Here are the pools for the pool round, with the team's manager in parenthesis.

Pool A.1
The Beatles (Edderramirez)
U2 (Dan M)
The Clash (Nick)
James Brown (Mindrocker)

Pool A.2
The Rolling Stones (Stephan)
R.E.M. (Toni)
Neil Young (Greg)
The Kinks (Schwah)

Pool A.3
Bob Dylan (Biladama)
Marvin Gaye (Nicolas)
Nirvana (Rocky Raccoon)
The Doors (Andre)

Pool A.4
David Bowie (Midaso)
The Velvet Underground (Brad)
Stevie Wonder (Nicolas)
Public Enemy (Jackson)

Pool A.5
Led Zeppelin (Nick)
The Beach Boys (Andre)
Pink Floyd (Henry)
The Byrds (Guy)

Pool A.6
Radiohead (Gillingham)
Jimi Hendrix (Listyguy)
Bob Marley (Henrik)
Van Morrison (Greg)

Pool A.7
Prince (Moonbeam)
Elvis Presley (Dan M)
Elvis Costello (Biladama)
Aretha Franklin (Alex D)

Pool A.8
Bruce Springsteen (Drewcannon3)
The Who (Henry)
The Smiths (Slick)
Talking Heads (Zorg)


Pool B.1
Michael Jackson (Alex D)
LCD Soundsystem (Nassim)
Wilco (Andre)
Fela Kuti (Stephan)

Pool B.2
Beastie Boys (Nassim)
Brian Eno (Jackson)
Kanye West (Dan M)
Vampire Weekend (Toni)

Pool B.3
Johnny Cash (Nicolas)
Black Sabbath (Brad)
Jay-Z (Drewcannon3)
Siouxsie and the Banshees (Moonbeam)

Pool B.4
Beck (Schwah)
Steely Dan (Henry)
Pearl Jam (Rocky Racoon)
Boards of Canada (Gillingham)

Pool B.5
Sly and the Family Stone (Listyguy)
The Cure (Greg)
Arcade Fire (Drewcannon3)
Eurythmics (Moonbeam)

Pool B.6
Otis Redding (Schwah)
Chuck Berry (Edderramirez)
Queen (Listyguy)
Arctic Monkeys (Guy)

Pool B.7
Blur (Nick)
Tom Waits (Biladama)
Replacements (Brad)
Nine Inch Nails (Slick)

Pool B.8
Kraftwerk (Zorg)
New Order (Midaso)
Depeche Mode (Henrik)
Coldplay (Toni)

I need the following song lists:
-Greg (Van Morrison)
-Biladama (Elvis Costello)
-Drewcannon3 (Jay-Z)
-Moonbeam (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
-Schwah (Beck)
-Toni (Vampire Weekend)
-Andre (The Doors)
-Nassim (Beastie Boys)
-Nick (The Clash)
-Brad (Black sabbath)
-Henry (Pink Floyd)
-Nicolas (Marvin Gaye)
-Dan M (Elvis Presley)

Lists are due by June 29. However, then can be changed and updated up to July 2, at 12:00 AM sharp, for week 1. I am going to be strict with the lists due times for the matches to be fair to all teams. Lists can be changed between matchups.

Slick, unfortunately there was no team left for you manage. If someone does not submit a list in the alloted time, you are more then welcome to take over their team.

I will post the schedule and all the lists I have recieved thusfar momentarily.

Week 1 (July 3 – July 9)
Johnny Cash vs. Siouxsie and the Banshees
Beastie Boys vs. Vampire Weekend
R.E.M. vs. Neil Young
LCD Soundsystem vs. Wilco
Led Zeppelin vs. The Byrds
Sly and the Family Stone vs. Eurythmics
The Velvet Underground vs. Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen vs. Talking Heads
Elvis Presley vs. Elvis Costello
The Rolling Stones vs. The Kinks
Bob Dylan vs. The Doors
Radiohead vs. Van Morrison
Chuck Berry vs. Queen
Blur vs. Nine Inch Nails
Black Sabbath vs. Jay-Z
Michael Jackson vs. Fela Kuti

Week 2 (July 10 - July 16)
Brian Eno vs. Kanye West
Jimi Hendrix vs. Bob Marley
U2 vs. The Clash
Beck vs. Boards of Canada
David Bowie vs. Public Enemy
Kraftwerk vs. Coldplay
Marvin Gaye vs. Nirvana
New Order vs. Depeche Mode
The Who vs. The Smiths
The Beach Boys vs. Pink Floyd
Otis Redding vs. Arctic Monkeys
Tom Waits vs. Replacements
Prince vs. Aretha Franklin
Steely Dan vs. Pearl Jam
The Beatles vs. James Brown
The Cure vs. Arcade Fire

