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Elite Eight!
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Full bracket: here (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10ms9e9&s=5)
Here's what I noticed from Round Three:
-- Biggest margin of victory: #15 Kind of Blue over #6 Blue Train by 22 votes (also the biggest upset)
-- Closest match: #8 Unknown Pleasures over #12 Happy Songs for Happy People by 5 votes
-- Lowest seeded colour: Yellow, with an average seed of 10.75
-- Highest seeded colour: Blue, with an average seed of 5.25
-- Only ONE first seed left (Low - Things We Lost in the Fire)
Again, you have until 20:00GMT on Monday, 20 April 2009 to vote. (Depending on, as usual, my RL schedule.)
ONE ADDITIONAL POINT OF NOTE - with your vote, please state your preference of a PUBLIC or PRIVATE Final Four and Championship vote.
-- In a PUBLIC vote, we'd do it the exact same way the past four rounds (including this one) have worked.
-- In a PRIVATE vote, everyone would PM me their votes. NO VOTES on the Round Five (Final Four) and Round Six (Championship) pages. My thinking is that people would be more likely to choose their actual favourite album rather than be swayed by the public commentary.
I am not advocating one method over the other - they both have their upsides and downsides. I just want to know everyone's preference.
Thanks,
Matt
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BLUE
Dylan
YELLOW
Radiohead
GREEN
Beatles, but I don't like either that much.
RED
Low
And I'm for a private vote. I think NMH's demise was partially due to a bunch of whiners who didn't want it to win and got other people to vote similarly.
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Blue
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Yellow
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Green
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Orange
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Private vote.
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COLOUR 1
n/a
COLOUR 2
Miles Davis
COLOUR 3
Abbey Road
COLOUR 4
London Calling
I think this should be a public vote. Otherwise it's just going to be the most boring list thread in the history of list threads. Surely the point of an exercise such as this should be people arguing and debating and disagreeing with each other about how good a particular album is or why it deserves to win or why it deserves to lose - the journey is more interesting than the destination, folks!
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Sgt. Pepper's…
Unknown Pleasures
Kind of Blue
London Calling
PUBLIC.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Public vote.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
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Sgt. Pepper's
n/a
Abbey Road
London Calling
public vote
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Bob Dylan
Radiohead
The Beatles
Low
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Radiohead - OK Computer
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Public for reasons stated above.
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Bringing It All Back Home
OK Computer
Unknown Pleasures
London Calling
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Loser.
Ouch.
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Blue:
Bringing It All Back Home
Green:
Abbey Road
Yellow:
It takes a nation...oh wait. Kind of Blue then.
Red:
London Calling
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Public vote next round for sure.
Anyway:
BLUE
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
ORANGE
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
There were some tough choices here for me. Definitely the hardest round to pick since the first. Picking Sgt. Peppers over Dylan wasn't easy. If it had been The Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan, I woulda gone for that but as it was Bringing it All..., well as much as I like it, I guess I appreciate Sgt. Peppers more. Choosing Miles Davis over Radiohead was also extremely tough. I've loved Radiohead for a long time. They're one of the first bands I got into that wasn't bad pop-punk or worse so I have a lot of happy nostalgic feelings connected to their music. Still...it's frickin Miles Davis. I deliberated for a while over that one but I think I made the right choice. I didn't really want to vote for the Beatles twice. I hope they don't win it all. I like them, but they're overrated and I would hate to vote the same way as Rolling Stone would. That being said, I like Abbey Road a heck of a lot more than I like Unknown Pleasure so the vote was kinda a no-brainer even though I wish it had been otherwise. The easiest vote was the last. Low is great. This is their best album. The Clash were cool and all but I never think, 'man I would love to listen to The Clash right now.' My guess is that the next round will be Low vs. The Beatles and The Beatles vs. Miles Davis with a The Beatles vs. The Beatles final bracket...I hope that's not how it is.
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I'm going to need to think for a bit before I can choose between Joy Division and The Beatles.
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blue
Bob Dylan
yellow
Miles Davis
green
Joy Division
orange
Low
public vote me thinks
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Pubic. errr uhh public.
