.
I am in the process of putting all the songs I didn't use into six 16 song Wild Card Brackets for each Decade. Starting tomorrow, I will have a Wild Card Bracket for the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's each Sunday for six weeks. At the end of those six weeks, I'll have 24 winners to add to the 40 yearly Bracket winners to make a grand, 64 song March Madness type playoff. Coincidentally, the beginning of the Decades main event, the playoff to decide it all, will start at the same time as the aforementioned March Madness. By the time we crown a hoops champ, we will have decided The One Song to Rule Them ALL! And just in case I haven't said it before, thank you all for coming along on this with me. It has truly been a labor of love. And I couldn't have done it without any of you. Thank you. :smitten: :clap: :hug:
Quote from: MetalDog on January 13, 2018, 05:28:58 PM
Quote from: bbmike on January 13, 2018, 03:04:50 PM
It's funny, I look at that list and all I can think of is "what an odd collection of songs".
Thank you, sir! I take that as the highest compliment :)
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Indeed, a compliment. I may have to make a playlist from it. O0
Whether or not anyone agrees with some of the choices made throughout this large and lengthy process, you've done fine work, MD! O0
Ditto!
Tritto!
Kuato!
Cinco!!!
Horta!!!
Tribbles?
Thanks guys. Been my pleasure :)
Quote from: MetalDog on January 13, 2018, 11:02:11 PM
Tribbles?
Thanks guys. Been my pleasure :)
Yep, lots of fun MD, thanks!
^ I'm in complete agreement with the fellas!!!!! You've done a sterling job with this musical romp through the decades O0 Thanks MD ;)
You are all entirely too kind. Good to see that there were so many music lovers to come along on this journey. Super glad you did :bd:
Quote from: MetalDog on January 15, 2018, 07:49:32 PM
You are all entirely too kind. Good to see that there were so many music lovers to come along on this journey. Super glad you did :bd:
So I thought 'these songs' were going to be in the one that is going on right now.. Much better songs in here!
Not sure why it hadn't occurred to me earlier, but, I started hyperlinking the winners of each year's Bracket to the Round of 16 Bracket for that year. Kind of give you a refresher on what each song had to overcome to win that year. It's gonna take a minute, so, I'll be doing that over the next few days. Hope you find it helpful :)
So. 46 weeks after I started this, we have finally filled the Decades Brackets to a field of 64. I have immensely enjoyed doing these. The research. Rediscovering old songs and finding some new ones. The sense of accomplishment for setting a goal and achieving it. Mostly I've enjoyed it because of those of you who participated. Whether you voted once or in every poll, I appreciate you and the time you put in to enjoy this with me. Couldn't have done it with out you. Thank you.
Now the moment we have all been working towards...the Decades Brackets!! I know, I know. Not the fanciest of names, but, that's what I've gone with up until now. So it's finally time to get these things going. The goal has always been to crown the champ on the Monday night finale between the last two NCAA men's basketball teams. To make the calendar work, and reveal the Champ around the time they are cutting down the nets, I will have to change the rollout of each Bracket from Sunday to Wednesday. So starting tomorrow, the first Decade Bracket to be resolved will be the 60s.
A quick word on the format. Anyone familiar with the NCAA Tournament brackets knows that the teams are divided by region, East, South, Midwest, and West. The Final 4 holds the winners of each Region with the East winner facing the South and the Midwest facing the West. For our tournament, the Final 4 will be the 60s versus the 70s and the 80s versus the 90s.
Now that it's here, I'm excited to see what we come up with! Can't wait!!!
It was a lot of fun! Thanks for your efforts! <:-)
Agreed, it's been a blast seeing everyone's musical tastes. Well done so far.
Can't wait to see the final winner.... I'm guessing it will be a large "age" indicator of your listeners/voters.
Just by sheer weight of numbers alone the Rolling Stones have a pretty good chance of cleaning this whole thing
MD, you should do a full bracket of every song Brant has bitched about ;D
that'd be another 46 weeks of work for him
And a good excuse to keep the train a-rollin'.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on February 28, 2018, 09:01:03 AM
MD, you should do a full bracket of every song Brant has bitched about ;D
that would be kinda interesting... in a Kim-Kardashian-makes-a-sex-tape-with-Donald-Trump-while-Putin-films-it-with-Ann-Coulter-commentary-kind-of-way
I've seen that tape. It ain't pretty.
I find it disturbing that Brant could even imagine that scenario 8)
Quote from: Steelgrave on February 28, 2018, 09:32:30 AM
I find it disturbing that Brant could even imagine that scenario 8)
I'm pretty sure the Russians already have that tape...
Quote from: mirth on February 28, 2018, 09:18:16 AM
I've seen that tape. It ain't pretty.
...but it's still in your collection.
When it's on Pornhub it's real :bd:
Quote from: BanzaiCat on February 28, 2018, 09:01:03 AM
MD, you should do a full bracket of every song Brant has bitched about ;D
I just spent 46 weeks doing that ;) (Thank you, mirth)
Quote from: BanzaiCat on February 28, 2018, 09:03:52 AM
And a good excuse to keep the train a-rollin'.
Not gonna happen. Even if I still had ~1,100 songs I didn't use. Which I don't.
Dawg, you talk like you have a real life or sumpthin'. :crazy2:
Crazy, idn't it?
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