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• [1] Ron from Upper Eastside September 27, 2007 - 02:11PM

  What about the rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys? Brian Wilson suffered quite a bit of mental turmoil from the competitiveness of writing a number one song against the giant British invasion! I don't beleive it was a bitter rivalry, but a friendly rivalry, except for Brian's stress from record executives insistence on writing "pop" and not art.

  
  
• [2] Erica from 10024 September 27, 2007 - 02:22PM

  re: Neil Young & Lynyrd Skynyrd

  There's a third chapter in this story. Young's fellow Canadian Warren Zevon released a song in 1980 called "Play it All Night Long." The refrain contains the lines, "Sweet Home Alabama, play that dead band's song / Turn those speakers up full blast, play it all night long."

  
  
• [3] Erica from 10024 September 27, 2007 - 02:24PM

  Ron,

  The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" is a friendly tribute and acknowledgment to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.

  
  
• [4] joe from manhattan September 27, 2007 - 02:24PM

  what about jerry lee lewis showing up drunk at the gates of graceland with a gun?

  claiming to be greatest.

  jerry lee later said that he didn't say he was the greatest he said he was the best.

  
  
• [5] Sixtus from New York City September 27, 2007 - 02:25PM

  Don't forget classical music rivalries, like the fan-generated ones between Wagner and Brahms, or Wagner and Verdi or Stravinsky and Schoenberg or Furtwangler and Toscanini. And there are the diva rivalries between Tebaldi and Callas as well as between the Baroque castrati Senesino and Farinelli.

  
  
• [6] Gabriel Hunter from NYC September 27, 2007 - 02:26PM

  The Eagles vs. Steely Dan

  Steely Dan "Turn up The Eagles; the neighbors are listening..."

  and the Eagles

  "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast..."

  Maybe this is homage, maybe not...

  SOUNDCHECK SAYS: This particular feud was lampooned by the excellent (and very goofy) rock-parody series, "Yacht Rock," in an episode called FM. Watch it here:

  http://www.channel101.com/shows/view.php?media_id=1766

  
  
• [7] joe from nyc September 27, 2007 - 02:26PM

  Instead of the Britney / Christina rivalry -- why not discuss the TRUE Justin TImberlake / Britney Spears rivalry. Timberlake's song "Cry me a river" has been thought to be directed at Britney -- with lyrics like

  "You don't have to say what you did/I already know, I found out from him/Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be/And don't it make you sad about it."

  
  
• [8] Autumn from Westchester September 27, 2007 - 02:29PM

  My favorite rivalry is Eminem and ICP. Both picked on each other for not really being from Detroit. The winner is clearly ICP, since they were close to unknown outside of Michigan before Eminem became famous!

  
  
• [9] john baker from carroll gardens September 27, 2007 - 02:30PM

  what about Morrissey and Johnny Marr? This has to be the most upsetting breakup considering The Smiths had a very short run. Marr's rythmic influences encouraged the wonderful poeticism of Morrissey's lyrics. It was a marriage that ended abruptly.

  sad

  
  
• [10] joe from manhattan September 27, 2007 - 02:32PM

  George jones opened for buck Owens in Bakersfield back in the day and played all bucks songs.

  
  
• [11] Mike from Manhattan September 27, 2007 - 02:33PM

  A good rivalry that doesn't get much coverage is that of 99 records/Liquid Liquid vs. Sugar Hill Records and its associates. After Liquid Liquid sued Grandmaster Flash for lifting their song "Cavern" in "White Lines," a series of criminal intimidations drove 99 records out of business!