Classic Rock Mega-Knockout: Finals!

Vote for your favorite song

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Classic Rock Mega-Knockout: 64 to 32, Round 8 of 8

Songs in gold have survived beyond their seeding:
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"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen) [1] vs. "Time" (Pink Floyd) [65]

"Freewill" (Rush) [481] vs. "Light My Fire" (The Doors) [33]

"Dream On" (Aerosmith) [16] vs. "Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac) [305]

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2) [17] vs. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" (Joan Jett) [81]

Top song in each pair wins a tie.

One day left for Round 5
Also open: Round 6 , Round 7
 
My votes:

Time is epic but it just ran into the 800-lb gorilla. Bohemian Rhapsody
Light My Fire is also epic, but I vote for Geddy's bass solo. Freewill
Aerosmith by far. Dream On
I like Joan Jett but she didn't deserve to get this far. Sunday Bloody Sunday
 
Extremely difficult call on the first one, but gotta go with Queen. Went with Rush, Aerosmith and Joan Jett on the other ones.
 
Classic Rock Mega-Knockout: 32 to 16, Round 4 of 4

Songs in gold have survived beyond their seeding:
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"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen) [1] vs. "Freewill" (Rush) [481]

"Dream On" (Aerosmith) [16] vs. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2) [17]

"Sweet Child O'Mine" (Guns 'n Roses) [8] vs. "Jessica" (Allman Brothers Band) [281]

"All Along The Watchtower" (Jimi Hendrix) [9] vs. "More Than A Feeling" (Boston) [24]

Top song in each pair wins a tie.

One day left for Round 1
Also open: Round 2 , Round 3

There will be three days (until round 3 closes) before I post the next round (Sweet Sixteen part 1). The Sweet 16 will go up on June 20/21; the Elite 8 on June 25, the Final 4 on June 29 and the final battle on July 3.

With the new daily polls coming to an end after today... @Perun, it's time to sharpen your cheese knife.
 
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My votes:

Geddy's bass solo tempts me, but Queen is still a steamroller. Bohemian Rhapsody
Tougher on the second pair, U2 has a great song, but I'm an Aerosmith guy. Dream On
Still voting for my #1 pick. Sweet Child O' Mine
Gotta go for all those cool harmonies in the Boston song. More Than A Feeling
 
I forgot to vote on the last one, cast another vote for More Than Feeling, please.
 
First matchup is the toughest. Great Rush song, but Queen prevails.
One of U2's greatest trumps a song that even Joe Perry didn't like ('til it made him boatloads of $$).
Jessica has made it too far in this game already. G'n'R wins this easily.
Bob Dylan's songwriting + Jimi Hendrix's guitar and soul = winner winner chicken dinner.
 
Cornfed Hick said:
a song that even Joe Perry didn't like
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None of the band except Steven Tyler "liked" it. Drummer Joey Kramer actually disliked it the most. When they were sharing a house in Boston, Joey had the bedroom with the piano, and Tyler used to wake him up every morning playing "this horrible dirge" which developed into Dream On. (Kramer did say he liked the song later, when it wasn't waking him up every day.)

The person who hated it the most was Joe Perry's wife, Alyssa. She hated everything about Steven Tyler and especially Dream On. She used it as her bathroom break song at Aerosmith shows, and says that, to this day, hearing it on the radio makes her need to pee.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
None of the band except Steven Tyler "liked" it. Drummer Joey Kramer actually disliked it the most. When they were sharing a house in Boston, Joey had the bedroom with the piano, and Tyler used to wake him up every morning playing "this horrible dirge" which developed into Dream On. (Kramer did say he liked the song later, when it wasn't waking him up every day.)

The person who hated it the most was Joe Perry's wife, Alyssa. She hated everything about Steven Tyler and especially Dream On. She used it as her bathroom break song at Aerosmith shows, and says that, to this day, hearing it on the radio makes her need to pee.
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Dream On is probably the only Aerosmith song that I actually love. These people are bonkers.
 
Not so much. The rest of Aerosmith didn't hate Dream On like Alyssa Perry, they just disliked for various reasons. It's not very bluesy, it's a Steven Tyler thing more than a band thing, it's a song they've played every night for most of their lives now. Also, like CFH said: the song becoming a success improved everyone's attitude except Alyssa.
 
Queen.
U2. "Toys in the Attic" is my kind of Aerosmith, "Dream On" is not.
Allman Brothers. I've voted for the GnR song more times than I thought I would, but here it doesn't stand a chance.
Hendrix is more than a feeling.
 
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