February 13, 2010

  Mad Marchness returns the The Bus on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th.

During my show on Friday, I suggested that listeners nominate Ace of Spades by Motorhead for this year's competition. TJ was the first to go to the website and submit that song for consideration, and I know we got at least one Motorhead suggestion from the E-quest Capitol of the World. A few other people kindly nominated that song, too. Well done, and my thanks to all of you. Oh, and by the way, on Friday afternoon, Tony announced that Ace of Spades is in for this year. Nice when things work out like that.

Of course, to me, Mad Marchness is completely unnecessary. The greatest song ever is Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who, and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. There will be 63 other awesome songs rounding out the brackets, but to my ears, that one wins every time.

At this point, we still need to fill 54 more berths, but despite that many open spots, I'll go out on a limb now and give you my guess as to which four will make it to the finals. Remember, this year, it will be American artists taking on artists from the rest of the world. From the American side, I'm guessing the last two left standing will be Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird and Hotel California by the Eagles. On the world side, setting my biases aside, I'm thinking it will be Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Of course, you can't go by what I say; I was only about 30% accurate with my picks last year.

In the meantime, I wonder which band I should encourage listeners to nominate now that Motorhead is in. Hmmm....