1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket

[AKKOLADE]

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin Ballade de Melody Nelson

Gainsbarre better show up in this bracket in some form, or else...I'll be mildly annoyed.

He's on the shortlist. I really can't promise too much more; this is going to be very hard to see.

[AKKOLADE]

Diana Ross Love Hangover
Diana Ross Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
Diana Ross Remember Me
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye You Are Everything
Eagles Desperado
Eagles One of These Nights
Eagles Take It Easy
Eagles Life in the Fast Lane
Eagles Lyin' Eyes
Eagles New Kid in Town
Eagles Take It to the Limit
Eagles Tequila Sunrise
Eagles Best of My Love
Eagles Already Gone
Eagles Heartache Tonight
Eagles The Long Run
Eagles Witchy Woman
Eagles Peaceful Easy Feeling
Eagles In the City
Eagles Doolin-Dalton
Eagles I Can't Tell You Why
Gil Scott-Heron Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson We Almost Lost Detroit
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson The Bottle
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Winter in America
Joni Mitchell God Must Be a Boogie Man
Joni Mitchell Coyote
Joni Mitchell Car on a Hill
Joni Mitchell Paprika Plains
Nick Drake Northern Sky
Nick Drake Things Behind the Sun
Nick Drake Hazey Jane II
Nick Drake At the Chime of the City Clock
Nick Drake Fly
Nick Drake From the Morning
Nick Drake Which Will
Nick Drake One of These Things First
Nick Drake Poor Boy
Serge Gainsbourg Melody
Serge Gainsbourg Variations sur Marilou
Serge Gainsbourg Valse de Melody
Serge Gainsbourg Aux armes et caetera
Serge Gainsbourg L'homme à tête de chou
Serge Gainsbourg Cargo culte
Supertramp Bloody Well Right
Supertramp School
Supertramp Fool's Overture
Supertramp Hide in Your Shell
Supertramp Child of Vision
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Supertramp Ain't Nobody But Me
Supertramp Crime of the Century
Supertramp Lord Is It Mine
Supertramp A Soapbox Opera
Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments
Supertramp Dreamer
Supertramp Give a Little Bit
Supertramp Take the Long Way Home
Supertramp The Logical Song
The Allman Brothers Band Hot 'Lanta
The Allman Brothers Band In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
The Allman Brothers Band Blue Sky
The Allman Brothers Band One Way Out
The Allman Brothers Band Ain't Wastin' Time No More
The Allman Brothers Band Statesboro Blues
The Allman Brothers Band Melissa
The Allman Brothers Band Jessica
The Stranglers Goodbye Toulouse
The Stranglers Duchess
The Stranglers Nice 'n' Sleazy
The Stranglers Something Better Change
The Stranglers No More Heroes
The Stranglers Peaches

[jonpin]

Joke's on us. Come mid-April, Fred's going to post a final list of cuts and announce the one song remaining that has been declared The Greatest.

[AKKOLADE]

Joke's on us. Come mid-April, Fred's going to post a final list of cuts and announce the one song remaining that has been declared The Greatest.

Thank you all for participating. The greatest song is Melanie’s “New Key.” I’ll see you next time, when I list 2000 songs that are not as good as Semisonic’s “Closing Time” and declare it the best song of the 90s.

[Charm Bison]

The second-to-last song eliminated will be “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Albuquerque”.

[merv1618]

The second-to-last song eliminated will be “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Albuquerque”.

I endorse this product and/or service

[AKKOLADE]

bye bye

Big Star Holocaust
Big Star Kanga-Roo
Big Star Back of a Car
Big Star I'm in Love with a Girl
Big Star The Ballad of El Goodo
Big Star In the Street
Big Star Thirteen
Carole King You've Got a Friend
Carole King (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Carole King So Far Away
Carole King Only Love Is Real
Carole King Home Again
Carole King Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Carpenters Superstar
Carpenters We've Only Just Begun
Carpenters Yesterday Once More
Carpenters Goodbye to Love
Carpenters For All We Know
Carpenters Rainy Days and Mondays
Elton John Are You Ready for Love
Elton John Song for Guy
Elton John Border Song
Elton John Madman Across the Water
Elton John Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
Elton John Honky Cat
Elton John Levon
Elton John Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Elton John The Bitch Is Back
Elton John Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Elton John Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Elton John Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Elton John Crocodile Rock
Elton John Candle in the Wind
Elton John Daniel
Elton John Bennie and the Jets
Elton John Tiny Dancer
Elton John Rocket Man
Elton John Your Song
Elton John and Kiki Dee Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Elvis Costello (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
Elvis Costello (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
Elvis Costello Less Than Zero
Elvis Costello Accidents Will Happen
Elvis Costello Lipstick Vogue
Elvis Costello (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Elvis Costello No Action
Elvis Costello Welcome to the Working Week
Elvis Costello Alison
Elvis Costello Watching the Detectives
Elvis Costello Pump It Up
Elvis Costello and The Attractions Oliver's Army
George Jones The Grand Tour
George Jones & Tammy Wynette Golden Ring
Gladys Knight and The Pips If I Were Your Woman
Gladys Knight and The Pips I've Got to Use My Imagination
Gladys Knight and The Pips Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
Gladys Knight and The Pips Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Grateful Dead Ripple
Grateful Dead Wharf Rat
Grateful Dead Playing in the Band
Grateful Dead Scarlet Begonias
Grateful Dead Sugar Magnolia
Grateful Dead Casey Jones
Grateful Dead Truckin'
Grateful Dead Uncle John's Band
Grateful Dead Box of Rain
Michael Jackson Rock with You
Michael Jackson Off the Wall
Michael Jackson Ben
Michael Jackson I Wanna Be Where You Are
Michael Jackson Got to Be There
Michael Jackson She's Out of My Life
Michael Jackson Workin' Day and Night
Michael Jackson I Can't Help It
Michael Jackson Rockin' Robin
Michael Jackson Get on the Floor
Rainbow All Night Long
Rainbow Catch the Rainbow
The Jackson 5 Lookin' Through the Windows
The Jackson 5 Mama's Pearl
The Jackson 5 Never Can Say Goodbye
The Jackson 5 The Love You Save
The Jackson 5 Dancing Machine
The Jackson 5 ABC
The Jacksons Show You the Way To Go
The Jacksons Shake Your Body
The Jacksons Blame It on the Boogie

