80's Rock/Metal/Pop Song Wars - Part IX

[KevShmev]

Vote for which grouping you like best.

I had to go with option 1.

[TAC]

5 easy.

So many suck ass songs and a bunch I didn't recognize.

[Cool Chris]

Sowing the Seeds of Love: 1
The End of the Innocence: 3
Eternal Flame: 5 (yep)
Total 9

Handle With Care: 3
Desire: 3
Epic: 1
Total 7

I Won't Back Down: 2
Love Shack: Negative Infinity
The Living Years: 1
Cannot calculate

Stand 3 (1 now, loved it at the time, averages out to a 3)
Patience 4
We Didn't Start the Fire 0
Total: 5

Cult of Personalit: 1
Tall Cool One: 3
Dr. Feelgood: 3
Total: 7

Probably the first round where I was highly familiar with each song. But in real time only liked a couple a lot, and can't say I wouldn't change the station if any of them came across the dial today.

And Suzanna Hoffs again. Yeah.

[T-ski]

There are a lot of bad songs in these groupings.

[TAC]

There are a lot of bad songs in these groupings.

Consider the source!

[ProfessorPeart]

Not really a bad song in the list. My least favorite is probably the Plant track, but I still went with 5 due to the power of the 2 songs flanking it.

[Stadler]

There's a lot of substandard offerings here.   Ugh.

Probably 4 or 5.  Reluctantly.

[The Walrus]

Man, 5 and it ain't even close, and I don't think I even know that Robert Plant song.

[Cool Chris]

People are that high up on Cult of Personality and Dr Feelgood?

[The Walrus]

People are that high up on Cult of Personality and Dr Feelgood?

Not really, but dude, look at the competition. 

[WildRanger]

Option 4

[TAC]

People are that high up on Cult of Personality and Dr Feelgood?

Not really, but dude, look at the competition. 

Right. I mean Cult Of personality is awesome, but these are truly suck ass choices.

[Stadler]

Stand (R.E.M.):  Average to below-average song from a very good to excellent band
Patience (Guns N' Roses):  A very good, but not indicative, song from a very good to excellent band
We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel):  A novelty hit single from a legendary, iconic performer
Cult of Personality (Living Colour):  The one hit from a band that is excellent, but essentially a one-hit wonder
Tall Cool One (Robert Plant): A polarizing song from a polarizing album by a flat-out legend
Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue): A very good to excellent song by an average band

[Podaar]

Option 1

[pg1067]

LOTS of junk in this one.


Category 1:  Sowing the Seeds of Love - 2.5; The End of the Innocence - 3.5; Eternal Flame - 2.5.  TOTAL - 8.5.

Category 2:  I don't know the Wilburys song by name, but the other two are garbage, so it's not worth investigating.

Category 3:  I Won't Back Down - 1.5; Love Shack - 3.5; The Living Years - 3.  TOTAL - 8.

Category 4:  Stand - 2.5; Patience - 0; We Didn't Start the Fire - 1.  TOTAL - 3.5.

Category 5:  Cult of Personality - 4; Tall Cool One* - 1.5; Dr. Feelgood - 2.5.  TOTAL - 8.

* - I didn't recognize this by name, so I played it on YouTube, and the best part was the Jennifer Garner ad that ran before the video.

[pg1067]

I Won't Back Down: 2
Love Shack: Negative Infinity
The Living Years: 1
Cannot calculate

 

So many bad songs in the list.

ftfy

[Cool Chris]

I Won't Back Down: 2
Love Shack: Negative Infinity
The Living Years: 1
Cannot calculate

 

Upon reflection, that is not a fair score, as that band has another song far worse than Love Shack. Everybody had matching fucking towels. That might be the worst lyric in pop history.

[jjrock88]

5 easily