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UMT 3.13...
#1 Led Zeppelin vs. #5 Culture Club
#3 Soundgarden vs. #2 The Impressions
#1 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles vs. #4 Alice Cooper
#6 The Cranberries vs. #2 Eagles
#1 Johnny Cash vs. #5 Eurythmics
#3 The Animals vs. #2 The Offspring
#1 Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. #5 Supertramp
#6 Massive Attack vs. #2 The Doors
#1 Led Zeppelin vs. #5 Culture Club
#3 Soundgarden vs. #2 The Impressions
#1 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles vs. #4 Alice Cooper
#6 The Cranberries vs. #2 Eagles
#1 Johnny Cash vs. #5 Eurythmics
#3 The Animals vs. #2 The Offspring
#1 Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. #5 Supertramp
#6 Massive Attack vs. #2 The Doors
#5 Culture Club: Easy win for one of the 80s' more colorful acts!
#3 Soundgarden: This is a very close call. Tomorrow I might pick The Impressions.
#4 Alice Cooper: Also tough, but we need more like Alice!
#6 The Cranberries: I can't stand The Eagles.
#5 Eurythmics: I'll likely be the only vote for them, but they are one of the only artists to rival Prince for me, and I've gone on about them ad naueseum here.
#3 The Animals: It's hard for me to remember why I used to like The Offspring.
#1 RHCP: I don't love them, but they still have some songs I enjoy.
#2 The Doors: I'm warming to Massive Attack, but I adore L.A. Woman.
I'll play along with the categories I see thrown out after these votes:
Favorite Artist of the Bracket: Eurythmics, by far.
Favorite Artist I didn't vote for: Massive Attack
Favorite Album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (#5 all-time)
Favorite Song: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (#3 all-time)
Led Zeppelin
Soundgarden (Curtis solo would have been another thing)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The Cranberries
Johnny Cash (I had to look up my top 100 list for this one, and it turned out that Cash won over Eurythmics with 3 places, #62 vs. #65...)
The Animals
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Massive Attack (The best two bands in the same match-up again!
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Schwah
Johnny Cash - High on my to do list is to dig through the Eurythmics back catalog, given Moonbeam's forceful and persuasive arguments in their favor. But Cash still grabs me more.
I'm not trying to force anyone into anything. I guess we all trumpet our favorite music to some extent, and maybe I do so a little too much here! If you know their big singles ("Sweet Dreams", "Love Is a Stranger", "Here Comes the Rain Again", "Who's That Girl?", "Would I Lie to You", "There Must Be an Angel", "Missionary Man", etc.), you can see a sharp divide in their work, as they went from synth pop experimentation to the pop/rock/soul mainstream. I think they succeed well in both, although I prefer the former. In any case, it's a good indication of where you should start if you can tell which singles intrigue you more.If you think you may prefer the early stuff, I've posted my reviews of their first 4 albums along with a Deezer playlist of their lesser known work from that era in this thread:
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3172289350&frmid=10&msgid=945490&cmd=show
A good place to start with their post-84 work is Be Yourself Tonight- it set the course for the remainder of their career. Revenge is a sort of bigger, louder version of that. Savage is a sardonic return to more twisted synth arrangements, while We Too Are One saw them rather gently and meekly bow out for awhile with a sort of sophisticated pop/rock in line with Annie Lennox's Diva, although not quite as good. The reunion album Peace is not unlike an Annie Lennox solo album, although you can hear Dave's muscle in there.