The 2010 Official ATK Best Band Poll Series - Nominations and Preview

[Isphera]

Nomination rules are very simple:


You are allowed a maximum of FOUR bands. You can have less than this, but the max is four.
There are NO community consensus picks
A band can only be nominated once, so please read the list before posting your nominations
Please also put the genre of the band next to the name in your post.
As with the DWPS, I will link each name to a song by each band. To nominate which song, please include that in your nomination post as well. If no song is provided, I will select one at random
Rick Astley is banned.
Please help me keep this thread clean, and put ALL conversation in the open discussion thread.


Please also format your nomination posts like so (these are my nominations):


Breaking Benjamin - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge
Chevelle - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge
Three Days Grace - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge
Nickelback - Hard Rock/Alt Metal

So nominate away!

[Isphera]

The text in italics is the song in the video - If you want me to change the video, then please provide me with another one.

Nominations


Breaking Benjamin (http://snipurl.com/uj9ha) - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge ("So Cold" in Still Seeing Breen Machinima by Paul Marino)
Chevelle (http://snipurl.com/uja54) - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Jars)
Three Days Grace (http://snipurl.com/uj9ei) - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Animal I Have Become)
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Thin Lizzy (http://snipurl.com/uj9ld) - Hard Rock (The Boys Are Back In Town)
Jimi Hendrix (http://snipurl.com/ujbq4) - Hard Rock/Blues Rock (All Along The Watchtower)
Queen (http://snipurl.com/uj9nn) - Rock/Glam Rock (I Want It All)
The Rolling Stones (http://snipurl.com/uj9oe) - Rock/Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues/Blues (Gimme Shelter)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (http://snipurl.com/uj9pv) - Hard Rock/Southern Rock/Boogie Rock/Blues Rock (Freebird)
The Clash (http://snipurl.com/uj9qc) - Punk Rock (Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?)
Pendulum (http://snipurl.com/uj9s8) - Electronic Rock (Propane Nightmares)
The Prodigy (http://snipurl.com/uj9so) - Rave/Hardcore Techno (Invaders Must Die)
Sneaky Sound System (http://snipurl.com/ujb30) - Dance Punk (UFO)
You Me At Six (http://snipurl.com/ujbd0) - Electropop (Underdog)
System of a Down (http://snipurl.com/uj9x6) - Alt. Metal (Chop Suey)
Rage Against The Machine (http://snipurl.com/uj9wm) - Alt. Metal/Rap Rock (Killing In The Name Of)
Bob Dylan (http://snipurl.com/ujm8v) - Rock/Folk (Blowin' In The Wind)
Powerman 5000 (http://snipurl.com/uj9vh) - Industrial Rock (When Worlds Collide)
Rammstein (http://www.visit-x.net/CAMS/US/specials/Rammstein2.html?resolution=high&track=SpecialsRammstein2) - Neue Deutsche Härte (Ich Tu Dir Weh)
Bloc Party (http://snipurl.com/ujaab) - Indie Rock (Banquet)
Jay-Z (http://snipurl.com/ujad2) - Rap (Empire State Of Mind)
Bob Marley (http://snipurl.com/ujm7y) - Reggae (Three Little Birds)
Eminem (http://snipurl.com/ujag9) - Rap (Lose Yourself)
Sub Focus (http://snipurl.com/ujagr) - Drum and Bass (Could This Be Real)
The Animals (http://snipurl.com/ujaid) - Blues Rock (House Of The Rising Sun)
Bright Eyes (http://snipurl.com/ujba1) - Indie/Rock (Four Winds)
Fountains Of Wayne (http://snipurl.com/ujbau) - Alt. Rock (Stacy's Mom)
Bowling For Soup (http://snipurl.com/ujbb5) - Punk/Alt. Rock (Girl All The Bad Guys Want)
Madness (http://snipurl.com/ujm83)- 2 Tone (Our House)
Pink Floyd (http://snipurl.com/uksr5) - Prog Rock (Comfortably Numb)
Bucket Head (http://snipurl.com/ujm8a) - Jazz Fusion (Machette)
Jonathan Coulton (http://snipurl.com/ujm8f) - Nerd Rock (RE: Your Brains)
Guns N Roses (http://snipurl.com/ujol1) - Hard Rock (Sweet Child of Mine)
Foo Fighters (http://snipurl.com/ujole) - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Learn to Fly)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (http://snipurl.com/ujolo) - Alt. Rock (Under the Bridge)
Dire Straits (http://snipurl.com/ujom0) - Rock (Brother in Arms)
The Beatles (http://snipurl.com/ujom9) - Rock (Yellow Submarine)
Bon Jovi (http://snipurl.com/ujp4c) - Hard Rock (Livin' On A Prayer)
Black Eyed Peas (http://snipurl.com/ujp5o) - Hip-Hop (I Gotta Feeling)
Aerosmith (http://snipurl.com/ujp63) - Hard Rock (Don't Want To Miss a Thing)
Muse (http://snipurl.com/ujp2y) - Alt. Rock/New Prog (Knights Of Cydonia - Live at Wembley 2007)
Iron Maiden (Wildest Dreams)
Metallica - Heavy Metal (Master of Puppets)
Coheed & Cambria - Alt Rock (Welcome Home)
Linkin Park - Alt Rock/ Nu Metal (One Step Closer)
Limp Bizkit - Nu Metal (Rollin')
DC Slater (Reflections)
Nirvana - Grunge
Biffy Clyro
Blink 182
Def Lepard
Green Day
Santana
Johnny Cash
Temptations
Slipknot


