Tournament: Rock Music Artists [We have a winner!]

For the fifth Census Tournament, we will choose the greatest Rock Music Artist of all-time!

Nomination

• Nominations are closed.

Tournament Rules

• The bracket will be generated at random when we have 64 nominations.



• Read the latest posts to make sure you are voting on the current bracket.



• The initial rounds will have two brackets open for approximately 24 hour at a time.



• Please do not vote more than once using socks.



• All decisons of the Tournament Director (me) are final. Unless I change my mind.

Perhaps this would be a good opprtunity to give a listen to some music that you aren't familiar with. I don't know about where you live, but the public library in my city has cds by most of these artists that can be checked out for free.

Artists eliminated in the first round are in orange.
Artists eliminated in the second round are in red.
Artists eliminated in the third round are in blue.
Artists eliminated in the fourth round are in green.

The Bracket
Coruscant Region

Garbage
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Metallica
Smashing Pumpkins

Guns n'Roses
Aerosmith

Tool
System of a Down
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Neil Young
Live

Black Sabbath
Suede

Ted Nugent
The Beatles

Jimi Hendrix
AC/DC

Bespin Region

Elliott Smith
The Doors

Barenaked Ladies
The Rolling Stones

The Eagles
Rush

Bruce Springsteen
Alice In Chains
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David Bowie
Kansas

Stones Roses
U2

The Cure
Dave Matthews Band

The Police
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Yavin Region

Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Judas Priest
Van Halen

King Crimson
Pearl Jam

Nirvana
Oasis
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Deep Purple
Weezer

Damn Yankees
Pink Floyd

NOFX
R.E.M.

Soundgarden
Genesis

Endor Region

Led Zeppelin
Bob Dylan

Motley Crue
Elton John

The Who
The Clash

Bon Jovi
John Lennon
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Goo Goo Dolls
Queen

Chicago
Def Leppard

The Pixies
Eric Clapton

Styx
Depeche Mode

 

Barenaked Ladies
Queen



Rick McCallum loves you!

 

AC/DC
System of a Down

-Evan

 

Aerosmith
Pearl Jam

 

Styx
Genesis

 

Bob Dylan
John Lennon

 

Suede. Or The London Suede for those people in the US. But I only nominated them out of a crappy sense of loyalty!

 

Nepotism at it's best, eh Steve?

 

He'll beat me up otherwise! He says he knows where I live.

And let's go for The Clash, too.

 

OK, here's my dilemma: do we allow a slot for a solo artist like John Lennon outside of the Beatles? Every situation is different... Lennon is a perfectly legitimate artist outside of The Beatles... though an artist like Eric Clapton, when I think of him, I tend to include his work with Cream, Derek & The Dominos, etc... And while Mick Jagger has made four solo albums outside of the Stones, I really don't consider him a viable solo artist like Lennon. I suppose I'll give a slot to Lennon for now unless there are too many other conflicts.


And the London Suede? Never heard of 'em! ?

 

though an artist like Eric Clapton, when I think of him, I tend to include his work with Cream, Derek & The Dominos, etc

Yes but he's had 30 years of solo work as well. Much of his biggest success has been as Eric Clapton. Lennon..... I dunno.

 

Jimi Hendrix- I can't believe nobody has nominated him yet.
The Eagles- They may not specialise in Rock, but with songs like Hotel California, I had to nominate them.

 

• Red Hot Chili Peppers


• Nirvana

 

Guns'n'Roses, Damn Yankees

 

OK, here's my dilemma: do we allow a slot for a solo artist like John Lennon outside of the Beatles?

Most certainly. And if someone wanted to nominate Paul, George, or even Ringo (probably not going to happen) that shouldn't be a problem either as all of them match your criteria: (Any artist nominated must have been around for at least five years or have four or more studio albums.) Likewise if someone wanted to nominate Cream (and I think they should) it shouldn't be a problem as Cream was an awesome band made up of three incredible musicians who all contributed equally in forming their sound, a far cry from a Clapton solo project.

In other words, leave it up to the person nominating. We only get two so we're going to try and nominate the artists we feel the most strongly about. The only real dilemma comes when it's time to vote... say it's Lennon vs. The Doors, can you set aside Lennon's contributions to The Beatles? Should you? That's what I'm not sure about.

 

depeche mode and metalica

 

Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins

 

The Dave Matthews Band

 

Radiohead
Elliott Smith

 

Bruce Springsteen
Elton John

 

Alice in Chains
Pearl Jam

 

Dan, Pearl Jam is already on there. Care to nominate another?

 

Pearl Jam is good enough to be on the bracket twice.

 

Oops. Let's go for Weezer along with Alice in Chains then.

 

Aerosmith
Guns N Roses