"Getting To Know You" Song Tournament

What's the Deal was my song. I think Captain Spaulding (who is incredibly good at this game) guessed it. 28 Days are an Australian rap/punk/metal band who were very popular a while back. That song pretty much sums up Australia in summer. Beer and the beach I actually nominated it because I recently spent three weeks in New York and when I got back home I was reminded of something a friend said to me about 25 years ago - regardless of how much you travel or see the world you are always blown away when you fly back into Sydney and see the beaches and the harbour. Our culture is very connected to the sea and summer (and beer) and as I said, no other song deals with that part of our culture better:

The beer is ice cold
And it's sold
From a supermarket that keeps their prices down
This day is not pretentious or fake
Home town Sunday shining
And it takes a day like this to make me understand
That you can't beat the sweet feeling of sand
Between your toes, this is how it goes
Down with a beer in my hand
My best friend's to the left
She's closest to the esky
She passes me a Coopers
And she glistens in the sun

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Round 1 - Day 7:

Merle Haggard - Red Red Wine vs. Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better

Weird Al Yankovic - The eBay Song vs. Jerusalem
not sure this could be a more clashing matchup... a religious hymn vs an Ebay parody to the tune of Backstreet Boys

Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya vs. Scorpions - Winds of Change

Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room vs. The Beatles - Penny Lane (Alternate Link for U.S.)

Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise vs. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie vs. Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Bing Crosby - Swinging On A Star vs. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Laverne and Lenny - The Look vs. Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow

Nickelback - Feelin' Way Too Damn Good vs. Joe Montgomery - Bowling Song

Time to tell, the Theme to Z Cars was mine. Chyp got it by thinking it was a favourite tv series back then, which it was being one of the first more gritty police series. It had a great cast too - Brian Blessed, Frank Windsor, James Ellis, Colin Welland and Stratford Johns as well as hundreds of British character actors over the years it was broadcast.
However the reason it's close to my heart and speaks about me is that my beloved Everton F.C. have run out onto the pitch at Goodison Park to the Z Cars theme for around 50 years. HK knew that of course. Just hearing it gives me goosepimples. To explain to non Brits, my home town of Liverpool has two football teams - Everton and Everton Reserves...sorry, it's an old joke - actually there's two Premier League football teams in Liverpool: Everton (who play in blue) and Liverpool (red). When you're born, you're born into a Blue family or a Red one. You can't really change as you'll always be a kind of family outcast, a committer of treason. When you meet a new person it's pretty much one of the first things you'll find out about them, it's that deep rooted.
When I was younger and living at home, my dad used to go to the match with his mates, my brother, the middle kid, would go with his mates and I used to take my younger brother cos I had to take him to the part of the ground that wouldn't be so crowded - this was in the days of standing up at the match. he would've only been 7 or so when we started going on our own. We had to get a place by the crash barriers for him to sit on so he could see. I look back on those days with great fondness.
Back then in the city we had a football newspaper called the Football Echo. We'd get back home from the match and an hour or so later the Footy Echo would get to the shops. We'd run over and get it and when my dad came back from having the obligatory pint, me and my brothers would argue about the match and what went on that afternoon.
It's specially poignant for me when I look back on those days as my middle brother died very young, and my dad's no longer here either, and thinking about those times makes me smile. Me and my younger brother still keep the faith though, and both of my sons are Evertonians. His little daughters are too. I went back recently and watched Everton v Liverpool with my own son and hearing Z Cars playing made my eyes well up.
Good times

Here's a wobbly video, but I thought it illustrated things from a fan's view

Thanks Chyp. x

ROUND 1 - DAY 7:

Merle Haggard - Red Red Wine vs. Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
Both good songs, and a song about wine, that's a winner

Weird Al Yankovic - The eBay Song vs. Jerusalem
Probably the weirdest match up we have had yet.

Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya vs. Scorpions - Winds of Change

Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room vs. The Beatles - Penny Lane

Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise vs. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie vs. Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Bing Crosby - Swinging On A Star vs. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Laverne and Lenny - The Look vs. Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow

Nickelback - Feelin' Way Too Damn Good vs. Joe Montgomery - Bowling Song

I bet you had a great time Chyp! Hope you're clubbing days aren't over yet

I didn't guess you for that one Gats, but thinking about it I see how you would appreciate the musicality of it

sounds idyllic Sane. I'm looking out the window now, it's only 5.40pm, it's dark and the wind is blowing a gale, I could do with an ice cold beer and some sunshine!