Week 3 (July 17 – July 23)
The Who vs. Talking Heads
Led Zeppelin vs. Pink Floyd
David Bowie vs. Stevie Wonder
LCD Soundsystem vs. Fela Kuti
The Beatles vs. The Clash
R.E.M. vs. The Kinks
Blur vs. Replacements
Elvis Presley vs. Aretha Franklin
Bob Dylan vs. Nirvana
Beastie Boys vs. Kanye West
Otis Redding vs. Queen
Bruce Springsteen vs. The Smiths
Johnny Cash vs. Jay-Z
The Velvet Underground vs. Public Enemy
Sly and the Family Stone vs. Arcade Fire
U2 vs. James Brown

Week 4 (July 24 – July 30)
Tom Waits vs. Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead vs. Bob Marley
Michael Jackson vs. Wilco
New Order vs. Coldplay
Marvin Gaye vs. The Doors
Brian Eno vs. Vampire Weekend
The Rolling Stones vs. Neil Young
Prince vs. Elvis Costello
Beck vs. Pearl Jam
The Beach Boys vs. The Byrds
Black Sabbath vs. Siouxsie adn the Banshees
Kraftwerk vs. Depeche Mode
Steely Dan vs. Boards of Canada
The Cure vs. Eurythmics
Chuck Berry vs. Arctic Monkeys
Jimi Hendrix vs. Van Morrison

Week 5 (July 31 – August 6)
Pink Floyd vs. The Byrds
Stevie Wonder vs. Public Enemy
The Rolling Stones vs. R.E.M.
Johnny Cash vs. Black Sabbath
Prince vs. Elvis Presley
The Beatles vs. U2
Blur vs. Tom Waits
Jay-Z vs. Siouxsie and the Banshees
Otis Redding vs. Chuck Berry
The Clash vs. James Brown
Bob Dylan vs. Marvin Gaye
Bruce Springsteen vs. The Who
Radiohead vs. Jimi Hendrix
Beastie Boys vs. Brian Eno
Arcade Fire vs. Eurythmics
Wilco vs. Fela Kuti

Week 6 (August 7 – August 13)
David Bowie vs. The Velvet Underground
Neil Young vs. The Kinks
The Smiths vs. Talking Heads
Michael Jackson vs. LCD Soundsystem
Bob Marley vs. Van Morrison
Depeche Mode vs. Coldplay
Elvis Costello vs. Aretha Franklin
Sly and the Family Stone vs. The Cure
Replacements vs. Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana vs. The Doors
Kraftwerk vs. New Order
Beck vs. Steely Dan
Kanye West vs. Vampire Weekend
Queen vs. Arctic Monkeys
Pearl Jam vs. Boards of Canada
Led Zeppelin vs. The Beach Boys

JAMES BROWN
01. Get On The Good Foot
02. There Was A Time
03. It's A Man's Man's Man's World
04. Hot Pants
05. Lost Someone
06. Superbad
07. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
08. Sex Machine

Public Enemy:
1. Rebel Without a Pause
2. Public Enemy No. 1
3. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
4. Welcome to the Terrordome
5. Brother's Gonna Work It Out
6. Fight the Power
7. By the Time I Get to Arizona
8. Bring the Noise

Brian Eno:
1. Needles in the Camel's Eye
2. Baby's On Fire
3. Mother Whale Eyeless
4. The Big Ship
5. Spider and I
6. By This River
7. An Ending (Ascent)
8. St. Elmo's Fire

Sly and the Family Stone:
1- Everybody Is a Star
2- If You Want Me To Stat
3- Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
4- Dance to the Music
5- Hot Fun in the Summertime
6- Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
7- Family Affair
8- Everyday People

Stevie Wonder
1. Superstition
2. Sir Duke
3. Living For The City
4. Uptight
5. Another Star
6. I Wish
7. I Was Made To Love Her
8. Masterblaster (Jammin')

Johnny Cash
1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Ring Of Fire
3. Hurt
4. I See A Darkness
5. One
6. A Boy Named Sue
7. San Quentin
8. I Walk The Line

Jimi Hendrix:
1- Fire
2- Crosstown Traffice
3- Foxy Lady
4- Little Wing
5- Hey Joe
6- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
7- Purple Haze
8- All Along the Watchtower

Bob Marley
1. Sun Is Shining (1971 version)
2. No Woman No Cry
3. Caution
4. Get Up Stand Up
5. Concrete Jungle
6. Natural Mystic
7. Duppy Conqueror (1970 version)
8. War

