FOFC Favorite Rock Act - Round 1 Group P

[BYU 14]

The final group of round 1 and then we get to the fun part as the decisions get harder. Mierable draw for Sammy Hagar who had to win a play in game and an interesting matchup between Dio and INXS, which I think will be close. Picking Lou Reed as an upset, and then there is ABBA, does it get anymore rock and roll than them?

Most votes one act	Most votes both acts	Fewest votes winner	Most votes loser
68 - Guns n' Roses - 1st rd	75 - AC/DC vs Asia (68-7) - 1st rd	23 - Jeff Buckley - Play in rd	33 - Eric Burdon & The Animals - 1st rd
68 - AC/DC - 1st rd	75 - Paul Simon vs Billy Idol (42-33) - 1st rd	23 - Counting Crows - Play in rd	33 - Billy Idol - 1st rd
67 - Queen - 1st rd	74 - Thee way tie	24 - Sammy Hagar - Play in rd	30 - Judas Priest - 1st rd
Largest margin of victory	Smallest margin of victory	Biggest upset	Largest Shutout
64 - Guns n' Roses vs Slipknot (68-4) - 1st rd	1 - Elvis Costello vs STP (29-28) 1st rd	175/74 - James Taylor over Alice in Chains 1st rd	Chicago 63 - Arcana 0 - 1st rd
64 - Queen vs Counting Crows (67-3) 1st rd	2 - Kiss vs The Cranberries (31-29) 1st rd	187/94 - Tears for Fears over Judas Priest 1st rd	The Kinks 63 - Free 0 - 1st rd
63 - Chicago vs Arcana (63-0) - 1st rd	2 - ELO vs Hall and Oates (31-29) 1st rd	185/96 - No Doubt over Eric Burdon - 1st rd
63 - The Kinks vs Free (63-0) - 1st rd

[BYU 14]

I need to quit trying to predict these damn things, maybe not on Lou Reed

[korme]

Beach Boys FTW

[Warhammer]

The Beach Boys at 19 is criminal. There are few bands in the history of rock and roll that are more influential than they are.

[thesloppy]

.38 Special is good for people who think that Molly Hatchett didn't water down southern rock enough.

[CrimsonFox]

Do people really actually like listeyto buddy Holly...Like really.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

.38 Special is good for people who think that Molly Hatchett didn't water down southern rock enough.

Lol

Yeah a couple watery hits.

[CrimsonFox]

Dio I'd amazing. He started the devil sign hand symbol thing too

[CrimsonFox]

Like toto. They were all session musicians and decided to form a band.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Do people really actually like listeyto buddy Holly...Like really.

I would be curious to know this as well. Not questioning his significance and I know some of his songs, just never listen to them.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Do people really actually like listeyto buddy Holly...Like really.

I have definitely listened to and enjoyed a lot of Buddy Holly...but honestly, probably not for 20 years.

If you like your pop sugary, sweet and short, Buddy Holly is great and goes down easy. If you don't, his music's probably just as easily ignored.

[CrimsonFox]

And without Buddy Holly there would be no movie with Gary Busey that I actually like

[CrimsonFox]

In the shuffling madness of locomotive breath...

[Scarecrow]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Like toto. They were all session musicians and decided to form a band.

TOTO loses points because of Georgy Porgy...

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

TOTO loses points because of Georgy Porgy...

Holy shit, they should lose their 70's rock perms for that too. (Actually a decent song before they got to that brilliant chorus)

Meanwhile, at an Iron Maiden show you get this....Toto deserves this L

[Buccaneer]

In my large music collection, I only have one act from the 1950s - Buddy Holly. He was a true rock pioneer that many bands and performers from the 1960s points to for their inspiration, including a rather famous 1960s act...

it was Buddy Holly who inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to play, sing, and write their own songs. Quoting John Lennon: "Buddy Holly was the first one that we were really aware of in England who could play and sing at the same time - not just strum, but actually play the licks"

Quoting Paul once more: "I still like Buddy's vocal style. And his writing. One of the main things about The Beatles is that we started out writing our own material. People these days take it for granted that you do, but nobody used to then. John I started to write because of Buddy Holly. It was like, 'Wow! He writes and is a musician'"

Not to mention how much the Quarrymen/Beatles covered Buddy Holly in the early years.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

TOTO loses points because of Georgy Porgy...

That IS horrible!

[cartman]

The Traveling Wilburys are getting screwed over

[CarterNMA]

Don't own a single album, can't remember the name of any songs except "Run To The Hills", but I recognize that Iron Maiden is pure, 100%, unadulterated talent. That they are rated below AC/DC is a travesty. Imaginative bass lines > guitar solos.

[Edward64]

And ABBA is back!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/enter...sic/index.html

Mamma Mia! ABBA is getting the band back together.

The Swedish pop group announced Friday on its official Instagram account that an earlier announced avatar plan of the band, dubbed "Abbatars," helped rekindle the magic.

"The decision to go ahead with the exciting ABBA avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence," the statement posted on Instagram says. "We all felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did."

The reunion, the statement says, "was like time had stood still and we had only been away on a short holiday. An extremely joyful experience!"