Nominators

Oricalcos - 5/5 [Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Three Days Grace, FTM, Nirvana]
ez - 5/5 [Thin Lizzy, Jimmy Hendrix, The Animals, The Beatles, Temptations]
Chazlene - 4/5 [Queen, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Clash]
Col. Mitch - 4/5 [Pendulum, Prodigy, YMAS, SSS]
VH - 4/5 [SoaD, RATM, Poweman 5000, Bob Dylan]
Target - 4/5 [Bob Marley, Eminem, Sub Focus, Jay-Z]
Phant - 3/5 [Rammstein, Bloc Party, Iron Maiden]
DP - 3/5 [Bright Eyes, Fountains of Wayne, Bowling For Soup]
DK - 5/5 [Madness, Pink Floyd, Buckethead, Jonathan Coulton, DC Slater]
Bloo - 5/5 [Guns n Roses, Foo Fighters, RHCP, Dire Straits, Johnny Cash]
Chalex - 4/5 [Bon Jovi, BEP, Aerosmith, Muse]
Midge - 5/5 [Metallica, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Coheed, Slipknot]
VoX - 5/5 [Biffy Clyro, Blink 182, Def Lepard, Green Day, Santana]

[ez64]

Thin lizzy-short life in band terms but pure awesome
Hendrix- He played everything in a couple songs so the nomination is correct

I'm still working on the other two.

[Isphera]

It's a fair nom ez for Hendrix: 'Band' in this context encompasses solo artists with the backing band. If you wanted, you could nominate Serj Tankian on solo merit and then SoaD as well.

[Chazlene]

Queen - Rock/Glam Rock - Song: I Want It All.

The Rolling Stones - Rock/Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues/Blues - Song: Gimme Shelter.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Hard Rock/Southern Rock/Boogie Rock/Blues Rock - Song: Freebird.

The Clash - Punk Rock - Song: Should I Stay Or Should I Go.

Daymn it's hard choosing a song that sums up a band... definitely gonna post extra videos with the actual polls.

[Isphera]

I'll do two or three vids in each poll.

[ez64]

Nominate the songs with links in the posts like posting the hot pictures of women :D

[Isphera]

I'm trying to figure out how to do it, but the method I used for the DWPS just replaces the band name with the Youtube Video.

[Chazlene]

I'm trying to figure out how to do it, but the method I used for the DWPS just replaces the band name with the Youtube Video.

Just do that, then people can post extra videos below if they want to.

