Subby wins. Lola is frigging amazing.

I believe this song is better than the original version of the song. The original artist of this song has already been taken...Credence Clearwater Revival. However not only is this a very strong cover song it is also a woman that sings it.

Classic -
Epic - 2.5 - Another Brick in the Wall — Pink Floyd
Arena -
Trendsetter - 1.6 - Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Love Song -
One-Hit Wonder -
Party -
Crossover - 4.5-I Can't Stop Loving You--Ray Charles
Cover - 5.6 - Proud Mary--Ike and Tina Turner
Anti-Establishment -3.6-London Calling--The Clash

My only issue with the song was when it was picked, not the song or category itself. Actually for Arena Rock, there are a few songs I am surprised are still on the board.

Easily your best choice so far...

ntn with a great pick there.

Thinking

Ever since this pick was announced, I've been reading it as Gary Gorski.

I'm seeing more and more picks where I like the pick, just think it's early...

Makes me think that the few songs left that to me are pretty clear frontrunners might not be and that the draft has become pretty unpredictable.

Very good pick... I'd hoped it would slip through to the next round for me.

This time we reach for a love song, and while there are a billion love songs that could be played, I'm taking an older solo Paul McCartney one.

Love- My Love- Paul McCartney 3.7

Is it the 7th inning already?

Have been lurking in this thread, when I read the rules the one song I thought of when I read a category was that one. It's the quintessential cover.

This pick is actually made with some regret and remorse. I have what I feel is a very clever pick for Arena, but I don't want to pull a Houston Texans move here. I can't leave AC/DC on the board when my Arena spot is still empty. With the 8th pick of the fifth round I will take "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC.

Classic -
Epic -
Arena - 5.8 - "You Shook Me All Night Long", AC/DC
Trendsetter - 2.3 - "Rapper's Delight", The Sugarhill Gang
Love Song -
One-Hit Wonder -
Party - 4.3 - "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)", Beastie Boys
Crossover - 1.8 - "Walk This Way", Run-D.M.C. feat. Aerosmith
Cover -Anti-Establishment - 3.8 - "Killing in the Name", Rage Against the Machine

It was taken in the top 3 covers. :) I knew it would come off the board early in the covers list.

I didn't get any picks from Bucc... Crapshoot, are you around?

:mad:

STEAL

Bucc put up his work e-mail address earlier, i'll dig it up, but I think you should e-mail him.

Is this the FOFC Music Draft, or the Guitar Hero playlist?

There we go...

I'm here if you need me to pick, but not for much longer.

Nice pick. I like lordscarlet's team top-to-bottom right now.

Can't believe AC/DC lasted this long!!!

Good steal, but I have to think that "Thriller" is the steal of this draft right now.

FYI: I e-mailed Bucc just now.

Thriller was a mega-steal. Total oversight for me... i hadnt even thought of it but then was like "damn! what a pick!"

If I am judging the lists of 10 against each other then Thriller is a massive steal for Round 5. If I go category by category and compare thriller to the epics that have already been selected then I am less impressed.

Now if I was including music videos in the judging there would be a totally different perspective.

I think we could do this game again and come up with 10 totally different categories - Music Video could certainly be a good one.

video and like "TV theme song" would be kind of cool.

I was also thinking this exact thread but limited to 80s only.

Or just "Soundtrack".

Video
TV Theme
Movie Soundtrack
Combo (2 or more distinct artists together)
Frat Party Song



... hmm...

Isn't that what some people are doing? :)

I think I would be a lot better at a game involving those categories than the ones being used now.

I'm off for awhile, but should be back in a couple of hours.

only the awesome ones :)

If you're still around, go ahead.

Something to look at as we wait for Bucc...

