Poll
Question:
Wild Card 80's Week 1 Round of 16
Option 1: This is the 1/16 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 2: 1 Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
votes: 6
Option 3: 16 Keep Your Hands to Your Self - Georgia Satellites
votes: 8
Option 4: This is the 8/9 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 5: 8 Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
votes: 7
Option 6: 9 Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
votes: 6
Option 7: This is the 5/12 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 8: 5 Love Shack - The B-52's
votes: 7
Option 9: 12 Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
votes: 7
Option 10: This is the 4/13 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 11: 4 Devil Inside - INXS
votes: 7
Option 12: 13 Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
votes: 7
Option 13: This is the 6/11 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 14: 6 Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
votes: 9
Option 15: 11 Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band
votes: 5
Option 16: This is the 3/14 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 17: 3 Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
votes: 7
Option 18: 14 Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
votes: 7
Option 19: This is the 7/10 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 20: 7 The Tide is High - Blondie
votes: 4
Option 21: 10 Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
votes: 10
Option 22: This is the 2/15 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 23: 2 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
votes: 11
Option 24: 15 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
votes: 3
After 160 songs in a decade, you would think finding 96 more would be easy. Not so. There's still copious amounts of great, great songs and pairing them up is no joke. So what I am going to do is try to find the most difficult matchups in as many genres as I can. That may not please some of you, the difficult ones OR the matchups, but, I really want these choices to be all inclusive. It would be much easier if I just included a narrow spectrum of genres, but that wouldn't be any fun or representative. So I am including all that I have knowledge and even a slight taste for. But you knew that, didn't you? ;)
As always, I hope you have fun doing these and that you agonize, even if just a little, over checking the virtual box to vote for your 'favorite.' And thank you so much for following along and voting. :)
The 1/16
The 8/9
The 5/12
The 4/13
The 6/11
The 3/14
The 7/10
The 2/15
The Piña Colada song just always struck me as a 70s tune.
More good music in this single bracket than all of the 90's brackets combined.
Sorry folks. Things went sideways on me today and it looks as if the 60's and 70's Wild Cards will have to wait for tomorrow. Which may work out better as there will be a new round in each poll for the next 42 days O0
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 14, 2018, 06:30:12 PM
The Piña Colada song just always struck me as a 70s tune.
I think it was released in late '79, but it charted strong in '80. So I included it. Did that for a lot of end of decade songs actually.
I really loathe the love shack song \m/ I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it. Sitting in a friend's house, and it came on the TV. And I couldn't turn the TV over.... And I was waiting for my friend, so I couldn't leave either! That song is like nails on a chalkboard for me! HATE IT :pullhair:
Other than that... Great bracket :)
I predict the Pina Colada song will get zero votes.
Quote from: trailrunner on January 15, 2018, 06:50:23 PM
I predict the Pina Colada song will get zero votes.
Thus insuring that some wiseacre will vote for it just because.
It won't be me :buck2:
It might be me ;D Lol, I was sorely tempted to vote for pina colada :D But, I'm a big fan of queen, soooo..... Common sense prevailed! Just :)