[merv1618]

The Jackson 5 ABC

Best pop song ever written. This is no longer fun, Fred.

[ryanrosenberg]

Elvis Costello Alison

[El Salvadoreno]

The Jackson 5 ABC

Best pop song ever written. This is no longer fun, Fred.

I endorse this product and/or service.

[AKKOLADE]

The Jackson 5 ABC

Best pop song ever written. This is no longer fun, Fred.

Yet less good than I’ll Be There.

[kitakule]

bye bye
Michael Jackson Rock with You
Michael Jackson Off the Wall
Michael Jackson Ben
Michael Jackson I Wanna Be Where You Are
Michael Jackson Got to Be There
Michael Jackson She's Out of My Life
Michael Jackson Workin' Day and Night
Michael Jackson I Can't Help It
Michael Jackson Rockin' Robin
Michael Jackson Get on the Floor
The Jackson 5 Lookin' Through the Windows
The Jackson 5 Mama's Pearl
The Jackson 5 Never Can Say Goodbye
The Jackson 5 The Love You Save
The Jackson 5 Dancing Machine
The Jackson 5 ABC
The Jacksons Show You the Way To Go
The Jacksons Shake Your Body
The Jacksons Blame It on the Boogie

This means war, dammit. Four of my top ten favourite songs of all time are on this list.

The Jackson 5 ABC

Best pop song ever written. This is no longer fun, Fred.

Yet less good than I’ll Be There.

I'm going to join the other guys and disagree with you here, Fred. Also I really think that if you're going with the one-song, one-artist rule, we should have mini play-in brackets for some of the more famous artists who have more than one song that could be a serious contender in the bracket and lack a clear "signature song" (ex. Bill Withers). I know it would lengthen the tournament a bit but some of the fun is kinda sucked out of things if you're deciding close calls like this one based on your own personal taste, popular opinion be damned. ABC is an incredibly popular song and would have the potential to make a very deep run in the tournament (along with I Want You Back and I'll Be There of course)! I mean so far you've been basically spot on with your cuts so far, but it's worth reconsidering play-in brackets for cases like this one. I know it's your game, your rules, but in the end we are the ones who are going to vote in the tournament so I do think we should have some say in really close calls for bracket cuts.

EDIT: I Want You Back is from 1969, sorry!

[rylltraka]

Stuff Moses said

Y'know, Fred doesn't have to do this for our amusement, and I think it's misplaced to basically demand "Hey, do additional work based on my preferences re: a 50-year-old pop song". You have ample space to debate the merits of various Jackson 5 songs - in this very thread, no less! You're also free to debate whether less iconic '70s artists deserve an automatic space in the tournament as part of the greater conversation (there are people here who would chat about it, I'm sure), but the best option, if you're truly incensed at these apparent travesties of justice, is to make your own thread, bracket, conversation, space, etc. Don't look your gift horse in the mouth.

By the way, "I Want You Back" was released in the 1960s. I looked.

[merv1618]

I'm going to join the other guys and disagree with you here, Fred. Also I really think that if you're going with the one-song, one-artist rule, we should have mini play-in brackets for some of the more famous artists who have more than one song that could be a serious contender in the bracket and lack a clear "signature song" (ex. Bill Withers). I know it would lengthen the tournament a bit but some of the fun is kinda sucked out of things if you're unilaterally deciding close calls like this one based on your own personal taste, popular opinion be damned. ABC is an incredibly popular song and would have the potential to make a very deep run in the tournament (along with I Want You Back and I'll Be There of course)! I mean so far you've been basically spot on with your cuts so far, but it's worth reconsidering play-in brackets for cases like this one. I know it's your game, your rules, but in the end we are the ones who are going to vote in the tournament so I do think we should have some say in really close calls for bracket cuts.

