The Doors, man, GLOOOOOOORRRIAAAAAAAA!
The Doors, man, GLOOOOOOORRRIAAAAAAAA!
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
seconded
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doors would be my vote - but I am a keyboardist, so that makes sense.
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The Classic Rock station in Toronto did one a month or so ago. It's the highest regarded in all of Canada I believe. It came down to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and Zeppelin won. Zeppelin took down some heavyweights, like The Beatles.
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This is exciting.
Big town's got its losers, small town's got its vices...
Should we open a nominations thread? Here is what I had thought before: Allowing for the wide variety in tastes, and also for the extremely large number of groups that are out there, I think that there should be a large number of nominations.
What do you all think of this?
100 nominations
Round one: 10 groups of 10 - top 2 from each poll move on leaving 20
Round two: 4 groups of 5 - top 2 from each poll moving on leaving 8
Round three: 2 groups of 4 - top 2 from each poll moving on leaving 4
Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 - top 1 from each poll moving on leaving 2
Finals.
thoughts?
too many?
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I'll participate when it comes down to it, but for the planning phases....I wouldn't know shit about that, it's up to you guys.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
Is it just bands or are solo artists included? Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Paul McCartney and others definitely deserve to be in it.
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I think solo artists should be included. I would definitely feel that Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix were worthy of a nomination.
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Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen...they would definitely have to be there.
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couldn't we have a solo artist tournament too? it might get hopelessly cluttered if we mixed them all up, IMO.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
Now that we've gone through two big genres (horror and sci-fi), we were discussing earlier the possibility of doing more genres, maybe up to 10 or so, and then having these best movies face off against one another. A popular genre to go next seemed to be comedy, to lighten things up.
This probably wouldn't start right away, I think we all would like a short break, but I wouldn't mind starting this deal back up in a couple of weeks.
I've been going though various lists, and there are just SO MANY great comedies I could potentially nominate, it's not even funny...
Just look at these great movies (some may not be pure comedies, but what is and isn't a comedy is often difficult to say):
1920s:
1930s:
1940s:
1950s:
1960s:
1970s:
1980s:
1990s:
2000s:
2010s:
That's 264 movies right there. And I'm sure I missed a bunch. I may have gone overboard just a tad, but most of these deserve to be nominated. So I'm hoping when we go ahead with the nominations, we'll do 200 instead of 160. I'm currently using the 200-entry system for the flags tournament in Starkblast, and it's a pretty good one if I do say so myself!
What are we waiting for...let's go!!
And yes, you did miss the best comedy of the 1970s.....which will be my first nomination!
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I'm fully on board, but I definitely do need a small break from tournaments. Completely open to the idea of revisiting this in a few weeks.
Keep in mind that the holidays are quickly approaching so we will likely see a reduced amount of traffic for the remainder of the year. Maybe this is something we should aim to get off the ground in 2015? Just a thought.
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I'm a little confused as to what your definition of comedy is. I only went through the 2010 list, didn't recognize a lot of them (which is saying something in itself) but ... Wolf of wall street, kick ass, the kids aren't alright ... they might have humor in them, but in no way would I classify them as comedies.
We've had this same discussion with the horror and sci-fi tournaments. A genre is sometimes hard to define. What's funny to some is not at all funny to others. The Wolf of Wall Street was one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. The Quaalude scene alone makes it one of the best comedies.