Battle of the Bands Classic Rock/Prog/Psychedelic edition DISCUSSION THREAD
 

Hokai, soon the polls will start, so I find it prudent to post the brackets that we established for nominations, what I learnt for the future is that not all to many bands were supported, so a different seeding system may have to be put into place.

From the brackets of course, for each poll one band will be chosen, this will be done as such:

Each bracket will be entered into a table in access where it will be given a random number, which will be sorted from lowest to highest, with the lowest in each bracket going into the poll and so on. There will be 25 polls with 5 bands in round one with 50 proceeding, then 10 rounds with 5 bands with 20 proceeding, then 4 rounds with 5 bands with 8 proceeding, then the semi finals will be between 4 bands. How to proceed after that I don't know, it's up to you, I could take the two best of each and the highest voted for third band to have a classic five band final, or the two best of each and have a four band final, or go for a more distinct 2 band final.

Here are the brackets:

The Bob Dylan Bracket:
Frank Zappa
The Velvet Underground
King Crimson
The Yardbirds
The Kinks
Cream
Can
Hawkwind
Jefferson Airplane
Comus
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Allman Brothers
Syd Barrett
The Doors
David Bowie
Magma
The Byrds
Jethro Tull
Queen
Gong
Genesis
Black Sabbath
The Zombies
Steely Dan
The Residents

The Led Zeppelin Bracket:
Wishbone Ash
Capability Brown
Goblin
Mountain Ash Band
Soft Machine
Thin Lizzy
Kraftwerk
The Mamas and the Papas
Faust
The Monkees
The Amboy Dukes
ELP
Gentle Giant
Neil Young
Yes
Moby Grape
Camel
Ash Ra Tempel
Procul Harum
Big Star
T. Rex
The Pentangle
Room
Leaf Hound
The Who

The Pink Floyd Bracket:
Small Faces
Amon Duul II
The Moody Blues
Sex Pistols
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Big Brother and the Holding Company
The Grateful Dead
Fairport Convention
Donovan
Buffalo
Boston
Rush
Barclay James Harvest
The Animals
Alice Cooper
Fifty Foot Hose
Billy Joel
Os Mutantes
Titus Groan
Fleetwood Mac
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Bodkin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
49th Parallel

The Beatles Bracket:
The Shadows
The Misunderstood
The Hollies
Free
The Pretty Things
Scott Walker
Turquoise
The Monks
The Left Banke
The Bruthers
The Sonics
The Kaleidoscope (UK)
Deep Purple
Blue Oyster Cult
Robert Wyatt
Neu!
Joe Bird and the Field Hippies
Talking Heads
The Eagles
Tangerine Dream
Ten Years After
Judas Priest
Human Beast
Caravan
Flower Travellin' Band

The Ethan Smith is Rolled and Stoned Bracket:
Premiata Forneria Marconi
White Noise
The Red Krayola
Henry Cow
Savoy Brown
Eloy
Traffic
13th Floor Elevators
Rare Bird
Brainticket
Rainbow
Rush
The Band
UFO
Van Der Graaf Generator
Todd Rundgren
The Turtles
Uriah Heep
Colosseum
Argent
Janis Joplin
Love
Trapeze
Curved Air
Roxy Music

The Moody Blues are in the Beatles bracket and the Pink Floyd bracket.

Ah yes so they are, I'll fix that.

EDIT: Done, changed to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, I went through and checked the mistake and it was down to me obviously not putting "the" infront and thus not catching the duplicate.

As a further post script the seeding has been done and the random numbers allocated for each individual bracket, I won't make the information publicly available but I might start polls tonight, normally I'd run them for three days but I'm thinking to run the first three for seven days so more people will be able to vote despite the holiday period.

May I congratulate you Comus for a good start with this, looking forward to Heat 4

I'm looking forward to my bracket.

Why are all the top seeded bands in the same bracket?

The brackets are the seeds, I tried to explain this before but the bands in the same bracket will not be in the same heats, each heat is composed of one band from each bracket.

Perfect; I get it.

Great work! Seriously, I hope we (you) can go all the way through with it.

Can you make the polls public? I never understood why you would make any poll private...

Oh right, yeah I assumed they were immediately made public. I'll make sure they are next time around.

They live up to the bracket title. All insanely boring except Moby Grape and Leaf Hound and Gentle Giant. there's a few other's that are just okay, and I haven't heard The Pentangle.

^^Kids, pffft

The only thing in the Zep bracket that I've heard that I would consider boring is ELP, the who has some boring stuff but that's it apart from the bands I haven't heard.

Haha? Soft Machine may be one of the most interesting bands ever...plus Procol Harum and T Rex are kickass.

Well their s afew good ones, but seriously, Thin Lizzy and The Monkees?

Any early predictions? I've got The Velvet Underground winning the tourney.

Thin Lizzy are epic, and King Crimson will win.

Monkees are great too...just because they were a manufactured band doesn't mean they suck. They have two decent albums.

King Crimso already have it wrapped up. I'm looking forward to seeing how far Gentle Giant and Jefferson Airplane will go though.

You call Faust, Wishbone Ash and Capability Brown boring.

Since the festive season has ended all heats will now last 3 days.

Dude, what the hell? You forgot Soft Machine!!!

If Billy Joel AND Moby Grape don't make I will be pissed.

is it just me, or do the sex pistols have no business being involved with this?

I second questioning their inclusion.

The Sex Pistols fit a hell of a lot better than Billy Joel...

Billy Joels finest work was in the 60's with The Lost Souls and with The Hassles and in the early 70's (ignoring Attila) with his rather marvellous solo stuff.

I think its a justifiable nomination.



In the 80's though ........:yikes:

Billy Joel is best known for his 70's albums Piano Man (1973), Turnstiles (1976), The Stranger (1977) and 52nd Street (1978) He was at the height of his popularity here at the end of the 70's.

Sex Pistols are a punk band.

so this isn't exclusive to classicrock/prog/psychedelic bands then?

The sex pistols won't get far since their fanbase is incredibly limited so I let it slide.

The Stranger is one of the only albums I own that I would give a solid 10/10.

I find Turnstiles to be far superior.

Deep purple still come second in their heat despite vote tampering by second accounts, (billy joel had a discounted vote too) but now their strength is 7 not 8.

They're already playing early punk bands on the classic rock stations, so why can't they be considered classic rock on here?

Good point, we should keep that in mind for the next time around.

Gods some of the heats have been very tough, and it's amazing how 5 votes can be good enough to get through in one but nowhere near enough to get through in another.

Any thoughts on the running so far? I've been trying to have the next heats ready as soon as the older ones expire but today I was 7 odd hours off, sorry to anyone who was awaiting it with anticipation. Who's hooked?

I love it.

I love it. Wish Billy or Leaf Hound or Moby Grape made it :/
Hopefully Fifty Foot Hose will help me regain faith in the system.

The thing is, no matter how much you want it to happen, the obscure bands just won't get through, and as for Billy Joel, that was just tough luck.

I'm hooked.

What I find incredibly interesting is the difference in interest between the heats, some have far more votes than others.