FOFC Favorite Rock Act - Round 1 Group F

[BYU 14]

Group F sees the Stones make their debut as well as a couple of brutal matchups (for me at least) as REO takes on Santana and The Cars battle Rainbow. Scorpions and Foghat is also a sad draw for me. Scorpions get my vote, but Foghat Live was one of the defining albums of my teen years and still holds up today.

Most votes one act	Most votes both acts	Fewest votes winner	Most votes loser
68 - Guns n' Roses - 1st rd	74 - Chuck Berry vs J Geils Band - 1st rd	23 - Jeff Buckley - Play in rd	33 - Eric Burdon & The Animals - 1st rd
66 - Neil Young - 1st rd	74 - Neil Young vs Artic Monkeys - 1st rd	23 - Counting Crows - Play in rd	29 - Phil Collins - 1st rd
64 - The Doors - 1st rd	73 - Rush vs Golden Earring - 1st rd	24 - Sammy Hagar - Play in rd	28 - Alan Parson Project - 1st rd
			28 - The Offspring - 1st rd
Largest margin of victory	Smallest margin of victory	Biggest upset	Largest Shutout
64 - Guns n' Roses vs Slipknot (68-4) - 1st rd	3 - Counting Crows vs Badfinger (23-20) PI rd	185/96 - No Doubt over Eric Burdon - 1st rd	Chicago 63 - Arcana 0 - 1st rd
63 - Chicago vs Arcana (63-0) - 1st rd	3 - The Pretenders vs The Smths (30-27) 1st rd	137/112 - Pretenders or The Smiths - 1st rd
58 - Neil Young vs Artic Monkeys (66-8) 1st rd	3 - Steppenwolf vs The Offspring (31-28) 1st rd	264/249 - Neil young & CH over Mountain - PI rd
58 - The Doors vs Gorillaz (64-6) 1st rd

[CrimsonFox]

REO Speedwagon is playing a free concert near my house in two days!

maybe that says it all

[CrimsonFox]

STP vs Costello should be EXTREMELY interesting!

I LOVE me some STP

I like them more than most of the other grungers

[CrimsonFox]

THis was my favotire Elvis song...especially this network-nosethumbing appearance of it

[QuikSand]

The mixing of individuals and bands is going to get sticky at some point (frex Clapton here, but D&tD earlier much lower seeded...and the implied Carols Santana v Santana angle). And I confess that my personal tracking of band variations (CSN, rather than CSNY, here) is going to be troubling as well. I'm not willing to do much research for something like this... so there' bound to be some inconsistency along the way.

Still no hill to die on for me, yet.

[CrimsonFox]

https://consequenceofsound.net/2016/...ave-broken-up/

[CrimsonFox]

CSN:
Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Marrakesh Express
Guenevere
Wooden Ships
Helplessly Hoping
Long Time Gone
Just a song Before I Go
Wasted on the Way
Southern Cross


CSNY:
Deva Vu
Ohio
Carry On
Helpless
Woodstock
Our HOuse
Woodstock

[CrimsonFox]

I'm surprised the jump Elvis is getting considering how much some people here hate light rock.

But it's early

[CrimsonFox]

Blur's contribution to rock and roll

[Buccaneer]

Voted for 5 underdogs this round, probably the most I'll ever do.

[Buccaneer]

Disappointed that I have the only vote for Satriani out of 24. He's truly a rock god, much much more than the bluesy/jazzy licks of Clapton.

[CrimsonFox]

Foghat and Scorpions both getting the best chance they'll ever get.

Slow RIde was good but I like this foghat tune better



vs

this ...no matter how legit you wanna call them they were so 80s....so 80s
the zebra pattern...that distort... probably better than their hairmetal look in this vid

[CrimsonFox]

Satriani is great.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

this ...no matter how legit you wanna call them they were so 80s....so 80s
the zebra pattern...that distort... probably better than their hairmetal look in this vid

I think their best work (with a few exceptions) was all prior to this album. To me, my fav Scorps albums are Black Out, Animal Magnetism and Love Drive.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Disappointed that I have the only vote for Satriani out of 24. He's truly a rock god, much much more than the bluesy/jazzy licks of Clapton.

Just a brutal draw for him.

[thesloppy]

Scorpions are slightly unique for me personally, in that at one time in the '90s I absolutely would've said they were my least favorite band in the world....at the time they were playing 'Winds of Change' every hour on the hour, and fuck that song and it's whistling intro. Now, after much time has passed I can finally ignore that song and appreciate their older shit. Also I get endless enjoyment out of role-playing the hypothetical pitch for 'Virgin Killler' in my head, with a thick German accent.

