ILM July Madness: ELITE EIGHT

can, ????? forever, velvets, eno

Can Bob View Eno?

24 polls and only 3 have been within 5 votes (beach boys/can, big/abba, stevie wonder/fleetwood mac)

Can Beatles VU Prince, for me

'View' is also four consecutive letters in 'Stevie Wonder' fwiw

Can 'The Beatles' Stevie, Wonder(s) Prince?

super boring but

Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Prince

yeah that's how i voted, too.

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Prince

velvets v. wonder is too fucking hard, if only velvets went against any of the first four they'd get my vote.

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Prince for me.

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Prince
Stones and Prince are easy picks. Between the Beatles and Bob, I feel like Dylan is hurt by having a long career with lots and lots of crap I never want to hear again, whereas I can count on one hand the number of Beatles songs I outright dislike. If this were a contest specifically pitting Dylan 65-67 against Beatles 65-67, he just might win. Then again, I know damn well I listen to Rubber Soul more than Highway 61 Revisited, so maybe not.
Going by that logic, I should be voting VU over Stevie too (I mean, I even like Squeeze, whereas I've listened to Character once, and have no intention of revisiting it anytime soon), but Songs in the Key in Life is an occasional contender for my favorite album. As much as I love the Velvets, they just have fewer songs that strike me as indispensable to my personal sanity and happiness.

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Prince

bob was close, stevie was close, can v. close, but no frickin contest w/r/t prince pwning eno

i don't think it's ever really been a question that prince is gonna vanquish this poll

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/take_eno.gif

Stones, Beatles, VU, Prince

In 100 years all eight of these will still be remembered, but I wouldn't be surprised if Eno was considered the most important to music.

Eno stans lose their mind. Film at 11.

history book 100 years from now: "Few people actually bought an Eno record, but everyone who did started an ILM poll"

yeah but will Eno be regarded as most important to dance, sex or romance I THOUGHT NOT

stfu lewis

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Prince

― u dad (J0rdan S.)

^^^^^^^^^^^^this

he will cause we will having ambient dance parties, ambient sex and ambient romantic adventures xp

haha dude I got srs <3 for Eno AND Prince and it wasn't a decision I took too lightly - no idea why you still feel the need to pile into me at every opportunity xxp

lol iatee

also are people being goddamn serious about the Stones? good fucken lord

Stones, Beatles, VU, Prince. Easiest one for me yet actually!

women come and go but the Stones are forever!

xpost

there aren't a lot of matchups in this that i feel aggressively adamant about, but Stevie Wonder >>> Velvet Underground, fuiud

haha dude I got srs <3 for Eno AND Prince and it wasn't a decision I took too lightly - no idea why you still feel the need to pile into me at every opportunity xxp

sorry I forgot the winkie "I'm not serious" emoticon in my post

:( oops

there aren't a lot of matchups in this that i feel aggressively adamant about, but Stevie Wonder >>> Velvet Underground, fuiud

― some dude, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:10 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah ffs what is up w you people

i mean they had 4 albums & only 2 of them were like GREAT great

R&B thread contributers choosing VU over Stevie is the ultimate o_O

VU is the only remaining act with a woman as a full-time member!

not that that should determine anyone's vote, just sayin'

imo the best of VU can be contained on a single "best of" type cd, but there are at least six full Stevie Wonder lps that are front-to-back essential. To that end, there are at least a couple John Cale and Lou Reed solo albums that I like more than any single VU album.

counting the VU album they have 5 and of those 4 of them were great great and one of them was half great great

to lj's point, if this were a bracket of genuinely cool rock'n'roll people, I would hope Moe Tucker made the ELITE EIGHT w/o much trouble.

Rolling Stones, Beatles, Velvet Underground, Prince. Not even difficult.

people are free to incorporate solo albums however they want in their voting btw

Stevie vs. VU was definitely the toughest choice for me, but in the end I went Can Beatles View Prince?

Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Prince

also how the FUCK did I miss this until now?

by 'incorporate solo albums' I just mean that if you're letting dylan's work in the 80s affect your decision making, I don't think you can just pretend paul mccartney stopped existing, even though I can understand the temptation.

tho I guess there is some appeal in the beatles/vu having tidy discographies and easy to follow career arcs

part of me wants to think that all Dylan is as light, airy, idyllic and perfect as Visions Of Johanna, Stuck Inside Of Mobile, Chimes Of Freedom, Just Like A Woman and othersuch - if it was, I'd have considered voting for him

does anyone else love bob dylan and basically not like blonde on blonde at all?

I'm sorry but that's just weird.

gonna add Lay Lady Lay to that list although I think I slightly prefer the Byrds version - there are plenty more Dylan songs I love but a few leap to mind as deserving nomination right now

not liking blonde on blonde doesn't make sense to me. THAT ORGAN

Does not compute.

ha yeah super weird! just like an ilxor

still lollin @ jordan "whose version of 'holiday'?" sargent fronting like hes a stevie expert itt

As I suspected a while back, this is all coming down to a Beatles vs. Prince final.

