Okay, so the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” wasn’t the toughest choice. Teenage wasteland, indeed! 25 of 55 votes went to the Who, with Zep’s “Tangerine” in 2nd place with 16 votes.
Let’s try that again.
Vote!
The winners thus far:
Elvis Costello - Allison
Jet - Look What You’ve Done
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant
The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
The Police - King of Pain
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Aretha Franklin - River’s Invitation
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
The Doors - L.A. Woman
The Carpenters - On Top of the World
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Prince - When Doves Cry
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
U2 - I Will Follow
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Coldplay - God Put a Smile on Your Face
The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Adam Ant - Goody Two-Shoes
REM - Man On The Moon
Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The Beatles - She’s Leaving Home
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
The Who - Baba O’Riley
I think that was a much more even match up!
Beatles win!
Comment by Jennifer — January 27, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
I suspect that this poll was deliberately designed so that the Beatles would win — and thus so that Kaimi would forgive KB of its sins.
Comment by RoastedTomatoes — January 27, 2006 @ 12:32 pm
Complain, complain. Just wait ’till next week.
Comment by Supergenius — January 27, 2006 @ 12:57 pm
Not a bad matchup, SG. But when (if ever) are you going to roll out the true big guns? Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Stairway To Heaven?
Turn the D[r]ome keys over to me for a week, buddy, and we’ll see some real fireworks.
Comment by Kaimi — January 27, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
um, Kaimi, that’s two beatles songs against a Zep beatles-ish song. you’ve got to do better.
Comment by Supergenius — January 27, 2006 @ 1:35 pm
This is actually a great matchup. I don’t think that the right song will win with this group, but these are three well matched songs.
Comment by a random John — January 27, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
Huh. I chose the Beatles last week, and I’m a much bigger Beatles fan than Who fan (and I range from ambivalent to active dislike of Led Zep).
But Magic Bus seems like the obvious choice here. George Harrison’s noodling is okay, I guess. Better than that Page & Plant nonsense anyway.
Comment by BTD Greg — January 27, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
NO WAY is Magic Bus the obvious choice! Greg, you make me sad. Magic Bus is a fun song, entertaining, but The Beatles’ pick this week has real depth the Who lacks. As for the Zep song, it’s a great tuno and the real tough pick against the Beatles.
Don’t get me wrong — Magic Bus is a great song, and I wouldn’t have picked it for T-dome otherwise — but no, the Beatles deserve to win this one.
Comment by Supergenius — January 27, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
Wow. They’re all really great.
I know, the band that isn’t British…
…wait…
…God Save the Queen, blokies.
Comment by Ronan — January 27, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
BTD Greg, you’re smoking crack. Or something (maybe the Indian food you had at lunch was chemically enhanced). I think you undervalue George Harrison and overvalue the Beatles’ early stuff.
Comment by Allison — January 27, 2006 @ 5:55 pm
Nice selection, I agree with most that the Beatles have the edge here. Next week I say pull out the big guns, Supergenius, like Won’t Get Fooled Again/Stairway/Hey Jude.
Comment by Eric Russell — January 27, 2006 @ 8:08 pm
BTD - Greg, I’m sickened by your disregard for Zeppelin. Yes, Plant’s autoerotic moaning is bit annoying, but they are quintessentially awesome. By denying this you betray your own critical insufficiency.
Comment by J. Stapley — January 27, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
Hey, wasn’t Stairway to Heaven banned, everywhere, forever and ever??
Comment by tracy m — January 27, 2006 @ 11:30 pm
A world without “Stairway” is no world for me.
Comment by Tom — January 28, 2006 @ 12:39 am
Don’t Get Fooled Again — now that’s The Who, man.
I actually went to an Anthrax concert a few years back and they covered Teenage Wasteland, but with no keyboard — all guitar. I wish I had bootlegged it.
The coolest Zep tune is “That’s the Way.” It’s so hippy you gotta love it.
Comment by David J — January 28, 2006 @ 12:52 am
Tough choices for real! Magic Bus is an all time fave, but George has to win this time.
Comment by meems — January 28, 2006 @ 4:04 am
OK I’ll give it to the Beatles on this one.
Comment by Susan M — January 28, 2006 @ 10:16 am
From wikipedia -
The close friendship between Clapton and Harrison also resulted in Clapton playing on Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from the Beatles’ White Album - according to some, a tactic intended to make the other Beatles take Harrison’s song more seriously, but whatever the truth, by all accounts the presence of an outsider, especially of Clapton’s calibre, had the effect of bringing harmony to the irritable band. (At one point during the making of the White Album, Harrison walked out after a row, and in his absence - fearing Harrison had gone for good and concerned that the album could not be completed - John Lennon proposed that Harrison be replaced by Clapton.)
Comment by Mark IV — January 28, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
Would’nt that’ve been something! How many unbeliveably top-notch bands has Clapton played with anyway? Didn’t know the Beetles were on the list too.
Comment by tracy m — January 29, 2006 @ 5:58 pm
I didn’t know that either. I knew “Layla” was written for George Harrison’s wife, whom Eric was in love with, but who doesn’t.
Comment by Susan M — January 29, 2006 @ 8:16 pm