Depeche Mode
1. Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) - Development Mix
2. The Great Outdoors!
3. Dangerous
4. Now This Is Fun
5. Christmas Island
6. But Not Tonight
7. In Your Memory
8. Shout

U2
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. Desire
4. Beautiful Day
5. One
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7. Pride (In the Name of Love)
8. With or Without You

Kanye West
1. Slow Jamz
2. All of the Lights
3. Through the Wire
4. Monster
5. Gold Digger
6. Power
7. Jesus Walks
8. Runaway

Bob Dylan
1. Tangled Up In Blue
2. Ballad Of A Thin Man
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues
4. Hurricane
5. Tears Of Rage
6. Positively 4th Street
7. Like A Rolling Stone
8. All Along The Watchtower

Arcade Fire:
1. Rebellion (Lies)
2. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
3. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
4. Keep the Car Running
5. The Suburbs
6. Intervention
7. Half Light II (No Celebration)
8. Ready to Start

Bruce Springsteen:
1. Born to Run
2. Darkness on the Edge of Town
3. I'm on Fire
4. The River
5. Atlantic City
6. Jungleland
7. Thunder Road
8. Meeting Across the River

THE SMITHS:
1. How Soon Is Now
2. William, It Was Really Nothing
3. Bigmouth Strikes Again
4. Girlfriend In A Coma
5. Hand In Glove
6. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
7. What Difference Does It Make
8. Panic

NINE INCH NAILS...
1. Head Like A Hole
2. Dead Souls
3. Hurt
4. The Perfect Drug
5. Down In It
6. Closer
7. The Hand That Feeds
8. Something I Can Never Have

Radiohead:
1. Karma Police
2. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3. Everything in it's Right Place
4. Paranoid Android
5. Reckoner
6. Pyramid Song
7. Idioteque
8. Codex

Boards of Canada:
1. Roygbiv
2. Julie and Candy
3. Dayvan Cowboy
4. Everything You Do Is a Balloon
5. Happy Cycling
6. Music is Math
7. Peacock Tail
8. Sixtyten

Team Heads
1. The Big Country
2. Burning Down The House
3. The Great Curve
4. Don't Worry About The Government
5. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
6. The Book I Read
7. Psycho Killer
8. Once In A Lifetime

Team Kraftwerk
1. Taschenrechner (Pocket Calculator)
2. Europa Endlos (Europe Endless)
3. Die Roboter (The Robots)
4. Die Mensch Maschine (The Man Machine)
5. Radioactivitat
6. Das Modell
7. Trans Europa Express
8. Autobahn

Team Beach Boys
1. I Get Around
2. Heroes And Villains
3. Tears In The Morning
4. Don't Worry Baby
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice
6. Sloop John B.
7. Good Vibrations
8. God Only Knows

Team Wilco
1. The Late Greats
2. Impossible Germany
3. What's The World Got In Store
4. Handshake Drugs
5. Heavy Metal Drummer
6. A Shot In The Arm
7. Can't Stand It
8. Jesus, Etc.

Fela Kuti:
1. Water No Get Enemy
2. Colonial Mentality
3. Coffin for Head of State
4. Confusion
5. Shuffering and Shmiling
6. Expensive Shit
7. Roforofo Fight
8. Zombie

Nirvana
1. Serve the Servants
2. About a Girl
3. The Man Who Sold the World
4. Heart-Shaped Box
5. On a Plain
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Come As You Are
8. All Apologies

Rolling Stones
1. Sympathy For The Devil
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash
3. Tumbling Dice
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. Let It Loose
6. Paint It, Black
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Gimme Shelter

Kinks:
1. You Really Got Me
2. Shangri-La
3. Sunny Afternoon
4. Waterloo Sunset
5. Days
6. Celluloid Heroes
7. David Watts
8. Lola

The Beatles:
1. For No One
2. A Hard Day's Night
3. The Golden Slumbers Medley
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. In My Life
6. Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. A Day In The Life

Chuck Berry:
1. Back In The U.S.A.
2. Memphis, Tennessee
3. Sweet Little Sixteen
4. School Days
5. Rock And Roll Music
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Maybellene
8. Johnny B. Goode

The Byrds
Eight Miles High
So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better
My Back Pages
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Bells of Rhymney
Hickory Wind
Turn! Turn! Turn!

