FOFC Favorite OHW - Round 1 - Group G

[Breeze]

Quick Links:

Nena - 99 Luftballons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUQ0I68VGg)

Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E)

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo1HIcSVtg)

Concrete Blonde - Joey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ)

Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM)

Jump in the Saddle - Curly Shuffle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAfXdb5LsA)

Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXVYSV4Xcs)

Joey Scarbury - Believe It Or Not (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqF5M7IK7I0)

Gary Numan - Cars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3JzxlatUs)

The Youngbloods - Get Together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGxQXmu7Os)

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY)

Jennifer Page - Crush (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIhSnaqou0I)

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM)

MFSB - The Sound of Philadelphia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxLCIsbmnUU)

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4d1LQy4es)

Stories - Bother Louie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmF3jDwSTmI)

[Breeze]

Quick Summary:

About half of this bracket appears to be extremely strong...unfortunately a couple of strong songs will be eliminated in the first round and some weaker pairs will allow mediocre songs to move on.

[Warhammer]

I like a good number of these songs that I did not vote for. Most of the others to date have only had at most 2 I cringed when I pressed the vote button.

[albionmoonlight]

Re: Believe It or Not.

The fact that they did not re-make The Greatest American Hero with Nathan Fillion as the lead and Bruce Campbell as the FBI agent before they got too old to do it is one of the great missed-TV opportunities of my lifetime.

[Warhammer]

Re: Believe It or Not.

The fact that they did not re-make The Greatest American Hero with Nathan Fillion as the lead and Bruce Campbell as the FBI agent before they got too old to do it is one of the great missed-TV opportunities of my lifetime.

That would have been all kinds of awesome.

[Breeze]

That would have been all kinds of awesome.

second...

[tarcone]

Believe it or not, I want Candy is getting beat. Thats crazy.

[tarcone]

Re: Believe It or Not.

The fact that they did not re-make The Greatest American Hero with Nathan Fillion as the lead and Bruce Campbell as the FBI agent before they got too old to do it is one of the great missed-TV opportunities of my lifetime.

Great call. Is it to late to do a modern version where they have matured and he has a little better grasp on what he can do but not quite?

That would work. Lets pitch it to Hollywood and when its a smash hit we buy our sub and nuclear shelter.

[BYU 14]

First group I voted for all high seeds, though I want Candy vs Believe it or not gave me pause for a minute.

[JonInMiddleGA]

First bracket where I've known enough songs to vote on every single pairing

[Radii]

First group I voted for all high seeds, though I want Candy vs Believe it or not gave me pause for a minute.

Same. I love Beds Are Burning as well and might have voted for it against many of the top 20, but not this one.

[NobodyHere]

Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home

[cuervo72]

37. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (1979)
220. MFSB - The Sound of Philadelphia (1974)

Oh come on, I gotta vote against one of these already?

[NobodyHere]

I'm very disappointed in this board.

I thought we, as a society, were over the Baja Men. They're trolls in music form.

[tarcone]

You guys are so wrong in not voting for Brother Louie

[NobodyHere]

I'm with ya brother tarcone

[jbergey22]

We must be voting on the worst songs.

Joey and Get Together should not be losing.

[QuikSand]

"Beds are Burning" is a tough setup here... if we could all agree that they are in fact a one-hit wonder and we're just debating the merits of the song and its station... then it doesn't belong as a super-low seed, but rather around 50-75 overall. Ambiguity about whether the band had enough other success to be disqualifiying has to be part of why it ranks so low here, and gets placed against a potential juggernaut.

[Kodos]

I never liked the Beds are Burning song, but Forgotten Years was a good song. And may be applicable to life today in the U.S.

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[Kodos]

We must be voting on the worst songs.

Joey and Get Together should not be losing.

Agreed. Joey should go far, but looks like a one-and-done.

[I. J. Reilly]

+1 on Joey, my former angsty teenage self is having real hard time with the lack of respect Concrete Blonde is getting.
Maybe it wasn’t just a phase, maybe the whole world really doesn’t understand me … better lock myself in my room and put Tomorrow Wendy on repeat.

[Kodos]

Tomorrow Wendy was a good one too.

[Edward64]

This Group was an easy one for me. Didn't have to struggle to make my picks.

[CrimsonFox]

that song is called Joey?

[CrimsonFox]

always loved Curly Shuffle

a dr demento staple!

[Breeze]

This one is closed:

Thoughts:

Not one lower "seeded" team won in this section...

Nena vs Midnight Oil - high vote total, Oil did well, but a true OHW classic is hard to overcome.

Thin Lizzy vs Concrete Blonde - a lot of Blonde lovers, as noted in the comments here and in the original OHW Thread, but Thin Lizzy got a ton of support in what was a tough match up. It makes round 2 interesting.

Baha Men vs Jump'n the Saddle Band - apologies to Crimson Fox and anyone else that is fan of either of these songs...what a TERRIBLE pairing.

Bow Wow Wow vs Joey Scarbury - Scarbury with a lot of early support, but I Want Candy ended up pulling away. This ultimately played out about like I expected.

Gary Numan vs The Youngbloods - had no idea what to expect with this one...my guess was a tight race in a really tough pairing, but it didn't play out that way. Next round will be interesting.

Rockwell vs Jennifer Page - Michael Jackson wins again...or Rockwell rather. A pretty easy round 1 match up...

Sugarhill Gang vs MFSB - easy one to predict...

Alannah Myles vs Stories - thought this was pretty evenly matched, but it didn't play out that way...

[Izulde]

Forgot to vote in this one but wouldn't have made a difference.