STMcC’s Vote On '2019, September 1st: Battle Of The Bands' (BOTB) - Or, Guns 'N' Roses Versus The Zone - And The Final Tally:
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First of all, as always, my sincere thanks to each and every one of you who displayed your loyalty to the Battle Of The Bands blogfest by stopping by, listening, and taking the time to cast a vote (aka bote). I appreciate you all.
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The Battle took place HERE and it was between 'Welcome To The Jungle', a #7 Billboard hit in 1988 for Guns 'N' Roses, and 'Johnny's Gone' by The Zone, which is a band you never heard of until you met me, because it was my Cousin's former group. My Cousin was the principal songwriter and lead vocalist.
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This was a reasonably good contest, but despite being a major underdog, The Zone didn't have a lot of trouble beating up on Girls 'N' Roses. How come that? Well, this might be a clue:
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"...the loudness of Guns N Roses which is just noise"
~ Birgit
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"I agree with Birgit that Guns ‘N’ Roses just sounds like a lot of noise"
~ Julie
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That makes three of us. I also think 'Welcome To The Jungle' is a helluva lot closer to "noise" than it is to "music". I might have fallen for that nonsense when I was 17 years old, but that was a long, long time ago. However, I did enjoy making fun of the Girls in the comment section.
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| What a buncha sweethearts! |
Guns 'N' Roses = 6 votes
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The Zone = 10 votes
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Our resident psychic, Carnac The Magnificent, correctly predicted this major BOTB upset. Maybe he really *is* psychic?! ...Nah.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
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I received some feedback and input from some voters regarding my plan to take a BOTB hiatus for the rest of 2019, and I appreciated that. Having given it greater consideration, I feel it might be more prudent for me rather to revert to a once-a-month BOTB schedule and see if that's enough of a break for me.
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Therefore, beginning now, I will be posting Battles on the first day of each month. And although I won't be featuring a BOTB installment of my own on the 15ths, I WILL still be around to cast my botes on All Y'all's Battles. Just as Debbie posts only on the 15ths but still votes in BOTB rounds she's not participating in, I will do likewise, but with the participation dates reversed.
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Thanks again, Everyone. And I'll stop by to check out your new Battles in about a week and a half from now. (Hopefully I'll have found employment by then.)
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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Ah Dude!! HOpe that "spoonful of whiskey" has made everything better. Poverty sucks (especially if the straw if more of a stir straw than a slurpy).
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I'm bummed about the votes. But, good luck to your Cuz. Hope they never attempt a GnR song, lol. Well, perhaps they could do Civil War - that's their rock speed.
WILD THING ~
DeleteAhh, ya spoke too soon, muh frien'.
You only heard one song from one band that my Cuz was in.
Now, I'll admit that THE ZONE was my favorite of my Cousin's bands, but he was in several before that, and in a couple after that.
Here are a couple more from THE ZONE that might be more your speed:
[Link> HARD NIGHTS
Favorite Lines:
"Woke up with my shoes on
Couldn't find my pants or my knees
Went lookin' for aspirin
it's just nowhere to be seen
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I've lived through mornings like this before
Guess I'll live through this one, too"
In truth, my own favorite song by The Zone is...
[Link> HOW YOUR PUZZLE FITS
Favorite Line:
"But what I see, I believe
So just back up your tease
an' we'll get along just fine, you bitch!"
But if you want to see my Cuz proving that he can Rock with Girls 'N' Roses, then you should see / hear his current band, SANCHO (which could also beat the crap out of G'N'R in a battle of fisticuffs in the middle of The Sunset Strip). I'll give you these evidences for that (they're not my favorites, but they might be your'n... and please try to keep your "unmentionables" on while you watch my Cuz, the lead singer, with the moves of a bad Mulatto boy).
[Link> CHOLITA PELIGRA
>>... "Well, perhaps they could do Civil War - that's their rock speed."
Yes, well, there *IS* a second Civil War coming, and *THIS* is probably what it will look and sound like (courtesy of my Cuz) :
[Link> PARTY'S OVER
~ D-FensDogG
'Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends'
I think this election was rigged! Hillary should have won!
ReplyDeleteThis was more like an anti G&R upset, but I can understand the reasoning behind those votes. I certainly don't sit around listening to G&R and for that matter never did. In fact, I never owned any of their albums at least until relatively recently when I inherited my late brother's CD collection which included some G&R releases. I haven't listened to any of them yet. Maybe I'll save them for my next solo road trip if another one of those comes my way. I'll be rocking the roads for sure if I'm driving on my own.
Glad you'll be hanging in for at least one Battle per month. I'll stick to my two per schedule for now. I ain't got nothing else to do on my blog these days.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
LEE ~
DeleteIf only more illegals had been bused to the polls and a greater number of dead Democrat voters from Chicago had shown up, Guns 'N' Roses coulda won this thing.
By the time Guns 'N' Roses hit the scene with their first hit, it was 1988, and I had already moved away from most Rock (except the old guys like Van Morrison and The Band, etc.), so 'Welcome To The Jungle' was never on my radar at all.
Yeah, one Battle per month - twelve Battles a year - might work for me and be my speed now. We'll see how that goes.
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
Well, I love noisy music and sided with the minority.🤘 You can mock as much as you want, Stephen. It's not going to influence my choices.😆 And, I wouldn't call a difference of 4 votes a blowout. But, to each their own!☮
ReplyDeleteGlad to know you'll be keeping your hand in, once a month.👍 It works for me and gives plenty of time for other pursuits. Good luck with the job hunt!
DEBBIE ~
Delete>>... You can mock as much as you want, Stephen.
Oh, I know. I have a license to mock. It's signed by the governor and ever'thing. ;^D
I'm not trying to influence any voters. If everyone voted the same, there would be absolutely no point in doing Battle Of The Bands. And, no, this definitely wasn't a blowout. It was a pretty comfortable win for The Zone (especially considering they were mostly an unknown band going up against a huge hit by a very famous band), but I don't consider a Battle an "official" blowout until there's a 6-vote margin of victory.
Yeah, this new schedule might work OK. I remember when I was using the one-Battle-per-month schedule before that it seemed like way too much time passed between contests. But I don't think I'm gonna feel that same way again this time.
Thanks for the good wishes regarding the job search. It's been tough. I love everything about where I'm living, and I hope this is where I'll die, but the job market is the only drawback.
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
If you're busy with other things, doing BOTB once a month is plenty. There's also the follow-up post a week later. It's hard to find another job when choices are limited, but hopefully, something will turn up that fits well. Maybe go a little further afield? 🤞 I bet you'd make a great bartender!😉
DeleteHa! Yeah, I'd be a great bartender. Except that I don't like to mix work and pleasure. Plus, I'd just get upset and yell "What the hell are you doing?!" every time someone ordered a Vodka Martini or Bourbon & Coke.
DeleteI'd have to tell them that a Martini is Gin & Vermouth, and Vodka & Vermouth is just Vodka & Vermouth. And if they want their Bourbon ruined with Coke, they can just take their business elsewhere - like The Purple Pansy Lounge or someplace like that. [;-D
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
Hahaha! I feel the same way when someone adds Coke to Crown Royal. I forgot you weren't doing a battle on the 15th, which is how I ended up back here. Enjoy your break!
DeleteDEBBIE ~
DeleteYes, there are a few different acceptable ways to drink whiskey, but mixing Coke with it definitely ain't one of 'em. In a case like that: License to Drink - "REVOKED!"
;^)
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
McBroBuddy,
ReplyDeleteGreat battle. A pleasant surprise that The Zone took the upper-hand.
I hate it when people give me advice so feel free not to publish this paragraph: Three possibly potential words - Car pool ing. It's like a mental vacation to and fro work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hohb_gOI0dQ
We must have been near L.A. at the same time... I'd Never seen an album (Appetite For Destruction) get so much "You gotta hear this." Even in cars that weren't highriders. The only rival was Paula Abdul's first album's videos with "You gotta see this." (I won't post links because I know you likely don't like that stuff).
Kudos to The Zone - perhaps the best band name ever: I'm in The Zone. I'm in The Zone!
Cheers,
G-Dogg
BRUHUTHUH McG-DOGG ~
DeleteGlad you dug the Battle. I was really pleased that The Zone won, but I wasn't really surprised.
The Zone ain't a bad band name, but I'm still partial to the name The Sniveling Shits. ;^D
Ha! I never watched (or should I say, "I never saw"?) that movie before. But I did see the sequel 'Black Men Can't Swim'. Ha!-Ha! I couldn't type that without seeing visions of Smokin' Joe Frasier (or should I say, "Drownin' Joe Frasier"?) dancing in my head.
Wait! What's that you say? There *WASN'T* a sequel called 'Black Men Can't Swim'?! Hmmm.... Looks like a golden chance for me to make a comeback in Hollywood. I think I feel a new screenplay comin' on.
So, in that scene from 'White Men Can't Jump', there was a Black person, a Brown person, and a White person in that car (actually, two Black people and four White people, if we count the musicians on the cassette tapes), but there wasn't a Yellow person or a Red Person. I think that's racis'! Hollyweird probably wouldn't try to get away with that kind of racism today.
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
McBroMan,
DeleteAhahaha. I'll write chapter three in the movie trilogy about people from India and Asia called "White Men Can't Write Pascal Programming."
We can write together on the soon to be Oscar nominated and so far untitled... How do the Patriots win with a white QB who can't run or scramble and white receivers.
For starters:
Interviewer: "What would you do if you saw Tom Brady kicking a puppy down the street?"
Boston cop: "We would arrest the puppy so Brady could take the field on Sunday."
Cheers,
G Dogg
>>... "What would you do if you saw Tom Brady kicking a puppy down the street?"
DeleteYeah, the cops would arrest the puppy for "Unnecessary Roughness Against The Passer's Foot".
McBruhthuh, I foresee an entire industry springing up here. We're gonna be busy for a long time. Not just 365 movies (one for every day of the year) to rival the never-ending 'Rocky' saga, but a TV series, video games, bendable figurines, a clothing line... and then finally to a remake of all the movies and a reboot of the TV series 25 or 30 years later. I wonder if we should invite the Disney Corporation to get in on the ground floor of this with us. (If we don't, Disney'll probably just steal it away from us eventually, anyway.)
~ D-FensDogG
'Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...'
Stephen,
ReplyDeleteI can't remember if I made it to your battle on the first. I know I had intended to do just that but things haven't been running smooth in my plans as I had hoped. Anywho, I understand the need for a break. It does one good to step away from the blogging grind when things begin to feel like a chore or too time consuming. Enjoy your time away just as I'm beginning the battles again. Be well, my friend!!