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BLUE
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
ORANGE
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
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Blue
Bringin it all Back Home
Yellow
Kind of Blue
Green
NA
Orange
London Calling
Definitely public votes.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Public vote. If it were private we'd all just sit around waiting, bored for the winner to be announced. Besides I think we're all smart enough to know the merits of each album we're voting for anyways. ITAOTS isn't the greatest album of all time according to this board and we've just got to understand this fact. If it was the greatest album anyways wouldn't we all be praising it? Wouldn't it be deserved of the massive response it has (sceptically) received? The reason Jens was saying people to vote it down is specifically the reason why you're complaining it didn't win. Public opinion has swayed the masses both ways. I just know what I voted for and why. Frankly "On the Beach" was already voted out but I prefer it to most of whats here. I'm not complaining. So boring rant over.
tl;dr: We're all trying to look cool anyways, might as well do it in front of people.
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I voted for a private vote because sometimes it is fun to be surprised, which I guess doesn't really stand up to the reasons people have put forth for a public vote. Maybe I will change my vote but it looks like it's not really necessary.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan -- Dringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Radiohead -- Ok Computer
GREEN
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures
ORANGE
Low -- Things We Lost In The Fire
Public Vote.
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My guess is that the next round will be Low vs. The Beatles and The Beatles vs. Miles Davis with a The Beatles vs. The Beatles final bracket...I hope that's not how it is.
It could actually be Sgt. Pepper's vs. Abbey Road, not as you described it. It's Green vs. Blue and Yellow vs. Orange in the Final Four.
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Well, the way you did your diagram, it's BLUE Vs. YELLOW and GREEN Vs. ORANGE.
Sorry, I didn't pay attention.
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No it's not. Pay attention to the lines.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
This. Also, public.
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BLUE
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's...
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
public vote. Much as I dislike the shouting and the opinions and whatnot, it really is too late to spring a private vote.
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Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Clash - Londaon Calling
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Bringing It All Back Home
Miles Davis
Abbey Road
Things We Lost In The Fire
Also voting for a public vote
Dylan vs Sgt Peppers was a tough one because they're both profoundly overrated but decent enough albums, one by a band I admire deeply and love a whole bunch and one by a man I don't really care that much about, but I ultimately had to sit down and give then both a listen and decided Bob comes out on top based entirely on which I think is the better album.
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Bob Dylan
Ò
Miles Davis
‰
Joy Division
‡
The Clash
uh, public vote
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Blue
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Yellow
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Green
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Orange
The Clash - London Calling
Public
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Public.
If the Clash somehow win again Low, the only reasonable explanation is that not enough of you have heard that Low record, and are voting uninformed. This is a bad move!
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Dylan
Davis
Beatles
Low
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Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
OK Computer
Unknown Pleasures
London Calling
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I VOTE FOR PUBIC
BEATLES
MILES
BEATLES
LOW
I briefly considered voting for Dylan or Joy Division for the sake of not having two Beatles albums in the final four but in the end I just couldn't fault either album.
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Bob Dylan
Miles Davis
The Beatles
The Clash
Public!
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I don't get the Sgt. Pepper's love. Granted, most would consider even a lesser Beatles album to be one of the greatest things ever made, but I'm not sure it would even make my top five Beatles albums. John's work on the album seems really lazy to me. I mean I'd let it win just for 'A Day In The Life' against many albums, but not on this particular poll. Bringing It All Back Home however, I think is Dylan's greatest work, seeing as it's the direct bridge between his protest and speed-fuelled electric eras.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Public vote.
My votes exactly. I like the way this guy thinks.
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BLUE
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
ORANGE
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
I'm gonna say Public, also what the fuck Blue Train is much better than Kind of Blue.
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I don't get the Sgt. Pepper's love. Granted, most would consider even a lesser Beatles album to be one of the greatest things ever made, but I'm not sure it would even make my top five Beatles albums. John's work on the album seems really lazy to me. I mean I'd let it win just for 'A Day In The Life' against many albums, but not on this particular poll. Bringing It All Back Home however, I think is Dylan's greatest work, seeing as it's the direct bridge between his protest and speed-fuelled electric eras.
for me, it was the first Beatles album i ever heard in it's entirety and was aware that it was The Beatles so it sort of stuck in my mind and never left. i mean, i'm only 22 so when i was growing up all the Beatles albums had been out for quite a while and were fairly ubiquitous so most of the time i would know a Beatles song by heart but not even know that it was The Beatles until years later. this didn't happen with Sgt. Pepper's because most of those songs seemed to stay off the radio waves for the most part when i was a kid so it was like hearing a brand new band for the first time.
it was just a very influential album when i was young, and most of the music i listen to today can sort of be related or traced right back to Sgt. Pepper's in some way.
