As promised, I have 273 songs that have been posted in the "I Can't Believe It Wasn't A Top 40" thread - each of them HAVE appeared on the Hot 100 or Bubbling Under. That's 256 for the madness, the 'sweet 16' who don't have to compete until those 256 are down to 16, plus oh well there's one extra song so round 1 will have a 3-song bracket.
Like the 'great 8' in the two-hit wonder madness, the 'sweet 16' will be nominated by us to avoid the eventual top 8 all going against each other in round 1 while Fart Wank edges out Ass Ponys in their own bracket. Ok, I stole those names from the "Best & worst bands" thread, but you get the idea.
Nominate 10 songs that automatically make it to round 6 (of 9). The 16 with the most nominations will be immune from elmination until round 6, and won't even compete against each other until round 7.
THE LIST:
10,000 Maniacs "These Are Days"
10,000 Maniacs "Trouble Me"
10,000 Maniacs "What's The Matter Here?"
AC/DC "Highway To Hell"
Adam Ant "Strip"
Aimee Mann "That's Just What You Are"
Allman Brothers "Melissa"
Alphaville "Big In Japan"
Alphaville "Forever Young"
American Hi-Fi "Flavor Of The Weak"
B-52s "Private Idaho"
B-52s "Rock Lobster"
Band "The Weight"
Barenaked Ladies "Brian Wilson"
Barenaked Ladies "It's All Been Done"
Barenaked Ladies "The Old Apartment"
Beatles "Act Naturally"
Beatles "All My Loving"
Beatles "From Me To You"
Beatles "I Am The Walrus"
Beatles "I Should Have Known Better"
Beatles "If I Fell"
Beatles "I'm Down"
Beatles "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You"
Beatles "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
Beatles "Roll Over Beethoven"
Beatles "There's A Place"
Beatles "What Goes On"
Beatles "Yes It Is"
Beatles "You Can't Do That"
Beck "Where It's At"
Berlin "The Metro"
Beth Hart "LA Song"
Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself"
Billy Idol "Rebel Yell"
Billy Joel "Goodnight Saigon"
Billy Joel "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)"
Billy Joel "The Downeaster Alexa"
Blink 182 "What's My Age Again"
Bloodhound Gang "The Bad Touch"
Bob Seger "Katmandu"
Bob Seger "Rock And Roll Never Forgets"
Bon Jovi "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
Bonnie Raitt "Have A Heart"
Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy"
Bronski Beat "Small Town Boy"
Bruce Cockburn "If I Had A Rocket Launcher"
Bush "Greedy Fly"
Buster Poindexter "Hot Hot Hot"
Cake "Never There"
Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton "Those Were The Days"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Cars "It's All I Can Do"
Cars "Since You're Gone"
Cheap Trick "If You Want My Love"
Cheap Trick "Surrender"
Cherry Poppin' Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot"
Chicago "Questions 67 and 68"
Clash "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
Coldplay "Fix You"
Coldplay "Yellow"
Cranberries "Dreams"
Cure "Fascination Street"
Cure "In Between Days"
Cure "Pictures Of You"
Cypress Hill "How I Could Just Kill A Man"
Daft Punk "One More Time"
David Bowie "Ashes To Ashes"
David Bowie "Changes"
David Bowie "Rebel Rebel"
David Gray "Babylon"
Def Leppard "Bringin' On The Heartbreak"
Depeche Mode "Master And Servant"
Diana Ross & Michael Jackson "Ease On Down The Road"
Dixie Chicks "Wide Open Spaces"
Dolly Parton "Jolene"
Doors "Break On Through"
Eagles "Tequila Sunrise"
Ed Sheeran "Lego House"
Elton John "Tiny Dancer"
Elvis Presley "Raised On Rock"
Eminem "Stan"
Everclear "Father Of Mine"
Everything "Hooch"
Fatboy Slim "The Rockafeller Skank"
Filter "Hey Man Nice Shot"
Fixx "Red Skies"
Foo Fighters "Long Road To Ruin"
Foo Fighters "Times Like These"
Garbage "Only Happy When It Rains"
Gary Portnoy "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
Genesis "Taking It All Too Hard"
