Saw some low scores yesterday and today. Must be the winter blues. Since these are weekend match-ups, I expect some gloom-free, joyous scoring, coming to you 2 hours early as I look to leave the office. Listen at Grooveshark (except Bullet with Butterfly Wings and All Things Must Pass ), and vote by commenting below or emailing LTDdotorg@gmail.com before 9pm Sunday.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) vs. Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers)
Right Now (Van Halen) vs. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) vs. Young Americans (David Bowie)
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) vs. Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
Instant Karma (John Lennon) vs. Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
Living the Dream 
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) – 7
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) – 7.5
Great instrumentals on both. I just like the Allman’s voices better. Corgin makes me want to climb a wall with his fingernails on a chalkboard wailing.
Right Now (Van Halen) – 9
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) – 8
Love the timeless instrumentals on Right Now. My favorite Van Halen song by far, even though I really like Jump. You can have the rest of the eighties, if I can just keep Right Now. Somebody to Love is classic, like the instrumentals, but not quite as moving as Right Now
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) – 8.5
Young Americans (David Bowie) – 8
More fantastic instrumentals, high energy singing. Tough to choose, James by a nose because this is one of his tighter songs, production-wise.
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) -8
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) – 8.5
Cool guitarwork by George. Peter’s vocals are a bit better. Alot of tough calls today!
Peter takes it for overall production. Could have gone either way.
Instant Karma (John Lennon) – 8.5
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) – 9
So nice. These songs really put me in a good mood. Tracy takes it with her superior vocal delivery.
Now this is the kind of competition I’d been expecting this whole time, I can see why you hyped today up!
It seems like a strange night when Smashing Pumpkins elicits my highest score. My most apathetic ratings yet…
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 8.5
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 7
Right Now (Van Halen) 5
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 6.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 6
Young Americans (David Bowie) 6.5
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 5 [Honestly I don’t even remember what this sounds like right after I listened to it]
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 6.5 [I liked this until the apparent Smurf cameo at the end. What WAS that?]
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 7
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 5
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 8.5
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 7
Right Now (Van Halen) 5.5
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 7
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 5.5
Young Americans (David Bowie) 5.5
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)5.5 [wanted to like this more]
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 6.5
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 9
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 6
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 7
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 7.1
Right Now (Van Halen) 6
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 8.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 8
Young Americans (David Bowie) 7
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 6
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 7
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 8
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 9
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 7 vs. Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 6
Right Now (Van Halen) 4 vs. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 7 Van Halen without David Lee Roth is like Pepsi without the cola color
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 7 vs. Young Americans (David Bowie) 7
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 6 vs. Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 5
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 8 vs. Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 7
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 7.5
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 6.5
Right Now (Van Halen) 9
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 6.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 5.5
Young Americans (David Bowie) 5
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 3.5
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 6
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 3.5
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 6
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) [7.5]
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) [8]
Right Now (Van Halen) [5.5]
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) [8.5]
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) [5]
Young Americans (David Bowie) [7]
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) [5.5]
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) [8]
Instant Karma (John Lennon) [6.5]
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) [9]
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 7
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 8
Right Now (Van Halen) 8
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 7.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 6
Young Americans (David Bowie) 10
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 9
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 6
The year the Beatles broke up, George Harrison released his own double-album, which became a #1 hit. Looks like someone was being held back by John and Paul.
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 8.5
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 9.5
Was super impressed with Tracy.
Getting my votes in late, busy weekend.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 7.5
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 7
This surprised me.
Right Now (Van Halen) 7.5
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 6.5
I will always, always associate Right Now with this motivational music video I saw at basketball camp, and the image of Kerri Strug landing that last vault with a fucking sprained ankle in the 96 Olympics, throwing her arms up, and then collapsing. That’s one of my favorite sports moments, which is weird since I know nothing about gymnastics. Somebody to Love, classic for sure, but gotta go with my gut.
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 8
Young Americans (David Bowie) 5.5
Fun wins.
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 5
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 9
my heart was going boom boom boom
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 5.5
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 7.5
Tracy Chapman dated Alice Walker. That is cool trivia.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 8.5 vs. Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 6.5
Right Now (Van Halen) 6.5 vs. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 7.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 9 vs. Young Americans (David Bowie) 8
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 8 vs. Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 6
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 9 vs. Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 6
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) vs. Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) = 2 to 5
Right Now (Van Halen) vs. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) = 7 to 8.5
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) vs. Young Americans (David Bowie) = 8 to 8
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) vs. Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) = 7 to 6.5
Instant Karma (John Lennon) vs. Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) = 8.5 to 6
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) 5
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers) 7
Just never been a Pumpkins guy. Ramblin man always puts a smile on my face, but I can’t see it going deep.
Right Now (Van Halen) 8.5
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) 7
Gorgeous piano opening to Right Now – automatic jump start to the system.
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown) 7
Young Americans (David Bowie) 4
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 4
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 7.5
Instant Karma (John Lennon) 5.5
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) 3