[ez64]

It's a fair nom ez for Hendrix: 'Band' in this context encompasses solo artists with the backing band. If you wanted, you could nominate Serj Tankian on solo merit and then SoaD as well.

Fair as well for solo artist and back group but Hendrix literally played every instrument one by one for the studio version of all along the watchtower and might have done a few others.

[Colonel Mitch]

Removed

[Vicious Horizon]

System of a Down
Rage against the Machine
Bob Dylan
Powerman 5000


Heh, 3/4 of those bands are heavily Left-wing.. I think my taste in music is telling me something.

[Isphera]

I just moved about 10 posts out of this thread to the open discussion thread for the very same reason;


7. Please help me keep this thread clean, and put ALL conversation in the open discussion thread.

Please follow this and make it easier for me to write up the nominations.

Also at Piers - their latest album isn't a genre or a song. Can you please your stuff please.

[Colonel Mitch]

I just moved about 10 posts out of this thread to the open discussion thread for the very same reason;



Please follow this and make it easier for me to write up the nominations.

Also at Piers - their latest album isn't a genre or a song. Can you please your stuff please.

what did you mean to type in place of the first please?

[Isphera]

Cheers for changing it. I'll be going through noms later on tonight.

[Calneon]

Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle dah

But you won't find that song on YouTube so this is a good song too:

EDIT: YouTube quality is shit watch it here (http://www.visit-x.net/CAMS/US/specials/Rammstein2.html?resolution=high&track=SpecialsRammstein2).

Bloc Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdkmhquF60o

[Isphera]

List has been updated to here and the five I moved to the Open Discussion during the corrections. All bar two now have vid links, and I'll sort the other two out later.

[Darkpidgeon]

Here's my ones

Bright Eyes -indie/rock
song: Four winds
Fountains of Wayne -alt rock
song: Stacy's mum
Bowling For Soup - punk/alt
song: 1985 / Girl all the bad guy's want

[ez64]

Thin lizzy toy story song is ruined :D

Got to give it up or Dancing in the moonlight or Jail break or all of them pref please :)

That live version is awesome and the live stuff always looked/sounded better than the studio stuff.

[Isphera]

Lol, pick one, and then you can post them all in the polls themselves :D

Added DP's noms and changed Piers's nom from Calvin Harris to YMAS

[ez64]

Fair do's cannot decide out of them :D

[Isphera]

BTW, can you give me a Jimi Hendrix song to put up. Likewise to VH, can you give me a Bob Dylan song to put up.

[ez64]

Everyone knows them off by heart anyway so may as well just put up all along the watch tower.

[Colonel Mitch]

Everyone knows them off by heart anyway so may as well just put up all along the watch tower.

i dont lol

[D_K_Head]

Madness
-Our House
Because why the fuck not?

DC Slater
-Reflections
He may be indie, but he plays a good guitar.

Buckethead
-Machete
Same sort of reason, but much more emotional

Jonathan Coulton
-RE: Your Brains
Do I even need to explain this one?


I find it funny that the vote ended up for "best band" and now we're doing, "best band represented by one song"

Why not just do best song?

[Target]

ZOMG please change my weird Al nom to BOB MARLEY - three little birds

[Isphera]

I find it funny that the vote ended up for "best band" and now we're doing, "best band represented by one song"

Why not just do best song?

Does anyone actually fucking read threads anymore. I've said already that this is a reference point for the band for people to look at. In the poll threads, you can post as many songs as you want. I just need one to go at the top of the poll when I create it. If you don't like the way that I do this, then simply don't post anything, log out and fuck off, because I'm doing this for a bit of fun and for people to discover some other types of music they may not have listened to before. Any problems - feel free to write them down and then eat them, because I sure as hell won't read them.

EDIT - And one final thing, you keep calling the DWPS the "best tits poll". I would like to point out that the winner, Evangeline Lilly was a 34B, and the runners up, Eve Wyrwal and Kaley Cuoco are 32F and 32C respectively.

[D_K_Head]

I would like to point out that the winner, Evangeline Lilly was a 34B, and the runners up, Eve Wyrwal and Kaley Cuoco are 32F and 32C respectively.

