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Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
All of them were no brainers for me except Tom vs Heart. Now that one was brutal, lol, as I love them both but ultimately the Heart sisters won out. They know how to rock and showed that girls can rock as much as the guys.
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10.R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11.JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12.LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
The only one that was hard for me was Dire Straits vs Guns 'n' Roses - tough choice!!
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Thanks for all the votes so far! I'll make my choices now:
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS (The Doors are a worthy opponent, but Bad Company's music is quality British rock)
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA (I didn't expect to vote for ABBA, but as a pure pop group I'm not sure anyone else has done that style of music better and I've never been much of a Journey fan).
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO (Quite a tricky one, but I'll go for The Police, although not without reservations).
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN (One of the toughest ones IMO - both are strong, but CCR's swamp rock gets my vote).
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH (Also challenging, might just give Thin Lizzy the edge as I think the late Gary Moore was a fine guitarist).
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES (I can understand why some of you have found this a tricky choice, but I must admit it's no contest for me. Dire Straits are quite possibly my favourite band out of all those in the preliminary round and I love their music so I'll take them every time here).
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN (Neither are favourites of mine but I think Van Halen are the superior of the two).
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS (The Byrds are the originators of country rock and a very good band, plus I don't care for Nirvana's brand of grunge).
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART (Another fairly difficult one to call, but I think Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers edge it with their excellent melodic rock. I agree with Austin that Heart showed women could rock though!)
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES (Easy choice for me, quite simply I prefer R.E.M. and their style of music to that of the Bee Gees).
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES (The Ramones probably edge this although I'm not crazy about either).
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN (I have to agree with everyone else so far here, Skynyrd is a legendary band and another of my favourites).
It has been interesting to see how people have voted so far, a couple of the standings so far have surprised me a little - at the end of the round I will probably post a review of the round where I can make some comments about the results and whether they fitted my expectations.
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
I'm abstaining for matches 11 and 12 as I'm not familiar with any of the groups. (And it's hardly fair to vote for Iron Maiden just because I saw Bruce Dickinson fly one of his vintage aircraft at an airshow last year. :smile: )
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My choices are in bold print
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
Delighted to get the chance to vote off Queen and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I can't believe I've voted for The Byrds and Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers but against R.E.M. No abstentions means this is more fun than I expected it to be. :thumbsup:
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Delighted to get the chance to vote off Queen
Indeed. I don't insomuch dislike Queen, but a vote for them is a vote for Brian May, which I couldn't abide to do.
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8. NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
No. 4 was tough! Although I love Queen, especially Freddie Mercury, I had to go with CCR because of their nod to New Orleans.
Re: The Border Battle Of The Bands 2015
Match 1. BAD COMPANY vs THE DOORS
Match 2. JOURNEY vs ABBA
Match 3. THE POLICE vs ELO
Match 4. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL vs QUEEN
Match 5. THIN LIZZY vs BLACK SABBATH
Match 6. DIRE STRAITS vs GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
Match 7. THE CARS vs VAN HALEN
Match 8 . NIRVANA vs THE BYRDS
Match 9. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS vs HEART
Match 10. R.E.M. vs BEE GEES
Match 11. JUDAS PRIEST vs THE RAMONES
Match 12. LYNYRD SKYNYRD vs IRON MAIDEN
Much as I loved CCR's hit singles Queen had a wonderful body of work & are one of my favourite bands.
The Dire Straits vs Guns & Roses thing was a no-brainer for me, of course, but I see that most of our American voters prefer G&R who did precisely nothing for me at all. As for Judas Priest I have never heard anything by them so I had no choice but to vote for the Ramones. My husband (I will just start calling him Mike to save time) will be pleased I voted for Iron Maiden. I think he would have gone for Bad Company too but the Doors had a higher number of great & very distinctive songs.
REM were unlucky here to come up against my beloved Bee Gees.