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Sunday, 13 November 2011

Armistice Day Headbang (2)

From http://banchoryheadbangers.blogspot.com/

Section 4 was a "celebration" of our summer of discontent, as we played 10 videos with the central theme of "Trouble and Strife". Voting was much more varied this time, with the final results showing:

  1. Neil Young - Ohio (Kent State shootings 1970) - 54
  2. James Taylor - Belfast to Boston (Northern Ireland) - 50
  3. Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth (1966 LA Curfew) - 49
  4. Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man (Paris Riots 1968) - 47
  5. Kaiser Chiefs - I predict a riot - 45
  6. Bob Marley - Burnin' and Lootin' - 36
  7. Clash - White Riot (Notting Hill Carnival Riot 1976) - 34
  8. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Bloody Sunday in Derry 1972) - 32
  9. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves - 26
  10. Sweet - Teenage Rampage - 12
The next section was a late addition to the running order, replacing the planned "27 Club" slot, which will now be carried over to the next Headbang. STV recently ran a series called "Scotland's Greatest Album" which selected 12 tracks - 3 from each of the last 4 decades - to make up what the panel considered to be the best tracks recorded by Scots - and, in some cases, quasi-Scots. We played the tracks in the same chronological order as the programme and voted on them again, producing the following results:

  1. Rod Stewart - Maggie May 71
  2. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you - 68
  3. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams - 63
  4. Paulo Nutini - Candy - 59
  5. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street - 49
  6. Franz Ferdinand - Take me out - 41
  7. Waterboys - Whole of the moon - 40
  8. Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith - 37
  9. Snow Patrol - Run - 35
  10. Frankie Miller - Caledonia - 32
  11. Deacon Blue - Dignity - 27
  12. Proclaimers - 500 miles - 24
There were a number of squeals of protest at the omission of some notable tracks and artistes and the Headbangers listed a few of the more obvious omissions, including:


  • Idlewild
  • SAHB
  • Jethro Tull
  • John Martyn
  • Nazareth
  • KT Tunstall
  • Billy Connolly
  • Simple Minds
  • The View  

With the clock running down rapidly and Stan the Taxi Man due to arrive at 12:30 pm, we had to move on swiftly to the last section which covered 5 of this summer's festivals. We played tracks from 4 artistes from each of these festivals and then voted for which festival was best, and, within each festival, what the pecking order was on the 4 tracks played. This voting system seemed to cause much confusion, particularly as it was a little rushed at the end of the evening.

It was, however, pretty clear that the preference in turns of festivals was:

  • Glastonbury
  • Latitude & T in the Park (tied)
  • Hard Rock
  • Download
As regards the 20 individual tracks played, a clear favourite was Train's excellent version of Led Zeppelin's Ramble On at Hard Rock, with notable mentions for Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town (Download) and Coldplay's Yellow, which was witnessed in person at Glastonbury by tonight's Headbang debutant, Steve Paterson.

Other tracks that seemed to score pretty well included:

  • I Am Kloot - From Your Favourite Sky (Latitude)
  • Suede - She (Latitude)
  • Alice Cooper - School's Out (Download)
  • Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (Glastonbury)
  • Noah and the Whale - Five Years Time (Glastonbury)
  • Ray Davies - All Day and All of the Night (Hard Rock)
  • OMD - Electricity (Latitude)
  • Manic Street Preachers - Design for Life (T in the Park)
  • Primal Scream - Movin' on Up (T in the Park)
So all that remained was to take the traditional team photograph:


Just two tasks left - vote for your top 3 tracks of the evening, and we need to set the date for the next headbang - hopefully between January and March. Let me know dates that you are not available and we'll try and fix on a Friday that suits most of us.

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