I didn't even bother voting in the Clapton/Satriani matchup. ZZZZzzzzzZZZZZzzzzz

[CrimsonFox]

Baby I'm gonna KEEEEEEEEEEP on LOVin YOU-ou

CUZ It's the ONly thing I wanna DO-ooooooo

I-i don't wanna sleep

IIIIII just wanna keep on lovin youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

WHen I said that I loved you I meant that I'd love you foRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[thesloppy]

REO Speedwagon is the musical equivalent of a really tiny hippy dude who is just a little too handsy and would probably be a sexual predator if he could gain just a little more weight.

[CrimsonFox]

Here is a list of Clapton solo songs: (in case some are confused which clpaton this is)

70s: After Midnight, Let it Rain, I Shot the SHeriff, Cocaine, WOnderful TOnight (The I win and get to f*** patti song), Lay DOwn Sally

80s: Forever Man, Pretending

I think Coacaine and Lay DOwn Sally are excellent shows for him albeit very overplayed. Love Let it Rain as well.



Let it Rain sounds so beatley it hurts. A very George kinda song
I wonder if george and ringo played on this.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

REO Speedwagon is the musical equivalent of a really tiny hippy dude who is just a little too handsy and would probably be a sexual predator if he could gain just a little more weight.

lol

then there was this oft-played weird cartoon of a song/video...

[BYU 14]

This is more the REO I enjoy

[CrimsonFox]

Those last two songs kinda sound the same.

[thesloppy]

REO Speedwagon was probably also not helped by the fact that the times & genetics conspired to make them look like the least rocking band in the history of the world. Nothing says rock like mullet perms and pastels.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Nothing says rock like mullet perms and pastels.

Yeah, they did have a "wedding singer" look about them

[tarcone]

Satriani got a terrible draw. One of the best guitarists of all time.

Scorpions were my very first concert. I have a soft spot.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Scorpions were my very first concert. I have a soft spot.

We may have covered this previously I believe but ... also MY first concert as well.

[CrimsonFox]

hahaha mullet perms

[CrimsonFox]

my favorite STP I think along with Interstate...
nothing says rock like heroine abuse! Really like the bass and guitar work of this band.

I wonder if VElvet Revolver will be in this list

[CrimsonFox]

Loved this song altho Phoebe Cates may have had something to do with that

[CarterNMA]

Elvis Costello is not light rock. Started out as punk. Sure, some of his later work is very mellow musically by his songwriting is not. "Oliver's Army" and "Tramp the Dirt Down" are lyrical punches to the face.

[BYU 14]

One definite upset as Cooper will get bounced and two more going to the wire.

[thesloppy]

Alice Cooper is interesting. He's got good songs, he still tours well, he was huge in the '70s, made a comeback in the '80s, but still kind of exists on the fringe of pop culture. I know a lot of folk of all stripes who like Alice Cooper, but I don't think I know anybody who's passionate about him. CS&N are kind of the opposite...they have almost zero stage presence or production, and similarly I know very few people who simply like Crosby, Stills & Nash, they're usually passionate in their opinion, whatever it may be.

[thesloppy]

I do love me some STP, who kind of started off like a rip-off of Pearl Jam, but quickly evolved into something more interesting (though, not necessarily less derivative).

[ColtCrazy]

No love for Blur. Really like them. Simon & Garfunkel just don't seem rock enough for this.

[CrimsonFox]

noooooooo not light rock at all

[CrimsonFox]

REO....I can honestly say that they kinda suck. I was basically bored until the encore where they played their 3 songs I knew. THe band has a couple good guitar solos. Some nice harmony blend at times. Maybe a good piano lick or two. But not enough. The rest is all extremely mediocre. Cronin's banter to the audience sounded so desperate. He seemed out of breath and never took a breath when speaking. And seemed to gush over himself, the audience, people, the 4th, 'merica, the songs, the band....STOP! Just play...

They are like that cousin you see at a reunion that smiles too much. You are told to talk to them and you try, but he creeps you out and he tells you about himself but it's pretty boring except for that one cool thing he did that goes on for too long. Then you just want to get away from him and not admit to anyone that you like that one cool thing he did.

[Chief Rum]

I'm pretty disappointed that they're beating (or have beaten) Carlos Santana. Even if Santana is consisered a separate band from the man himself, I would hope that a great guitarist and frontman like Carlos Santana would still be able to beat them out.