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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Nov 22, 2009 -> 10:36 PM)
I felt the same about Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Buckinghams. They would have been late on my list (15-20) anyways, and at that point it wouldn't matter.

I considered both, but neither could crack my top 20. Mark Lindsey is one of my favorite rock singers ever. I nearly snuck the Shadows of Knight onto my list. They had two great albums and were for me the definitive Chicago garage band.

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QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 11:29 AM)
Woo Zappa!

 

That's one weaksauce discography, however :P

 

Ni is just sticking with the singles. . . and when you've got No Commercial Potential like Frank that's going to be a horribly foreshortened list.

 

But, yes. . . YEA FRANK!!!

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To be fair, if he included his full discography, that post would have been longer than Elvis's.

 

Also, Bobby Brown Goes Down was a huge hit overseas. IIRC, it reached #1 on the charts for some countries.

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QUOTE (The Critic @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 01:52 AM)
I didn't bother sending in a list because much like independent voters in political elections, my choices had ZERO chance to win (or even show up on the Top 50 list), so I figured I was wasting my vote.

 

 

I felt the same way but i had nothing better to do, i was shocked to see one of my bands make it (rise against)......If anything else on my list makes it i will eat my own poo...hey ni you think you could shoot me over my list??

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Queen was one-of-a-kind, and there has never been a band with production standards as high as them imo. They barely missed out on my top 20, but their relatively high showing on the Soxtalk list is entirely warranted.

 

I think they got too commercial sounding by the time The Game was released, and I definitely think they peaked with their earlier work, but one of the greatest and most original groups ever.

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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 06:09 PM)
That was always my beef with ELO so I can understand the sentiment.

 

ELO made my list, and I understand the polish sentiment, for me it was the polish I liked with them, that I would dislike in others. No idea why.

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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:12 PM)
ELO made my list, and I understand the polish sentiment, for me it was the polish I liked with them, that I would dislike in others. No idea why.

 

Yeah, it comes down to individual tastes. Queen's hyper-production seems to fit the group, whereas it just irks me when I listen to ELO. Jeff Lynne's heavy-handed production is also basically what keeps me from thinking of George Harrison's Cloud 9 or the Wilburys albums will stand the test of time and the production totally gets in the way of the music. A lot of Full Moon fever is like that as well, although Mike Campbell sort of reined Lynne and Petty in a bit on that one.

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