POLL - The WEAKEST LINK of AMERICAN BANDS - (WEST) ROUND 4

MedozK

Ok, with the new 'WEAKEST LINK' I will be staying with music and bands. However this time we will debate the greatest American Band.

Now since there are so many that limiting it to 10 would only cause chaos and confusion. I have decided to spread this 'Weakest Link' out into 4 different Polls. These polls will be identified tournament style as East, South, West, and North. I have tried to keep some cohesion with the band and geographic poll they are placed in, but couldn't do it for all. These polls WILL be occurring at the same time, so you will need to place votes in all 4 polls for each round. I did this so it wouldn't take so long to complete.

Each of the 4 polls will be narrowed down to the final 2, then I will take the 2 from each poll and make a Championship poll with 8 bands.

Alright, so here with the FINAL FOUR. Lets determine the GREATEST AMERICAN BAND. WEST REGION

You are going to pick the band that you think is the "Weakest Link" after 2 days I remove the two (2) bands with the most votes. The final two will move on to the Championship Poll.

The Beach Boys - Eliminated Round 2

Van Halen - Eliminated Round 3

The Doors

Eagles - Eliminated Round 1

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Eliminated Round 3

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Sly & the Family Stone - Eliminated Round 1

Metallica

Guns N' Roses

Grateful Dead - Eliminated Round 2

1ThoughtKnown

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR made it and Van Halen didn’t. Crazy 

erebus

Metallica

This may be the weakest group of bands overall 

2-feign-reluctance

The Doors

C'mon people. 

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

2-feign-reluctance said:

C'mon people. 

Seriously.  Metallica and Guns 'n Roses beating out The Doors and CCR?  Strange!  

1ThoughtKnown

Creedence Clearwater Revival

erebus said:

This may be the weakest group of bands overall 

I was thinking the same thing. 

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

"Jim, you're not taking these people seriously, are you?"
"Who me?  Naaaah."

2-feign-reluctance

The Doors

I don't dislike The Doors. My Pop played their records when I was little. I just like the other bands better! 

tempo_n_groove

Creedence Clearwater Revival

brianlux said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

C'mon people. 

Seriously.  Metallica and Guns 'n Roses beating out The Doors and CCR?  Strange!  

I don't think anyone in this group considers CCR a "west" band is the reason Brian.

pledgeagrievance

Guns N' Roses

Weakest output 

Edved82

Guns N' Roses

Guns. Most overrated "huge" band of all.

Spiritual_Chaos

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence is just boring

Poncier

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1ThoughtKnown said:

CCR made it and Van Halen didn’t. Crazy 

Mind boggling.

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

2-feign-reluctance said:

I don't dislike The Doors. My Pop played their records when I was little. I just like the other bands better! 

That's cool, I'm just joshin' with y'all. 

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

C'mon people. 

Seriously.  Metallica and Guns 'n Roses beating out The Doors and CCR?  Strange!  

I don't think anyone in this group considers CCR a "west" band is the reason Brian.

Interesting, because CCR was formed in El Cerrito, CA (next door to Berkeley where I was born) and they got stuck in Lodi, a mostly non-descript Central Valley, CA town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival

tempo_n_groove

Creedence Clearwater Revival

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

C'mon people. 

Seriously.  Metallica and Guns 'n Roses beating out The Doors and CCR?  Strange!  

I don't think anyone in this group considers CCR a "west" band is the reason Brian.

Interesting, because CCR was formed in El Cerrito, CA (next door to Berkeley where I was born) and they got stuck in Lodi, a mostly non-descript Central Valley, CA town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival

All this time I thought they were really southern.  I was this many years old when I learned that CCR is a California band, lol!

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

C'mon people. 

Seriously.  Metallica and Guns 'n Roses beating out The Doors and CCR?  Strange!  

I don't think anyone in this group considers CCR a "west" band is the reason Brian.

Interesting, because CCR was formed in El Cerrito, CA (next door to Berkeley where I was born) and they got stuck in Lodi, a mostly non-descript Central Valley, CA town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival

All this time I thought they were really southern.  I was this many years old when I learned that CCR is a California band, lol!

You're not alone!  Fogerty's voice has a bit of southern tinge to it and with all that bayou swap business in some of their songs, it's easy to think of them as a southern band. 
Another band from the same area, Green Day, had people fooled for a while with Billy Joe Armstrong doing his pseudo English punk vocal thing.  That band is also from the East Bay and played there first gigs in and around Albany, CA (where I lived for my first 11 months), a little town sandwiched between El Cerrito and Berkeley.  They even had me fooled for awhile!

bbiggs

Creedence Clearwater Revival

It was ridiculously hard to pick this round.  I listen to the music of The Doors and CCR more than the other two by a long shot these days, but CCR was the least influential to me personally growing up, so had to choose them.  Four fantastic bands.

dankind

Metallica

bbiggs

Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Doors are losing to GNR.  Wild.

