Good day. BP is darkish at the moment, however final week an Eagles-related argument (weigh in down within the feedback part on how they suck! —GS) begat a draft of bands from the Nineteen Seventies. Now, we’re fulfilling the time-honored custom of turning inane disagreements into content material! Welcome to the official Baseball Prospectus Nineteen Seventies band draft.
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First, the foundations, which have been devised by Bryan Grosnick, who organized the match and tolerated the group’s many makes an attempt to bend the spirit or letter of the legislation. Particular due to Bryan.
We’re drafting musical teams that have been energetic in the course of the interval 1970-1979.
You might be drafting their complete discography, together with before-after 1970-1979.
If you choose a band that was not primarily energetic or extraordinarily energetic in the course of the Nineteen Seventies, you can be ostracized and usually mocked by your fellow drafters. (That is “The Beatles” rule.)
Snake draft, random order.
No solo acts, until they with an marketed backing band (a la Selena Gomez and The Scene)
Now, the draft, which was carried out over roughly 72 hours by way of Google Sheets and a Slack thread that turned sluggishly lengthy by the top. Robert Au had the primary choose:
Identify
Spherical 1
Spherical 2
Spherical 3
Spherical 4
Spherical 5
Spherical 6
Robert A
Queen
The Miracles
ABBA
The Kinks
Three Canine Evening
Elis & Tom
Kendall G
Led Zeppelin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Band
The Bee Gees
The O’Jays
Adam L
Rolling Stones
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Younger
KISS
Rush
Styx
Steve Miller Band
Patrick D
Earth, Wind & Hearth
The Vehicles
Santana (ft. Santana)
Kraftwerk
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Africa 70
Bret S
Bruce Springsteen & the E Avenue Band
Huge Star
Pink Floyd
Elvis Costello & the Points of interest
The Stooges
The Police
Bryan G
The Conflict
Aerosmith
Journey
Low-cost Trick
Darryl Corridor and John Oates
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Tim J
Bob Marley & the Wailers
The Jackson 5
The Seaside Boys
Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons
Roxy Music
The Doobie Brothers
Jen R E
Fleetwood Mac
Fanny
The Runaways
The Dishrags
Sister Sledge
The Carpenters
Rob M
The Who
Chicago
Jethro Tull
Coronary heart
Steely Dan
Boston
Ginny S
Speaking Heads
Pleasure Division
The Supremes
Patti Smith Group
X-Ray Spex
Babe Ruth
Craig G
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
The Eagles
The Temptations
Gladys Knight and the Pips
ELO
The Isley Brothers
Daniel R E
The Ramones
Warfare
Sly and the Household Stone
Black Sabbath
Sure
T. Rex
Jeffrey P
Blondie
Tv
AC/DC
Toots and the Maytals
The Specials
Masaru Imada Trio
Martin A
Derek and the Dominos
Allman Brothers Band
The Jeff Beck Group
Van Halen
Grand Funk Railroad
Deep Purple
Harry P
Grateful Useless
Parliament-Funkadelic
Site visitors
Emmylou Harris and the Scorching Band
Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Upsetters
Dire Straits
Everybody additionally graciously offered their ideas on their draft and the method as a complete, which we’ve produced beneath. We additionally made everybody say whose draft(s) they appreciated, apart from their very own:
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Robert Au:
Spherical 1 (1)
Queen
Spherical 2 (30)
The Miracles
Spherical 3 (31)
ABBA
Spherical 4 (60)
The Kinks
Spherical 5 (61)
Three Canine Evening
Spherical 6 (90)
Elis & Tom
This was a enjoyable train, and a surprisingly deep pool; I’d be pleased with all of those drafts. I aimed for breadth, and private connection over crucial acclaim, although I ended up with no scarcity of each. Calling Elis & Tom a band is a stretch, I’m conscious, however Bryan stated sure, and I’m delighted to choose them.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Craig’s
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Kendall Guillemette:
Spherical 1 (2)
Led Zeppelin
Spherical 2 (29)
Credence Clearwater Revival
Spherical 3 (32)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Spherical 4 (59)
The Band
Spherical 5 (62)
The Bee Gees
Spherical 6 (89)
The O’Jays
It was a deep draft. Prime quality deep into the later rounds. I used to be fairly happy with my draft. I positively was drafting the very best band accessible every spherical and I really feel like I ended up with a number of bands that might actually high a rotation. Within the later rounds I moved extra to specialists who have been the very best at what they did.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Adam L
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Adam Lawler:
Spherical 1 (3)
Rolling Stones
Spherical 2 (28)
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Younger
Spherical 3 (33)
KISS
Spherical 4 (58)
Rush
Spherical 5 (63)
Styx
Spherical 6 (88)
Steve Miller Band
The entire thing was regrettable. From its origin in my introduction to my climactic number of Steve Miller Band: regrettable. The very best a part of the method was studying Ginny’s oldest stuffy animal was a Scooby Doo doll.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Tim (surprising given his dangerous style in music)
The rest? None of those bands are nearly as good as Taylor Swift. Deciding on David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars was thumbing your nostril on the course of. An absolute abomination.