Genesis "Turn It On Again"
Go West "We Close Our Eyes"
Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Green Day "American Idiot"
Greg Lake "I Believe In Father Christmas"
Guns N Roses "Nightrain"
Hall & Oates "Don't Hold Back Your Love"
Herbie Hancock "Rockit"
Hole "Celebrity Skin"
Huey Lewis & The News "But It's Alright"
Huey Lewis & The News "Workin' For A Livin'"
Indigo Girls "Closer To Fine"
Indigo Girls "Galileo"
Isley Brothers "Shout"
Jack Johnson "Flake"
James "Laid"
James Taylor "Carolina On My Mind"
James Taylor "Mexico"
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Purple Haze"
John Fogerty "Centerfield"
John Travolta "Greased Lightnin'"
Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up"
Journey "Wheel In The Sky"
Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Kinks "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
Kinks "Do It Again"
Lalo Schifrin "Mission-Impossible"
La's "There She Goes"
Lemonheads "Mrs Robinson"
Lenny Kravitz "American Woman"
Lenny Kravitz "Let Love Rule"
Lightning Seeds "The Life Of Riley"
Limp Bizkit "Nookie"
Lindsey Buckingham "Holiday Road"
Lit "My Own Worst Enemy"
Live "Selling The Drama"
Mac Davis "It's Hard To Be Humble"
Madonna "Love Don't Live Here No More"
Madonna "Nothing Really Matters"
Marcia Griffiths "Electric Boogie"
Mary Chapin Carpenter "Passionate Kisses"
Mat Kearney "Nothing Left To Lose"
Matt Nathanson "Come On Get Higher"
Meat Puppets "Backwater"
Melissa Etheridge "Similar Features"
Metallica "King Nothing"
Metallica "Sad But True"
Metallica "Wherever I May Roam"
MGMT "Kids"
Michael Buble "Home"
Missing Persons "Destination Unknown"
Missing Persons "Words"
Modern English "I Melt With You"
Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home"
Muse "Madness"
Natalie Imbruglia "Torn"
New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
Nirvana "Lithium"
Offspring "Why Don't You Get A Job"
Oingo Boingo "Weird Science"
Ozzy Osbourne "Mama I'm Coming Home"
Pat Benatar "You Better Run"
Paul Simon "Graceland"
Pearl Jam "Alive"
Pearl Jam "Daughter"
Pearl Jam "Evenflow"
Pearl Jam "I Am Mine"
Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
Pearl Jam "Just Breathe"
Pearl Jam "Not For You"
Pearl Jam "The Fixer"
Pearl Jam "Wishlist"
Pearl Jam "World Wide Suicide"
Pet Shop Boys "Where The Streets/Can't Take My Eyes"
Peter Gabriel "Don't Give Up"
Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill"
Phil Collins "Who Said I Would"
Pink Floyd "Learning To Fly"
Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell"
Pink Floyd "Us And Them"
PM Dawn "The Ways Of The Wind"
POD "Alive"
Police "Message In A Bottle"
Porno For Pyros "Pets"
Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way"
Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
Psychedelic Furs "The Ghost In You"
Queen "I Want It All"
Queen "Play The Game"
Radiohead "High And Dry"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give It Away"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Warped"
REM "Fall On Me"
REM "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"
REM "Pop Song '89"
REM "Radio Free Europe"
REM "South Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
Replacements "I'll Be You"
Republica "Ready To Go"
Richie Valens "Come On, Let's Go"
Rodney Dangerfield "Rappin' Rodney"
Rolling Stones "Almost Hear You Sigh"
Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man"
Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Roxy Music "More Than This"
Rush "Limelight"
Rush "Tom Sawyer"
Sarah McLachlan "Fallen"
Sarah McLachlan "Good Enough"
Sarah McLachlan "Possession"
Scandal "Goodbye To You"
Script "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"
Seal "Killer"
Sheppard "Geronimo"
Sheryl Crow "Leaving Las Vegas"
