ILM July Madness: Round of 32 - SOUTH

The Stooges vs. Steely fucking Dan?

This was the easiest vote so far.

was for me too

Smiths, Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

Easy votes for The Fall and The Stooges. I like Prince and Black Sabbath pretty much equally, but I think I'm going to go for Prince here. Parliament/Funkadelic vs Eno = why to braek heart?

Eno will have to win this, but I'm not happy.

The Smiths, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

Smiths, Eno, Stooges, Prince. Easiest one for me so far too. So everybody thinks this is easy but doesn't agree who easily wins?

Smiths, Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

The Smiths, Parliament/Funkadelic, Steely Dan, Black Sabbath and I don't even like the Smiths all that much.

The Smiths, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Stooges, Prince, with only the choice between Stooges and Steely Dan causing any consternation on my part.

Smiths Eno Steely Dan Prince here too.

The Smiths, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

The Fall, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

Smiths, Eno, Dan, Prince

6 of those so far

maybe the "Smiths, Eno, Dan, Prince"-ers should lay low for awhile so as to avoid backlash

afaik i've never heard the fall or the smiths, but everything i've ever read about morrisey makes me hate him, whereas mes seems like a loveable oscar the grouch type. other three were easy: pfunk, the dan, that skinny motherfucker with the high voice

...that skinny motherfucker with the high voice

I thought that you said you never heard the Smiths. *rimshot*

moz is still misunderstood.

I sure hope that the lurker contingent is in this thread voting for the Fall.

The Smiths, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Black Sabbath

smiths, p-funk, stooges, prince. honk if you agree.

smiths pfunk stooges sabbath

voting against prince killed me tho

prince is going to knock out sabbath in the first round which is totally infuriating to me.

These are fun polls iatee!

I'm disappointed by some of the eliminations already, but not heartbroken. This will get pretty fucking ugly before it's all over, though.

thanks abbott!

The Smiths, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Prince; easiest vote so far though I love the Stooges. I like a few songs by the Fall & by Black Sabbath but find their monoliths of rock a bit hard to penetrate. I like "Maggot Brain" (the song) an awful lot; the rest might click at some point but so far it hasn't, & certainly hasn't compared to Eno.

The Fall, Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

Only difficult choice was Steely Dan vs. Stooges — I loved the Stooges more in my early teens than I'll probably ever like Steely Dan, but I'd rather listen to the latter these days.

euler and I have a nearly identical take on this! except I like a half dozen p-funk songs instead of one.

God, I'm not even that big a fan of the Stooges, but I will be MAD if Steely Dan win this. They're terrible.

save your anger for when they win the tournament

Black Sabbath vs. Prince is the hard one here but I'll go with Sabbath 'cos I've been listening to them loads recently. The Stooges and The Fall are great bands but neither of them mean a huge deal to me the way Steely Dan and The Smiths do/have done.

Smiths, Eno, Steely Dan, Sabbath then.

Fall, Brian Eno, Steely Dan, Prince

Never liked the Smiths though totally unsurprised at their dominating so far. Actually don't care at all about Dan v. Stooges (sorry emil.y).

these are literally the most hateful match-ups ever - prince, eno and steely dan all get to win in a bloodbath while The Fall loses out

srsly iatee you have enraged me. ENRAGED.

don't actually have an opinion on pfunk vs eno or dan vs stooges, gonna go with the underdog on both I think

The Fall, Pfunk, Stooges, Prince

and hey - I've even gotten into The Smiths a bit recently! But come now.

I don't understand all the Eno love when he's up against Parliament. I mean like I think I've heard the best Eno music, and he's great and all, but nowhere near as important to me as PFunk.

kind of lolling at the idea of ILM being PFunk-friendly

(particularly when compared to Eno)

pfunk and stooges seem way more fun than eno or dan, if not so beautifully-crafted or 'perfect', but ILM needs to hate fun less

also cannot WAIT for Prince to savage The Dan*

*please can this happen, pleeeeease

My idea of fun is killing everyone.

I love(d) the Smiths but it's gotta be the Fall. Kind of worried my answers are the whitest answers ever: The Smiths, Brian Eno, The Stooges, Black Sabbath was my gut reaction, though I like Prince and Sabbath about equally, so maybe I'll do that just to feel less corny and indie.

(Kind of tired of the Stooges tbh and growing ever fonder of "Peg", but the rest of Steely Dan's output not so much, and it's not like they'll be short of votes on ILM)

uh, the Fall, Eno, Stooges, Sabs was my gut reaction. Good job I didn't actually vote at the same time as c&ping!

hey guess what I just noticed

REM wasn't part of these polls!

