Hello, and happy day after Turkey Day! I wanted to wait to put this up until after the holiday, so here we are! This last round pits the great Aretha Franklin against the incomparable Etta James, with Nina Simone and … Continue reading Finally, the Best Female+ Voice in Music Finals
Voting will remain open until Monday, 11/21, at 11:21 EST. More details about the QFs after I’m out of class. Also a header image. Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music: The Semifinals
Apologies for the late posting; I’m fighting a cold. But here we are now! Last Round’s results: Biggest drubbing was Aretha Franklin beating Bjork by over 50 points. Biggest “upset” if that even counts anymore was Judy Garland beating Sinead … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music: Quarterfinals!
Well there were some unexpected results last time, including Patsy Cline (26th seed) knocking out 7th seed Debbie Harry. In other news, both Björk (53) and Judy Garland (30) beat out people much higher up on the ranks (Kate Pierson … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music: Round of 16!
Round 2 is behind us, and I can finally make a post with fewer than 32 rounds in it. Here’s what happened in Round 2: The biggest upset, in terms of a lower-ranked seed beating a higher one, was Björk … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music Tournament: Round 3!
We’re down to a much more manageable 64 names after the 2-parter of round 1. Matches of note from round 1: The closest match saw Queen B (Beyoncé, not Lorde) holding off Siouxie Sue by a single point, 36-35. There … Continue reading The Best Female+ Voice in Music Tournament: Round 2
After a regrettable delay, here’s the second half of the first round of our best female+ voice in music. As before, I chose music clips for each person through a combination of using your suggestions, going with my personal opinion, … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music Tournament: Round 1 (Part 2)!
Here’s the first half of the first round of our best female+ voice in music. I chose music clips for each person through a combination of using your suggestions, going with my personal opinion, and just googling and picking the … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music Tournament: Round 1 (Part 1)!
Welcome to the Seeding round for the best female+ voice in music tournament! You maniacs nominated around 400 names, and each of them appear here, in as close to alphabetical order as I could manage. Please go through and upvote … Continue reading The Borking Female+ Voice in Music: Seeding and Song Suggestion Thread
Hey everyone, I don’t normally ask folks to be sure and read the header but… hey can you be sure and read the header this time? Thanks kindly. Well we’ve wrapped up the best Male+ Voice in Music, and now … Continue reading Best Female+ Voice in Music: The Nominations!
Early on, I said that I wanted to do this tournament before the Female+ tourney, because I feared that after a hard-fought battle between the ladies, this one might turn out to be a blow-out, or anticlimactic. I needn’t have … Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: The Results
All right all. It’s been a long, strange journey, but here at last, on the shores of the Sea, we come to the end. The final round pits two men who were both tragically gunned down in their prime. Marvin … Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: The Finals
And then there were four. Voting in this round shall end on Thursday, October 13th at 9PM Eastern. Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: The Semifinals
Two very close matches in the round of 16: Avocado fav David Bowie met his match in Al Green, and Nat King Cole outlasted the Man in Black, each by a single vote. If there was an upset, it was … Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: The Quarterfinals
Round two is behind us, and I don’t know that it was as wrenching as round one. Don’t worry, I expect sales of Pepto Bismol to increase for this round. Round 2 stats: Biggest blowout (and there were a couple) … Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: Round of 16
Here we go again folks! You’ve narrowed to down from 64 to 32. Here are the noteworthy accomplishments: You monsters roundly turned out the beautiful voice of on its ear. Joe Cocker couldn’t get by, because he had so few … Continue reading Best Male+ Voice in Music: Round 2!
Here’s where we start to whittle down the best, to get the best of the best. Vote early and vote often, and don’t hate the messenger if some of these are hard decisions right off the bat. For the samples, … Continue reading Tournament: Best Male+ Voice in Music (Round 1)
Okay everyone I’ve got the 64 top artists all ready to go but… before I start the tournament I need some audio that will follow each through the rounds! And I’m crowdsourcing this. So under each artist, please link to … Continue reading The Best Male+ Voice in Music Tournament Asks for Audition Tapes!
Okay, seeding is now open, and will run until 10AM Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, 9/25. Vote early and vote often! I have at times tried to help people out with identifying artists with bands. If you feel it will … Continue reading The Best Male+ Voice in Music Tournament: Seeding Round!
I’ve heard people say that…. too much of anything’s not good for you babe. But I don’t know about that. These are the nominees for the greatest voices in music. For this voting round, please nominate any male vocal artist … Continue reading Tournament: The Best Male+ Voice in Music (Nominations)
The people have spoken! The results are in. We narrowed things down from about 60 classic Led Zeppelin songs to a final four. And here they are. Coming in a respectable fourth place, the most recent of the finals from … Continue reading Led Zeppelin Tournament Results