Sinead O'Connor "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Skrillex "Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites"
Smithereens "Blues Before And After"
Smithereens "Only A Memory"
Split Enz "I Got You"
Sponge "Plowed"
Squeeze "Tempted"
Steve Carlisle "WKRP In Cincinnati"
Sting "Englishman In New York"
Sum 41 "Fat Lip"
Suzanne Vega "Solitude Standing"
Talking Heads "And She Was"
Talking Heads "Life During Wartime"
Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime"
Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere"
Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
Tegan & Sara ft Lonely Island "Everything Is Awesome"
Toad The Wet Sprocket "Something's Always Wrong"
Todd Rundgren "Bang The Drum All Day"
Tom Petty "A Face In The Crowd"
Tom Petty "Here Comes My Girl"
Tom Petty "I Need To Know"
Tom Petty "Into the Great Wide Open"
Tom Petty "It's Good To Be King"
Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl"
Tori Amos "Silent All These Years"
Tracy Champman "Crossroads"
Tracy Champman "Talkin' Bout A Revolution"
Traveling Wilburys "End Of The Line"
Traveling Wilburys "Handle With Care"
U2 "All I Want Is You"
U2 "I Will Follow"
U2 "New Year's Day"
U2 "Sweetest Thing"
U2 & BB King "When Love Comes To Town"
Urge Overkill "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
Used And My Chemical Romance "Under Pressure"
Van Halen "Hot For Teacher"
Van Halen "Right Now"
Van Morrison "Moondance"
Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like"
Wall Of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
Waylon & Willie "Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Weather Girls "It's Raining Men"
Weird Al "Amish Paradise"
Weird Al "Fat"
Who "Eminence Front"
Who "My Generation"
Williams Brothers "Can't Cry Hard Enough"
Winger "Easy Come, Easy Go"
Wonders "That Thing You Do"
XTC "The Mayor Of Simpleton"
Yaz "Only You"
Young The Giant "Cough Syrup"
Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds"
ZZ Top "Cheap Sunglasses"
ZZ Top "La Grange"
ZZ Top "Sharp Dressed Man"
ZZ Top "Tube Snake Boogie"
Like the 'great 8' in the two-hit wonder madness, the 'sweet 16' will be nominated by us to avoid the eventual top 8 all going against each other in round 1 while Fart Wank edges out Ass Ponys in their own bracket. Ok, I stole those names from the "Best & worst bands" thread, but you get the idea.
Nominate 10 songs that automatically make it to round 6 (of 9). The 16 with the most nominations will be immune from elmination until round 6, and won't even compete against each other until round 7.
THE LIST:
10,000 Maniacs "These Are Days"
10,000 Maniacs "Trouble Me"
10,000 Maniacs "What's The Matter Here?"
AC/DC "Highway To Hell"
Adam Ant "Strip"
Aimee Mann "That's Just What You Are"
Allman Brothers "Melissa"
Alphaville "Big In Japan"
Alphaville "Forever Young"
American Hi-Fi "Flavor Of The Weak"
B-52s "Private Idaho"
B-52s "Rock Lobster"
Band "The Weight"
Barenaked Ladies "Brian Wilson"
Barenaked Ladies "It's All Been Done"
Barenaked Ladies "The Old Apartment"
Beatles "Act Naturally"
Beatles "All My Loving"
Beatles "From Me To You"
Beatles "I Am The Walrus"
Beatles "I Should Have Known Better"
Beatles "If I Fell"
Beatles "I'm Down"
Beatles "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You"
Beatles "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
Beatles "Roll Over Beethoven"
Beatles "There's A Place"
Beatles "What Goes On"
Beatles "Yes It Is"
Beatles "You Can't Do That"
Beck "Where It's At"
Berlin "The Metro"
Beth Hart "LA Song"
Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself"
Billy Idol "Rebel Yell"
Billy Joel "Goodnight Saigon"
Billy Joel "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)"
Billy Joel "The Downeaster Alexa"
Blink 182 "What's My Age Again"
Bloodhound Gang "The Bad Touch"
Bob Seger "Katmandu"
