Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Delima Wins!

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:06 pm

The right to abstain from voting is a very important right, Stip. You of all people should understand this...

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:07 pm

Yeah, what do you think this is, Australia?

Post by **stip** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:07 pm

You have the RIGHT to abstain. It will just be silly of you to exercise it.

Post by **stip** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:08 pm

I'm running out the door to get the girls, so I'll vote later.

best of luck to all the teams! Thanks for the draft

And just to head this over before it happens, you should NOT, out of guilt, vote for Numbers over yourself in round II, DcT. We both know you're thinking it.

numbers · Post by **numbers** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:09 pm

great, stip is lobbying people to not vote for me. real impartial.

i got bugs · Post by **i got bugs** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:10 pm

Me varis numbers kopee

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:12 pm

numbers wrote:great, stip is lobbying people to not vote for me. real impartial.

Isn't this the best possible thing for your cause though?

numbers · Post by **numbers** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:13 pm

Lament wrote:
numbers wrote:great, stip is lobbying people to not vote for me. real impartial.
Isn't this the best possible thing for your cause though?

That's true, you see the big picture when I fail to.

numbers · Post by **numbers** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:13 pm

btw, what are the odds on Stip's 10th pick in the 80's tournament being the Ghostbusters theme?

doug rr · Post by **doug rr** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:13 pm

bugs, Doug, DSB, Joey

Post by **stip** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:16 pm

numbers wrote:btw, what are the odds on Stip's 10th pick in the 80's tournament being the Ghostbusters theme?

If I draft an 80s cheese team they're pretty high

koopee27 · Post by **koopee27** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:17 pm

bugs
varis
numbers
me

kp

numbers · Post by **numbers** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:18 pm

bugs
varis
myself
d,t

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:19 pm

PryTo
Varis
Numbers
Joey

Post by **stip** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:19 pm

Solsbury hill (the smart pick) and joy to the world (the sentimental pick) were my round 10 alternates

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:20 pm

PT
DRR
DSB
DT

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:23 pm

PryTo
Varis
Numbers
Durdencommatyler

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:23 pm

bugs
doug rr
numbers
dct

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Mon June 23, 2014 9:29 pm

stip wrote:Solsbury hill (the smart pick) and joy to the world (the sentimental pick) were my round 10 alternates

I'd considered the former too (and, er, definitely not the latter).

Somewhat inspired by my recent (at this stage partial) reading of Joe Carducci's "Rock and the Pop Narcotic"...

"Rock" styles (other than actual contemporary rock music) have been changed by the recording process as anyone who listens to the radio since the early 1980s knows. Classic hard rock began in 1970 and largely, though not entirely, burned out by the end of that decade. We're speaking here of bands like UFO, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Blue Öyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad, Slade, Robin Trower, Budgie, ZZ Top, Free, Rush, Foghat, Bad Company, Montrose, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and loads more. If your listening habits include such bands' records from this period you won't be surprised to hear the documentarian simplicity in the way they were produced. (If you don't listen to such records, get your fag hands off my book immediately!)

...my list had a clear rock music bias (though the Cars are clearly a debatable inclusion by that metric).

Here's a bunch of other stuff I might easily have otherwise included; an alternate group of 10, possibly more representative of my regular listening preferences:

Spoiler: show: Siouxsie and the Banshees - 'Mirage'
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - 'Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick'
John Carpenter - 'Halloween (Main Title Theme)'
Syd Barrett - 'Dominoes'
Peter Gabriel - 'On the Air'
Brian Eno - 'Burning Airlines Give You So Much More'
The Cure - 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'
Robert Wyatt - 'Sea Song'
Goblin - 'Suspiria'
King Crimson - 'One More Red Nightmare'