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Patrick Dubuque:
Spherical 1 (4)
Earth, Wind & Hearth
Spherical 2 (27)
The Vehicles
Spherical 3 (34)
Santana (ft. Santana)
Spherical 4 (57)
Kraftwerk
Spherical 5 (65)
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Spherical 6 (87)
Africa 70
I don’t actually like music, and I don’t actually just like the Nineteen Seventies, and I don’t actually like Nineteen Seventies music. I believe my picks precisely replicate my lack of style.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Ginny Searle
The rest? No. That’s all.
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Bret Sayre:
Spherical 1 (5)
Bruce Springsteen & the E Avenue Band
Spherical 2 (26)
Huge Star
Spherical 3 (35)
Pink Floyd
Spherical 4 (56)
Elvis Costello & the Points of interest
Spherical 5 (65)
The Stooges
Spherical 6 (86)
The Police
This was a really enjoyable train, and I attempted to focus just a little extra on high quality reasonably than amount – so a handful of my picks solely had 5 or fewer data to their identify. 10/10, would take part once more.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Jeffrey’s
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Bryan Grosnick:
Spherical 1 (6)
The Conflict
Spherical 2 (25)
Aerosmith
Spherical 3 (36)
Journey
Spherical 4 (55)
Low-cost Trick
Spherical 5 (66)
Darryl Corridor and John Oates
Spherical 6 (85)
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
You may name this the “songs about Janie” memorial draft, however I believe I acquired an excellent mixture of high quality and amount from the related discographies. And I’d reasonably have two years of David Bowie than 20 years of another bands!
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Bret’s
The rest? The Eagles: nonetheless dangerous.
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Tim Jackson:
Spherical 1 (7)
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Spherical 2 (24)
The Jackson 5
Spherical 3 (37)
The Seaside Boys
Spherical 4 (54)
Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons
Spherical 5 (67)
Roxy Music
Spherical 6 (84)
The Doobie Brothers
I didn’t count on my board to be so pushed by smoothness and/or grooveness however I in all probability ought to have. “What A Idiot Believes” is in regards to the Doobie Brothers lasting til spherical six.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Jeffrey’s. A lineup with various expertise that makes it laborious to plan towards
The rest? My largest contributions to this train included saying the Eagles stink and that Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is wildly overrated. I remorse nothing.
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Jen Ramos Eisen:
Spherical 1 (8)
Fleetwood Mac
Spherical 2 (23)
Fanny
Spherical 3 (38)
The Runaways
Spherical 4 (53)
The Dishrags
Spherical 5 (68)
Sister Sledge
Spherical 6 (83)
The Carpenters
that was enjoyable and I’d do it once more with completely different eras
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Bret’s or Daniel’s
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Rob Mains:
Spherical 1 (9)
The Who
Spherical 2 (22)
Chicago
Spherical 3 (39)
Jethro Tull
Spherical 4 (52)
Coronary heart
Spherical 5 (69)
Steely Dan
Spherical 6 (82)
Boston
I’m happy with the data that I chosen bands I appreciated as a young person. I’m not happy with the data that my tastes haven’t matured a lot since then. Individuals who weren’t even born within the 70s exhibited extra sophistication.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Martin
The rest? My bands should not cool. I used to be not cool within the Nineteen Seventies. I’m nonetheless not cool.
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Ginny Searle:
Spherical 1 (10)
Speaking Heads
Spherical 2 (21)
Pleasure Division
Spherical 3 (40)
The Supremes
Spherical 4 (51)
Patti Smith Group
Spherical 5 (70)
X-Ray Spex
Spherical 6 (81)
Babe Ruth
I’d sometimes assume my music style is generally situated within the Eighties and onward, and that lots of the earlier exceptions are solo artists, so one motive I cherished this draft was reminding me what number of 70s teams I like. It seems like dishonest taking Patti Smith Group since Horses was launched solely beneath her identify, however the backing group was there for that album too, so…
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Rob or Jen’s
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Craig Goldstein:
Spherical 1 (11)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Spherical 2 (20)
The Eagles
Spherical 3 (41)
The Temptations
Spherical 4 (50)
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Spherical 5 (71)
ELO
Spherical 6 (80)
The Isley Brothers
I cherished partaking, it was a ton of enjoyable. I used to be thrilled with what I acquired contemplating I used to be going eleventh total, and had a bunch of names on my board even on the draft’s conclusion. Nice decade for music.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? I believe it’ll be straightforward to ID the sort(s) of music I like however Kendall, Robert, Bryan, and Mains have been all in my wheelhouse. I’d in all probability take Kendall’s if I had to decide on one.
