Joe Walsh Greatest Hits Survivor!

Time for the Joe Walsh’s Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know (aka The Definitive Collection) Survivor, where we vote off Joe’s greatest hits until we get to the last one standing!

If you're new, for a basic overview of the game, see this post: Survivor Overview

I'm going to list the songs from Little Did He Know here. Vote for the song that you feel should be eliminated from the list. The song that gets the most votes will be taken off of the list (or, in the language of Survivor, "Voted off of the island.") Each round, one more song will get axed, until there's only one left. Remember: you're voting for your LEAST favorite, not your favorite.

Each round will last 48 hours after posting to give people a chance to vote who don't post every day. That means that the first round will end at 8:00 Eastern Daylight time (GMT – 4 hours) the day after tomorrow. If you miss a round, don't think you can't play. It's all good!

Since there may be discussion posts, be sure to make it clear when you are casting your vote. Votes cannot be cast after the cut off time of 8:00 on the second day, and they cannot be changed once you have voted.

If you get confused about what round we are in, look at this post. I'll always update it to reflect the current round. Also feel free to post any questions if you don't understand what's going on.

If there is a tiebreaker, then ALL votes from ALL previous rounds are tallied and whoever has the most prior votes is eliminated. That’s the way it’s done on the real show, that’s the way it’s done here. If there is a complete tie with prior votes (Murphy’s Law), then I'll have a sudden-death trivia question ready. The first person who answers it correctly gets to break the tie. The odds of that happening are slim, but you never know, and it's good to be prepared.

The tie-breaker question will be asked one hour after results are in, if there is need for it. The exception is the last round. If the tie-breaker does not resolve the last round, then the tie will be allowed to stand.

For this Survivor, we also have immunity questions. We won't have immunity questions on the first or second-to-last-rounds, and of course we won't have them for the last round, lol. However, for the other rounds, we will.

Here's how immunity questions work. After the beginning of the round, I ask a Walsh-related question. The first person who answers the question correctly gets to pick a remaining song to be immune - no one can vote for it on the next round. I'll allow two hours for someone to answer. If no one gets it right by then, then we continue the round as normal without any song being immune. You only get one guess per round, so be careful!

The winner of the Joe's Greatest Hits Survivor is...

LIFE'S BEEN GOOD!


Congratulations LIFE'S BEEN GOOD.


Songs eliminated:
Mothers Says 09/04/08
Midnight Man 09/06/08
Tend My Garden 09/08/08
Meadows 09/10/08
The Confessor 09/12/08
The Bomber 09/14/08
Ordinary Average Guy 09/16/08
Turn To Stone 09/18/08
All Night Long 09/20/08
A Life of Illusion 09/22/08
Walk Away 09/24/08
Help Me Thru The Night 09/26/08
Rocky Mountain Way 09/28/08
Funk #49 09/30/08


The game is over.

Thanks for playing.

It's not that Midnight Man is bad, it's just not that great. And the whole "Midnight Man, be mine" part confuses me, since most of the song is sung by a dude! ;)

I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

Im with Soda. It's not my favorite Joe song, and definatly my least favorite off this album.
I vote for Midnight Man also.

It's funny, Midnight Man is probably my 'most improved song', in that I like it much more now than when I first heard it. It's really grown on me, especially the third verse female vocal. That parts just so pretty...

The man and woman are singing to each other, therefore...
(Man) I'm your Midnight Man
(Woman) Midnight Man be mine.

I'd rather see Mother Says go the first round. The tune is very repetitive and it's my least favorite song on this cd.

I cast my vote for Mother Says.

I'll go with Mother Says too. Midnight Man has started to grow on me, the more I hear it the better I like it.

Can't say I care for either of them but for this round my vote for elimination goes to Mother Says...

:samurai:

How strange. I had to familiarise myself with both songs yesterday, and they are my least favourite. Midnight Man didn't really work for me, so I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

I like a lot of the album, but Midnight Man is not my fav.

I cast my vote for Midnight Man too

Sorry-but I'm gonna be the odd man out here. I really don't mind Midnight Man or even Mother Says. My least favorite off this album is Tend My Garden. It just never grew on me.

I vote for Tend My Garden

Quote:

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Originally Posted by TimothyBFan

Sorry-but I'm gonna be the odd man out here. I really don't mind Midnight Man or even Mother Says. My least favorite off this album is Tend My Garden. It just never grew on me.

I vote for Tend My Garden

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No pun intended, Willie?:hilarious:

I cast my first vote for Mother Says.

It's interesting that my first two to vote off are the ones that most people have voted for. I'm fond of Tend My Garden - that line "I do want to be your man, oh yeah" gets me! Of the other two, I prefer Midnight Man, so

I cast my vote for Mother Says

I had to have a listen to both of those again. I can't say I really care for either, so it's a toss up!

I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

I cast my vote for Tend My Garden too.

I cast my vote for Mother Says

Hey guys, tallies will be a bit late tonight as I am going out to dinner. As soon as Kay or I can, we'll post them as well as an immunity question. Shouldn't be more than a couple hours.