Clarification: this is, in fact, fun.

Let's not jump into the world of angry, rabid literalism over bits and pieces of a quiz bowl music thread, folks.

[kitakule]

Stuff Moses said

Y'know, Fred doesn't have to do this for our amusement, and I think it's misplaced to basically demand "Hey, do additional work based on my preferences re: a 50-year-old pop song". You have ample space to debate the merits of various Jackson 5 songs - in this very thread, no less! You're also free to debate whether less iconic '70s artists deserve an automatic space in the tournament as part of the greater conversation (there are people here who would chat about it, I'm sure), but the best option, if you're truly incensed at these apparent travesties of justice, is to make your own thread, bracket, conversation, space, etc. Don't look your gift horse in the mouth.

By the way, "I Want You Back" was released in the 1960s. I looked.

Oops, I forgot that I Want You Back was actually released in late 1969. My bad! This is Fred's tournament and he's free to make the rules as he sees fit (as I acknowledged in my previous comment). Mik, when I said that play-in voting would "delay the tournament a bit" I do mean just a bit, these cases don't happen that often and aside from joking grumbles when some people's favourite songs get cut, there haven't really been any problems so far, save for the Bill Withers one (also previously acknowledged). I would be more than willing to help set up play-in brackets for these situations, given that this was my idea.


I don't want to make it seem as if putting ABC over I'll Be There is a life or death situation; I'm really sorry if I came across too passionately! In the end this is just a fun game on the quiz bowl forums, it's not meant to be taken seriously at all. If I haven't said it before, I'm grateful that you chose to do a tournament for this decade Fred, I've enjoyed rediscovering 70's songs I haven't listened to in a while and adding new ones I'd never heard before to my playlist. All I'm saying is that if we're going to use the one song-one artist rule then situations like this are bound to happen at some point, and play-in voting is a potential solution (if there's enough demand of course).

For what it's worth Mik, I was considering doing a smaller-scale bracket on a particular musical genre or artist, but then Fred started this one and I didn't see the point in having two similar tournaments running simultaneously. Maybe sometime in the future!

[El Salvadoreno]

Yeah, I don't think anyone was trying to make a big deal out of it. But if Fred is willing to put his cuts out there, than I think we have the right to critique them in a reasonable way if we disagree.

[nycaqb1999]

Elvis Costello Alison

What Costello song will make this bracket then? Has the wrong Elvis left the building (as in a building that is a poll of songs)?

[Charm Bison]

Elvis Costello Alison

What Costello song will make this bracket then? Has the wrong Elvis left the building (as in a building that is a poll of songs)?

Looks like Radio Radio.

[Stained Diviner]

Fred is cold-blooded. He'll underrate your team, eliminate your favorite 70s song, criticize your meme, and sleep soundly at night without any remorse over how he destroyed your life. If you see him in a dark alley, you best run.

[AKKOLADE]

chop chop chop chop

Bee Gees Too Much Heaven
Bee Gees Lonely Days
Bee Gees Run to Me
Bee Gees Nights on Broadway
Bee Gees Tragedy
Bee Gees More Than a Woman
Bee Gees You Should Be Dancing
Bee Gees How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Bee Gees Jive Talkin'
Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love
Bee Gees Night Fever
Can Halleluhwah
Can Vitamin C
Can Oh Yeah
Can Spoon
Can Moonshake
Can Future Days
Can Mother Sky
Can I Want More
Can Paperhouse
Can Bel Air
Carly Simon Nobody Does It Better
Carly Simon That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
Carly Simon Anticipation
Carole King I Feel the Earth Move
Elvis Presley Always on My Mind
Elvis Presley Kentucky Rain
Isaac Hayes The Look of Love
Isaac Hayes Ike's Mood I
Joni Mitchell This Flight Tonight
Joni Mitchell The Hissing Summer of Lawns
Joni Mitchell The Last Time I Saw Richard
Joni Mitchell For the Roses
Joni Mitchell California
Joni Mitchell Carey
Joni Mitchell All I Want
Joni Mitchell The Circle Game
Joni Mitchell Don't Interrupt the Sorrow
Joni Mitchell Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
Joni Mitchell Refuge of the Roads
Joni Mitchell Raised on Robbery
Joni Mitchell River
Joni Mitchell Blue
Joni Mitchell Amelia
Joni Mitchell Woodstock
Joni Mitchell Free Man in Paris
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
Joni Mitchell Help Me
Joni Mitchell A Case of You
Joy Division Warsaw
Joy Division Leaders of Men
Joy Division Digital
Melanie What Have They Done to My Song Ma
Melanie Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Neu! Hallogallo
Neu! Isi
Neu! Neuschnee
Nilsson Gotta Get Up
Nilsson Jump Into the Fire
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta You're the One That I Want
Ramones Beat on the Brat
Ramones Teenage Lobotomy
Ramones Rock 'n' Roll High School
Ramones Judy Is a Punk
Ramones I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Ramones Pinhead
Ramones Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Ramones Surfin' Bird
Ramones Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Ramones I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
Ramones Carbona Not Glue
Ramones Swallow My Pride
Ramones Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones Rockaway Beach
Suzi Quatro 48 Crash
Suzi Quatro Devil Gate Drive
Suzi Quatro Can the Can
The Allman Brothers Band Midnight Rider
The Clash Stay Free
The Who Baba O'Riley
Tim Buckley Song to the Siren
Tim Buckley Get on Top of Me Woman
Tim Buckley Monterey
Tim Buckley Sweet Surrender
Toots and The Maytals Time Tough
Toots and The Maytals Funky Kingston

