Results of Retroclash #79

 

The Specials - Ghost Town [ 6 ] [60.00%]

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth [ 4 ] [40.00%]

 

In a not very high turn out The Specials outdo BS to win for the third time.

Next up is what must the German motorik maestros best known track - The Model.

 

Previous Wins

 

9 wins

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

 

8 Wins

Take On Me (A-Ha)

Stand and Deliver (Adam & the Ants)

 

5 wins

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)

Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)

Blue Monday (New Order)

 

4 Wins

Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

 

3 Wins

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)

Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)

I Feel Love (Donna Summer)

Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)

Ghost Town (The Specials)

 

2 Wins

Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)

Light My Fire (The Doors)

Can't Be Sure (The Sundays)

Respect (Aretha Franklin)

 

1 Win

With Or Without You (U2)

Living On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Like A Prayer (Madonna)

Paperback Writer (The Beatles)

Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)

Life on Mars? (David Bowie)

Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)

Going Underground (The Jam)

Song to the Siren (This Mortal Coil)

Ghosts (Japan)

 

 

 

 

The Champion - The Specials

 

 

The Challenger - Kraftwerk

 

Edited November 5, 200816 yr by grebo69

Kraftwerk - all time legends. :cheer: :cheer:

That is too hard to chose :(

Love Kraftwerk - just not keen on The Model - so The Specials again for me....

kraftwerk easy..... ghost town was inho the specials poorest track.

I'm sticking with the Specials, Ghost Town is one of the strongest tracks among an incredibly strong catalogue. The Model is fantastic but Kraftwerk have better in their arsenal. I'd have taken The Model over Stand and Deliver or Take On Me out of the old champions though.

Kraftwerk for me - no contest.

 

Here's the original German version - Das Modell

 

I have a few of their albums including Autobahn which has the complete 22min 45sec version of Autobahn

 

For me they were the innovators of electronic music. They influences many acts of the time such as Human League and Tubeway Army.

Edited November 7, 200816 yr by Euro Music

kraftwerk easy..... ghost town was inho the specials poorest track.

 

 

I agree, i dont see why it is way more famous than some of there other songs.

I think Ghost Town was so famous because it reflected British Society of the time so well, coming hard on the heels of the riots in Brixton and Toxteth in 1981.

Kraftwerk

I think Ghost Town was so famous because it reflected British Society of the time so well, coming hard on the heels of the riots in Brixton and Toxteth in 1981.

 

exactly.... it was a poignant political statement and from that perspective it was cool. however IMHO it wasnt the best specials track to listen too, im not saying it was rubbish...it clearly wasnt, but its just not my fav specials track...in fact..its my least favourite.