VU beating Stevie Wonder is just vandalism. Where are your ears???!

my ears work fine thanx. stevie wonder is good but I voted velvets.

eno rip

Shit dude. More knuckleheads chose VU than the Beatles.

If the Beatles are pizza, then VU must be cheese breadsticks according to ILM.

at least the can reign of terror is over

0/4 this round. Stevie hurts the most.

Starting to hate the Velvet Underground. OH, WE'RE SO TRANSGRESSIVE!

well they actually were

It doesn't impress me either way.

http://www.terrynorm.ic24.net/photo%20john%20cale3.jpg

john cale: hey some guy on the internet is gonna be 'not impressed' with us 40 years from now
lou reed: wtf
moe tucker: omg
sterling morrison: lol
nico: ;_;

fuck a pair of ears, do you savages have HEARTS?

I mean FUCK YALL YOU KNOCKED OUT MY FAVORITE MUSICIAN

I'm sorry this is just blowing my mind that this many ppl would rep for VU over Stevie

lou reed: ;_;

I'm taking my guillotine out of storage.

HEY VELVET UNDERGROUND, FUCK YOUR TRANSGRESSION!

I actually do like the Velvet Underground, just not when they win an ILM poll against Stevie Wonder. I also think they were mostly a bad influence musically. So many horrid rock bands can be traced back to VU.

^^^on green

yeah i think VU were great but cmon its stevie fuckin wonder.

i actually would vote VU over public enemy no joke. but this is ridiculous

i actually would vote VU over public enemy no joke.

o_O

(tbc not o_Oing and anyone saying that, just deej specifically, i reserve my universal sideeye for ppl picking them over stevie)

universal sideeye

:D

I agree that VU getting twice as much votes as Stevie Wonder is ridiculous. I guess this is part of the "rawk-leaning" mindstate that I just never can understand.

yeah it's ridiculous

i'm still pissed off about biggie losing

if VU actually does beat stevie, it's a fucking crime. and i'm about as "rawk-leaning" as you can get w/out falling over.

and i love the velvet underground, but jeezis...

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

everything else is fine with me. prince should beat eno, as the beatles should trounce dylan. happy with however stones vs can falls out.

yeah, but isn't this just the warmup version? ditched only to be reborn cuz voting time was accidentally set too short?

duh, wtf am i thinking?!? it was the initial version of the final four that got fucked up. and these are the only 25% depressing final results. hokay.

I'm sorry this is just blowing my mind that this many ppl would rep for VU over Stevie

Did you forget what board this is???

like seriously, the shocking thing here isn't Stevie losing, it's Prince winning!

Blimey, that happened quickly - totally missed it. Would have gone Can, Beatles, Stevie, Eno. Good job it wasn't close. But this is the first time I've ever been annoyed with the Velvet Underground.

Prince beating Eno isn't shocking at all

Underappreciated Stevie is crying himself to sleep on a bed of Grammys right now

noone actually thinks any of these artists is underappreciated in any way. but Stevie is up there with the Beatles as one of those few artists that you can barely ever compare unfavorably to anyone else.

Well he lost to the godfathers of indie rock, so hey

Beatles, Stones, Velvets... this is all getting a bit Rolling Stone for my tastes (and I like the Beatles and Velvets, but ILM, for fuck's sake!)...

ilxor head over to the Final Four thread. The proper term is lolMOJO

i think we could probably do another thing like this sometime with all contemporary and/or more cult artists and just avoid any canonical superstar acts. because i mean who knows, Can coulda won this thing if people like the Beatles weren't also in play.

but Can's victory would've been so much sweeter if they had won over the Beatles

i should listen to innervisions again see if it takes, i always get kinda bored tbh

FWIW I have heard just as much bad music influenced by Stevie Wonder as I have bad music influenced by the Velvet Underground

re: Dylan and rap

Ice-T finally landed a deal with a major label Sire Records. When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said, “He sounds like Bob Dylan.”

FWIW I have heard just as much bad music influenced by Stevie Wonder as I have bad music influenced by the Velvet Underground

― chuck entertainment cheese (crüt), Friday, July 23, 2010 11:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stop trying to justify yrself

lol actually for crut it makes sense at least, im more like o_O at R&B thread regs like j0rdan being more into the VU

so yr argument is that historically there are more bad indie bands than bad R&B acts

Did you forget what board this is???

― FUCK YOU I'M BLACK (HI DERE), Friday, July 23, 2010 6:39 AM Bookmark

i honestly didn't know ilm was that hard on vu's jock, but then i wouldn't really read any threads about them

i should listen to innervisions again see if it takes, i always get kinda bored tbh

― my dream is to own a fly casino (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 23, 2010 9:23 Suggest Ban Permalink
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innervisions is top 5 albums ever imo