Poll
Question:
Wild Card 80's Week 1 Final 8
Option 1: This is the 8/16 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 2: 8 Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
votes: 5
Option 3: 16 Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
votes: 7
Option 4: This is the 4/5 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 5: 4 Devil Inside - INXS
votes: 8
Option 6: 5 Love Shack - The B-52's
votes: 4
Option 7: This is the 3/6 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 8: 3 Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
votes: 5
Option 9: 6 Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
votes: 7
Option 10: This is the 2/10 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 11: 2 Crazy Little Thing Called love - Queen
votes: 8
Option 12: 10 Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
votes: 4
Any time I see three ties, and two other close votes, I know I did good. And that's what we had here. Even got most of the seeding right. Lost my number 1 though. Figured Brant would jigger it so it would win and he could tell us again how great Bon Jovi is ;) Looking through this round, I see a lot of potential for just about any song to win it. I even have a secret suspicion about one of them. So now that you've got'em, have at!
The 8/16
The 4/5
The 3/6
The 2/10
4/5 is a bit tough. The rest not so much.
I hate Love Shack
Quote from: mirth on January 16, 2018, 07:37:47 PM
I hate Love Shack
You're not alonw.. .I always did, and MD goes and brings it back!
Quote from: Tuna on January 17, 2018, 06:40:27 AM
Quote from: mirth on January 16, 2018, 07:37:47 PM
I hate Love Shack
You're not alonw.. .I always did, and MD goes and brings it back!
I'm with you guys. :buck2:
Brant is rubbing off on you guys.. :P
Love Shack was maybe a good song the first 50 million times I heard it back in the day on the radio when you had little choice as to programming (choices being limited to the 80s station, the classic rock station that played the same 40 songs over and over and over again, the sixteen Tejano stations, or AM talk radio).
The problem with Love Shack is that it's really the only B52s tune that most stations will keep in their catalog for their 80s programming. You might occasionally get Rock Lobster, which is worse.
You don't ever get Channel Z or Roam or Deadbeat Club or Private Idaho. Just changing up which B52s tune you're stuck with over and over makes a huge difference.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 17, 2018, 10:40:29 AM
You don't ever get Channel Z or Roam or Deadbeat Club or Private Idaho. Just changing up which B52s tune you're stuck with over and over makes a huge difference.
Very true. Overplaying "hits" doesn't do these bands any favors.
The whole 'Cosmic Thing,' album was pretty good. I included, 'Love Shack,' because it's so catchy and familiar. If I thought they had a chance, I would have included something else by them (not 'Rock Lobster').
I'm not arguing it's worthiness of inclusion. I still don't like it ;)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 17, 2018, 10:40:29 AM
The problem with Love Shack is that it's really the only B52s tune that most stations will keep in their catalog for their 80s programming. You might occasionally get Rock Lobster, which is worse.
You don't ever get Channel Z or Roam or Deadbeat Club or Private Idaho. Just changing up which B52s tune you're stuck with over and over makes a huge difference.
Well I'm glad I have no clue about those other songs, cause the B-52's just plain suck!