Music Battle Royal 1

[Soup567]

Hello and welcome to the Music Battle Royal. Things have been a bit stale on RBO as of late, so here's my attempt to liven things up. Here's how this will work. I will present two bands (although it could be more in the future, but for now two) of similar styles and it will be up to you the RBO community to decide who wins. The band who wins that round will move on to be part of another battle later (maybe, I haven't exactly hammered out all the rules yet). But for now the battle! To arms!

And the first tussle shall be....

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Early U.S. 70s Hard Rock Part 1

Part 1, because you know there are other bands that could work too for a later battle.

And the contestants are...

Blue Öyster Cult

and

Alice Cooper

Don't let the early 70s fool you, that's just a time frame to relate the two bands, count their whole discographies.


Blue Öyster Cult

Essential Songs

Transmaniacon MC
Then Came the Last Days of May
Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll
Redeemed
The Red and Black
7 Screamin Diz Busters
Teen Archer
Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)
Career of Evil
Subhuman
Dominance and Submission
Harvester of Eyes
Flaming Telepaths
Astronomy
This Ain't the Summer of Love
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Sinful Love
Tattoo Vampire
Morning Final
Tenderloin
Godzilla
Golden Age of Leather
Searchin' for Celine
Nosferatu
I Am the Storm
Monsters
Divine Wind
Unknown Tongue
Fire of Unknown Origin
Burnin' for You
Veteran of the Physic Wars
Sole Survivor
Vengeance (The Pact)
John Crawford
Shooting Shark
In the Presence of Another World

Essential Albums

Blue Öyster Cult
Tyranny and Mutation
Secret Treaties
Agents of Fortune
Spectres
Cultösaurus Erectus
Fire of Unknown Origin


Alice Cooper

Essential Songs

I'm Eighteen
Long Way to Go
Is It My Body
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Under My Wheels
Be My Lover
Halo of Flies
Dead Babies
Killer
Schools' Out
Luney Tune
My Stars
Alma Mater
Billion Dollar Babies
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Generation Landslide
I Love the Dead
Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)
Welcome to My Nightmare
Devil's Food
The Black Widow
Only Women Bleed
Steven
Poison
Spark in the Dark
Wake Me Gently
Hey Stoopid
Snakebite
Feed My Frankenstein
Bad Place Alone
Wicked Young Man
Sanctuary
Pick Up the Bones
It's the Little Things
You Make Me Wanna
Six Hours
Vengeance Is Mine
I Am the Spider/Epilogue
When Hell Comes Home

Essential Albums

Love It to Death
Killer
School's Out
Billion Dollar Babies
Welcome to My Nightmare
Brutal Planet

The poll will be up later.

[Zilla2112]

Nice! I like both, though I'd have to go with BOC here.

[Soup567]

Now to be fair I think I have to go with BOC. Between their debut and Agents of Fortune BOC (Disregarding Mirrors) was one the best Hard Rock groups around. They sort of puttered out after that, except maybe for Imaginos.

Alice Cooper was great in early 70s as part of the original band, but I felt he had a bit of a falling out after Welcome to My Nightmare and didn't recover until Trash. Between Trash and The Last Temptations he was putting out alright stuff again. I think Brutal Planet was when he put out something real great again and since then he has been putting out alright stuff.

But yeah for me, BOC wins.

[Zilla2112]

Also, Blue Oyster Cult never collaborated with Ke$ha.

[Soup567]

Mar 26, 2012 22:48:35 GMT -5 Zilla2112 said:

Also, Blue Oyster Cult never collaborated with Ke$ha.

^That too.

[nogatoyumi]

Blue Öyster Cult any day.

[Toki]

Mar 27, 2012 12:42:04 GMT -5 @nogatoyumi said:

Blue Öyster Cult any day.

[SMAP]

Blue Oyster Cult, but I still enjoy Alice Cooper.

[Soup567]

Poll is up.

[straf]

Fire Of Unknown Origin is a personal favorite of mine.

Incidentally, I just listened to them for the first time in months yesterday and then I see this. Amazing timing, wot.

[Soup567]

It's funny how things like that happen sometimes.

[SMAP]

Well, this topic also happened the day I put my BOC ratings up on Rate Your Music, which has got to count for something.

[Soup567]

I think it's easy to see that BOC won. So congrats to them! They'll move on to something else... later! Woohoo.