Bob Seger "Rock And Roll Never Forgets"
Bon Jovi "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
Bonnie Raitt "Have A Heart"
Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy"
Bronski Beat "Small Town Boy"
Bruce Cockburn "If I Had A Rocket Launcher"
Bush "Greedy Fly"
Buster Poindexter "Hot Hot Hot"
Cake "Never There"
Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton "Those Were The Days"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Cars "It's All I Can Do"
Cars "Since You're Gone"
Cheap Trick "If You Want My Love"
Cheap Trick "Surrender"
Cherry Poppin' Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot"
Chicago "Questions 67 and 68"
Clash "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
Coldplay "Fix You"
Coldplay "Yellow"
Cranberries "Dreams"
Cure "Fascination Street"
Cure "In Between Days"
Cure "Pictures Of You"
Cypress Hill "How I Could Just Kill A Man"
Daft Punk "One More Time"
David Bowie "Ashes To Ashes"
David Bowie "Changes"
David Bowie "Rebel Rebel"
David Gray "Babylon"
Def Leppard "Bringin' On The Heartbreak"
Depeche Mode "Master And Servant"
Diana Ross & Michael Jackson "Ease On Down The Road"
Dixie Chicks "Wide Open Spaces"
Dolly Parton "Jolene"
Doors "Break On Through"
Eagles "Tequila Sunrise"
Ed Sheeran "Lego House"
Elton John "Tiny Dancer"
Elvis Presley "Raised On Rock"
Eminem "Stan"
Everclear "Father Of Mine"
Everything "Hooch"
Fatboy Slim "The Rockafeller Skank"
Filter "Hey Man Nice Shot"
Fixx "Red Skies"
Foo Fighters "Long Road To Ruin"
Foo Fighters "Times Like These"
Garbage "Only Happy When It Rains"
Gary Portnoy "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
Genesis "Taking It All Too Hard"
Genesis "Turn It On Again"
Go West "We Close Our Eyes"
Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Green Day "American Idiot"
Greg Lake "I Believe In Father Christmas"
Guns N Roses "Nightrain"
Hall & Oates "Don't Hold Back Your Love"
Herbie Hancock "Rockit"
Hole "Celebrity Skin"
Huey Lewis & The News "But It's Alright"
Huey Lewis & The News "Workin' For A Livin'"
Indigo Girls "Closer To Fine"
Indigo Girls "Galileo"
Isley Brothers "Shout"
Jack Johnson "Flake"
James "Laid"
James Taylor "Carolina On My Mind"
James Taylor "Mexico"
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Purple Haze"
John Fogerty "Centerfield"
John Travolta "Greased Lightnin'"
Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up"
Journey "Wheel In The Sky"
Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Kinks "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
Kinks "Do It Again"
Lalo Schifrin "Mission-Impossible"
La's "There She Goes"
Lemonheads "Mrs Robinson"
Lenny Kravitz "American Woman"
Lenny Kravitz "Let Love Rule"
Lightning Seeds "The Life Of Riley"
Limp Bizkit "Nookie"
Lindsey Buckingham "Holiday Road"
Lit "My Own Worst Enemy"
Live "Selling The Drama"
Mac Davis "It's Hard To Be Humble"
Madonna "Love Don't Live Here No More"
Madonna "Nothing Really Matters"
Marcia Griffiths "Electric Boogie"
Mary Chapin Carpenter "Passionate Kisses"
Mat Kearney "Nothing Left To Lose"
Matt Nathanson "Come On Get Higher"
Meat Puppets "Backwater"
Melissa Etheridge "Similar Features"
Metallica "King Nothing"
Metallica "Sad But True"
Metallica "Wherever I May Roam"
MGMT "Kids"
Michael Buble "Home"
Missing Persons "Destination Unknown"
Missing Persons "Words"
Modern English "I Melt With You"
Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home"
Muse "Madness"
Natalie Imbruglia "Torn"
New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
Nirvana "Lithium"
Offspring "Why Don't You Get A Job"
Oingo Boingo "Weird Science"
Ozzy Osbourne "Mama I'm Coming Home"
Pat Benatar "You Better Run"
Paul Simon "Graceland"
Pearl Jam "Alive"
Pearl Jam "Daughter"
Pearl Jam "Evenflow"
Pearl Jam "I Am Mine"
Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
Pearl Jam "Just Breathe"
Pearl Jam "Not For You"
Pearl Jam "The Fixer"
Pearl Jam "Wishlist"
Pearl Jam "World Wide Suicide"
Pet Shop Boys "Where The Streets/Can't Take My Eyes"
Peter Gabriel "Don't Give Up"
Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill"
Phil Collins "Who Said I Would"
Pink Floyd "Learning To Fly"
Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell"
Pink Floyd "Us And Them"
PM Dawn "The Ways Of The Wind"
POD "Alive"
Police "Message In A Bottle"
Porno For Pyros "Pets"
Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way"
Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
Psychedelic Furs "The Ghost In You"
Queen "I Want It All"
Queen "Play The Game"
Radiohead "High And Dry"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give It Away"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Warped"
REM "Fall On Me"
REM "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"
REM "Pop Song '89"
REM "Radio Free Europe"
REM "South Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
Replacements "I'll Be You"
Republica "Ready To Go"
Richie Valens "Come On, Let's Go"
Rodney Dangerfield "Rappin' Rodney"
Rolling Stones "Almost Hear You Sigh"
Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man"
Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Roxy Music "More Than This"
Rush "Limelight"
Rush "Tom Sawyer"
Sarah McLachlan "Fallen"
Sarah McLachlan "Good Enough"
Sarah McLachlan "Possession"
Scandal "Goodbye To You"
Script "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"
Seal "Killer"
Sheppard "Geronimo"
Sheryl Crow "Leaving Las Vegas"
Sinead O'Connor "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Skrillex "Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites"
Smithereens "Blues Before And After"
Smithereens "Only A Memory"
Split Enz "I Got You"
Sponge "Plowed"
Squeeze "Tempted"
Steve Carlisle "WKRP In Cincinnati"
Sting "Englishman In New York"
Sum 41 "Fat Lip"
Suzanne Vega "Solitude Standing"
Talking Heads "And She Was"
Talking Heads "Life During Wartime"
Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime"
Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere"
Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
Tegan & Sara ft Lonely Island "Everything Is Awesome"
Toad The Wet Sprocket "Something's Always Wrong"
Todd Rundgren "Bang The Drum All Day"
Tom Petty "A Face In The Crowd"
Tom Petty "Here Comes My Girl"
Tom Petty "I Need To Know"
Tom Petty "Into the Great Wide Open"
Tom Petty "It's Good To Be King"
Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl"
Tori Amos "Silent All These Years"
Tracy Champman "Crossroads"
Tracy Champman "Talkin' Bout A Revolution"
Traveling Wilburys "End Of The Line"
Traveling Wilburys "Handle With Care"
U2 "All I Want Is You"
U2 "I Will Follow"
U2 "New Year's Day"
U2 "Sweetest Thing"
U2 & BB King "When Love Comes To Town"
Urge Overkill "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
Used And My Chemical Romance "Under Pressure"
Van Halen "Hot For Teacher"
Van Halen "Right Now"
Van Morrison "Moondance"
Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like"
Wall Of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
Waylon & Willie "Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Weather Girls "It's Raining Men"
Weird Al "Amish Paradise"
Weird Al "Fat"
Who "Eminence Front"
Who "My Generation"
Williams Brothers "Can't Cry Hard Enough"
Winger "Easy Come, Easy Go"
Wonders "That Thing You Do"
XTC "The Mayor Of Simpleton"
Yaz "Only You"
Young The Giant "Cough Syrup"
Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds"
ZZ Top "Cheap Sunglasses"
ZZ Top "La Grange"
ZZ Top "Sharp Dressed Man"
ZZ Top "Tube Snake Boogie"
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