Headbang votes - 26th July, 2019 (2)

The third theme of the evening was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the world's most famous music festival. Everyone has seen the film and heard the music on the triple LP, but you can now find some of the performances that didn't feature in either and this was the primary focus here. It was divided in to three sections - Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and afterwards, we ranked the tracks:

WOODSTOCK 50

Band	The Weight	74
Melanie	Mr Tambourine Man	50
Jimi Hendrix	Star spangled banner	50
Santana	Evil ways	49
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Marrakech Express	43
Joe Cocker	Lets go get stoned	39
Johnny Winter	Mean town blues	37
Janis Joplin	Ball and chain	27
Tim Hardin	If I were a carpenter	23
CCR	Born on the Bayou	22
Mountain	Southbound train	21
Joan Baez	Joe Hill	21
Country Joe & the Fish	Rock and soul music	15
Canned Heat	Boogie - part 1	9
Grateful Dead	Mama cried	4
Bert Sommer	Jennifer

There were two well-known tracks that we've featured on a number of previous occasions that were not shown this time around, although they did appear on the voting sheet:

Who	See me, feel me
Jefferson Airplane	White rabbit

The fact that they weren't played didn't stop somebody voting for them!

The other big event of 1969 was the first lunar landing so we featured six tracks:

MOON 50

REM	Man on the moon
Neil Young	Harvest Moon
Rolling Stones	Moonlight mile
CCR	Bad moon rising
Police	Walking on the moon
David Bowie	Moonage daydream

There was a show of hands and the first 3 named tracks each garnered 3 votes, with CCR getting one. Amazingly, Bowie didn't get anyone voting for him - not even the Ziggy freaks in our midst!

The late lamented Perfumed Garden and Top Gear (not the car show!) presenter would have become an octogenarian had he lived, so that became our next theme, as suggested by Jeb:

JOHN PEEL 80

This was always going to be an eclectic selection - some of his favourite artistes are pretty well known but I also researched those artistes who had played the most John Peel Sessions and came up with a total of 13 artistes, which we then voted on:

Nirvana	Lithium	102
White Stripes	7 Nation Army	101
Damned	New Rose	93
Undertones	Get Over You	87
Smiths	What difference does it make?	76
Loudon Wainwright III	Reciprocity	66
Fall	Big New Prinz	62
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Electricity	59
Wedding Present	Nobody's twisting your arm	50
Billy Bragg	Milkman of Human Kindness	41
Richard and Linda Thompson/Fairport Convention	I want to see the bright lights tonight	40
Tyrannosaurus Rex	Sarah Crazy Child	33
Ivor Cutler	Shoplifters	10

At this point of the evening, Cinderella Grant made his traditional early departure, just before our final theme so it was time to take the team photo:

GLASTONBURY

With just half an hour to go until the taxi arrived, we had to rush through this section a bit, although we did have just enough time to vote on the 12 acts featured:

Cure	Inbetween days	102
Sheryl Crow	All I want to do	91
Johnny Marr	How soon is now?	70
Christine	Heroes	67
Tame Impala	Elephant	57
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Something real	54
Kurt Vile and the Violators	Pretty pimpin	51
Mavis Staples	For what it's worth	49
Fontaines D C	Boys in the better land	48
Liam Gallagher	Columbia	46
Charlatans	The only one I know	36
Idles	Colossus	35

 So that was that. Now to prepare for the next event.