Arctic Monkeys
Mardy Bum
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Cornerstone
A Certain Romance
She’s Thunderstorms
Fluorescent Adolescent
View from the Afternoon
Fake Tales of San Francisco

David Bowie
1.Ashes To Ashes
2.Space Oddity
3.Under Pressure
4.Starman
5.Changes
6.Ziggy Stardust
7.Life On Mars?
8."Heroes"

New Order
1.Regret
2.True Faith
3.Crystal
4.Age Of Consent
5.Ceremony
6.Temptation
7.Bizarre Love Triangle
8.Blue Monday

Pearl Jam
1. Last Kiss
2. Corduroy
3. Black
4. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
5. Nothing Man
6. Alive
7. Wishlist
8. Better Man

Tom Waits
1. Walking Spanish
2. Singapore
3. Clap Hands
4. Cemetary Polka
5. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
6. Tango Till They're Sore
7. Big Black Mariah
8. Diamonds & Gold

Queen:
1- Another One Bites the Dust
2- Keep Yourself Alive
3- We Will Rock You
4- We Are the Champions
5- Killer Queen
6- Under Pressure
7- You're My Best Friend
8- Bohemian Rhapsody

Otis Redding:
1. I've Been Loving You Too Long
2. These Arms of Mine
3. Hard to Handle
4. Try a Little Tenderness
5. Satisfaction
6. Mr. Pitiful
7. Pain in My Heart
8. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

R.E.M.:
1 - Drive
2 - Stand
3 - Orange Crush
4 - Man On the Moon
5 - Nightswimming
6 - It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
7 - Radio Free Europe
8 - Losing My Religion

Led Zeppelin
1. Black Dog
2. The Ocean
3. When the Levee Breaks
4. Dazed and Confused
5. Rock and Roll
6. Whole Lotta Love
7. Kashmir
8. Stairway to Heaven

Blur
1. The Universal
2. Tender
3. Coffee and TV
4. This is a Low
5. Out of Time
6. For Tomorrow
7. Girls and Boys
8. Song 2

Prince:
1. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
2. Bliss
3. The Dance Electric
4. Old Friends 4 Sale
5. Neon Telephone
6. Lisa
7. Chocolate
8. Moonbeam Levels

Eurythmics:
1. Beethoven (I Love to Listen to)
2. You Take Some Lentils... And You Take Some Rice
3. Monkey, Monkey
4. See No Evil
5. Le Sinistre
6. Grown Up Girls
7. Invisible Hands
8. Step on the Beast

Michael Jackson:
1. "Ben"
2. "Greatest Show on Earth"
3. "People Make the World Go 'Round"
4. "We've Got a Good Thing Going"
5. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"
6. "My Girl"
7. "What Goes Around Comes Around"
8. "In Our Small Way"

Aretha Franklin:
1. "Won't Be Long"
2. "Over The Rainbow"
3. "Love Is The Only Thing"
4. "Sweet Lover"
5. "All Night Long"
6. "Who Needs You?"
7. "Right Now"
8. "Are You Sure"

Coldplay:
1 - Lovers In Japan
2 - Trouble
3 - The Scientist
4 - Everything's Not Lost
5 - Viva La Vida
6 - Clocks
7 - In My Place
8 - Yellow

The Who
1 - Behind Blue Eyes
2 - We Won't Get Fooled Again
3 - Pinball Wizard
4 - Love, Reign O'er Me
5 - I Can See For Miles
6 - We're Not Gonna Take It
7 - The Real Me
8 - Baba O'Riley

Steely Dan
1 - Don't Take Me Alive
2 - Doctor Wu
3 - My Old School
4 - Kid Charlemagne
5 - Aja
6 - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
7 - Parker's Band
8 - Reelin' In the Years

Neil Young
1 Tell Me Why
2 Albuquerque
3 Cortez the Killer
4 Old Man
5 Powderfinger
6 White Line
7 Red Sun
8 The Losing End (When You're On)

The Cure
1 Play for Today
2 Just Like Heaven
3 Lullaby
4 Push
5 Love Song
6 Charlotte Sometimes
7 Plainsong
8 A Short Term Effect

The Velvet Underground:
1. Rock and Roll
2. All Tomorrow's Parties
3. Sweet Jane
4. I'm Waiting For The Man
5. Sunday Morning
6. Heroin
7. Pale Blue Eyes
8. Sister Ray

The Replacements:
1. Bastards Of Young
2. Color Me Impressed
3. Alex Chilton
4. Unsatisfied
5. I Will Dare
6. I'll Be You
7. Left Of The Dial
8. Skyway

LCD Soundsystem :
1. Big Ideas
2. Get innocuous
3. All I Want
4. Someone great
5. All my friends
6. You Wanted a Hit
7. North american scum
8. Losing my edge

Tell me if I excluded any lists.

Yay! I got Elvis Costello!

Now I need to listen to a bunch of Tom Waits albums and figure out the names of songs so I can make a real list.


Radio Radio
Oliver's Army
Red Shoes
Accidents Will Happen
I Want You
Lip Service
This Year's Model
Alison

Pink Floyd

1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond
2. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Money
5. Wish You Were Here
6. The Great Gig in the Sky
7. Us and Them
8. Brain Damage

The Clash

1. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
2. Spanish Bombs
3. White Riot
4. Rock the Casbah
5. Complete Control
6. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
7. Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
8. London Calling

How did Eurythmics land in the same pool as The Cure? I may have to vote against my own pick!

Hooray for Siouxsie and the Banshees, though!

A tentative song list for Team Banshee:

1. Carcass
2. Eve White/Eve Black
3. Lunar Camel
4. Icon
5. Pointing Bone
6. The Sweetest Chill
7. Fear of the Unknown
8. Rhapsody

Van Morrison

1 Beside You
2 Into the Mystic
3 Fair Play
4 Lonely Avenue
5 She Gives Me Religion
6 One Irish Rover
7 Rough God Goes Riding
8 Enlightenment

The non-32 pools are really cool and will be the highlight of the tournament. Brian Eno seems to have gotten a good draw, which is fortunate for me because PE is likely to get slaughtered (even I will probably vote for VU and Bowie in a few of the matchups).

The groups have become awesome! And I've got too terible (in the sense of difficulty) groups for R.E.M and Vampire Weekend, with Coldplay's electronic group being a bit smoother.

Well, here goes my Vampire Weekend lineup!

1) Boston
2) Run
3) Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
4) Diplomat's Son
5) Cousins
6) A Punk
7) M79
8) Oxford Comma

Beck:

1. Satan Gave Me a Taco
2. Santorini (feat. Thurston Moore)
3. Hidden Track at end of Mellow Gold
4. The Little Drum Machine Boy
5. Hidden Track at end of Odelay
6. Creep [Puppet Version]
7. Hidden Track at end of Midnite Vultures
8. MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack

/Unbeatable lineup there... 1970 Brazil-level talent.

Marvin

1. What's Going On
2. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
3. Sexual Healing
4. Mercy mercy Me
5. Inner City Blues
6. Can I Get A Witness
7. Ain't That Peculiar
8. Let's Get It On

Great pool set up, Listyguy!

Regarding the schedule I wrote in another thread:

Listyguy, can you tell something about the presentation? Are you going to add links of the competing songs to listen to? (Just like in the unacclaimed songs poll, for example).

If not, I'm afraid the lesser known songs will have a tough time to pass. And the artist with most greatest hits will probably win.

Edit: Or maybe the managers are allowed to include links, to promote their players? Just a thought.

Black Sabbath:
1. War Pigs
2. The Wizard
3. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Iron Man
5. Symptom Of The Universe
6. N.I.B.
7. Supernaut
8. Paranoid

Thanks!

Jay-Z:
1. Empire State of Mind
2. Renegade
3. 22 Two's
4. 99 Problems
5. Cashmere Thoughts
6. Young Forever
7. Brooklyn's Finest
8. D'Evils

Also, swap #1 and #2 on my Arcade Fire list.

Am I allowed to use, say, Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Bitter Sweet Symphony?

Elvis Presley:

match-up 1: Suspicion
match-up 2: (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame
match-up 3: In the Ghetto
match-up 4: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
match-up 5: Return to Sender
match-up 6: Heartbreak Hotel
match-up 7: Mystery Train
match-up 8: Blue Moon

Moonbeam, I immediately thought of you when I saw that the Cure and Eurythmics were in the same pool.
Biladama and Mindrocker, I may include links for songs not on AM, and of course, you can only vote if you've heard both songs.

Yeah I think that's the real challenge here in picking songs. These are by no means my top 10 sabbath songs, but I realize if I want them to go anywhere in the competition, I have to pick the more well-known ones as well as those that may be immediately accessible to newcomers. Love the two you mentioned, thought about tomorrow's dream, fairies wear boots, wheels of confusion, etc.. No dio though I admit a fondness for h&h and mob rules.

Beastie Boys

1. A Year and A Day
2. I Don't Know
3. Hey Ladies
4. Make Some Noise
5. Shake Your Rump
6. The Negotiation Limerick File
7. Alright Hear This
8. Sure Shot

I tried to put LCD in the best situation to win, here I just put some songs I'd like people to listen to.
I was very tempted to put Shadrach to compensate for Listyguy not putting Loose Booty in his Sly's selection, but I will stick with those 8 (though if by any miracle reach the 1/4 final, I might change the 3 last songs).