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

bbiggs said:

The Doors are losing to GNR.  Wild.

I can think of other words here!    I'll try to be nice though and just go with "strange"  (as in " people are strange..." )

OffSheGoes35

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

OffSheGoes35 said:

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

I almost always thank MedozK for doing these polls.  If I have neglected this time, let me make it right...

Thank you, M, for more cool and fun polls.  Much appreciated!

erebus

Metallica

Keep up the good work MedosK

I don’t always know the subject matter (horror movies) but like hearing peoples opinions and advocating for what they like
except that tempo guy, he’s waaaaay too opinionated 
……lol, I kid

I enjoy these weakest links, keep em coming 

OffSheGoes35

Creedence Clearwater Revival

You know what else I like? Whenever Bon Jovi is one of the options, guys try to act repulsed, but you know when New Jersey hit they were calling radio stations to request "I'll Be There For You" everyday. 

OffSheGoes35

Creedence Clearwater Revival

In other words, please keep Bon Jovi in rotation, MedozK. Even if the poll is "Weakest Link of Motown Groups." 

dankind

Metallica

OffSheGoes35 said:

In other words, please keep Bon Jovi in rotation, MedozK. Even if the poll is "Weakest Link of Motown Groups." 

We get it. You made out to “I’ll Be There for You” maybe even went a little further to “Lay Your Hands on Me.” Nostalgia doesn’t mean that the band is anything approaching decent, though. 

Like I said …

 

(P.S.: I will say that I saw Toxic Avenger: The Musical off-Broadway about a dozen years ago, and David Bryan wrote the music and lyrics. And it was awesome! Props to that guy.)

MedozK

OffSheGoes35 said:

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

brianlux said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

I almost always thank MedozK for doing these polls.  If I have neglected this time, let me make it right...

Thank you, M, for more cool and fun polls.  Much appreciated!

erebus said:

Keep up the good work MedosK

I don’t always know the subject matter (horror movies) but like hearing peoples opinions and advocating for what they like
except that tempo guy, he’s waaaaay too opinionated 
……lol, I kid

I enjoy these weakest links, keep em coming 

Thanks a lot. I do these really to read what y'al think. The entertainment value of some of your conversations are great...lol

Hope we can continue to have fun with these polls. I am really interested to see what band comes out on top once we combine the top 2 from each of the polls.

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

MedozK said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

brianlux said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

Anybody feel like giving some good feedback for MedozK? I feel like we say thank you a lot, but there isn't ever any positive feedback, unless I've missed it. I will start by saying that I think he gave us some really good bands to choose from. It was a good mix of alternative, rock, southern rock, and funk. And I think that it was a nice touch that he listened to mickeyrat's tournament design.

I almost always thank MedozK for doing these polls.  If I have neglected this time, let me make it right...

Thank you, M, for more cool and fun polls.  Much appreciated!

erebus said:

Keep up the good work MedosK

I don’t always know the subject matter (horror movies) but like hearing peoples opinions and advocating for what they like
except that tempo guy, he’s waaaaay too opinionated 
……lol, I kid

I enjoy these weakest links, keep em coming 

Thanks a lot. I do these really to read what y'al think. The entertainment value of some of your conversations are great...lol

Hope we can continue to have fun with these polls. I am really interested to see what band comes out on top once we combine the top 2 from each of the polls.

Awesome!  Cool idea!

OffSheGoes35

Creedence Clearwater Revival

dankind said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

In other words, please keep Bon Jovi in rotation, MedozK. Even if the poll is "Weakest Link of Motown Groups." 

We get it. You made out to “I’ll Be There for You” maybe even went a little further to “Lay Your Hands on Me.” Nostalgia doesn’t mean that the band is anything approaching decent, though. 

Like I said …

 

(P.S.: I will say that I saw Toxic Avenger: The Musical off-Broadway about a dozen years ago, and David Bryan wrote the music and lyrics. And it was awesome! Props to that guy.)

Oh I'm sorry, do you only have fond memories of "Bed of Roses"? 

Say no more.  

brianlux

Guns N' Roses

I get it about wanting our favorite bands that are less widely appreciated to be in these polls.  I think the problem is, there are so many bands and this site only allows for so many options. 

I would love to see, but would not expect to see, these bands/musicians included:

The Replacements (!!!)/ Paul Westerberg

Dinosaur Jr/J/Lou/Sebadoh
The Dream Syndicate/ Steve Wynn
Juliana Hatfield
Lemonheads
Japan/David Sylvian
Minutemen
Black Flag
Mission of Burma
Psychedelic Furs
Cream (did we do Cream maybe?)
Jethro Tull ( " )