The rest? The Eagles rule. That’s an Official Baseball Prospectus Music Opinion.
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Daniel R Epstein:
Spherical 1 (12)
The Ramones
Spherical 2 (19)
Warfare
Spherical 3 (42)
Sly and the Household Stone
Spherical 4 (49)
Black Sabbath
Spherical 5 (72)
Sure
Spherical 6 (79)
T. Rex
The Ramones ought to by no means have lasted till the twelfth choose. The lengthy model of Warfare’s “Slippin’ Into Darkness” is presumably the very best track of the last decade… or perhaps any decade.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Bret’s
The rest? The Eagles suck.
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Jeffrey Paternostro:
Spherical 1 (13)
Blondie
Spherical 2 (18)
Tv
Spherical 3 (43)
AC/DC
Spherical 4 (48)
Toots and the Maytals
Spherical 5 (73)
The Specials
Spherical 6 (78)
Masaru Imada Trio
Fairly happy to get Toots and the Maytals that far after Marley and The Wailers. In all probability reached for Tv however Marquee Moon may be the only finest 70s album.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Ginny Searle
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Martin Alonso:
Spherical 1 (14)
Derek and the Dominos
Spherical 2 (17)
Allman Brothers Band
Spherical 3 (44)
The Jeff Beck Group
Spherical 4 (47)
Van Halen
Spherical 5 (74)
Grand Funk Railroad
Spherical 6 (77)
Deep Purple
Tried to nab my favourite all-time album within the first spherical (which may’ve in all probability been a fifth spherical choose). Then went on itemizing all my favourite bands that had performed by the 70s, however am nonetheless kicking myself for forgetting Rush!
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Adam’s 4th spherical choose of Rush.
The rest? Nonetheless kicking myself for forgetting Rush…
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Harry Pavlidis:
Spherical 1 (15)
Grateful Useless
Spherical 2 (16)
Parliament-Funkadelic
Spherical 3 (45)
Site visitors
Spherical 4 (46)
Emmylou Harris and the Scorching Band
Spherical 5 (75)
Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Upsetters
Spherical 6 (76)
Dire Straits
This was a enjoyable train, remembering some bands–we may have gone a number of extra rounds. Was tremendous enjoyable to see the eclectic combos of bands folks chosen.
Whose draft would you’re taking apart from your personal? Patrick
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Final however not least, we’ve acquired some honorable mentions:
Identify
Honorable Mentions
Robert A
The Staple Singers; Novos Baianos; The Commodores; Manhattan Switch; Rufus feat. Chaka Khan; The Pointer Sisters; Tower of Energy; ZZ Prime; America; The Statler Brothers; The Moody Blues; The Persuasions; Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; Bachman-Turner Overdrive. In all probability ineligible: Nancy Faust (+Harry Caray?), Solid of Chicago, The Blues Brothers, The Wrecking Crew, The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Part
Kendall G
Adam L
Kool and the Gang, Skinny Lizzy
Patrick D
Devo, Sondheim and Hal Prince
Bret S
The Velvet Underground, Intercourse Pistols, Wire
Bryan G
Tim J
Skinny Lizzy, The Damned, Muddy Waters, Hues Company, Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5, Tremendous Tramp
Jen R E
Rob M
Seals & Crofts, Blue Oyster Cult, ZZ Prime, Guess Who, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Supertramp, Unhealthy Firm, Foreigner, Boney M
Ginny S
Kate Bush, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell (all ineligible)
Craig G
The Commodores, Supertramp, The Moody Blues, BTO, Squeeze, Velvet Underground
Daniel R E
The Jam, New York Dolls, Trendy Lovers, B-52s, Common White Band, Hole Band, The Useless Boys, Southside Johnny/Asbury Jukes, Ohio Gamers, KC/Sunshine Band, The Meters, Tower of Energy
Jeffrey P
Martin A
Climate Report, Moms of Invention, Supertramp, King Crimson, The Velvet Underground, Journey, America, The Moody Blues, Camel, Foghat, The Guess Who
Harry P
Headhunters, Commodores,Faces, Climate Report, Moms of Invention, ZZ Prime, Marshall Tucker Band, Loopy Horse, Supertramp, America
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