[ryanrosenberg]

"Big Yellow Taxi" as the Joni Mitchell representative is unfortunate. I would have rather seen any song on Blue in the bracket instead.

More generally, I think this reflects a bias towards up-tempo, poppier songs, which, while tough to avoid, leads to a lack of truly contrasting matchups in the bracket.

[nycaqb1999]

chop chop chop chop

Can Vitamin C

nope nope nope nope nope this isn't happening this song is dope as hell

[kitakule]

chop chop chop chop
Bee Gees Nights on Broadway
Bee Gees More Than a Woman
Bee Gees You Should Be Dancing
Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love
Bee Gees Night Fever

Sad to see these go. But it was always going to be Stayin' Alive, not even a contest there

chop chop chop chop
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta You're the One That I Want

rip

[Wartortullian]

There is no way that Blitzkrieg Bop is better than I Wanna Be Sedated.

[Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone]

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta You're the One That I Want

More seriously, is this a British versus American thing? This is still the fifth best selling single of all time in the UK

[AKKOLADE]

Candle in the Wind 97 is not the second best song in history.

Joni Mitchell was a tough choice but the lyrics of BYT are very unique and well-written - “they put all the trees in a tree museum” is a top tier line in particular. It wasn’t an easy pick though. As far as a bias vs ballads, it could be true but I don't think so. I just picked It's Too Late over I Feel the Earth Move for Carole King, though I also did pick Burning Love for Elvis over Kentucky Rain and You Were Always On My Mind. All were very hard choices.

Bop vs. Sedated was a tough pick as well. Those were my two finalists for The Ramones.

I was unimpressed with Can. Their historical importance is clear but there's better prog rock groups in this period.

[rylltraka]

Candle in the Wind 97 is not the second best song in history.

It's barely the second best "Candle in the Wind"!

[AKKOLADE]

bye

Bob Dylan Went to See the Gypsy
Bob Dylan & The Band Tears of Rage
Bob Dylan & The Band This Wheel's on Fire
Bob Dylan & The Band I Shall Be Released
Fleetwood Mac Over My Head
Fleetwood Mac Hypnotized
Fleetwood Mac Silver Springs
Fleetwood Mac Say You Love Me
Fleetwood Mac The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
Fleetwood Mac You Make Loving Fun
Fleetwood Mac Don't Stop
Fleetwood Mac Sara
Fleetwood Mac Gold Dust Woman
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Fleetwood Mac Landslide
Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)
Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac Dreams
Graham Parker & The Rumour Heat Treatment
Graham Parker & The Rumour Discovering Japan
Graham Parker & The Rumour Protection
Graham Parker & The Rumour Local Girls
Graham Parker & The Rumour Hold Back the Night
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene IV
John Cale Fear is a Man's Best Friend
John Cale Andalucia
John Cale Child's Christmas in Wales
John Cale Paris 1919
John Cale (I Keep a) Close Watch
Joy Division New Dawn Fades
Joy Division Shadowplay
Joy Division She's Lost Control
Joy Division Transmission
Leonard Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat
Lightnin' Rod Sport
Little Feat Easy to Slip
Little Feat Fat Man in the Bathtub
Little Feat Willin'
Little Feat Long Distance Love
Paul McCartney and Wings With a Little Luck
Paul McCartney and Wings C Moon
Paul McCartney and Wings Let 'Em In
Rainbow A Light in the Black
Rainbow Kill the King
Rainbow Man on the Silver Mountain
Rainbow Gates of Babylon
Roogalator Cincinatti Fat Back
The Clash Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
The Clash I'm So Bored with the USA
The Clash Capital Radio
The Clash Safe European Home
Wings Silly Love Songs

[AKKOLADE]

Separate from the previous cuts are these six songs which I put on the shortlist but judged as not quite good enough to make the final bracket, using a cut-off song that, frankly, probably isn't going to survive, either, but it'll hang in there for now. Anyway, adios to:

Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love
Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - The Resurrection Shuffle
Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown

[AKKOLADE]

Some more cuts:

Dashiell Hedayat Chrysler (Rose)
Dinosaur Kiss Me Again
Faust It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert Part I
Public Image Ltd. Death Disco
Public Image Ltd. Poptones
Public Image Ltd. Memories
Public Image Ltd. Religion
Public Image Ltd. Careering
Public Image Ltd. The Suit
Rainbow Since You Been Gone
The Brains Money Changes Everything
The Clash Remote Control
The Clash Brand New Cadillac
The Clash Armagideon Time
The Clash Death or Glory
The Clash Police and Thieves
The Clash Clampdown
The Clash Rudie Can't Fail
The Clash Tommy Gun
The Specials Gangsters
The Specials Too Much Too Young
The Specials Nite Klub
Voyage From East to West

[AKKOLADE]

50 more songs cut. This wasn't the easiest batch.

