Greatest Rock Vocalist Tourney: Sweet Sixteen Matchup #1

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Matchups:

 

 

#1 Freddie Mercury vs. #2 Robert Plant

 

 

 

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIZ2bTS2oM

 

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

https://www.youtube....h?v=SgPmMJDfZ4Q

 

Queen - The Show Must Go On

https://www.youtube....h?v=Fq-L8vxE8XY

 

Queen - Somebody to Love

https://www.youtube....h?v=6iDQwon_EGw

 

 

 

 

Plant:

 

 

 

Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzybbrfQVM

 

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

https://www.youtube....h?v=CPSkNFODVRE

 

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

https://www.youtube....h?v=nQH3LtNePgI

 

Led Zeppelin - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You

https://www.youtube....h?v=7Fqi7-HH03w

 

 

 

#3 Chris Cornell vs. #4 Layne Staley

 

 

Cornell:

 

 

Soundgarden - Bleed Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_Ihkv_Q70

 

Solo - Seasons

https://www.youtube....h?v=TksqEIl1uxU

 

Temple of the Dog - Four-Walled World

https://www.youtube....h?v=OAezfl61t9w

 

Solo - Preaching The End of the World

https://www.youtube....h?v=QFzBHKrF7zs

 

 

 

 

Staley:

 

 

Alice in Chains - Would?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM0zWPefPhg

 

Alice in Chains - Rooster

https://www.youtube....h?v=x0FAosDi4XA

 

Alice in Chains - Nutshell

https://www.youtube....h?v=g_ihXlWKC7g

 

Alice in Chains - Them Bones

https://www.youtube....h?v=wFgAE5SgFnw

 

 

 

 

 

#21 Paul McCartney vs. #6 Ian Gillan

 

 

 

McCartney:

 

 

 

Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-yI0715fss

 

The Beatles - Blackbird

https://www.youtube....h?v=NIqr2noB2gc

 

The Beatles - Let It Be

https://www.youtube....h?v=WcBnJw-H2wQ

 

Solo - Live and Let Die

https://www.youtube....h?v=ZohPmz0RVVY

 

 

 

Gillan:

 

 

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLS6-1e_4WA

 

Deep Purple - Highway Star

https://www.youtube....h?v=Wr9ie2J2690

 

Deep Purple - Child in Time

https://www.youtube....h?v=-o4-9toOBEI

 

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

https://www.youtube....h?v=krg6w1GKGpc

 

 

 

#7 Steve Perry vs. #8 Jim Morrison

 

 

 

Perry:

 

 

Journey - Wheel In The Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH0fNvYuwIc

 

Journey - Don't Stop Believing

https://www.youtube....h?v=1k8craCGpgs

 

Journey - Faithfully

https://www.youtube....h?v=UFEgOzrqqCg

 

Journey - Any Way You Want It

https://www.youtube....h?v=zC7xEI2Wkp4

 

 

 

 

Morrison:

 

 

The Doors - The Crystal Ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aE7qX1DD8

 

The Doors - Break On Through

https://www.youtube....h?v=OdDMSgNgdpk

 

The Doors - Touch Me

https://www.youtube....h?v=OkIpww71RNc

 

The Doors - The Changeling

https://www.youtube....h?v=yPQn5XwW8aY

 

[RazorStar 4,025]

Learn to bracket Vin.

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I need to think on this one

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Robert Plant for the upset!

[SteVo+ 3,702]

Wow Vin, fail job on having what should have been the final matchup in the round of sixteen.

 

Anyway, let's look at Plant vs. Mercury. Obviously these guys are the best, but honestly, determining the superior vocaslist is easy for me. You guys all know I'm a Zeppelin homer, so my vote goes to this guy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dbGGvsjf8

 

Mercury is the best. Let's not pretend otherwise.

Edited June 28, 2014 by SteVo

[Vin+ 3,121]

Yeah, I should've done a straight NFL-style tourney instead of a bracket, but eh.

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Staley and Cornell was really fucking hard. Cornell has more technical skill than Staley had, but Staley had such a unique, powerful voice, and his technical skill level was certainly high enough to be in the argument--I had to go with him. Cornell's unique in his own way, and very powerful, but he's also easy to dislike if you don't like male vocals with his kind of tone, more high pitched.

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Layne is gon lose

Edited June 28, 2014 by seanbrock

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Get your votes in, people.

 

The fate of the world tournament is in your hands!

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Layne is gon lose

So is Ian

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Few hours left to get your votes in.

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Voting closed.

 

Mercury, Cornell, McCartney, and Perry advance.