Headbang Results - 23 Nov, 2018 - part 2

We were now down to 8 of us but we still had 2 hours' worth of music - and 3 themes - to go, so on we pressed.

In honour of the recent centenary of the original ARMISTICE, I had put together 10 tracks on the theme of War and Peace. This was pretty much the same show as we had recently broadcast on our regular River Dee Radio slot, but I had tweaked it a little this time for the video audience. Voting turned out as follows:

Blondie	Atomic	65
Pearl Jam	Masters of war	60
Doors	Unknown soldier	58
Peter Gabriel	Games without frontiers	49
Country Joe & the Fish	Feel like I'm fixing to die rag	46
Jake Bugg	Universal soldier	46
Elvis Costello	Oliver's army	43
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son	38
Brinsley Schwarz	What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?	26
Midnight Oil	Armistice day	9

Next up was the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME contenders for 2019. Fifteen acts had been nominated by those in charge of the annual jamboree in Cleveland, Ohio and the world wide public get a chance to vote for up to 5 of those they feel should be inducted this time around. Official voting closes on December 9th (https://www.rockhall.com/fanvote/) but I had asked for the Headbangers to name their choices prior to this evening. Nine of the fifteen nominated acts had received at least one vote from our group, so we played some random tracks by each act in reverse order of our votes, which were:

Roxy Music	The Bogus Man Part 2	9
Radiohead	Nobody does it better	8
Kraftwerk	Das Model	7
Todd Rundgren	Hello it's me	5
Stevie Nicks	Rhiannon	5
Cure	Killing an Arab	5
Zombies	Tell her no	4
Def Leppard	Rocket	1
Devo	I can't get no satisfaction	1

Eyebrows were raised at the one vote for Def Leppard - fortunately Malcolm had left by this time! Gary's vote for Devo also caused a few wrinkled brows, but I think we all agreed that at least the top 3 above must surely get their overdue entries to the R&RHoF this time.

The last theme of the evening was an acknowledgment that it was exactly 50 years ago (22nd November, 1968) that The Beatles' "WHITE ALBUM" was released. As with the ARMISTICE DAY CENTENARY theme above, we had broadcast a similar show on River Dee Radio this week, with a couple of tweaks replacing some audio tracks with videos. Voting went as follows:

Various Artistes	While my guitar gently weeps	65
Paul McCartney	Back in the USSR	58
Stone Temple Pilots	Revolution	49
Beady Eye	Cry baby cry	43
Dhani & guests	Savoy Truffle	40
U2	Helter Skelter	39
Kasabian	I'm so tired	35
Dirty Mac	Yer Blues	32
Father John Misty	Happiness is a warm gun	14
Ringo Starr & the Roundheads	Don't pass me by	10

That's all, folks. Here's the team photo, taken just before Gary and Malcolm left: