Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Tournament of Metal: Round 4, Bracket 1

We're now down to fifty-two teams. After last week's battles, we were down to forty-seven, but I added five more songs that deserved another shot (according to the 555 messages that people sent me, irritated, sad, and outraged that their songs didn't make it). From fifty-two, we'll go to twenty-six, and then to magic number thirteen, where we'll stop and talk about the importance and/or greatness of each song.

The list of all fifty-two (as decided by you) is below:

ACDC’s “Hells Bells”
ACDC’s “Back in Black”
ACDC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Aerosmith’s “Angel”
Bon Jovi’s “Runaway”
Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer”
Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive”
Cinderella’s “Shake Me”
Cinderella’s “Heartbreak Station”
The Cult’s “Firewoman”
Damn Yankee’s “High Enough”
Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages”
Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
Dio’s “Holy Diver”
Europe’s “The Final Countdown”
Faster Pusscat’s “House of Pain”
Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle”
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City”
Guns N’ Roses “Don’t Cry”
Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain”
Sammy Hagar’s “Heavy Metal”
Billy Idol’s “White Wedding”
Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell”
Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills”
Judas Priest’s “You Got Another Thing Coming”
Metallica’s “One”
Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”
Motley Crue’s “Too Fast for Love”
Motley Crue’s “Shout at the Devil”
Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home”
Motley Crue’s “Girls Girls Girls”
Motley Crue’s “Dr. Feelgood”
Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart”
Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian”
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”
Poison’s “Talk Dirty to Me”
Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
Quiet Riot’s “Cum On Feel the Noize”
Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health (Bang Your Head)”
Ratt’s “Round and Round”
Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”
Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
Skid Row’s “I’ll Remember You”
Slaughter’s “Fly to the Angels”
Tesla’s “Love Song”
Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
Van Halen’s “Jump”
Van Halen’s “Panama”
White Lion’s “Wait”
Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again”

Here's a list of all the bands whose songs didn't quite make it to the top fifty-two:

Accept
Anthrax
Armored Saint
Autograph
Bad English
Bang Tango
Black N’ Blue
Jon Bon Jovi
Bulletboys
Alice Cooper
Danger Danger
Danzig
Dokken
Enff Z’nuff
Extreme
Firehouse
Lita Ford
Frehley’s Comet
Giuffria
Great White
Hanoi Rocks
Helix
Jackyl
Junkyard
Keel
Kix
Krokus
L.A. Guns
Loudness
Lynch Mob
Manowar
Megadeth
Motorhead
Mr. Big
Nelson
Aldo Nova
Pantera
Queensryche
Rainbow
David Lee Roth
Saigon Kick
Saxon
Slayer
Stryper
Tora Tora
Trixter
Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Vixen
W.A.S.P.
Winger
Warrant
XYZ
Y & T
Zebra

Here are the exact results of this past week's intra-band battles:

2 Metallica’s “One” v. Queensryche’s “Eyes of a Stranger” 1
3 Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” v. Whitesnake’s “Still of the Night” 0
0 Metallica’s “Sad but True” v. Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane” 3
3 Motley Crue’s “Too Fast for Love”
v. Warrant’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 0
0 Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” v. Tesla’s “Love Song” 3
3 Motley Crue’s “Girls Girls Girls”
v. Skid Row’s “18 and Life” 0
3 Motley Crue’s “Dr. Feelgood” v. Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” 0
3 Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart” v. Van Halen’s “Everybody Wants Some” 0
1 Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” v. Van Halen’s “Panama” 2
2 Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian”
v. Steelheart’s “I’ll Never Let You Go” 1
3 Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” v. Tesla’s “Little Suzi” 0
0 Ozzy Osbourne’s “Flying High Again” v. Slaughter’s “Fly to the Angels” 2
0 Ozzy Osbourne’s “Goodbye to Romance” v. Skid Row’s “I’ll Remember You” 3
1 Ozzy Osbourne’s “No More Tears” v. Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” 2
3 Poison’s “Talk Dirty to Me” v.
Scopions’ “Wind of Change”0
1 Poison’s “Nothin’ but a Good Time” v. Van Halen’s “Jump”2
3 Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
v. Warrant’s “Heaven”0
3 Quiet Riot’s “Cum On Feel the Noize” v. Skid Row’s “Youth Gone Wild”0
1 Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health (Bang You Head)” v. Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It”2
2Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”
v. Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher”0
1Stryper’s “To Hell with the Devil” v. White Lion’s “Wait”2

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