Bryan Ferry A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Bryan Ferry This Is Tomorrow
Bryan Ferry Let's Stick Together
Jacques Brel Jaurès
Jacques Brel Les Marquises
Jacques Brel Orly
Neil Young with Crazy Horse Like a Hurricane
Neil Young with Crazy Horse Powderfinger
Neil Young with Crazy Horse My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Neil Young with Crazy Horse Will to Love
Ohio Players Funky Worm
Ohio Players Fire
Queen Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen Bicycle Race
Queen Spread Your Wings
Queen My Melancholy Blues
Queen Brighton Rock
Queen '39
Queen I'm in Love with My Car
Queen The March of the Black Queen
Queen Seven Seas of Rhye
Queen Death on Two Legs
Queen Love of My Life
Queen Tie Your Mother Down
Queen Now I'm Here
Queen Keep Yourself Alive
Queen You're My Best Friend
Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen Don't Stop Me Now
Queen Killer Queen
Queen We Will Rock You
Queen We Are the Champions
Queen Somebody to Love
The Undertones Jimmy Jimmy
The Undertones You Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)
The Undertones Get Over You
The Undertones Here Comes the Summer
The Undertones True Confessions
Tom Robinson Band Glad to Be Gay
Tom Robinson Band 2 4 6 8 Motorway
Tom Waits Somewhere (From "West Side Story")
Tom Waits Kentucky Avenue
Tom Waits San Diego Serenade
Tom Waits Romeo is Bleeding
Tom Waits Blue Valentines
Tom Waits The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
Tom Waits Martha
Tom Waits Ol' 55
Tom Waits Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Tom Waits Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

[AKKOLADE]

Even more cuts.

Blerta Dance All Around the World
Boston Don't Look Back
Boston Peace of Mind
Brian Eno Julie With...
Eno St. Elmo's Fire
Eno Another Green World
Eno I'll Come Running
Eno Everything Merges with the Night
First Choice Armed and Extremely Dangerous
First Choice Smarty Pants
First Choice Doctor Love
First Choice Let No Man Put Asunder
Graham Nash Chicago
Graham Nash & David Crosby Page 43
Hamilton Bohannon Foot Stompin Music
Iggy Pop Dum Dum Boys
Iggy Pop Funtime
Iggy Pop China Girl
Iggy Pop Nightclubbing
Iggy Pop The Passenger
Joan Baez Joe Hill
Joan Baez with Ennio Morricone and His Orchestra Here's to You
Led Zeppelin Custard Pie
Led Zeppelin Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin In the Light
Led Zeppelin That's the Way
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day
Led Zeppelin In the Evening
Mountain Theme from an Imaginary Western
Mountain Nantucket Sleighride
Paul McCartney and Wings Helen Wheels
Paul McCartney and Wings Goodnight Tonight
Paul McCartney and Wings Junior's Farm
Paul McCartney and Wings Venus and Mars / Rock Show
Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger (You Got to Walk And) Don't Look Back
Roger Daltrey Giving It All Away
Sly and the Family Stone Runnin' Away
Sly and the Family Stone (You Caught Me) Smilin'
Sly and the Family Stone If You Want Me to Stay
Sparks Tryouts for the Human Race
Sparks The Number One Song in Heaven
Sparks Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Sparks Amateur Hour
Sparks Something for the Girl with Everything
Sparks Beat the Clock
Steely Dan Pearl of the Quarter
Steely Dan Black Friday
Steely Dan Bad Sneakers
The Clash 1977
The Clash London's Burning
The Clash Janie Jones
The Clash Clash City Rockers
The Clash Career Opportunities
The Clash Spanish Bombs
The Clash Lost in the Supermarket
The Clash The Guns of Brixton
The Clash White Riot
The Clash I Fought the Law
Van Morrison Listen to the Lion
Van Morrison Blue Money
Van Morrison Bright side of the road
Van Morrison You Don't Pull No Punches But You Don't Push the River
Van Morrison Wavelength
Van Morrison It's All in the Game
Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
Van Morrison Caravan
Van Morrison Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Van Morrison Crazy Love
Van Morrison And It Stoned Me
Van Morrison Wild Night
Van Morrison Domino

[AKKOLADE]

Time for more cuts.