*rejoices*

kind of lolling at the idea of ILM being PFunk-friendly

You know, they don't get talked about much around here, do they? And I don't even listen to them much any more. But I heard them in passing from time-to-time and the reaction is visceral.

hear

I <3 P-Funk (more Funk than P though), but in my mind Eno brings in so many other ideas and contexts and other artists I also like. And imo some of his stuff is fun ("Backwater", My Life In...). Likewise, in my universe the Fall are often fun and funny, not dour and grouchy like a lot of people seem to think.

pfunk and stooges seem way more fun than eno or dan

SHOULD BE TATTOOED ON THE INSIDE OF ILXS EYELIDS

^ tattooed

The Fall, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Stooges, Prince

fact that p-funk are gonna fall to eno is kinda sad. and i like brian eno.

The Fall*, Brian Eno^, Steely Dan^, Prince+

*ugh so fucking easy
^ugh so fucking hard
+sort of hard

Smiths, Eno, Stooges, Prince. Easier than the last one.

The Fall, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Stooges, Black Sabbath

The Fall*, Brian Eno+, Steely Dan =, Black Sabbath ^

*really hard

+kinda easy actually, like p-funk as a source for samples way more than the actual band

= fuuuuuuuuck that one hurts so hard

^ easy peasy

REM wasn't part of these polls!

def considered it, but I decided the hardcore REM luv wasn't universal enough for them to get very far. and even most people who love early REM could easily reason themselves out of voting for them.

The Fall, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Stooges, Black Sabbath

None of them were that hard this time. Black Sabbath/Prince I hesitated over. And I do like the Smiths & Eno a lot but not enough to have to think about it.

Fall vs. Smiths is actually the toughest choice here for me.

But I guess it's Fall, Eno, Dan, Prince

WmC is the anti-me, apparently

oh noes! on the bright side, oppositeness makes the world go round

and if the world didn't go around we'd all fly off into space

and even most people who love early REM could easily reason themselves out of voting for them.

not me, I would have voted for them over any of these 8 except Prince. But the REM people have their own poll for every single REM album, plus an omnibus poll drawn from top finishers of the album polls, so, y'know, don't cry for me acoleuthic.

+kinda easy actually, like p-funk as a source for samples way more than the actual band
― hot dub grime machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

if this was easy, you must be listening to too much parliament and not enough funkadelic

smiths, eno, stooges, prince (prince vs. sabbath = hardest)

Fall, Eno, Dan, Prince

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The Smiths, Parliament/Funkadelic, Steely Dan, Black Sabbath

only one I hemmed and hawed over was Stooges v. Steely. The haw won.

smiths pfunk dan sabbath

voting against prince and the stooges was unpleasant tho but really I just voted for what I've listened to more

The Fall, PFunk, Stooges, Sabbath

Smiths, P-Funk, Steely Dan, Prince

pfunk and stooges seem way more fun than eno or dan

But Eno and Dan are fun. Didn't vote for 'em tho.

god, the stooges are gonna get crushed in this aren't they?

fucking people

smiths,eno, stooges, prince. tbh the only ones I regularly listen to in the list are smiths, fall, prince. Nothing here even close to PE/Cure dilemma.

Eno does not seem fun at all to me, sorry.

get yer votes in

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

FUCK YOU ENO LOVERS

Smiths 55 Fall 38
Eno 52 PF 41
SD 54 Stooges 39
Prince 63 BS 30

wtf

I'm satisfied! I voted stooges over steely dan but I knew that wasn't gonna happen. glad eno is still in the running.

FUCK YOU ENO LOVERS

Co-sign

And, Smiths lovers as well!

FUCK YOU RIGHT BACK ENO HATERS

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LALALALALA, I CAN"T HEAR YOU, LALALALALALA!

SMITHS 4 EVA

P-Funk needs to take notes from Eno and spend a little less time "having fun" and a little more time "kicking ass". you pathetic baby losers.

lol as if P-Funk don't kick way more ass than Eno. I could see Eno kicking....i dunno, a chair?....but only if he was really, really mad

and then immediately apologized

i got yr warm jets right here

more like the sucks amirite

more like me in a coma because i am listening to your record

more like the me is dead because i am listening to your other record

me is murder (all your fans in a psychotic fury)

strangeways here me come

stop you if i think i've heard this one before

i lostt... :<(

The Fall, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Stooges, Black Sabbath 8

eno is awesome