Battle Of The Bands 2007 - Round 1 - Bracket B - Part 1

#1 Queens Of The Stone Age 3 - #64 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 0 - Ted Leo was too obscure to get an easier 1st Round match and they're no match for the returning champions.

#2 Radiohead 3 - #63 The 88 0 - Once again an unknown band gets unfairly thrown into the path of an unstoppable thresher.

#3 Sonic Youth 3 - #62 The Roots 0 - Rap artists never have much of a chance in these competitions, but Sonic Youth has been on too much of a roll to lose this early in the competition.

#4 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 3 - #61 The Editors 0 - Here in bracket B it seems to be an epidemic of top-shelf indie artists that are overlooked by at least one of the judges in the seeding process. The Editors are the lastest victim. While they certainly wouldn't have won the competition, they still deserve better than this.

#5 Modest Mouse 3 - #60 Elefant 0 - Elefant is also unknown, but they aren't really that good, so this is appropriate.

#6 System Of A Down 3 - #59 The Counting Crows 0 - Yeah, the Counting Crows are still around. Did you know that? They haven't done anything notably since about 1998 or so, but they are still making new music. Obviously, that music isn't very good...

#7 Elvis Costello 3 - #58 The Faint 0 - Elvis Costello's made several great albums in a row and really wouldn't need more than 1 of them to overcome The Faint.

#8 A Perfect Circle 3 - #57 The Shout Out Louds 0 - Maynard's side project easily cruises by one of the more obscure bands in the competition.

#9 Paul McCartney 2 - #56 Fort Minor 1 - Were it not for Paul's most recent album he probably wouldn't have been in this competition and I definitely wouldn't have voted for him over Fort Minor, but it was probably his most mature and best work since leaving the Beatles.

#10 The Thermals 3 - #55 Jem 0 - The Thermals are one of the most surprising bands to be ranked as a favorite in this competition. They easily blow Jem away, that's for sure.

#11 Social Distortion 2 - #54 The New Pornographers 1 - I STRONGLY disagree with this result, as well as the extremely low rank for the Pornographers.

#12 Muse 3 - #53 Ryan Adams 0 - Muse is surprisingly low-ranked this year, but they easily blow out Ryan Adams.

#13 Mark Lanegan 2 - #52 Ludacris 1 - Lanegan gets the win and I cast the dissenting vote myself, as I think Ludacris is one of the best rappers out there and Lanegan's solo work never really hit the mark with me.

#14 Spoon 3 - #51 Jack's Mannequin 0 - I'm not the biggest Spoon fan, but Jack's Mannequin isn't really anything special.

#15 Bruce Springsteen 3 - #50 The Soundtrack Of Our Lives 0 - Springsteen's on one hell of a hot streak these days and Soundtrack doesn't even have a second album yet. No contest.

#16 The Old 97's 3 - #49 Michelle Branch 0 - Michelle Branch has suffered a lot of backlash over the past few years and the end result is a first round blow-out against an only slightly above-average band.