Topic: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND ONE (Read 41292 times)

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #100 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 14:33 »

uhhh
yeah.

I also ought to clarify:

No votes are counted as no votes.

Hat · « **Reply #101 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 15:47 »

shockingly enough

Muffin_Buns · « **Reply #102 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 17:52 »

Bracket 1:
Radiohead
Sigur Rós
The Weakerthans
Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand (sorry Trail of Dead)
The Books
Spoon
Owen (God damn.. this was definitely the hardest match on the list)

Bracket 8:
Make Believe
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sleater-Kinney (ugh, this was a hard one)
Death From Above 1979
Mogwai
Battles (this one too)
Agalloch
Death Cab for Cutie

Bracket 5:
LCD Soundsystem
Porcupine Tree (kinda hard)
Mountain Goats
Fiery Furnaces
Iron and Wine
Explosions in the Sky
Animal Collective
Broken Social Scene

Bracket 4:
You Say Party! We Say Die!
The New Year
Bloc Party
Mastodon
Postal Service
Interpol
The Knife
of Montreal

Bracket 6:
Daft Punk
The Decemberists
Okkervil River
The Mountain Goats
Animal Collective
Voxtrot
The Avalanches
Girl Talk

Bracket 3:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Eluvium
Stars (sorry M83)
Panda Bear
Broken Social Scene
Dead Meadow
M83
Modest Mouse (Aarrgghh fuuuuck!! These were both in my top 5!)

Bracket 7:
Nina Nastasia
Arctic Monkeys
Fiona Apple
The Microphones
Yo La Tengo
The Strokes
Ted Leo
Sigur Rós

Bracket 2:
Arcade Fire
Sufjan Stevens
The Unicorns
Radiohead
Arcade Fire
Wolf Parade
Mogwai (I guess...)
Unwound

I just realized there's no Deerhoof in here. This is not right.

sean · « **Reply #103 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 18:07 »

okay i do wanna vote but i know im too late to trudge through this shit. so, im gonna have some nonvotes/judgements based on knowing only one album.

1.
kid a
sigur ros
65daysofstatic
n/a
n/a
n/a
ga ga ga ga(ad nauseum)
at home with owen

8.
things we lost in the fire
hymn to the immortal wind
n/a
n/a
happy songs for happy people
mirrored
the mantle
n/a

5.
n/a
n/a
n/a
alive 2007
our endless numbered days
you are there
n/a
you forgot it in people

4.
n/a
the new year
ashes against the grain
n/a
give up
n/a
n/a
jane doe

6.
kill no beep beep
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
panoption
n/a
n/a

3.
lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven
talk amongst the trees
n/a
n/a
broken social scene
we are the romans
n/a
the moon and antarctica

7.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
nite versions
Ágætis Byrjun

2.
funeral
n/a
n/a
in rainbows
neon bible
apologies to the queen mary
mr beast
owls

and where ever we are the romans was supposed to go, i vote for that too. it somehow got out of continuity.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #104 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 05:23 »

Hey is this thing still open? Cos this will perhaps be the greatest waste of time in my life if not.

BRACKET 1
Kid A
Italian Platinum
-
-
-
Dopethrone
-
The Argument

BRACKET 8
Things We Lost in the Fire
-
Travels With Myself and Another
Relationship of Command
How Strange, Innocence
Leviathan
The Mantle
-

BRACKET 5
Sound of Silver
In Absentia
All Hail West Texas
Alive 2007
-
The Earth is Not A Cold, Dead Place
-
You Forgot it in People

BRACKET 4
McLusky Do Dallas
-
Ashes Against the Grain
Akuma No Uta
Give Up
-
Hercules and Love Affair
Jane Doe

BRACKET 6
Discovery
Hammer of the Gods
-
The Sunset Tree
Damnation
Panopticon
Since I Left You
Feed the Animals

BRACKET 3
Lift Yr Skinny Fists
The Blueprint
Set Yourself on Fire
-
-
We Are the Romans
Demon Days
-

BRACKET 7
-
-
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
-
-
Yoko
Nite Versions (oh my god fuck shit this was hard)
Rainbow

BRACKET 2
-
Cross
-
In Rainbows
Separation Sunday
-
Mr. Beast
-

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #105 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 08:27 »

It's not fair to have Mono against Explosions... The latter would win easily only because of the bigger fan scene.