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Liz knows what's up.
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I didn't even know people liked Abbey Road that much. Granted it is a Beatles album, but I'd always considered it kind of lesser compared to Rubber Soul and Revolver. For me, choosing Unknown Pleasures over it was almost patently obvious.
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Blue
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Yellow
Radiohead
Green
Joy Division
Orange
The Clash
Public.
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I expected silly comments like, "The only reasonable explanation [why someone would vote for The Clash] is that not enough of you have heard that Low record, and are voting uninformed!"
Care to expand on why this is silly?
Because seriously, London Calling has managed to become really popular in spite of being a fairly boring album. Maybe it was pretty cool when it came out, but so many albums from around the same time have aged much better. I see no reason why it should continue to get the love it does.
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I didn't even know people liked Abbey Road that much. Granted it is a Beatles album, but I'd always considered it kind of lesser compared to Rubber Soul and Revolver. For me, choosing Unknown Pleasures over it was almost patently obvious.
Abbey Road is my favourite Beatles album, by far. There's such a depth to it that, in my opinion, isn't found in either Rubber Soul or Revolver. Don't get me wrong, I love both Rubber Soul and Revolver (and to a lesser extent Sgt. Pepper's, but the depth argument can be made two-fold), but to me, Abbey Road is by far the premier Beatles album.
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I'm with Matt here. Abbey Road takes the cake for me as far as The Beatles are concerned. It's Sgt. Peppers that always struck me as a back runner in their catalogue.
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I expected silly comments like, "The only reasonable explanation [why someone would vote for The Clash] is that not enough of you have heard that Low record, and are voting uninformed!"
Care to expand on why this is silly?
Because seriously, London Calling has managed to become really popular in spite of being a fairly boring album. Maybe it was pretty cool when it came out, but so many albums from around the same time have aged much better. I see no reason why it should continue to get the love it does.
i voted for London Calling because, as much as i like Low, i really don't like that album at all. for me, it's all about I Could Live In Hope and pretty much none of their other stuff. i'm probably a minority in that respect though.
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My continuing education on other people's opinions. I'm also pretty surprised that of the Dylan albums that first started the one that made it this far was Bringing It All Back Home. I had previously had the impression Blood on the Tracks and Highway 61 were more popular, although I don't think I'd say I like it any less. Blood on the Tracks got pretty fucked being seeded against Kind of Blue. I suppose if people thought it deserved to win they would've voted for it, though.
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Like you said, it's all about seeding.
The fact that some albums got it this far happened only because of the other albums they were placed against happened to be less popular.
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I'm sorry. I was making the assumption that the members of the forum had taste.
Just joking around. Promise.
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Like you said, it's all about seeding.
For sure! If you ask me, MONO and Modest Mouse should have been knocked out last round at the earliest. I mean, that's obviously personal bias so maybe MONO isn't a good example but MM should definitely have made it further and I think unlucky seeding is the only reason it didn't.
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BLUE
Sgt. Peppers
Yellow
OK Computer
Green
Joy Division
Orange
Low
And public.
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Like you said, it's all about seeding.
For sure! If you ask me, MONO and Modest Mouse should have been knocked out last round at the earliest. I mean, that's obviously personal bias so maybe MONO isn't a good example but MM should definitely have made it further and I think unlucky seeding is the only reason it didn't.
yeah, that's why i'm not really into the whole seeding/brackets style of elimination for this type of thing. i think a "start with 30. round 1: pick 20, round two: pick 10 etc. etc." or something similar would be better. that way you can choose whichever ones you actually think ARE better rather than being forced to choose between two amazing albums or two crappy albums.
so there's my two cents, for future reference.
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The Beatles
This one wasn't easy, both the artist themselves and the album rate very highly for me, even though I think they have better albums. I just find Sgt. Peppers easier to go back to than Brining..., and that's why it wins.