The fact that you know this is more than a little creepy dude.

Sorry oric, just assumed since you were putting the links into the names on the first post, there was only going to be one song to represent them. Easy mistake.

[Isphera]

Added in your selections and changed up your selection Chris.

[ez64]

Glad to see bob is in the running, going to take the Beatles as my 4th and be boring as no one else has.

if someone else could take zz top/gnr/nirvana that would be nice :)

[Bloo]

Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine.
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Dire Straits - Brother in Arms (Or Sultans of Swing live on Alchemy...)

Prefer to go by songs than bands, but meh.

[Isphera]

Added Bloo's Noms and The Beatles for Ez.

[Chalex4]

Most of my favourites are already listed, but here are a few more:

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Aerosmith - Don't Want To Miss a Thing
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (link to Wembley 2007 version)

[ez64]

Most of my favourites are already listed, but here are a few more:

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Aerosmith - Don't Want To Miss a Thing
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (link to Wembley 2007 version)

Awesome :)

[Target]

Was gunna throw the Beatles in there but was thinking someone else would nom them

[D_K_Head]

Dire Straits - Brother in Arms (Or Sultans of Swing live on Alchemy...)


Defo the live one bloo, that's an awesome track.

EDIT: guess I must have deleted the tags by accident. Fixed.

[Isphera]

RETRACTED - DK fixed his quote issue.

[Bloo]

He meant to quote, he was saying he preferred the live Sultans of Swing rather than Brother in Arms.

It is why he worded it exactly the same. :)

[Target]

Again Oric, are you actually blind or just incompetent?

Yeh Oric L2R noob

[Isphera]

I am setting a deadline for nominations of THIS FRIDAY! (5th March). The first polls will go up on the 6th.

[D_K_Head]

Can I change my DC Slater nomination to Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb? God knows how Floyd got left out, and indie is kind of expendable nowadays

[Isphera]

Changed over. Sorry about the facerape - didn't know it was meant to be quotes. Removed the comment.

EDIT2 - This bracket is now defunct, due to poplar demand for entries.
EDIT - The first round is decided, all additional entries up you 48 will have a bye to the next round. Any entries after 48 to 64, and I'll figure a way of sorting it. As usual, all matches were generated with a random number generator, and I have no control on who faces who. And before anyone says it's a fix that BB get a bye, please note that my other three are against three of the most popular nominations.

The Animals vs. Jonathan Coulton
Jay-Z vs. Chevelle
You Me At Six vs. Bon Jovi
Bloc Party vs. Thin Lizzy
Buckethead vs. Fountains of Wayne
The Prodigy vs. The Clash
Jimmy Hendrix vs. Sneaky Sound System
Bob Marley vs. Nickelback
Rage Against The Machine vs. Bob Dylan
Three Days Grace vs. Guns'n'Roses
Bright Eyes vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pendulum vs. System Of A Down
Pink Floyd vs. Madness
Aerosmith vs. Rammstein
Black Eyes Peas vs. Sub Focus
Queen vs. Muse

Byes:
Breaking Benjamin
Rolling Stones
Powerman 5000
Eminem
Bowling For Soup
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Dire Straits
The Beatles

[Target]

Sweet, I put your message to DK in the new quote oric so everyone can see what am angry serious face you are :D

[Isphera]

What can I say - it wasn't formatted when I read it, and I'd already stated the rules before hand. I've apologised and retracted the initial statement made, as it was a small error which made the post look different.

[D_K_Head]

heh, no need to make a big deal out of it targ. Mistakes happen... breakdowns in communication and such.

So... no one did The Who?

[Isphera]

And for good reason. They played the Super Bowl half-time show this year, and were absolutly terrible. There was a campaign to get one of them banned from playing because he was on the sex offenders register here ages ago, and to be honest, I wished it had succeeded, because they really were that bad.

[Calneon]

Iron Maiden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyjwp2bVgM

[Vicious Horizon]

Ah, Dance of Death album, glad to see someone else enjoys that album =)

[ez64]

no one taken jonny cash :(

[Colonel Mitch]

no one taken jonny cash :(

* Jonny GASH

[ez64]

* Jonny GASH

.....

