Vote for your winners, results posted on Monday:
#1 Public Enemy vs. #16 Roxette
#8 Ozzy Osbourne vs. #9 Toad The Wet Sprocket
#5 Sade vs. #12 Garth Brooks
#4 The Flaming Lips vs. #13 Night Ranger
#3 Husker Du vs. #14 Stevie Ray Vaughn
#6 Tears For Fears vs. #11 X
#7 Talk Talk vs. #10 Boogie Down Productions
#2 Metallica vs. #15 The Stray Cats
#1 Public Enemy
Pass (Ozzy is a joke post-Sabbath, and Toad the Wet Sprocket is just awful. They completely ruined the mediocre Monty Python sketch from which they took their name.)
#5 Sade
#4 The Flaming Lips
#3 Hüsker Dü (I truly hate having to boot SRV, the man who invented Austin, in round one.)
#11 X
X is a fantastic band; they were the absolute cream of the LA punk scene, and they’re probably in my all-time top ten artists. It’s too bad they won’t win, since John Doe and Exene, on their worst day, still had more cool, chops and inventiveness than Roland Orzabal could ever muster. Check ‘em out if you haven’t.
(Nothing against TFF, a nice little band. I actually think their first album, The Hurting, is still the best thing they ever did.)
On we go…
#7 Talk Talk (One of the great sleepers of all time – a seemingly standard-issue synth band that evolved into a proto-Radiohead.)
Pass (I seriously dislike Metallica, and it’s tempting to vote against them since that won’t prevent them from winning easily. But I don’t need to start my Friday by voting for a pipsqueak like Brian Setzer.)
PE
Toad - Very Underrated band
Sade - Smoooooth!!!
Night Ranger - It's a guilty pleasure, that cannot be explained.
Husker Du - Is there a bad song in the catalogue?
TFF
BDP - I like Talk Talk, but there is something special about KRS-One.
Metallica - You just can't F with the first 4 albums.
#1 Public Enemy
#8 Ozzy Osbourne
Pass
#4 The Flaming Lips (not for their 80s output, though. Weird to think of them as an 80s band)
#3 Husker Du
#11 X
#7 Talk Talk
#2 Metallica
#1 Public Enemy
pass (I would not mind voting for Black Sabbath over something I don't know, but not for Ozzy solo career)
#5 Sade
pass (don't know Night Ranger)
#3 Husker Du
#11 X
#7 Talk Talk
#2 Metallica
#16 Roxette: 18 defeats #1 Public Enemy: 12 #8 Ozzy Osbourne: 9 defeats #9 Toad The Wet Sprocket: 6 #5 Sade: 17 defeats #12 Garth Brooks: 0 #4 The Flaming Lips: 12 defeats #13 Night Ranger: 10 #3 Husker Du: 12 defeats #14 Stevie Ray Vaughn: 10 #6 Tears For Fears: 14 defeats #11 X: 13 (I have a feeling I'd prefer X if I knew more of their stuff...) #7 Talk Talk: 15 defeats #10 Boogie Down Productions: 10 #2 Metallica: 13 defeats #15 The Stray Cats: 1
#1 Public Enemy
#8 Ozzy Osbourne
Pass
#4 The Flaming Lips (not for their 80s output, though. Weird to think of them as an 80s band)
#3 Husker Du
#11 X
#7 Talk Talk
#2 Metallica
The regions were catagorized by the decade in which each artist debuted instead of the decade in which they were most prevelant. It makes it less of an opinion and creates more diverse matchups in some cases.