Through four rounds:

Classic
1.1 - Classic -Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
1.3 - Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
1.5 - Yesterday - The Beatles
1.10 - Hotel California - Eagles
2.2 - Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
3.2 - Foxy Lady- Jimi Hendrix

Trendsetter
1.2 - Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
1.6 - Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
2.3 - "Rapper's Delight" - The Sugarhill Gang
2.4 - Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
2.6 - Rock Around The Clock- Bill Haley and The Comets
2.8 - Respect - Aretha Franklin

Epic
1.4 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
2.1 - American Pie - Don Maclean
2.5 - Another Brick in the Wall — Pink Floyd
2.9 - BaBa O'Reilly (Teenage Wasteland) - The Who
3.1 - Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Epic
3.3 - The End - The Doors - Epic
3.7 - Layla - Derrick and the Dominoes - Epic
5.5 - Thriller - Michael Jackson - Epic

Arena
1.7 - Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
3.4 - Rock and Roll (Part Two) - Gary Glitter
3.9 - Born in the U.S.A.- Bruce Springsteen
4.8 - Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
5.8 - You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

Crossover
1.8 - Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. feat. Aerosmith
3.5 - Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
4.5 - I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
4.7 - Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Anti-establishment
1.9 - Fight the Power - Public Enemy
2.7 - Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols
2.10 - Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A.
3.6 - London Calling - The Clash
3.8 - Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
4.1 - We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
5.2 - American Idiot - Green Day
5.3 - Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cover
4.4 - I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
4.10 - You Really Got Me - Van Halen
5.6 - Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner

One-hit wonder
3.10 - MacLos Del Rio

Love Song
4.2 - Imagine - John Lennon
4.9 - At Last - Etta James
5.1 - Lola - The Kinks
5.7 - My Love- Paul McCartney

Party
4.3 - Fight for Your Right (to Party) - Beastie Boys
4.6 - 1999 - Prince
5.4 - Celebration - Kool and the Gang

What...could you not bring yourself to fully type "Macarena?" ;)

I didn't realize that a few of the categories were almost complete

Crapshoot was here and then left... hopefully he comes back and we can get going again before the weekend.

I picked it and I could barely type it ;)

You should definitely send in your picks if you may not be here later when Bucc shows up. :)

Sorry, been busy. Give me 2 min.

I'll be here :)

Picking for Bucc, as a One-Hit-Wonder,
I'll go with "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The song needs no explanation, and no one's heard from Mix-a-Lot since.

Not a bad one-hit-wonder pick.

Bucc e-mailed me a pick for round five, but I'll use it for round six once Oilers has picked.

This category is interesting because the gap from 1-5 in total is probably not as big in my mind as the gap between 5 and 6.


The first three songs are clearly seminal trendsetters, and if the criteria is which song is most directly responsible for a trend, then Smells is right where it belongs. It will be really interesting to see how people react to Smells vs Rappers...Smells is like 100% responsible for a 5 year trend, and Rappers is maybe 85% responsible for a 25 year trend that's been immense for the last decade. The 4th and 5th picks prove why neither of these songs was a trendsetter on the level of the first 3(two trendsetters for one trend?). Respect is a great song, and a solid move in terms of wrapping up a top woman, but I don't think of it as a trendsetter.


Great value as other have mentioned at 5.5. I don't think anybody pulled ahead/fell off much here


Also a list with a lot of parity. I don't know what to do with the Gary Glitter song...It's a good song to have because it's pervasive, but I feel like picking it so early takes away all it's sleeper value (every roto draft has one guy who drafts every sleeper pick and forgets to draft his studs). Also, I don't know if it fits in this category.


I think this is a list where Walk this way is miles and miles ahead of anything else picked and it's hard for me to imagine anybody will match/top it.


This is a strong list. I'm a Green Day fan but I don't think it has the game to be in this group.


It looks like a minirun on covers, I think Proud Mary is like an A+ and then the next cover is about a B-.


I think this is a quintessential one hit wonder but from a strategic sense, this is a bad pick...Even if it ends up being the best one hit wonder, this category will be easy to fill with something fairly representative and by it's very nature, you know the artist won't get used for something else.


Imagine is more miscast than most Hollywood movies here.


I think all three of these are great picks. The top two are more quinessential artists, but #3 as a song can stand right on par with the other two.

With the 10th pick of the 5th round. I am (not) proud to select, in fact I think I just threw up in my mouth a little....

Love Song - Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Theme from Titanic)

Classic - 1.10 Hotel California - The Eagles
Epic - 2.1 American Pie - Don McLean
Arena -
Trendsetter -
Love Song - 5.10 - My Heart Will Go On (Theme from Titanic) - Celine Dion
One-Hit Wonder - 3.10 Macarena - Los Del Rio
Party -
Crossover -
Cover -
Anti-Establishment - 4.1 We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister