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Round #1 (early 1970s) - #6 Black Sabbath vs #11 Elton John

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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,728 Standard Supporter
    #6 Black Sabbath
    I'm not saying Sabbath wasn't influential in their own right. Don't twist.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,697 Founders Club
    #6 Black Sabbath
    Swaye said:

    Fucking whoa! Number of albums sold has shit to do with influence on music. A guy playing a piano and singing great songs was nothing new. Hell Liberace already did that AND sucked dick, so Elton was no trendsetter. I love me some super ghey Elton, but come on man, Black Sabbath invented metal. Jesus. Fuck. Imbeciles.

    Don't twist my use of that stat. Who did I seed higher? I know you're smarter than me and stuff.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    #11 Elton John
    Candle in the Wind, fuckers
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,697 Founders Club
    #6 Black Sabbath
    Swaye said:

    If Sabbath doesn't make it to the round of 8 I am killing everything.

    You can meet me an team Neil "Down by the River" in the next round, if Rod doesn't fuck me.


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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,551 Founders Club
    #6 Black Sabbath
    Swaye said:

    Fucking whoa! Number of albums sold has shit to do with influence on music. A guy playing a piano and singing great songs was nothing new. Hell Liberace already did that AND sucked dick, so Elton was no trendsetter. I love me some super ghey Elton, but come on man, Black Sabbath invented metal. Jesus. Fuck. Imbeciles.

    Let's be clear, I love metal, I love Sabbath, and I'm not that into what Elton was slinging but purely based on name recognition alone Elton does win. If you polled artists that came after him there's probably going to be a ton more that site Elton than site Sabbath even though there will be a very vocal minority that site Sabbath as a HUGE influence rather than one of many. Now, if you want to go into the fact that Sabbath inspired a lot of other bands that became huge in their own right and therefore wins those bonus points, then yeah you can make an argument for more influential. Whatever, I still voted for Sabbath.
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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    #11 Elton John
    Voted for Elton because he put out a ton of classics. With Metallica, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, etc. headed to the next round, need some more variety in the competition. Sabbath is great, but too similar to those other bands.
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,551 Founders Club
    #6 Black Sabbath
    oregonblitzkrieg said:

    Voted for Elton because he put out a ton of classics. With Metallica, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, etc. headed to the next round, need some more variety in the competition. Sabbath is great, but too similar to those other bands.

    Fuck off lumping GnR in with any of the rest of these bands.
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