Special Music Debate: Pop Songs 1.5

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

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[Jeevan | 8,909]

I have heard of most of these songs besides young blood........woof what a horrible one........

Anyways 2,2,1,2

 

[Jicsan | 588]

Smash Mouth, Mr. Big, Bananarama, and 5 Seconds of Summer.  Never heard Youngblood before today, that video is pretty good.

[Hammerfestus | 3,823]

2222.  As I was working through the list I thought to myself, “Self, he probably could’ve put anyone up against Smash Mouth and had it be the better song.”  Then I continued down the list.  I was wrong.
Mr Big FTW with that uncle Jessie sit.

[JamesRobot | 5,786]

Here's the better version of the Smash Mouth video.  Pretty sure there's a dirty version out there too.

 

[JamesRobot | 5,786]

All 1s this go round.  Easiest decision was 4.   I really don't care for that OneRepublic tune. Plus that Youngblood video is pretty dope.

I'ma say Smash Mouth takes this bracket but Mark Morrison is my personal pick. 

 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

This round was tough. I probably could have went either way on all 4.

[Splain | 2,560]

Haaa I forgot about Mystery Men. All Star is always the Shrek song anymore.

I don't know if I've ever heard Youngblood inside a Buffalo Wild Wings, but it sounds like a 100% fit. Prime BWW music. I guess that's not a bad thing though.

[RH | 4,895]

2, 1, 1, 1, but in all honesty, I didn't really care for any of these. This was basically which ones do I dislike less. Shattered dreams was nice. I like the compressed(?)/distorted tone of that Hofner. It had that going for it.

[TDIRunner | 2,727]

1 and 2 were the most difficult (probably the most difficult in any of the rounds).  3 and 4 didn't matter much to me.  

[mbd39 | 2,017]

All Star, Return of the Mack, Shattered Dreams, Counting Stars

There were two songs that I wasn't familiar with, the Bananarama song and the awful 5 Seconds of Summer song.

 

[Abelardo | 154]

1, 1, 2, 2, except for All Star I didn't recognize these songs by name but some sounded familiar, surprised not to see Bananarama's Venus but I Heard A Rumor was nice and my favorite of the bracket, also upon seeing Smash Mouth I was confident it was going to be knocked out soon, but in this weak bracket seems that it will have no trouble coming out on top.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

1 minute ago, Abelardo said:

1, 1, 2, 2, except for All Star I didn't recognize these songs by name but some sounded familiar, surprised not to see Bananarama's Venus but I Heard A Rumor was nice and my favorite of the bracket, also upon seeing Smash Mouth I was confident it was going to be knocked out soon, but in this weak bracket seems that it will have no trouble coming out on top.

I didn't want to do Venus because it's a cover, but I was very, very close to doing Cruel Summer

[Abelardo | 154]

2 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I didn't want to do Venus because it's a cover, but I was very, very close to doing Cruel Summer

Ah I see now, forgot about it being a cover, I Heard A Rumor is nice enough, better than Cruel Summer in my opinion so nice choice there 

[themisfit138 | 523]

Didn't care about the fourth set so I just picked one. 

[Splain | 2,560]

15 hours ago, RH said:

2, 1, 1, 1, but in all honesty, I didn't really care for any of these. This was basically which ones do I dislike less. Shattered dreams was nice. I like the compressed(?)/distorted tone of that Hofner. It had that going for it.

I like it too, I tried being a bassist in college and I didn't know anything about how to make it sound any good.

And who knew Jerry Seinfeld played the bass? I guess thinking about the Seinfeld intro, it makes sense...

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

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[PII | 1,883]

On 3/3/2021 at 12:50 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

I didn't want to do Venus because it's a cover, but I was very, very close to doing Cruel Summer

Shoulda gone cruel summer - best Bananarama 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

Winners declared