Cover Draft Playoffs - Round 1 Analog Division 5 v 12

[Jespher]

5. Larry89
1.05 - One - Apocalyptica (1998)
2.12 - Love Hurts - Nazareth (1974)
3.05 - I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (1968)
4.12 - I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton (1974)
5.05 - I Put a Spell On You - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
6.12 - Alabama Song - The Doors (1967)
7.05 - Crossroads - Cream (1969)
8.12 - Simple Man - Shinedown (2003)
9.05 - Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers (1965)
10.12 - Oye Como Va - Carlos Santana (1970)
11.05 - Hush - Deep Purple (1968)
12.12 - No Diggity - Klaxons (2007)
13.05 - Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - Elton John (1974)
14.12 - Light My Fire - Jackie Wilson (2014)
15.05 - Orion - Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)
16.12 - Enjoy the Silence - Lacuna Coil (2006)
17.05 - Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste - Galaxie 500 (1988)
18.12 - Ray Lamontagne - Crazy (2006)
19.05 - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone - Lighthouse Family (2003)
20.12 - Various Artists - Perfect Day (BBC Children In Need Version) 1997

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12. NoBonus:
1.10 - Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1981)
2.07 - Red Red Wine - UB40 (1983)
3.10 - Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension (1969)
4.07 - Walk This Way - Run DMC (1986)
5.10 - Saturday Night - Ned's Atomic Dustbin (1993)
6.07 - Police and Thieves - The Clash (1977)
7.10 - Tiny Dancer - Ben Folds (????)
8.07 - Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys (1987)
9.10 - Hackensack - Katy Perry (2009)
10.07 - Der Kommissar - After the Fire (1982)
11.10 - Ain't That a Shame - Cheap Trick (1979)
12.07 - Disney Girls - Art Garfunkel (1975)
13.10 - We Will Become Silhouettes - The Shins (2011)
14.07 - Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do) - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
15.10 - Love is All Around - R.E.M. (1991)
16.07 - Spider-Man - The Ramones (????)
17.10 - 500 Miles - The Innocence Mission (2000)
18.07 - We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters (1970)
19.10 - Get Ready - Rare Earth (1969)
20.07 - Baby, Please Don't Go - AC/DC (1975)

 

[Jespher]

This poll will close in 72 hours
Wednesday 11/5 at 6:14PM PST

Everyone can vote for these playoff match-ups (even if you didn't participate in the draft). Don't be shy!

Feel free to back-up your rationale here.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

This is the first vote that was hard for me. Larry's list was heavily tilted (at least in terms of what I felt were songs I'd like to hear again and again) towards the late '60s/early '70s, which was a bit of a strike against it. NoBonus had a much better distribution of eras, but began to take a lot of "personal favorites" in the second half of the draft (starting with "Disney Girls") that despite being from many well-known bands left me pretty cold. "Disney Girls" itself I particularly loathed, and of the rest of the back half the strongest was a Carpenters song that I've heard a bajillion times because when I was about ten I took a cross-country road trip and Carpenters Singles '69-'73 was THE ONLY ALBUM MY PARENTS BROUGHT.

NoBonus grabbed up "Tainted Love", which probably would have been my second pick had it made it back to me, and "Der Kommissar", which would have been long gone by the tenth round had I known it was a cover. And then there's "Hackensack", a song I actually didn't know, and which I only realized how catchy it was when I caught it running through my head weeks later. But in the end, Larry won out with a very strong first half and an absolutely exquisite cover of "Orion".

Nice job by both!

 

[Jespher]

Larry89 squeaked by NoBonus and will advance to round two. Congratulations!