Miles Davis
Sorry Radiohead, but you're just not Miles Davis and Friends. And you never will be. While OK Computer is a nice listen and Paranoid Android is a brilliant song and the rest of the album is near it's level, there's just something about the opening of So What that gets music absolutely perfect.
The Beatles
Abbey Road is my favourite Beatles album (objective best beatles album still undecided) because while the songs are brilliant on their own, as a full piece it just keeps building and getting better as it goes. Joy Divisions inconsistency in the quality of songs over their albums just doesn't come close.
The Clash
Because I haven't heard Things we lost. No, I kid. It's a cool album, but it tapers off as soon as it should really get going; and while London Calling opens with it's best song, the quality doesn't dip, and even though it is a bit long I'd have a hard time finding anything to cut from it.
Also, these four albums have the better covers. Huh.
Addendum: You're all dicks for not voting for Pet Sounds.
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BLUE
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
The Clash - London Calling
Public vote.
This
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BLUE
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
The Beatles - Abbey Road
RED
The Clash - London Calling
Public vote.
Same here. The second half of Abbey Road is an amazing work of music. Especially the last three movements of the suite: Golden Slumbers, Carry that Weight, and The End. Beautiful stuff.
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Liz knows what's up.
Damn straight. All y'all need to pay attention to what this guy says.
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BLUE
Abstain
YELLOW
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
GREEN
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
RED
Low- Things We Lost In The Fire
Public vote.
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Is it that hard to believe that there are some people out there who aren't that big of fans of Bob Dylan?
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I guess not, but in a similar way to it not being hard to believe people would vote for George Bush. There is evidence, just no explanation.
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it's amazing to me that sgt. pepper's got as far as it did
also i'm changing my vote from unknown pleasures to abbey road
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Abstain
Unknown Pleasures
Kind of Blue
London Calling
Hate to vote against OK Computer and the Low album, but the other albums are simply better
(this woud be different if another Low album made it to that bracket, like the debut.)
Indifferent about private or public vote in the final rounds.
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Bringing it all back home
Kind of Blue
Abbey Road
London Calling
Public - going private after all the discussion we've already had would be entirely pointless.
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BLUE
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Both are great albums, though I think both artists should be represented by a different album. I do think Sgt. Pepper's... is an excellent album, but apart from the time period and influence around it, its not their best album at all. It's hit or miss, with too many holes throughout it. Dylan wins for his consistency.
GREEN
the Beatles - Abbey Road
My favorite Beatles album by a long shot; it's the album that got me into the Beatles. It's just a really great album, especially considering the second half is compiled of unfinished songs. Also, I do not like Joy Division.
YELLOW
Radiohead - Ok Computer
It's a shame that this is getting shot down so much. IMO, it's their most solid album. "Electioneering" and "Paranoid Android" are two of my favorite songs by them. Also, Miles Davis is good, but jazz is more of something I NEED to be in the mood for. If anything off Ok... came on my iPod at any time, I'd leave it be.
ORANGE
the Clash - London Calling
This is a pretty good album, but it wouldn't be in my top...fifty probably. But I don't like Low, so its got my vote.
Also, PUBLIC.
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If anything off Ok... came on my iPod at any time, I'd leave it be.
Really? Even 'The Tourist'? That's one song I never really got. The 'great closers' thread made me think of this album b/c it has precisely what I would consider a very weak closing song (it's one of the least memorable parts of the album, I think).
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I dunno, I personall really like. The way it builds and Johnny's guitar playing during the chorus seals the deal for me. But yea, I agree with you that it isn't one of the albums stronger moments.
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Maybe it's a bias on my part, but I'm somewhat surprised at the... not so much bashing of, but sort of a stigma against Sgt. Pepper's, I guess you could say.
Like, I don't see anybody saying that it's a bad album, but a good amount of the people voting for Dylan that explained their votes said something about how much they like Dylan's work as a whole, and this album in particular, but when it came to Sgt. Pepper's all I'm seeing is a pretty collective "...eehhhhhh"
I just get so happy when I listen to that record. Even the songs that aren't so happy in and of themselves, or that are but do not sound as much, can put a smile on my face. For example, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! does not paticularly have a happy feel to it. The ominous harpsichord throughout and the use of the wind sound effect don't seem like something I'd smile at, but rather it'd creep me out somewhat. But I hear that song and I just can't stop smiling. Every song on the album is like that, and I love it.
