Question:
1964 Round of 16
Option 1: This is the 1/16 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 2: 1 I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
votes: 7
Option 3: 16 Glad All Over - The Dave Clark Five
votes: 4
Option 4: This is the 8/9 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 5: 8 You Really Got Me - The Kinks
votes: 8
Option 6: 9 House of the Rising Sun - the Animals
votes: 3
Option 7: This is the 5/12 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 8: 5 Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas
votes: 9
Option 9: 12 My Guy - Mary Wells
votes: 2
Option 10: This is the 4/13 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 11: 4 The Way You Do the Things You Do - The Temptations
votes: 5
Option 12: 13 Baby I Need Your Loving - the Four Tops
votes: 6
Option 13: This is the 6/11 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 14: 6 The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
votes: 8
Option 15: 11 Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
votes: 3
Option 16: This is the 3/14 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 17: 3 Oh! Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
votes: 6
Option 18: 14 Do Wah Diddy - Manfred Mann
votes: 5
Option 19: This is the 7/10 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 20: 7 Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean
votes: 4
Option 21: 10 Little G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas
votes: 7
Option 22: This is the 2/15 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 23: 2 I Get Around - The Beach Boys
votes: 10
Option 24: 15 Little Cobra - The Rip Chords
votes: 1
1964 was a tremendous year for music. The Beatles burst on to the scene, kicking off the British Invasion. Motown was cranking out hits you could dance to seemingly every week. Surf music was sweeping the nation. And a host of girl groups, boy bands, one hit wonders and debuts of future giants in the industry. A lot of good songs got left off that may see the light of day in another Bracket.
In the meantime, a word on seeding. Many times, I find it easy to justify a song as a low seed. Or something you don't like having such a high seed. I try to defend those seeds by virtue of the others it's up against. But, in 1964, the seeds only serve as place markers for holding together the themes. I don't really think Glad All Over is a 16. I also don't think The Four Tops or Mary Wells deserve double digit seeds either. But it was too good to pass up making four song blocks following a style: British Invasion versus British Invasion, or Motown versus Motown. So if you see something you don't agree with 1) tough and 2) it really doesn't mean anything in the end anyways. So, thank you again for voting and have at!
The 1/16
The 8/9
The 5/12
The 4/13
The 6/11
The 3/14
The 7/10
The 2/15
Great selections and all easy first round picks for me except the 4/13. The Temptations vs The Four Tops....brutal!
Thanks guys. Had a good time putting it together and listening to the tunes as I went. Appreciate y'all taking the time to participate. O0
Quote from: Barthheart on July 30, 2017, 07:06:36 PM
Fantastic tunes MD! :bd:
But you are still a basturd for putting the Kinks up against the the Animals. :pullhair:
Agreed and #$@% the beach boys.
Quote from: jamus34 on July 31, 2017, 08:24:33 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 30, 2017, 07:06:36 PM
Fantastic tunes MD! :bd:
But you are still a basturd for putting the Kinks up against the the Animals. :pullhair:
Agreed and #$@% the beach boys.
I think you mean #$@% their first manager, whom was a piece of utter shite, IIRC.