Headbang results

First up, as ever, were the Obits - all already listed in the previous blog. The key feature was Gerry Goffin and we showed a medley of Goffin/King songs performed by Carole King and their two daughters back in 1988. Additionally, we played Aretha Franklin's (You make me feel like) A Natural Woman, The Animals' Don't bring me down and a clip from Easy Rider featuring the Byrds playing I wasn't born to follow.

There were only 3 other videos shown in the Obituary section:

• Iggy & the Stooges - I wanna be your dog (Scott Asheton)
• Jesse Winchester - You can't stand up alone (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt)
• Bob Dylan - Hurricane (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter)

On to the Septuagenarians and we played 8 of the 30 who qualified for this section and this was how the voting worked out:

1	John Kay (Steppenwolf)	Magic Carpet Ride	54
2	Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane)	Somebody to Love/White Rabbit	50
3	Joe Cocker	Feeling Alright	47
4	Chris Spedding (session musician)	Motor Bikin'	44
5	Chris Stainton (session musician)	Cocaine/Feeling Alright	31
6	Mickey Jupp	Taxi Driver	24
7	David Lindley (Kaleidoscope/intrumentalist)	Cuckoo	23
8	Tom Constanten (Grateful Dead)	Ripple	15

Singing Drummers had twice before been cancelled but finally got a run out and the votes were:

1	Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters)	Young man blues	68
2	Don Henley (Eagles)	Life in the fast lane	67
3	Phil Collins (Genesis)	Turn it on again	55
4	Mickey Dolenz (Monkees)	Alternate title	53
5	Meg White (White Stripes)	In the cold, cold night	44
6	Levon Helm (Band)	Up on cripple creek	43
7	Ringo Starr (Beatles)	I wanna be your man	40
8	Roger Taylor (Queen)	Radio Gaga	36
9	Jim Capaldi (Traffic)	That's love	21
10	Karen Carpenter (Carpenters)	Various	13

The first of 3 separate Instrumentals sections was then shown, covering from 1946 to 1965:

1	Booker T & the MG's	Green Onions	54.0
2	Dick Dale & the Del Tones	Misirlou	37.0
3	Shadows	Apache	32.0
4	Glenn Miller	In the mood	22.0
5	Surfaris	Wipe out	21.0
6	Link Wray	Rumble	15.0
7	Ventures	Walk don't run	10.0
8	Sandy Nelson	Let there be drums	6.0
9	Tornados	Telstar	2.0

Our host's personal selection of Good Tunes, Better Videos produced the following results:

1	Aztec Camera	Somewhere in my heart	45.0
2	Fountains of Wayne	Stacy's Mom	36.0
3	My Chemical Romance	I don't love you	35.0
4	Deacon Blue	Real gone kid	33.0
5	Transvision Vamp	Baby I don't care	28.0
6	Dandy Warhols	Bohemian like you	28.0
7	Bowling for Soup	1985	19.0

Then the 1967-1970 section of Instrumentals:

1	Fleetwood Mac	Albatross	43.0
2	Nice	America	27.0
3	Jimi Hendrix	Star Spangled Banner	24.0
4	Jethro Tull	Bouree	13.0
5	Love Sculpture	Sabre Dance	8.0
6	Pink Floyd	Interstellar Overdrive	4.0

15 songs with subject matter that may No Longer be PC got the following votes:

1	Faces	Stay with me	103
2	Gary Puckett & the Union Gap	Young girl	89
3	Rolling Stones	Under my thumb	85
4	Queen	I want to break free	75
5	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	71
6	Stranglers	Nice 'n' sleazy	70
7	Pink Floyd	Arnold Layne	68
8	Queen	Fat bottomed girls	65
9	Pink Floyd	Brain Damage	65
10	Nils Lofgren	Jailbait	57
11	Doors	Back door man	53
12	Monks	Nice legs shame about her face	53
13	Legs & Co	I want your love	47
14	Napoleon XIV	They're coming to take me away, ha-ha	35
15	Sex Pistols	Belsen is a gas	24

Lastly, the 3rd section of Instrumentals, from 1973 to 2010:

1	Allman Brothers	Jessica	30.0
2	Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells	25.0
3	Mark Knopfler	Local hero	25.0
4	Frank Zappa	Peaches en regalia	15.0
5	Focus	Sylvia	12.0
6	Joe Satriana	Surfing with the aliens	9.0
7	Edgar Winter Group	Frankenstein	5.0
8	Jeff Beck	Beck's Bolero	1.0

and that was that - apart from the usual team photo, of course: