WINTER MADNESS!! PA's Battle of the Bands.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: It's probably more a comment on the relatively small size of the avant-head contingent and the polarizing nature of the music to some.

oh yeah no doubt

akamaisondufromage wrote: micky wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Maybe the Avant / Zeuhl guys should of whined so more, we've lost Samla (on a too late vote from Ivan), Univers Zero, Henry Cow & Magma, with only UZ being beaten by more than 2 votes. The only one we have left is Frank Zappa & he's more of an individual unique outlier in the avant scene. yeah...  whoever the field commander was of the Rio-Avant forces should be sacked.  One has to FIGHT!! It is a battlefield out there Those were winnable matches.  You could have had my vote in any of those.. all it would have taken is an ELP vote in return It is quite something just how tight all of those really were. Many of the most fun and interesting have involved those bands. Too much time spent in the Officer's Mess.  I've seen him propping up the bar boasting about how he didn't need to bother in the early rounds as the Rio guys would get through easily.  Complacency on the battlefield I believe.

  now why didn't the Camel Commander do that

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Maybe the Avant / Zeuhl guys should of whined so more, we've lost Samla (on a too late vote from Ivan), Univers Zero, Henry Cow & Magma, with only UZ being beaten by more than 2 votes. The only one we have left is Frank Zappa & he's more of an individual unique outlier in the avant scene.

yeah...  whoever the field commander was of the Rio-Avant forces should be sacked.  One has to FIGHT!! It is a battlefield out there Those were winnable matches.  You could have had my vote in any of those.. all it would have taken is an ELP vote in return

It is quite something just how tight all of those really were. Many of the most fun and interesting have involved those bands.

I thought about voting for THe Cow, but felt that actually, what small amount of SR I have heard was good enough to put me off voting one way or t'other.  No vote.  So partly my fault too.  Nice to have some newer bands left as well.

Damn, Henry Cow out.

and Rome 1st Round is closed.

Now updating and tabulating.. and breaking any ties if we have them

Rome 1st round closing tomorrow morning and then Lima and Rome 2nd round take off.

Get your Rome votes in now while you can. Several tight ones still

Hawkwind up by 2 on Magma
Henry Cow up by 1 on Sigor Ros
Uriah Heep up by 4 on The Mars Volta

hey.. take some solace in that (unlike ELP did years ago) DT at least lost to a great band not some 2nd or 3rd division team.  It was an interesting matchup and one I really did think would be closer though obviously 180 deg different in terms of style, tastes, and numbers of great albums

We will definitely do that for the album contest. If done correctly... by  the voters.. it doesn't necessarily have to be what the band contest will be, and will always be, the same 4 or 5 groups at the end.

Those groups are judged by careers.. the entirety of their output. With albums, it only takes one moment of brilliance not even from one of the biggest groups to go a long way.. or all the way.  There are many great prog albums done by artists not even considered to be prog artists in the first place. It could be a real hoot and would be anyway just for what you said.. the early rounds.. but the end game is not necessarily written in stone as they are with the group contests.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Check your brackets! We've got the updates here. Who's still got the perfect one? http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=456329

thanks man!!!

If I had this to do over... well we are next year with the battle of the albums...  I want to try it like the bracket contests.  See who has best bracket and see about some price!

Not how I will vote in every case, only my guess:

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - December 13 2014 at 10:27