BRACKET 1:

Radihead - Kid A
Sigur Rós - Takk...
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster
Owen - At Home With Owen

BRACKET 8:

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MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
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-
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Mastodon - Leviathan
Agalloch - The Mantle
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

BRACKET 5:

Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
-
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
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MONO - You Are There [Moonlight is enough reason to win]
-
-

BRACKET 4:

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Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
-
-
Converge - Jane Doe

BRACKET 6

Daft Punk - Discovery
-
-
-
Opeth - Damnation
Isis - Panopticon
-
-

BRACKET 3

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
-
-
-
-
Gorillaz - Demon Days
-

BRACKET 7:

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-
-
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Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Strokes - Is This It?
-
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

BRACKET 2:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
-
Portishead - Third
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
-
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
-

David_Dovey · « **Reply #106 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 08:41 »

I thought You Are There was pretty boring anyway, to be honest?

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #107 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 09:27 »

I think it was too soon that those two albums would fight against each other.
And In my humble opinion... Mono takes over explosions every day of the week.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #108 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 16:10 »

Eep, reply number 106 is the last one to fall within the time alotted.

I'll count this up with scarred and maybe brett if he still wants and we'll stet up the next round

David_Dovey · « **Reply #109 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:04 »

Fuckkkkkk

theoryC · « **Reply #110 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 09:27 »

Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 08 Sep 2009, 09:27

I think it was too soon that those two albums would fight against each other.
And In my humble opinion... Mono takes over explosions every day of the week.

I agree wholeheartedly. I really do not understand what people see in EitS.

pwhodges · « **Reply #111 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 16:25 »

I find some of Mono's harmonic progressions a bit weak; I don't feel this with EitS.

scarred · « **Reply #112 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 19:01 »

Say what you will about EitS, but "The Birth and Death of the Day" is a fucking masterpiece.

Melodic · « **Reply #113 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 21:04 »

holy shit there are opinions in here

David_Dovey · « **Reply #114 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 22:35 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Sep 2009, 16:25

I find some of Mono's harmonic progressions a bit weak; I don't feel this with EitS.

Get your theory out of my rock, poindexter

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #115 on:** 10 Sep 2009, 02:47 »

Explosions In The Sky are absolutely amazing for teaming up with the Westwood soundboard. Unfortunately, this is the only context in which I would ever want to listen to them.

sean · « **Reply #116 on:** 10 Sep 2009, 06:56 »

oddly enough david, mono doesn't think of themselves as a rock band, they see themselves creating a form of classical music.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #117 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 14:58 »

Taka, the main songwriter for the band, often cites Beethoven as a primary inspiration and reference point for their music. Him and Led Zepplin. So...classical rock, perhaps?

Hat · « **Reply #118 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 14:59 »

no that can't be right classical rock is dogshit

Melodic · « **Reply #119 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 15:41 »

ROUND 2: BEETHOVEN V. MODERN MUSIC

Hat · « **Reply #120 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 15:48 »

someone photoshop a picture of Beethoven looking particularly angry so he has a hunting knife between his teeth come on do this for me please

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #121 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 15:52 »

Quote from: Melodic on 12 Sep 2009, 15:41

ROUND 2: BEETHOVEN V. MODERN MUSIC

Damnit, I'm too tired to think up some amusing comment being pretend semantic about how the Modern period is over and that we're now post-modern (I really do wonder what's next, because the Futurists came around the same time as the Modern period). Just assume that it was funny and everyone laughed.

Hat · « **Reply #122 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 21:08 »

I don't think they're talking about Modernist composition anyway

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #123 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 22:59 »

That was going to be the subject of the joke; an on-purpose misunderstanding.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #124 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 00:54 »

Votes are counted. There are 4 ties all in all. Will be posting the results once those are decided

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

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