bcrt2000 said:
maybe theres some sort of bug? dave matthews band and pearl jam face each other in the first round! its very unlikely that 80% of the people would pick those 2 over everyone else
I could kind of see that to be honest.......both bands have about two or three times as many people that see them live than actually buy their albums....
Here's my picks from another thread about this (that was strangely in the tour discussion area)
Round One:
Franz Ferdinand (over overrated Coldplay)
Wilco (over Audioslave)
Modest Mouse (over Destiny's Child)
Pearl Jam (over DMB)
The White Stripes (over boring arse Interpol)
Green Day (over the Pretenders ripoffs known as The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Bright Eyes (over the 15-years-since- good Metallica)
The Dixie Chicks (over the godawful Maroon 5)
Radiohead (over Evanescence, which isn't really a band in my book)
Beastie Boys (over Aerosmith.....I prefer the latter, but the BB's last two albums are a million times better than Aerosmith's)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers (over No Doubt, who shouldn't even be on this since they're on hiatus)
R.E.M. (over KISS.......and I don't think KISS is still around either....)
Outkast (over Velvet Revolver......heh, the most inventive rap group against the least inventive rock one)
Flaming Lips (over Wallflowers)
The Roots (over the Foo Fighters)
U2 (over The Hives)
Round Two:
Wilco (over Franz Ferdinand.....both are two of the best out there)
Pearl Jam (over Modest Mouse.......once again, two more of the planet's best....but PJ gets the edge due to their live show....although every MM record is better than 'Riot Act')
Green Day (over The White Stripes....Green Day has always been more innovative than the Stripes....)
Bright Eyes (over The Dixie Chicks......both are countryish, and the best at their genres (folk and country, respectively)
Radiohead (over Aerosmith........here's hoping that we'll get some actual new material from either of these bands soon)
R.E.M. (over Red Hot Chili Peppers......both bands are still extremely brilliant over twenty years on)
Outkast (over The Flaming Lips)
U2 (over The Roots....download "The Seed 2.0" by The Roots......one of the best rap songs ever recorded.......it really rocks)
Round Three:
Pearl Jam (over Wilco.......once again, Wilco has much stronger studio material as of late......but PJ's live show gives them that edge)
Green Day (over Bright Eyes.......real simple, one of Bright Eyes' two albums that just came out is better than 'American Idiot' and the other is not.......the tiebreaker for me was the live show.....)
R.E.M.(over Radiohead.........sorry, Radiohead, but you lost me on "Hail To The Thief" while R.E.M. won me back with "Around The Sun")
U2 (over Outkast.......sorry, Ms. Jackson...)
Round Four:
Well, four of my all time favorite bands duke it out......Green Day was my fave until PJ came along......
Round Five:
U2 vs. Pearl Jam
Here we are.....my second, and third favorite bands (The Beatles will always rule the rock world)....
Outcome:
The Boys From Dublin