128 Wussiest Song Tournament: Day 1
All votes must be received by 17:00:00 PST Friday, August 11. Day 2 will be posted Monday, August 7.
#2. "If" - Bread vs.
#15. "Daydream Believer" - The Monkees
Do you like your gooey hazy oldies from before or after America lost its innocence?
#7. "Vindicated" - Dashboard Confessional vs.
#10. "I Do (Cherish You)" - 98 Degrees"
Emo bands may be all pretentious but at least they perform original material.
#3. "All Outta Love" - Air Supply vs.
#14. "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" - Death Cab For Cutie
I think Death Cab should start covering Wolfmother songs but that's neither here nor there.
#6. "You've Got A Friend" - James Taylor vs.
#11. "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden
Useless trivia that I did not know until now: We have Savage Garden to thank for knocking the Princess Di version of "Candle in the Wind" off of #1.
#2. "If" - Bread vs.
#15. "Daydream Believer" - The Monkees
Do you like your gooey hazy oldies from before or after America lost its innocence?
#7. "Vindicated" - Dashboard Confessional vs.
#10. "I Do (Cherish You)" - 98 Degrees"
Emo bands may be all pretentious but at least they perform original material.
#3. "All Outta Love" - Air Supply vs.
#14. "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" - Death Cab For Cutie
I think Death Cab should start covering Wolfmother songs but that's neither here nor there.
#6. "You've Got A Friend" - James Taylor vs.
#11. "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden
Useless trivia that I did not know until now: We have Savage Garden to thank for knocking the Princess Di version of "Candle in the Wind" off of #1.
posted by Matt Bruce at 6:36 PM
12 Comments:
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In other words, we're supposed to vote for which song in each pair we think is wussier? Okay then.
#2 "If"
#10 "I Do (Cherish You)"
#14 "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"
#11 "I Knew I Loved You"
Imo go for my preferred song of the two. In the typical instance where I only know one of the songs, I'll pick that one, unless I really really hate it.
Daydream Believer over If
Vindicated over I Do
I Will Follow You Into the Dark over All Outta Love
This is the first matchup where I think I know both songs pretty well. I'm pretty big on IWFYitD, despite the lyrics only being more in the mold of IFYitD. In related news, what is it with people who say the newest DCfC is a step backwards? I think it's fabulous, and like it more than a certain unnamed previous album of theirs...
You've Got a Friend over I Knew I Loved You
This is almost certainly a mistake on the "Who's More Wussy?" front, since SG couldn't get more wussier. But I'm taking Sweet Baby James on this one, in all his leftist glory, just because I know this song reasonably well. Blame my folks.
zd, for clariy, are you voting for the song you like better in the wussiest song tournament? Unless you consider wussiness a virtue, I'm not sure that's the right way to vote.
If is wussier than (>>) Daydream Believer.
I Do >> Vindicated
All Outta Love >> IWFYITD
IKILY >> You've Got a Friend
The winner of this tournament is going to be "Sometimes When We Touch". You heard it here first.
If
I Do (Cherish You) - aren't boy band songs wussy by definition?
All Outa Love
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden is neither savage nor a garden. Discuss.
Despite Anne Murray rockin' "Daydream Believer" even harder than the Monkees(!), "If" is still far wussier.
"I Do"
"All Outta Love"
"I Knew I Loved You" - While junkiedom is not to be condoned, it's still more hardcore than whatever the hell Savage Garden does.
If
I Do
All Outta Love
To think this wouldn't make a top 5 wussiest Air Supply list.
I Knew I Loved You
Phil Castagna
Sedated in Adult Contemporary Hell
"If"
"I Do (Cherish You)" Because parentheses (make it wussy)
"All Outta Love"
"You've Got A Friend"
Voting for the wussier:
1. By Monkees standards, "Daydream Believer" has brio and panache. The only way to associate Bread with brio and panache is if those are the names of the new rosemary panera varieties at Xando/Cosi.
2. I've never heard the 98 Degrees song, but must assume it is wussy. Dashboard Confessional is more whiny here, which is first cousin to wussy, but I'll accept no substitutes.
3. By Air Supply standards, "All Out Of Love" has brio and panache. This means absolutely nothing, it's still the wussier song.
4. Let's compare our nominees' ties to supernatural monsters, shall we? "Savage Garden" comes from Anne Rice's description of the joys of murder and blood-drinking. In a memorable live Warren Zevon performance, James Taylor was stalked by a really cool lycanthrope. Predators are less wussy than prey *, and James Taylor's gonna get et.
- Vacca
* Note, however, that Warren Zevon was not wussy and Anne Rice is very much so. Just one of unlife's little ironies, I guess.
I'll pick and choose.
"If" would be my pick to take the whole thing, as would anything else by Bread. ("Diary" is even worse.) In fact, my Bread rule for wussiness rivals my Neil Diamond rule for hellishness. Come to think of it, musical wussiness is hellishness.
I'll give "You've Got a Friend" a vote, although I'll have to admit that my husband sings that one quite well while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. However, in fairness, that dates back to Rick's earlier life, long before the salutary influences of White Zombie and Rage Against the Machine. (Hey, I can't complain. I liked Tommy Roe when I was 12.)
Just checking back here. If the idea isn't to pick the "best" wussy song but rather the "wussiest" wussy song, then I'll vote this way instead:
If
I Do
All Outta Love
I Knew I Loved You
Or basically, as Joshua semi-alluded to up there, the exact opposite of the first go-round.
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