Boardsies Best Song of the 70s - Live Thread

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The Quo!

Queen

Queen

Blondie

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rainbowtrout wrote: »

Round Four:

Match 1: Eagles - Hotel California 6 - 5 Abba - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Match 4: Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks 3 - 6 Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Ugh, really people, neither The Eagles nor Bruce Springsteen should be getting to the Quarters...

Collie D

7: Don’t Stop me Now

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Match 5: Black Betty
Match 6: Queen
Match 7: Queen
Match 8: Blondie

rainbowtrout

Match 7: Queen - Don't Stop Me Now 6 - 3 Angie - Rolling Stones

Match 5:
Ram Jam - Black Betty

Match 6:
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Match 7:
Angie - Rolling Stones

Match 8:
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

Fleetwood Mac are the single most overrated musical act of all time.

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Deleted User wrote: »

Fleetwood Mac are the single most overrated musical act of all time.

rainbowtrout

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

ArnoldJRimmer

Its getting to around that time of the competition where the number of controversial results increase :-)

Well as they say, the problem with democracy is that it includes everyone

Omackeral

Match 5: Ram Jam - Black Betty...If a jukebox has this, I'll select it.

Match 6: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen... Absolute beautiful nonsense.

Match 7: Don't Stop Me Now - Queen... Love the energy of it

Match 8: Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way... Slightly less bland

rainbowtrout

** QUARTER FINALS COMING UP SHORTLY **


First to 7 and give a reason for each of your votes otherwise your vote won't be counted.

Tauriel

I'm gutted to see Black Betty go, just the one song left from my original 10 now.

Electric Nitwit

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Ugh, really people, neither The Eagles nor Bruce Springsteen should be getting to the Quarters...

Irish Aris

That thing with Spaceoddity still bugs me. . .:pac::pac:

According to this site:
https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/space%20oddity/

it first charted in 1969. and then charted again in 1975. . .
I reckon since we got that far, we should let it slide? I mean it is a song for teh ages and I wouldn't mind seeing it winning!!

rainbowtrout

Match 1: Hotel California - Eagles v Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

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Match 2: Space Oddity - David Bowie v Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

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Match 3: Patti Smith - Because the Night v Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

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Match 4: Don't Stop Me Now - Queen v Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

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Irish Aris

ok 3 easy and 1 difficult.
Match 1: Blue Oyster Cult (I never really liked Hotel California)
Match 2: David Bowie
Match 3: Queen (that's the difficult one, and I don't mind either of them going through - this could have been the final)
Match 4: Queen again

Necro

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 1: Hotel California - Eagles v Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Hotel California because it's a fantastic song and BOC already won the one hit wonders comp.

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 2: Space Oddity - David Bowie v Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run as it's the Boss who is CRIMINALLY underrepresented in this comp. And Bowie sucks. There, I said it.

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 3: Patti Smith - Because the Night v Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Rhapsody because it's one of the best songs of all time.

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 4: Don't Stop Me Now - Queen v Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac, again for similar reasons as above but much more underrated than Rhapsody.

rainbowtrout

Irish Aris wrote: »

That thing with Spaceoddity still bugs me. . .:pac::pac:

According to this site:
https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/space%20oddity/

it first charted in 1969. and then charted again in 1975. . .
I reckon since we got that far, we should let it slide? I mean it is a song for teh ages and I wouldn't mind seeing it winning!!

We allowed re-releases in the other competitions. It was No 1 in the UK for two weeks in 1975 so it's allowed. Not as controversial as The Cure.

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Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper - because its great and Hotel California is overrated.

David Bowie - Space Oddity - again because its great and Born To Run is overrated.

Patti Smith Group - Because the Night - because it's a great song, and just let me check my notes... oh yeah, Bohemian Rhapsody is overrated.

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way - because it's the deserving winner of the whole comp at this point, and because I'm clearly going for a theme here... Don't Stop Me Now is overrated.

Well thats me done then. All ten of my nominations gone.



Really hope neither Bohemian Rhapsody nor Hotel California wins.

mustang shelly

mustang shelly wrote: »

I'm gutted to see Black Betty go, just the one song left from my original 10 now.

What?
Is this gone?!
One of my original ten also

Omackeral

Eagles - Just because I know all the lyrics and can sing along.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody - It has about 6 different genres in it but somehow still works.

Queen Don't Stop Me - I enjoy how full of life it is throughout.

Hotel California - I love the eagles, I love California too

Space Oddity - David Bowie

Bowie just gets it for me. Amazing song.


Bohemian Rhapsody contender for final

[Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac 70s band deserves to go further

Tauriel

Match 1:
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Not a fan of the Eagles and like this song

Match 2:
Abstaining

Match 3:
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
One of the oddest and most marvelous songs ever and I just love Queen

Match 4:
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
My last nomination in this competition. Although if Don't Stop Me Now was up against any other song, it would of gotten my vote.

Irish Aris

I'm also out of nominations. Queen I went for a different song (Somebody to Love) as I was confident that someone would nominate Rhapsody.
I don't mind though, some great songs left in the competition!!

Tauriel

bubblypop wrote: »

What?
Is this gone?!
One of my original ten also

Yup, went out 6-1

angel eyes 2012

Match 1 The Eagles
Love this song, it still sounds fresh

Match 2 Bruce Springsteen
I grew up listening to Bruce as my Mum loves him and his music grew on me as I got older

Match 3 Queen - still love all Queen songs and saw them in concert with Adam Lambert a couple of years ago, well worth attending.

Match 4 Queen again - not my absolute favourite song but can't vote against Queen yet.

#1 Don't Fear The Reaper - more interesting musically, and I never liked the Eagles.

#2 Space Oddity - toughest matchup here but Bowie deserves credit for being so inventive.

#3 Because The Night - a perfect pop song with a punk edge, and Bohemian Rhapsody is mostly just self-indulgent **** (technically impressive, sure, but still ****!)

#4 Go Your Own Way - a monster tune, a biting anti-love song that contains more drama and human emotion than anything Queen ever did in the 70's.