Barry Manilow Could It Be Magic
Barry Manilow I Write the Songs
Barry Manilow Copacabana (At the Copa)
Barry Manilow Mandy
Bruce Springsteen Spirit in the Night
Bruce Springsteen Adam Raised a Cain
Bruce Springsteen For You
Bruce Springsteen Meeting Across the River
Bruce Springsteen Blinded by the Light
Bruce Springsteen Growin' Up
Bruce Springsteen The E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen She's the One
Bruce Springsteen New York City Serenade
Bruce Springsteen Candy's Room
Bruce Springsteen Incident on 57th Street
Bruce Springsteen The Promised Land
Bruce Springsteen Prove It All Night
Bruce Springsteen Lost in the Flood
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Bruce Springsteen Racing in the Street
Bruce Springsteen Backstreets
Bruce Springsteen Badlands
Bruce Springsteen Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Bruce Springsteen Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Bruce Springsteen Jungleland
Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road
Cerrone Give Me Love
Cerrone Love In C Minor
Cerrone Supernature
Foreigner Double Vision
Foreigner Feels Like the First Time
Jethro Tull With You There to Help Me
Jethro Tull Wond'ring Aloud
Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery
Jethro Tull The Whistler
Kiss Shout It Out Loud
Kiss Calling Dr. Love
Kiss Deuce
Kiss Love Gun
Kiss Black Diamond
Kiss I Was Made for Lovin' You
Motörhead Motörhead
Motörhead Overkill
Neil Young Words (Between the Lines of Age)
Neil Young Revolution Blues
Neil Young Harvest
Neil Young Oh, Lonesome Me
Neil Young Lotta Love
Neil Young Don't Cry No Tears
Neil Young Don't Be Denied
Neil Young Tell Me Why
Neil Young Out on the Weekend
Neil Young A Man Needs a Maid
Neil Young Don't Let It Bring You Down
Neil Young Ambulance Blues
Neil Young Comes a Time
Neil Young When You Dance (I Can Really Love)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Pocahontas
Olivia Newton-John If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
Olivia Newton-John I Honestly Love You
Olivia Newton-John Have You Never Been Mellow
Paul and Linda McCartney The Back Seat of My Car
Paul McCartney Junk
Paul McCartney and Wings Hi, Hi, Hi
Paul McCartney and Wings Let Me Roll It
Paul McCartney and Wings My Love
Roberta Flack Feel Like Makin' Love
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway Where Is the Love
Sister Sledge Thinking of You
Sister Sledge He's The Greatest Dancer
Sister Sledge Lost in Music
Steve Miller Band Swingtown
Steve Miller Band Jet Airliner
Steve Miller Band Rock'n Me
The Clash (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
The Clash Complete Control
The Clash Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
The Supremes Nathan Jones
The Supremes Everybody's Got the Right to Love
The Supremes Stoned Love
War Me and Baby Brother
War Summer
War The World Is a Ghetto

[kitakule]

Time for more cuts.
Barry Manilow Copacabana (At the Copa)

Not the Copa...

[merv1618]

ready 4 bracket now

[pray for elves]

I expect Neil Young solo will be combined with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, but will Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young be considered separately? Or are we down to one song from all for sure?

[AKKOLADE]

I expect Neil Young solo will be combined with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, but will Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young be considered separately? Or are we down to one song from all for sure?

CSNY is in a weird area that I'll probably count with the rest of the Crosby+Stills+/-Nash formations.

[AKKOLADE]

I couldn't watch any more basketball without barfing, so here's some cuts.

Black Sabbath The Wizard
Black Sabbath Planet Caravan
Black Sabbath Fairies Wear Boots
Black Sabbath Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath Children of the Grave
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Supernaut
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath Iron Man
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Paul McCartney and Wings Jet
Paul McCartney and Wings Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
Paul McCartney Maybe I'm Amazed
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run
Steely Dan Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan Bodhisattva
Steely Dan Aja
Steely Dan Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Steely Dan Black Cow
Steely Dan F.M. (No Static at All)
Steely Dan Haitian Divorce
Steely Dan Kid Charlemagne
Steely Dan The Boston Rag
Steely Dan My Old School
Steely Dan Doctor Wu
Steely Dan Peg
Steely Dan Show Biz Kids
Steely Dan Deacon Blues
Steely Dan Dirty Work
Steely Dan Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Steely Dan Do It Again
Bad Company Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
Bad Company Shooting Star
Bad Company Ready For Love
Bad Company Bad Company
Bad Company Can't Get Enough
Brian Eno Baby's on Fire
Brian Eno 1/1
Brian Eno Needles in the Camel's Eye
Brian Eno By This River
Brian Eno Cindy Tells Me
Brian Eno 2/1
Brian Eno On Some Faraway Beach
Bob Dylan You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Bob Dylan Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Bob Dylan Changing of the Guards
Bob Dylan Gotta Serve Somebody
Bob Dylan Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Bob Dylan One More Cup of Coffee
Bob Dylan Sara
Bob Dylan You're a Big Girl Now
Bob Dylan Million Dollar Bash
Bob Dylan When I Paint My Masterpiece
Bob Dylan If Not for You
Bob Dylan The Man in Me
Bob Dylan You Ain't Going Nowhere
Bob Dylan Dirge
Jethro Tull Cross-Eyed Mary
Jethro Tull Hymn 43
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Jethro Tull Bungle in the Jungle
Jethro Tull Locomotive Breath
Led Zeppelin The Wanton Song
Led Zeppelin Friends
Led Zeppelin Four Sticks
Led Zeppelin The Rover
Led Zeppelin Dancing Days
Led Zeppelin Hey Hey What Can I Do
Led Zeppelin Tangerine
Led Zeppelin All My Love
Led Zeppelin Nobody's Fault But Mine
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin Ten Years Gone
Led Zeppelin D'yer Maker
Led Zeppelin Gallows Pole
Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same
Led Zeppelin Fool in the Rain
Led Zeppelin Going to California
Rod Stewart Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart I Don't Want to Talk About It
Rod Stewart The Killing of Georgie (Parts 1 and 2)
Rod Stewart You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
Rod Stewart The First Cut Is the Deepest
Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
Rod Stewart Reason to Believe
Rod Stewart Sailing
Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind
Rod Stewart Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
Rod Stewart Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Rod Stewart You Wear It Well