[Target]

Good one

[D_K_Head]

...no scorpions either. Ah well, guess it takes all sorts...

[Isphera]

If we are not at 48 by Friday, I'll add in some of these bands as wild cards, as most of them are actually a given.

[Midge]

Simply because I've been following it throughout on the sly and saw there are more bands needed...

Metallica - Heavy Metal - Master of Puppets
Coheed & Cambria - Alt Rock - Welcome Home
Linkin Park - Alt Rock/ Nu Metal - One Step Closer
Limp Bizkit - Nu Metal - Rollin'

[Isphera]

I didn't even know you still came here Midge :D

I'll add them in later on.

[ez64]

Who's midge ???

[D_K_Head]

hasn't Linkin Park already been added?

[Midge]

I still check the forums regularly, just rarely post or am too busy at uni.
I checked the list and LP hadnt been added to it
and who am i? I've been here since 2007 by the looks of my join date, used to play CS:S and PR a lot with vox

[ez64]

Didn't mean to be rude just :p didn't know but thats probably due to me never going on TS.

[Target]

Kanye West, tell us how many you need on thursday and we can throw some randoms out there for wild cards :D

[Isphera]

I'll figure out the randoms - and I would rather crush my testicles in a vice before I selected Kanye West for one.

[Colonel Mitch]

I'll figure out the randoms - and I would rather crush my testicles in a vice before I selected Kanye West for one.

Whilst I agree with you completeley on Kanye West oric, things like this are the reason people refuse to enter this and claim its biased towards you.

[Calneon]

I'll figure out the randoms - and I would rather crush my testicles in a vice before I selected Kanye West for one.
Just put him in and let him get crushed in the first round.

[Isphera]

I meant in terms of a wild card nom. If someone actually nominated him for real, then I would have to put him in. I'd ridicule the person for eternity, but he would be in.

[ez64]

The eagles/deep purple perhaps for a random?

[VoX]

I still check the forums regularly, just rarely post or am too busy at uni.
I checked the list and LP hadnt been added to it
and who am i? I've been here since 2007 by the looks of my join date, used to play CS:S and PR a lot with vox


Zomg Midge! Long time no talk.



Will wait for the polls, if Kanye West makes it through I shall be disappoint.

[Target]

I was only jokin with Kanye btw, i doubt the most hated man could have a chance :D

Maybe just give people an extra nom?

Would be very biased if you choose them as you have a very different taste in music to others (me) :p

[Isphera]

OK, following Chris's suggestion - EVERYONE NOW HAS FIVE NOMINATIONS. As said yesterday, you have until 2359 GMT on Friday to get nominations in.

[D_K_Head]

heh, better stick DC Slater - Reflections back in then...

[Isphera]

OK, updated to here, the previous bracket is now rendered as speculative and will not be used.

[VoX]

Just cleaning up what has been missed as I haven't nominated at all so far :)

Biffy Clyro - Latest album is pretty dam good.
Blink 182
Def Lepard
Green Day
Santana


Will add some videos if people want them.

[Midge]

Slipknot can take up my 5th spot i think!

[ez64]

Couldn't leave them out for best bands of all time,

Temptations as my fifth please.

[Bloo]

Johnny Cash! Ring of Fire obviously.

[Colonel Mitch]

Can you remove my current nominations oric plz.

Not interested in following this as everyone here obviously has a completely different taste in music that i hate lol.

[Isphera]

I won't take them out, cause I'm voting pendulum and prodigy over most of the stuff. Besides, I need the numbers :D

[ez64]

I like pendulum and most of them but I wouldn't vote them best of all time thats all.

[Colonel Mitch]

I wouldn't vote them best of all time thats all.

Thats the problem.

Everyones looking at this poll as this other than me n chris.

Im not saying people like the beatles etc wernt good and changed the face of music, im saying if i had a choice id rather listen to something more modern and less boring.

[Isphera]

Locking thread for now since deadline for noms has passed. It will take me a while to sort out how to do this, so bear with me.