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

Nomination rules are very simple:

1. You are allowed a maximum of FOUR bands. You can have less than this, but the max is four.
2. There are NO community consensus picks
3. A band can only be nominated once, so please read the list before posting your nominations
4. Please also put the genre of the band next to the name in your post.
5. 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
6. Rick Astley is banned.
7. 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!

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

1. Breaking Benjamin - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge ("So Cold" in Still Seeing Breen Machinima by Paul Marino)
2. Chevelle - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Jars)
3. Three Days Grace - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Animal I Have Become)
4. Fair To Midland[/I]
5. Thin Lizzy - Hard Rock (The Boys Are Back In Town)
6. Jimi Hendrix - Hard Rock/Blues Rock (All Along The Watchtower)
7. Queen - Rock/Glam Rock (I Want It All)
8. The Rolling Stones - Rock/Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues/Blues (Gimme Shelter)
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Hard Rock/Southern Rock/Boogie Rock/Blues Rock (Freebird)
10. The Clash - Punk Rock (Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?)
11. Pendulum - Electronic Rock (Propane Nightmares)
12. The Prodigy - Rave/Hardcore Techno (Invaders Must Die)
13. Sneaky Sound System - Dance Punk (UFO)
14. You Me At Six - Electropop (Underdog)
15. System of a Down - Alt. Metal (Chop Suey)
16. Rage Against The Machine - Alt. Metal/Rap Rock (Killing In The Name Of)
17. Bob Dylan - Rock/Folk (Blowin' In The Wind)
18. Powerman 5000 - Industrial Rock (When Worlds Collide)
19. Rammstein - Neue Deutsche Härte (Ich Tu Dir Weh)
20. Bloc Party - Indie Rock (Banquet)
21. Jay-Z - Rap (Empire State Of Mind)
22. Bob Marley - Reggae (Three Little Birds)
23. Eminem - Rap (Lose Yourself)
24. Sub Focus - Drum and Bass (Could This Be Real)
25. The Animals - Blues Rock (House Of The Rising Sun)
26. Bright Eyes - Indie/Rock (Four Winds)
27. Fountains Of Wayne - Alt. Rock (Stacy's Mom)
28. Bowling For Soup - Punk/Alt. Rock (Girl All The Bad Guys Want)
29. Madness - 2 Tone (Our House)
30. Pink Floyd - Prog Rock (Comfortably Numb)
31. Bucket Head - Jazz Fusion (Machette)
32. Jonathan Coulton - Nerd Rock (RE: Your Brains)
33. Guns N Roses - Hard Rock (Sweet Child of Mine)
34. Foo Fighters - Alt Rock/Post-Grunge (Learn to Fly)
35. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Alt. Rock (Under the Bridge)
36. Dire Straits - Rock (Brother in Arms)
37. The Beatles - Rock (Yellow Submarine)
38. Bon Jovi - Hard Rock (Livin' On A Prayer)
39. Black Eyed Peas - Hip-Hop (I Gotta Feeling)
40. Aerosmith - Hard Rock (Don't Want To Miss a Thing)
41. Muse - Alt. Rock/New Prog (Knights Of Cydonia - Live at Wembley 2007)
42. Iron Maiden (Wildest Dreams)
43. Metallica - Heavy Metal (Master of Puppets)
44. Coheed & Cambria - Alt Rock (Welcome Home)
45. Linkin Park - Alt Rock/ Nu Metal (One Step Closer)
46. Limp Bizkit - Nu Metal (Rollin')
47. DC Slater (Reflections)
48. Nirvana - Grunge
49. Biffy Clyro
50. Blink 182
51. Def Lepard
52. Green Day
53. Santana
54. Johnny Cash
55. Temptations
56. 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]
  

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

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.

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

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

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.

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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.

Removed

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.

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

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

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.

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

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

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.

Bloc Party

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

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.

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

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.

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

Fair do's cannot decide out of them :D

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.

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

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Originally Posted by ez64

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

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i dont lol

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?

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

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Originally Posted by D_K_Head

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?

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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.

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

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.

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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.

Added in your selections and changed up your selection Chris.

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 :)

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.

Added Bloo's Noms and The Beatles for Ez.

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)

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Originally Posted by 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)

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Awesome :)

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

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Originally Posted by Bloo

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

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

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

RETRACTED - DK fixed his quote issue.

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. :)

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

Again Oric, are you actually blind or just incompetent?

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Yeh Oric L2R noob

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