In terms of bad draws, I don't think anyone has it worse than Stephan. He's up against two board favorites and an artist with loads of classic hit singles.

To be honest, I don't really expect Fela to get to the next round, but I've just been listening to like 20 of his albums and he's such a fantastic artist that I felt he needed some more exposure.

I also picked some songs that basically cover an entire album, so if people want to vote they'll have to enjoy quite a bit of Fela. I'm a bastard.

I was too lazy to make calculations when I established my songs list, but does the song order matters and how (so maybe I can change my lists)

Talking about the groups, for me the group of death is the A.8: Bruce Springsteen, The Who, The Smiths and Talking Heads! Anyone can easily stay and easily get out...

The song order is the order the songs will be used. The first song will be used during week 1, second during week 2, and so on. I've seen two major strategies people are using: put the artist's best songs in the last weeks, or put one of the artist's best songs in the pool round, and put the others in the later weeks. Feel free to use another strategy, if you have one.

ok, I didn't realize the order mattered, so I'll post new lists ordered differently. Sorry for that listyguy !

EDit : If I get it right, the order can be changed between matchups, can't it ? That is interesting

My updated list:

Downtown Train
Top Of The Hill
Hold On
Ol' 55
Underground
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Singapore
Time

Gotta get Downtown Train out against The Replacements.

BillAdama, have you listened to Bone machine ? "I don't Wanna Grow Up" or "Going out West" coud be strong contenders, as well as "Innocent When You Dream" on FRank's Wild Years (sometimes I wish I had posted sooner and taken TW )

This is my updated Stevie Wonder list

1. Higher Ground
2. Superstition
3. Sir Duke
4. As
5. Living For The City
6. Uptight
7. Another Star
8. I Was Made To love Her

Updated Marvin Gate list

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. Inner City Blues
3. Ain't That Peculiar
4. Mercy Mercy Me
5. Ain't No Mountain High Enough *
6. Sexual Healing
7. Let's Get It On
8. What's Going On

* : a duet with Tammi Terrell; if not eligible, replace it with "Can I Get A Witness"

and the updated Johnny Cash list

1. The Mercy Seat
2. The Man Comes Around
3. Folsom
4. San Quentin
5. Delia's Gone
6. Ring Of Fire
7. I Walk The Line
8. Hurt

Haha my poor Heads are against Born to Run in the first round! This is ominous - I'm going to vote against them!

Then re-done Jay-Z list:
1. Renegade
2. Cashmere Thoughts
3. Allure (Ratatat Remix)
4. Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Bitter Sweet Symphony
5. Empire State of Mind
6. 22 Two's
7. December 4th / Song 6 (Mother Earth Remixes)
8. 99 Problems

haha Schwah I see you've become reasonnable... When i first saw your Beck list I was like huh ?

Get "Tom Traubert's Blues" in there and you're at least guaranteed of my vote.

Tom Traubert is a masterpiece and could please people who are repelled by Waits' bizarreness. It's a classical ballad delivered with all of Tom's expressionism. Tom is excellent at ballads.

The new and improved "no one gets out of here alive" Doors songs list:

1. Spanish Caravan
2. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
3. Peace Frog
4. Hello, I Love You
5. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
6. Riders on the Storm
7. The End
8. Light My Fire

I agree about Tom Traubert's Blues, by the way.

Please note: updaed lists for week 1 matchups will only be accepted for another 9 hours.

Updated lists:

Siouxsie and the Banshees:

1. Israel
2. Cities in Dust
3. The Last Beat of My Heart
4. Night Shift
5. Christine
6. Swimming Horses
7. Melt!
8. Dazzle

Eurythmics:

1. Here Comes the Rain Again
2. Take Me to Your Heart
3. Paint a Rumour
4. Beethoven (I Love to Listen to)
5. Julia
6. I Did It Just the Same
7. This City Never Sleeps
8. Step on the Beast

just to clarify/update, i'd like to use the following songs for the first round:

Neil Young - Tell Me Why
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

For my first round artist (Michael Jackson), replace the song I have now with "Human Nature".