ROUND 1 - DAY 7:

Merle Haggard - Red Red Wine vs. Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better - whoever messed up the title of Merle's song is getting too OLD to remember even tho they've probably been listening to it for over 40 years. Brain cells and wine hey?

Weird Al Yankovic - The eBay Song vs. Jerusalem - Jerusalem - is that post ironic SFS? and the ebay one has to be GBG

Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya vs. Scorpions - Winds of Change - it was always going to be SC for Boy George, and poss Sane for the Scorpions?

Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room vs. The Beatles - Penny Lane (Alternate Link for U.S.)

Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise vs. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance - I'm voting for Men Withour Hats to be HKs. I think he loves Morris Men

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie vs. Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes - Mott has to be either HK or Chyp reliving their glamrock youth. I love that song too

Bing Crosby - Swinging On A Star vs. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun - Bing is that yours Mistique?

Laverne and Lenny - The Look vs. Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow - obviously CR has Laverne and Lenny

Nickelback - Feelin' Way Too Damn Good vs. Joe Montgomery - Bowling Song - is the Bowling Song SVs?

Nope, but I like the song.

I can shirley say that one of you are wrong
That's funny! because that's mostly true. I never get lost in the woods, but put me in the mall and I don't remember where the door was....Though I don't think I've ever talked about my bad sense of direction? How did you guess?

Ha

The weirdest thing that happens with my sense of direction is on road trips. I can be driving down a long road, pull into a restaurant/shop....then when I come back out and drive out of the parking light onto the main road and have to take either a left or right, I always chose wrong...and so try to turn in the direction that I had just came from. Which would make for a short trip I don't know why that happens?

I'm leaving ROUND 1 - DAY 7 open for the people who haven't voted yet, but here's DAY 8 for the people who are ready.

The people who haven't voted yet in DAY 7 are Gatsby, Captain Spaulding, Honeykid, The Sci-Fi Slob and Gbgoodies. (Yes, I'm guilty again this time too. ) And I'm starting to lose hope that Rauldc14 and Derek Vinyard will change their minds and decide to vote.

Also, DAY 5 and DAY 6 are still open for The Sci-Fi Slob, but if he hasn't voted in the next few hours, I'll close DAY 5.


ROUND 1 - DAY 8:

Hyperplush - Truly Blonde vs. Judas Priest - Painkiller

Guns N Roses - Estranged vs. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

Bobby Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City vs. Waylon Jennings - Good 'Ol Boys

B-Real, Busta Rymes, Coolio, LL Cool J & Method Man - Hit 'Em High vs. Rush - Subdivisions

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights vs. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Going Through the Motions

Lloyd Banks - On Fire vs. Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good vs. Cheap Trick - Hello There

Public Enemy - He Got Game (Alternate Link for U.S.) vs. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun vs. Jessie J - Price Tag

If that's not Citizen Rules' song, I think it may be Captain Spaulding's, because Captain gave me rep for my votes, which must mean I voted for one of his songs.... and only that one strikes me as a possible Captain Spaulding song. But I don't know for sure.

Although WAIT A MINUTE................................................

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What if Captain Spaulding nominated the Weird Al song?

Most of Captain's songs have been goofy, silly songs..........

And Captain has been described as looking like Weird Al Yankovic because of his long, curly hair.

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I bet it was Captain.

Although I'm not sure why he chose a song about Ebay, but, I'm sure he'll have an explanation.

Don't worry, you're doing great I think the pace for this tournament is good, for my sake it could even be slower.

I'm sure Sexy disagres with me

No...... Weird Al song was probably GBG. Citizen Rules seemed so sure of it, and they're close friends.

Captain Spaulding is probably Stereophonics. I guess.

Thanks. It's hard to keep so many people happy with the pace, but I'm trying.

Everything is fine, no worries about the pace

Yep GBG, it's all going really good. This was a great idea