[kitakule]

Was there an error in the posting? It looks like you meant to post more cuts yesterday and just forgot to include them when you sent the message.

[AKKOLADE]

Was there an error in the posting? It looks like you meant to post more cuts yesterday and just forgot to include them when you sent the message.

I thought it was odd no one told me I was wrong! I fixed this.

[Whiter Hydra]

Brian Eno 1/1

He was taking too much of the distribution anyway.

[AKKOLADE]

2/1 was just preposterous.

[AKKOLADE]

Cuts

Bob Dylan Isis
Bob Dylan Idiot Wind
Bob Dylan If You See Her, Say Hello
Bob Dylan Forever Young
Bob Dylan Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Dylan Shelter from the Storm
Bob Dylan Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan Hurricane
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer From the Beginning
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Part 1
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Still... You Turn Me On
Fabrizio De André Amico fragile
Fabrizio De André Il testamento di Tito
Fabrizio De André Sally
Fabrizio De André Verranno a chiederti del nostro amore
Fabrizio De André Rimini
Faces Pool Hall Richard
Faces Cindy Incidentally
Faces Debris
Faces Ooh La La
Fela Anikulapo Kuti Shuffering and Shmiling
Fela Anikulapo Kuti Sorrow Tears and Blood
Fela Kuti I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)
Fela Kuti Lady
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 Water No Get Enemy
Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head
Led Zeppelin The Ocean
Led Zeppelin Misty Mountain Hop
Led Zeppelin The Battle of Evermore
Led Zeppelin In My Time of Dying
Led Zeppelin Achilles Last Stand
Led Zeppelin Since I've Been Loving You
Led Zeppelin Over the Hills and Far Away
Led Zeppelin No Quarter
Led Zeppelin The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin Trampled Under Foot
Led Zeppelin When the Levee Breaks
Led Zeppelin Black Dog
Led Zeppelin Rock and Roll
Led Zeppelin Kashmir
Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song
Minnie Riperton Les Fleurs
Minnie Riperton Inside My Love
Rod Stewart & Faces You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything
The Kinks The Way Love Used to Be
The Kinks Strangers
The Kinks Muswell Hillbilly
The Kinks Apeman
The Kinks This Time Tomorrow
The Kinks Celluloid Heroes
The Kinks Get Back in Line
The Stylistics Rockin' Roll Baby
The Stylistics Break Up to Make Up
The Stylistics You Are Everything
The Stylistics Betcha By Golly, Wow
The Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New

[AKKOLADE]

Cuts

AC/DC Whole Lotta Rosie
AC/DC It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC T.N.T.
AC/DC Let There Be Rock
AC/DC Touch Too Much
AC/DC Jailbreak
AC/DC The Jack
AC/DC Problem Child
AC/DC Down Payment Blues
AC/DC Sin City
AC/DC High Voltage
AC/DC Riff Raff
AC/DC Girls Got Rhythm
AC/DC Walk All Over You
AC/DC If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
Bob Marley and The Wailers Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block)
Bob Marley and The Wailers No More Trouble
Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread
Bob Marley and The Wailers Crazy Baldhead
Bob Marley and The Wailers Zimbabwe
Bob Marley and The Wailers Mr. Brown
Dead Boys Ain't It Fun
Dead Boys All This and More
Devo Uncontrollable Urge
Devo Mongoloid
Devo Jocko Homo
Devo Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)
Eddie Kendricks My People...Hold On
Eddie Kendricks Girl You Need a Change of Mind
Gang of Four (Love Like) Anthrax
Gang of Four At Home He's a Tourist
Gang of Four Natural's Not In It
Gang of Four I Found That Essence Rare
Ian Dury Plaistow Patricia
Ian Dury Their Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Ian Dury Wake Up and Make Love with Me
Ian Dury Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Ian Dury What a Waste
Ian Dury and The Blockheads Sweet Gene Vincent
Ian Dury and The Blockheads Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Neil Young On the Beach
Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Neil Young Walk On
Neil Young Tired Eyes
Neil Young Cortez the Killer
Neil Young Old Man
Neil Young The Needle and the Damage Done
Richard and Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Richard and Linda Thompson When I Get to the Border
Richard and Linda Thompson The End of the Rainbow
Richard and Linda Thompson Dimming of the Day
Roxy Music Sea Breezes
Roxy Music Angel Eyes
Roxy Music Both Ends Burning
Sex Pistols Submission
Sex Pistols Seventeen
Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant
Sex Pistols Holidays in the Sun
Sex Pistols E.M.I.
Sex Pistols Anarchy in the U.K.
Sex Pistols [Sid Vicious] My Way
The Wailers Burnin' and Lootin'
The Wailers I Shot the Sheriff
Van Der Graaf Generator Man-Erg
Van Der Graaf Generator Pilgrims
Van Der Graaf Generator Wondering
Van Der Graaf Generator House with No Door
Van Der Graaf Generator Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
Van Der Graaf Generator A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Van Der Graaf Generator Refugees