Updated James Brown list:

01. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (In The Jungle Groove Remix) Listen
02. Public Enemy (Part 1) Listen
03. Get On The Good Foot Listen
04. Hot Pants
05. Lost Someone
06. Superbad
07. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
08. Sex Machine

Changed Otis Redding lineup:

1. Pain in My Heart
2. Hard to Handle
3. I've Been Loving You Too Long
4. These Arms of Mine
5. Try a Little Tenderness
6. Satisfaction
7. Mr. Pitiful
8. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Reminder: Artists competing in week 2 will have their current song locked in at midnight July 9. I will issue another warning about 10-12 hours beforehand.

Henrik- I will be adding Youtube links to the songs this week, and I want to make sure this is the correct version of Bob Marley's "Sun is Shining".
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDVarvFqYI

Also, is this the correct version of you Depeche Mode song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3LKZn3_bo

The second worked.

There are now less than 10 hours remainin to change your songs lists for week 2 matchups.

"Push" up first for The Cure, please. thx

I'm going to use "Until You Come Back to Me" this week for Aretha.

I'll use "Let's Go Crazy" for Prince, please.

Here are the songs with links that are supposed to compete tomorrow. Please correct any mistake I may have.
Brian Eno (Needles in the Camel’s Eye) vs. Kanye West (Slow Jamz)
Jimi Hendrix (Fire) vs. Bob Marley (Sun is Shining (1971 Version))
U2 (Sunday Bloody Sunday) vs. The Clash (Should I Stay or Should I Go)
Beck (Devil’s Haircut) vs. Boards of Canada (Roygbiv)
David Bowie (Ashes to Ashes) vs. Public Enemy (Rebel Without a Pause)
Kraftwerk ( Taschenrechner (Pocket Calculator)) vs. Coldplay (Lovers in Japan)
Marvin Gaye (I Heard It Throught the Grapevine) vs. Nirvana (Serve the Servants)
New Order (Regret) vs. Depeche Mode (Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) - Development Mix)
The Who (Behind Blue Eyes) vs. The Smiths (How Soon is Now)
The Beach Boys (I Get Around) vs. Pink Floyd (Shine on You Crazy Diamond)*
Otis Redding (Pain in My Heart) vs. Arctic Monkeys (Mardy Bum)
Tom Waits (Downtown Train) vs. Replacements (Bastards of Young)
Prince (Let’s Go Crazy) vs. Aretha Franklin (Until You Come Back to Me)
Steely Dan (Don’t Take Me Alive) vs. Pearl Jam (Last Kiss)
The Beatles (For No One) vs. James Brown (Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (In The Jungle Groove Remix))
The Cure (Push) vs. Arcade Fire (Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels))
*Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Continued)

Listyguy, please could I change round my lists for the later weeks?

Here's the order I would like to change them to:

The Byrds

1) Eight Miles High
2) I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better
3) My Back Pages
4) Turn! Turn! Turn!
5) The Bells of Rhymney
6) Hickory Wind
7) So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
8) Mr. Tambourine Man

Arctic Monkeys

1) Mardy Bum
2) Cornerstone
3) View from the Afternoon
4) Fluorescent Adolescent
5) She’s Thunderstorms
6) Fake Tales of San Francisco
7) A Certain Romance
8) I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

New Nirvana list

2. The Man Who Sold the World
3. About a Girl
4. Heart-Shaped Box
5. On a Plain
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Come As You Are
8. All Apologies

Revised Sly and the Family Stone List, to compensate for the upset at the hands of the Eurythmics:

1- Everybody Is a Star
2- Family Affair
3- If You Want Me To Stay
4- Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
5- Dance to the Music
6- Hot Fun in the Summertime
7- Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
8- Everyday People

Reminder:
Lists for week 3 are due in less than 5 and a half hours. Alex D, Greg, Moonbeam, if you want to make your weekly changes, you have until the end of the day (on forum time) to do so.

I'd like to use "Baby I Love You".

If possible, I'd like to go with World Leader Pretend for R.E.M. Thanks.

What's the current Prince song for Week 4? I need to figure out whether to bother trying to win that match.

For the upcoming week all my 3 teams are on holiday. I can just sit back and enjoy, seeing my opponents lose significant points

Before week 4 starts, I will for sure change all my song lists ... but I'll wait with revealing until shortly before the next deadline

Moonbeam- You are correct. All your teams have a bye.
Billadama- The current Prince song is "Bliss", but Moonbeam will most likely change it.

Here are the songs set to compete tomorrow. Please correct any mistakes I may have.

