"Battle of the Best American Bands of All Time"- RD2 (Part 2)- Please READ THE INITIAL POST!

Because of poll limitations, I broke the second round down into two parts. Please only vote for one of the two listed bands. Obviously, the VS. signifies who's matched up against who. Each Round will last 7 days. The seeding was done by me using my best judgement. Nothing was done to ensure specific match ups although some turned out to be more interesting than others. If you don't approve of my seeding, sorry.

As for how this was chosen, after feedback from forum members, I spent a lot of time compiling this list of the 64 greatest American bands. I'm sure some were left off who you think should've been included and vice versa but I do think this is a nice sampling nonetheless. Stayed away from solo artists with unnamed backing bands, included every rock group in the ROHF (if I missed one sorry) and the rule was at least half the members had to be from the U.S. Van Halen was an exception but the brothers came here so young, that was good enough for me. Feel free to get involved in voting but PLEASE let's see if this can just be fun and not devolve into threadcrap craziness. I have faith in all you... well, most of you. Let the competition begin!

 

Some very tough battles in this bracket and then some not so much (see CCR vs. Mama and the Papas)

 

Some tough match ups there!

 

Didn't think the Cars had a chance against Chicago. Whoops.

 

A prediction: The Mamas and the Papas won't advance to the next round...

 

Bump for votes.

 

At this point it's virtually a tie between Talking Heads with 25 votes and The Ramones with 24 votes.

 

Bump

 

At this juncture the Mamas and the Papas have the least votes of any band on part 2 of the poll, with 8.

 

Cars fans, Talking Heads fans, where are you????!

 

I sense a lot of Nirvana hatred around here. Even if they lost to Steely Dan, it should not be a landslide.

 

Wow, Nirvana is having a tough time, and the T Heads/Ramones race is tight! Go T Heads!

 

Bump

 

Two close races. The rest are decisive.

 

Bump. Keep the votes coming

 

Cars and Chicago in a dead heat.

 

Talking Heads beating The Ramones? The freakin Ramones?!

 

Anyone care to guess which band on Part 2 will challenge the winner of Part 1 in the final?

 

Bizarre isn't it?

So is Steely Dan beating Nirvana.

 

Bump

 

Let's be serious, any well respected post-punk/new wave band would beat the Ramones. Their appeal outside the core following is similar to the appeal of the art of Marcel Duchamp.

As for Steely Dan vs Nirvana I refrained from voting - I like both but it is not any deep feeling. Instead I placed my two spared votes on the Doors and the Velvets. I love both and cannot choose here either.

 

The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane are all losing.......won't be much left for me to want to vote for next round.

 

Definitely some results so far that I didn't expect.

 

Creedence will be the first act to reach 100 votes in this round.

 

My prediction for the final matchup in this bracket is CCR vs The Doors