Hi guys - I'm working on compiling the results now. I should have the results posted not too long after 8:00 p.m.

In the meantime, I will vote strategically as I often do.

I cast my vote for The Bomber.

The first song to be voted off the island in Joe’s Joe Walsh’s Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know (aka The Definitive Collection) Survivor is Mother Says. “Mother Says” that’s the breaks and we’re sorry, but you must be going. Please leave the island immediately. The remaining songs may return to camp.

Votes
Mother Says – 6
Midnight Man – 5
Tend My Garden – 2
The Bomber – 1

Vote Breakdown
Mother Says – Prettymaid
Mother Says – AzEaglesFan
Mother Says – Wildthyme
Mother Says – DonFan
Mother Says – glenneaglesfan
Mother Says – The_Girl_Of_Summer
Midnight Man – SodaScouts
Midnight Man – ticky
Midnight Man – Freypower
Midnight Man – Mrs Henley
Midnight Man – Brooke
Tend My Garden – TimothyBFan
Tend My Garden – JoeFan
The Bomber – Ive always been a dreamer

Songs eliminated:
Mother Says 9/04

Songs remaining:
Funk #49
Tend My Garden
The Bomber
Walk Away
Midnight Man
Turn To Stone
Meadows
Rocky Mountain Way
Help Me Thru The Night
Life's Been Good
All Night Long
The Confessor
A Life Of Illusion
Ordinary Average Guy


Voting for Round 2 will begin after the following immunity question is answered:

Which song(s) on the Little Did He Know album are from Joe’s 1972 Barnstorm album?

In reply to the Immunity question,
Mother Says and Turn To Stone

Congratulations ticky - that is correct.

I forgot to mention that you need to also specify which song you wish to make immune. As soon as ticky lets us know which song to make immune, we will start Round 2 voting.

Oh well,, gee,.. I had to do some serious garden sitting to make a decision. One cant just go around immunizing just ANY song.. hmm.. Ok.. after much inner debate and consideration (meaning I dont *think* any of my favorites are really at risk here yet...) and because I have a really crappy recording of it AND I'd like to hear it a little better before it *poof* disappears AND because I AM a gardener and I'd tend Joe's garden any day *grin* I'm going to say "Tend My Garden"
Sorry to anyone who voted for it first round. Maybe next round :)

Great - thanks ticky. Okay folks Tend My Garden is immune.

Voting for Round 2 starts now.

I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

I vote for Midnight Man this round.

Once again, I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

Midnight man here

I like Midnight Man!
I vote for Tend My Garden.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by DonFan

I like Midnight Man!
I vote for Tend My Garden.

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Tend My Garden has immunity this round DF... :shy:

I vote for The Bomber

I also like Midnight Man...so I'm going to have to be slightly controversial here and vote for Life's Been Good!

Ahh Toonlass-how could you? :headshake::) and since Ticky "immuned" my least favorite song,:confused:

I vote for The Meadow.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Wildthyme

Tend My Garden has immunity this round DF... :shy:

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So it has--I forgot that! Thanks WT!
I vote for The Bomber.

Toon?!!!!! :huh: How could you? :headscratch:

I cast my vote for Midnight Man.

There are just a lot more songs on that album which I enjoy, also to a certain extent, although Life's Been Good is a great song, it just gets far too much airplay and that has made me become quite tired of listening to it (unless its live).

I understand Toon - sometimes when something is played a lot it can become boring to a fan. Still, you won't catch me voting for it anytime soon. lol

Lol!! I said it would be controversial. It does seem to be the only JW solo song played here (well, sometimes Nicky Horne will play some Barnstorm....but I don't count that as solo stuff) and as there are so many wonderful JW songs which don't get a look in I had to do it!

Interesting that you don't count Barnstorm as solo stuff - isn't Barnstorm really "Joe Walsh and backing band"? I know it's often listed on discographies as his first solo album - on JWO as well, in fact. I figure Joe Walsh and Barnstorm is like Bruce Springsteen and the E-street band - they're credited as a unit, but we still think of the work as Springsteen songs.

By strange coincidence I've just posted a Springsteen song in the never ending thread!

It's true that Life's Been Good is played a lot here, but they occasionally vary it with Rocky Mountain Way.

It looks as if Midnight Man will go out this round, so I'm going to vote tactically.

I cast my vote for The Confessor

Well, to me Barnstorm was a band which was a trio just like the James Gang, comprising of JW, Joe Vitale and Kenny Passarelli (with the addition of Rocke Grace for Smoker). Walsh liked being part of a band, but wanted a band he had formed as it would mean less arguing over who sang what and when (part of the reason he left the Gang).

I guess I always just think of Barnstorm (album) and Smoker as Barnstorm (group) albums and then from So What its solo Joe. Its also interesting to note that Barnstorm was the backing band on Michael Stanley's Friends And Legends.

I cast my vote for Midnight Man