ILM Tourney

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Shamelessly stealing an idea from the Orbital forum (which in turn stole it from another place), let us have a tournament deal in which ILM standbys go head to head against each other (that is, us voting on them) until only one remains standing.

And to spice things up, we can draw up an NCAA-tournament style pool and wager a modest quid or two.

Yes no?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Um...criteria?

This'll end in tears.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah... what are we voting on? Shoe size?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Here are the rules. I could summarize, but nah.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds good. What goes on the list? Might I suggest such disparate essentials as John Coltrane and The Buzzcocks?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I place my bet on Bob Marley.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Please... no wagering.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ha Ned did you think he meant voting on ilxors? cos I did.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was confused about what an ILM standby was.

And besides, if we voted on ILXors, I'd wax all ya'll asses.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ewww!!!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ha Ned did you think he meant voting on ilxors? cos I did.

Yeah, thought that too. Eurgh.

This reminds me now of Freaky Trigger's legendary battles of bad bands.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this idea. How are we setting up the list? Some suggestions: Eminem, the Clash, Missy, Sugababes, Shangri-Las, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Public Enemy, Otis Redding, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stones, Pulp, James Brown, Beach Boys, Kinks, Velvets, Joy Division, Pet Shop Boys, Prince, Four Tops, Jimmy Cliff, Billie Holiday, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Dylan, Tom Waits, the Who, Tammy Wynette, Marvin Gaye, Smiths, Underworld, Massive Attack, Orbital, Wu-Tang Clan, Neil Young, Curtis Mayfield, Howlin' Wolf, Richard Thompson, Fatboy Slim, David Bowie, the Byrds, Van Morrison, Little Richard, Slade, Lee Perry, Ramones, Primal Scream, Roy Orbison, Bo Diddley, Jonathan Richman, Isaac Hayes, Hank Williams, Inner City, DJ Shadow, Saint Etienne, Dave Clarke, Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Captain Beefheart, Sex Pistols, Television, Talking Heads, Supremes, Phil Spector, Jesus & Mary Chain, Teardrop Explodes, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Scott Walker, Dusty Springfield, Chuck Berry, Marianne Faithfull, Monkees, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Dr Dre, Outkast, Chic, Gene Vincent, Sam Cooke, Kate Bush, Stooges, Faces, Subway Sect, Blondie, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, Todd Terry, the Associates, the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Pogues, Patti Smith, TLC, Destiny's Child. I think that's a good selection to be going on with. How many do we need?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

How about a week to come up with qualifiers, and from there we'd vote to finalize the "official" 64 and from there start the tourney-proper. Looking at Martin's throbbingly large list, however, I'd be a bit daunted keeping sort of the qualifiers.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i was going to suggest a 'World Cup' or 'FA Cup' format for something like this not too long ago, but the timing was all wrong

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What's this? NO KILLING JOKE??

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

They were relegated, Alex. Bad luck.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha! I thought Martin siad Nelson, they would totally win!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 April 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's depressing to see how few non-UK/US artists are on the list...two?

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 19 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's the other one?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 19 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Two Jamaicans. And there's a Canadian in there too, so that makes three.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not "the" list, that's some suggestions I made. I thought they were by and large the big names that would get a lot of strong support here. It's not a list of my favourites. Much as I prefer Khaled or Nusrat or Mahlathini or Diblo to the Beatles, it's pointless kidding ourselves that they will get much support. The two Jamaican suggestions (one mine, one before my list) are among the few outside the UK or North America (Canadians are hardly outside that mainstream) who might get some wide and strong support.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i think this might be a good laugh
and i did initially think it was going to be people voting on contributors,which would have been odd.

― robin (robin), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This would be GREBT!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 19 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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