Sunday, July 27, 2008

Upcoming tourney

We're going to try something different with the next music tournament. The tournament after the Sex-Symbol tournament is going to be The Greatest Underrated Band or Artist. This is a tournament we've been wanting to do for a while but couldn't figure out a black and white way of saying "Nope, too successful to be underrated" because after all there will be people out there that think Nirvana are underrated.

Here is how we're going to determine officially underrated or not. If an artist has a Gold or Platinum album in the U.S. they cannot be in the tournament. Solo and side projects aren't eligible if the person is from a band that has reached Gold or Platinum status. As always we need your suggestions so if you're curious you can check your entry here

Here's some examples - Thin Lizzy has a gold album - not eligible. Y&T doesn't so they would be eligible. But we want your suggestions!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

CINDERELLA
RATT
POISON
TED NUGENT
HEADPINS
RONNIE JAMES DIO
LAUREN HARRIS
MEGADETH

Anonymous said...

Axe
Demon
Magnum
Sonique
The Lords of the New Church

Anonymous said...

Quiet Riot
Triumph
Saga
Loverboy
Wino Sinai
Bulletboys
Twisted Sister
WASP

Nowak said...

Searched the RIAA database - according to their records, these bands are (criminally!) NOT gold-sellers:

MOTORHEAD!
Clutch
Melvins
Cannibal Corpse
Mastodon
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Cradle of Filth
Dimmu Borgir
The Misfits
Dragonforce
Meshuggah
Shadows Fall
In Flames
Sonic Youth
Testament
Voivod
The Supersuckers

Lamb of God has a Platinum long-form video (Killadelphia), but no gold or platinum albums...

Anonymous said...

Death
Mercyful Fate
Morbid Angel
Obituary

G.O.A.T.T. said...

Great suggestions so far! I'll be getting tickets to see Motorhead, Misfits, and Airbourne this weekend.

Anonymous said...

Porcupine Tree

Nowak said...

I too am going to see Motorhead w/ the Misfits & Valient Thorr in September!

Here's a few more non-gold musical giants:

Carcass
Neurosis
Opeth
The Replacements
Fugazi (and/or Minor Threat)
Black Flag
Tom Waits
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Jawbreaker
Quicksand
Avail

It's weird to me that the Dead Kennedys and the Butthole Surfers actually have gold records, but Tom Waits doesn't??

Anonymous said...

Dream Theatre

Anonymous said...

Blaze Bayley

Anonymous said...

cradle of filth
dragonforce