[jonpin]

I couldn't watch any more basketball without barfing, so here's some cuts.

Paul McCartney and Wings Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

You mean that Bowling for Soup song was a cover?

[Auks Ran Ova]

You mean that Bowling for Soup song was a cover?

yes

[jonpin]

You mean that Bowling for Soup song was a cover?

yes

[sigh]

[AKKOLADE]

Here's 80-some more cuts. I'm finally under 500 songs left to listen to for the first time, thankfully.

There's a lot of great stuff missing the cut because of the one per artist rule this time. Al Green's oeuvre is, in particular, a joy. Gram Parsons is an under-publicized figure in music that falls in the alt-country era. Blondie's a really important new wave act, both due to gender and due to its early place in that movement. Billy Joel's songs below are largely great and belie the criticism he catches in certain corners of music fandom. The Trammps is good dance music for the era, and Status Quo's a solid rock group. The rest are pretty obvious as to what they are and where they fall in history.

Al Green Take Me to the River
Al Green Love and Happiness
Al Green Call Me (Come Back Home)
Al Green How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Al Green I'm Still in Love with You
Al Green L-O-V-E (Love)
Al Green Let's Get Married
Al Green I Can't Get Next to You
Al Green Look What You Done for Me
Al Green Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Al Green You Oughta Be With Me
Al Green Belle
Al Green I'm a Ram
Al Green Tired of Being Alone
Billy Joel Piano Man
Billy Joel Just the Way You Are
Billy Joel New York State of Mind
Billy Joel Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Billy Joel I've Loved These Days
Billy Joel Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Billy Joel Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
Billy Joel My Life
Blondie Picture This
Blondie Union City Blue
Blondie In the Flesh
Blondie Hanging on the Telephone
Blondie Denis
Blondie Sunday Girl
Blondie X-Offender
Blondie Rip Her to Shreds
Blondie One Way or Another
Blondie Atomic
Blondie Dreaming
Gordon Lightfoot Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Gram Parsons In My Hour of Darkness
Gram Parsons Hickory Wind
Gram Parsons A Song for You
Gram Parsons She
Gram Parsons We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris Love Hurts
Pink Floyd Mother
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd The Show Must Go On
Pink Floyd Nobody Home
Pink Floyd Breathe
Pink Floyd Run Like Hell
Pink Floyd If
Pink Floyd Young Lust
Pink Floyd Hey You
Pink Floyd Sheep
Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine
Pink Floyd Brain Damage
Pink Floyd Fearless
Pink Floyd One of These Days
Pink Floyd Echoes
Pink Floyd Us and Them
Santana Samba pa ti
Santana Everybody's Everything
Santana Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
Santana Oye Como Va
Status Quo Whatever You Want
Status Quo Caroline
The Stooges Loose
The Stooges Gimme Danger
The Stooges TV Eye
The Stooges Down on the Street
The Stooges Raw Power
The Stooges L.A. Blues
The Stooges Shake Appeal
The Stooges Fun House
The Stooges 1970
The Stooges Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
The Trammps Hold Back the Night
The Trammps That's Where the Happy People Go
The Trammps Stop & Think
ZZ Top Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
ZZ Top I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
ZZ Top Jesus Just Left Chicago
ZZ Top Heard It on the X
ZZ Top Tush
ZZ Top Cheap Sunglasses

[Whiter Hydra]

Pink Floyd Mother
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd The Show Must Go On
Pink Floyd Nobody Home
Pink Floyd Breathe
Pink Floyd Run Like Hell
Pink Floyd If
Pink Floyd Young Lust
Pink Floyd Hey You
Pink Floyd Sheep
Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine
Pink Floyd Brain Damage
Pink Floyd Fearless
Pink Floyd One of These Days
Pink Floyd Echoes
Pink Floyd Us and Them

Hoping for Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, or Time instead of Money or Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).

[Charm Bison]

Only the Good Die Young is a good pick, but I was holding out hope for Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.