The Who (Won’t Get Fooled Again) vs. Talking Heads (Burning Down the House)
Led Zeppelin (The Ocean) vs. Pink Floyd (Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2)
David Bowie (Space Oddity) vs. Stevie Wonder (Superstition)
LCD Soundsystem (Get Innocuous) vs. Fela Kuti (Colonial Mentality)*
The Beatles (A Hard Day’s Night) vs. The Clash (Spanish Bombs)
R.E.M. (World Leader Pretned) vs. The Kinks (Shangri-La)
Blur (Tender) vs. Replacements (Color Me Impressed)
Elvis Presley ((Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame) vs. Aretha Franklin (Baby I Love You)
Bob Dylan (Ballad of a Thin Man) vs. Nirvana (The Man Who Sold the World)
Beastie Boys (I Don’t Know) vs. Kanye West (All of the Lights)
Otis Redding (Hard to Handle) vs. Queen (Keep Yourself Alive)
Bruce Springsteen (Darkness on the Edge of Town) vs. The Smiths (William, It Was Really Nothing)
Johnny Cash (The Man Comes Around) vs. Jay-Z (Cashmere Thoughts)
The Velvet Underground (All Tomorrow’s Parties) vs. Public Enemy (Public Enemy No. 1)
Sly and the Family Stone (Family Affair) vs. Arcade Fire (Rebellion (Lies))
U2 (Where the Streets Have No Name) vs. James Brown (Public Enemy (Part 1))

*Colonial Mentality Continued

Reminder:
There is exactly (down to the minute) one day left to change song lists for week 4.

i'd like to use the following

Neil Young - Old Man
The Cure - Play For Today
Van Morrison - Fair Play

thx

My teams' week 4 songs:

Wilco - On And On And On

The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

The Doors - Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)

I will use "Rock With You" this week for MJ.

Only decided in the final minutes!

I'll change my Coldplay song to Everything's Not Lost.

Listy, be careful with the Vampire Weekend video, cause the first one that appear in youtube is not good.

Prince: "Raspberry Beret"
Eurythmics: "Love Is a Stranger"
Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Cities in Dust"

Moonbeam, I'll let it slide this time, but you really need to try and get your chagnes in before 12:00 to keep things fair.

Here's the list of songs set to go for next week. Please correct any mistakes I may have made.

Tom Waits (Top of the Hill) vs. Nine Inch Nails (Dead Souls)
Radiohead (Street Spirit (Fade Out)) vs. Bob Marley (No Woman, No Cry)
Michael Jackson (Rock With You) vs. Wilco (On and On and On)
New Order (True Faith) vs. Coldplay (Everything’s Not Lost)
Marvin Gaye (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)) vs. The Doors (Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar))
Brian Eno (Baby’s On Fire) vs. Vampire Weekend (Run)
The Rolling Stones (Jumpin’ Jack Flash) vs. Neil Young (Old Man)
Prince (Raspberry Beret) vs. Elvis Costello (Oliver’s Army)
Beck (Hotwax) vs. Pearl Jam (Corduroy)
The Beach Boys (Wouldn’t It Be Nice) vs. The Byrds (I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better)
Black Sabbath (The Wizzard) vs. Siouxsie and the Banshees (Cities in Dust)
Kraftwerk (Europa Endlos (Europe Endless)) vs. Depeche Mode (The Great Outdoors!)
Steely Dan (Doctor Wu) vs. Boards of Canada (Julie and Candy)
The Cure (Play For Today) vs. Eurythmics (Love is a Stranger)
Chuck Berry (Memphis, Tennessee) vs. Arctic Monkeys (Cornerstone)
Jimi Hendrix (Crosstown Traffic) vs. Van Morrison (Fair Play)

Most people prefer the live version of No Woman No Cry, so please use this link:
No Woman No Cry

Thanks!

Listyguy, this game has been great so far. Thanks so much for putting it together.

I hesitate to mess with something that is working so well, but I have a suggestion for weeks 5 and 6. Consider whether teams in the same group should all have their final match at in the same week. In the soccer World Cup, the final group games now kick off at the same time, so there is no repeat of the infamous West Germany-Austria (allegedly) pre-arranged result at Spain '82.

In this case, if a team knows they don't need to win in week 6 because of the results in Week 5, they can hold off on picking a stronger song until later in the tournament. That gives an unfair advantage to the teams competing in Week 6 from a group.

For example, if Vampire Weekend beats Eno this week, and Eno beats the Beasties in Week 5, then Kanye is guaranteed a spot in the second round, and his manager can throw out any song in Week 6 and save his better songs for later. But if Kanye has to kickoff at the same time as Eno-Beasties, he is still not guaranteed a place in the knockout round, and will have to go for the win.

Obviously, you could say the same for Stevie Wonder. But he clinched by Round 2, and not because he was able to wait for his opponents Round 3 results.