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Apr 18, 2010 - 6:03PM

ULTIMATE Music Tournament:Bracket #8

I am sending this out on Sunday instead of on Monday morning, due to the fact I am going to be out of town for a couple of days. I will announce the winners and post bracket #9 on Wednesday morning and will pick up the tourney on a daily basis from mon-fri from that point. Thank You to all who are participating.

#1 (48) THE SUPREMES vs. #16 (977) LESLIE GORE

The biggest of the Motown girl groups of the 60’s, The Supremes had a number of huge hits including “Stop! In The Name Of Love”, “Love Child”, “Baby Love” and “Where Did Our Love Go”.

Leslie Gore was a teen pop star in 1963 with her hits “It’s My Party”, “Judy’s Turn To Cry” and “You Don’t Own Me”.

#8 (465) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM vs. #9 (560) THE TROGGS

LCD has a unique style of mixing dance music and punk and has put together some impressive singles including “All My Friends”, “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House”, “Losing My Edge” and “North American Scum”

“Wild Thing”…Ricky Vaughn… only part of the legacy behind the 1966 hit from The Troggs blending garage rock with the roots of punk into a perfect pop hit. Other songs from these guys “Love Is All Around”, “With A Girl Like You” and “I Can’t Control Myself”

#5 (304) CHRISTINA AGUILERA vs. #12 (721) CAT STEVENS

Pure 100% disposable pop music… “Genie In A Bottle”, “Beautiful”, “Ain’t No Other Man” and “What A Girl Wants”

Cat Stevens was a popular singer/songwriter in the early 70’s…. “Wide World”, “Peace Train”, “Morning Has Broken” and “Moonshadow” are amongst his biggest hits.

#4 (209) JONI MITCHELL vs. #13 (816) Q-TIP

Influential singer/songwriter Joni had “Help Me”, “Free Man In Paris”, “Big Yellow Taxi” and “You Turn Me On I’m A Radio”

Following the demise of A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip released a solo album in 1999 that included “Vivrant Thing” and “Breathe and Stop”. He also had “Move” and “Getting’ Up” in 2008.

#3 (176) VAN MORRISON vs. #14 (849) CIARA

Van is the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter that gave us “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Jackie Wilson Said”, “Moondance” and “Into The Mystic”.

Ciara, a successful R&B artist with a number of big pop hits including “1,2 Step”, “Like A Boy” and “Goodies”.

#6 (337) BUZZCOCKS vs. #11 (688) LAURYN HILL

The influential British band Buzzcocks gave a boost to punk, power pop and indie rock with a number of great songs in the late 70’s including “Orgasm Addict”, “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t‘ve)”, “What Do I Get” and “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”.

After The Fugees, Lauryn put out one of the biggest hip-hop records ever with her 1998 debut giving us the singles “Doo Wop (That Thing)”, “Everything Is Everything”, “To Zion” and “Ex-Factor”.

#7 (432) BOBBY BROWN vs. #10 (593) THE HIVES

Bobby split from New Edition in 1988 and went solo bringing hits like “My Prerogative”, “Don’t Be Cruel”, “Every Little Step” and “Humpin’ Around”.

The early 2000 Garage Revival period was headlined by The Hives and their signature hit “Hate To Say I Told You So”. They also gave us “Walk Idiot Walk”, “Tick Tick Boom” and “Main Offender”.

#2 (81) THE DRIFTERS vs. #15 (944) THE OCEAN BLUE

In the late 50’s/early 60’s, The Drifters R&B/Doo Wop styling’s created a ton of big hits including “Save The Last Dance For Me”, “On Broadway”, “Under The Boardwalk” and “Up On The Roof”

The American Indie band The Ocean Blue had a sound similar to The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen and a number of their shoegaze contemporaries, they just never got the popularity with songs like “Between Something And Nothing”, “Drifting, Falling”, “Sublime” and “Ballerina Out of Control”.

Apr 18th, 2010 - 6:03 PM

Greg

Apr 18, 2010 - 6:33PM