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Really? Even 'The Tourist'?
honestly would you really leave your ipod be if suddenly you were bombarded with "fitter happier"
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This is hard :-(
6. Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
(I just plain like it better than Sgt Peppers.
13. Radiohead - OK Computer
This one was a ridiculously hard choice, It came down that at any random moment I'd be more into listening to OKC than KoB. But... even then. Argh. I hate voting against an album I love so much.
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
Just an amazing classic.
1. Low - Things we lost in the fire
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Really? Even 'The Tourist'?
honestly would you really leave your ipod be if suddenly you were bombarded with "fitter happier"
Oh yeah! When OKC comes to my mind, I think I forget about that one. A subconscious mental block perhaps?
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I think that's actually a pretty good track. The piano in the background and the odd little effects make it interesting to listen to, and the lyrics are very atmospheric and set up a good mood if you actually listen to them. "The Tourist" is the real disappointment on that album, and it's not even that bad.
EDIT: Last minute entrance into the contest!
BLEU
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Not as hard a choice as I thought it would be. I listened to both albums back to back, and though I liked BIABH a whole lot, it just didn't have enough bells and whistles to keep me interested. The music was good, and the lyrics were passable (though he had a tendency of repeating himself), but the energy and variety and overall musicality of Sgt. Pepper's was much more captivating and kept me entertained throughout the entire album (Lovely Rita especially).
MIDORI
The Beatles - Abbey Road
So I takes a listen to Joy Division, I takes, and a first time listen says to me: "I am the winner. This is unlike any album you've heard before. You are voting for me." Truly, Curtis's lyrics/voice and the rest of the band's tightly constrained desperation drew me in and really gave me a reel, and the fact that Abbey Road is my second least favorite Beatles album really solidified this fact for me from the start. ...And then I gave Abbey Road a playthrough. I must admit, I am a sucker for production and this is what this album has in spades. The songs, while nowhere near my favorites, are still extraordinarily composed and George Martin's warm Reverb-and-Delay-heavy production compliments their arrangements incredibly well. I guess this goes to prove that even a secondary Beatles album is still a Beatles album. Joy Division is definitely a new favorite of mine, but Unknown Pleasures just could not match up to the second half of Abbey Road alone.
GELB
Radiohead - OK Computer
Another surprise to myself, as once more, one of my least favorite albums by an artist have made it to the semisemi-finals. I play Kind of Blue and enjoy it thoroughly, the dark and mellow tones of Davis and Friends made me feel very chilled out, and put me in a pretty good mood. All the songs are around 10 minutes long, but you never feel that. The just seem to skirt along and end themselves in a very timely fashion. Very good and atmospheric. However, I realize, that I just don't have too much experience with Jazz and I could have been listening to most good Jazz albums and enjoy myself just the same. If you played me one of the songs, I wouldn't be able to tell you which one it was. I hear OK Computer, and I immediately know who it is, what song it is and who plays what part of the song. I discount OKC, but when I listened to it I was impressed with how good it was and how dynamic all the songs were. The lyrics were a bit weak, but Yorke's vocal melodies make up for it tenfold. Greenwood manages an incredible atmosphere, and the rhythm section is impressively tight and original. The verdict would be that Kind of Blue is amazing, but just doesn't stick with me like OK Computer does.
ROJO
The Clash - London Calling
This was tough. I liked the Low album when I listened to it, and I was lukewarm about the Clash album, but I think someone else explained it much better.
London Calling vs. Things We Lost in the Fire was an interesting fight: vibrant punk energy vs. slow-slow-oh! atmosphere. This proved to be a battle of endurance. The Clash struck first with London Calling, Low countered with Sunflower and Whitetail, but in the end not even Dinosaur Act could save them from the onslaught. The second half of TWLITF just couldn't hold up against the steady blows of The Clash. A final knockout punch from Train in Vain sealed the deal in the fourth round.
I went with the four albums I had already heard out of this seed! Huge surprise!
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This round be CLOSED, yo.
Gimme a little while, then round five will be up.