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[Eric WK]

Why the hell am I nervous about this? :lol

It was a lot of fun putting this together over the past couple weeks. I scanned my MP3 and CD library dozens of times looking for possible selections, forcing me to think about my favorite albums in new ways and giving me a chance to revisit so many of them. My selections were based on both my personal preferences and critical reception/influence/importance. I genuinely love all of these albums. They just happen to be very highly regarded so it worked out well. Although, in retrospect I feel that REM's Murmur or The Wrens' Meadowlands would have been a better final choice. Ramones is an incredible album, but might have made my list too punk/post-punk heavy.

I guess I'll pimp my selections here. I just did a quick scan of Wikipedia for the images and quotes so all credit goes there. Unfortunately it proved tough in some instances to find the right song/video on Youtube, but I did my best. Hopefully some people take a listen to bands/albums they haven't heard and like what they hear.

1. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Go Your Own Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4

In 1978, Rumours won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. As of 2007 the album has sold more than 40 million copies, and is on the list of best-selling albums of all time. In addition, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Rumours at #25 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

2. Paul Simon - Graceland

Graceland/You Can Call Me Al: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFecU-Xa4Jc

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 56th greatest album of all time.
It was also ranked #84 in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
In 1989, it was rated #5 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's.
It is #81 on the list of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
According to AcclaimedMusic.net, a site which combines hundreds of best-of lists from critics and musicians from around the world, Graceland is ranked at #67 on the greatest albums of all time. It is also ranked #13 for albums released in the 1980s, and it is the second-highest ranking album of 1986, behind The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead).
In 2002, Pitchfork Media named it the 85th best album of the 1980s.
In 2006, Time named it one of the All-Time 100 Greatest Albums.

3. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXzChwipY

Pitchfork Media ranked the album as the sixth best of the 1980s. [4] In 2000, Mojo magazine placed "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" at number 25 on their list of the 100 greatest songs of all time, while VH2 placed it top of their Top 500 Indie Songs chart. In 2003, The Queen Is Dead was ranked number 216 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

4. Television - Marquee Moon

Marquee Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQsCrVA9qk

Rolling Stone (10/16/03, p.90) - 5 stars out of 5 - "One of the all-time classic guitar albums....MOON still shimmers with urban grime and psychedelic imagination."
Spin (12/03, p.125) - "It's the first punk jam album and a thing of swooning, brawny loveliness."
Entertainment Weekly (9/26/03, pp.94-5) - "One of the era's masterworks, a multilayered thrill ride of interlocking stun-gun guitars and leader Tom Verlaine's nervous vocals." - Rating: A
Q (5/02 SE, p.143) - 5 stars out of 5 - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums" - Q (1/03, p.132) - "A brutally stark, yet intricate weave of guitars and affectingly passionate vocals."
Uncut (11/01, p.134) - "Television may have vowed to 'pull down the future', but no one knew they'd reinvent it. Proof that lightning can, indeed, strike itself."- Ranked #2 in Uncut's list of the 'Greatest Debuts' (Lost to Velvet Underground & Nico)
Mojo (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #32 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "A graceful new wave bite that betrayed delicate hints of neo-psychedelic sophistication."
NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #10 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - NME (2003) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time'

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

I Want You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYdxpZormE

In August 1995 Blonde on Blonde placed number 8 as the greatest album of all time in a poll conducted by Mojo Magazine. In 1997, it placed at number 16 in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 47.In 2003, the album was ranked number 9 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

6. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

Obstacle 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBAUqp6NKg

Interpol's debut album gained so much critical success that not only was it hailed as one of best debuts of 2002, but was also considered by many to be one of the best all around records of the year. Turn on the Bright Lights made several critics' Top 10 of 2002.

#1 - Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2002
#3 - Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of 2000-2004
#5 - Stylus: Top 20 Albums of 2002
#6 - Stylus: Top 50 Albums 2000-2005
#2 - Rate Your Music: Top Albums of 2002
#10 - NME: Albums of 2002

7. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Brief Candles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOtYvAKaW9Y

In 2003, Rolling Stone placed Odessey in 80th place on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In addition it has appeared on a number of greatest albums lists.
Stylus magazine selected it as the 196th on their 101-200 Favorite Albums List.
The Guardian placed it 77th on their Top 100 Albums That Don’t Appear In All The Other Top 100 Albums Of All Time
Mojo magazine named it the 97th greatest album ever made.
It placed 32nd on NME's list and 51st on Q magazine's list of the greatest British albums ever.
Odessey consistently ranks in the top 50 on the constantly changing Rate Your Music greatest ever albums list.

8. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die

Juicy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsT8FaZnzdE

Upon its release, Ready to Die received strong reviews, and unlike other acclaimed East Coast hip hop albums released at the time (including the Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Nas' Illmatic), such critical success was matched commercially, with sales driven by strong radio and MTV airplay for the singles "Juicy" and "Big Poppa". Rolling Stone praised Biggie's ability in "painting a sonic picture so vibrant that you're transported right to the scene". Q magazine wrote "...the natural rapping, clever use of sound effects and acted dialogue, and concept element... set this well apart from the average gangsta bragging". The album peaked at #3 and #13 on Billboard's (North America) Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums and the Billboard 200 album charts and was eventually certified quadruple platinum.

In retrospect, the album has been highly acclaimed. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums. The magazine, which had initially scored the album 4.5 mics (out of five) in its 1994 review raised its rating to five. In 2003, the album was ranked number 133 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is the third highest ranked hip hop album on the list (with Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell ranking above), but the highest ranking 90s hip-hop album and debut hip-hop album nonetheless. The album was ranked #27 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".

9. Wire - Pink Flag

Mr. Suit/Champs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvYAUukQSgU

Pink Flag is the first album by the band Wire, released in 1977. Upon its release, Robert Christgau called it a "punk suite" and praised its "simultaneous rawness and detachment" and detected a rock-and-roll irony similar to but "much grimmer and more frightening" than the Ramones. Trouser Press called it "a brilliant 21-song suite" in which the band "manipulated classic rock song structure by condensing them into brief, intense explosions of attitude and energy, coming up with a collection of unforgettable tunes". Although the album was released to critical acclaim, it was not a big seller. In 2003, the album was ranked number 410 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

10. Ramones - Ramones

Judy Is A Punk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHAL_q1ne8

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.106) - Ranked #33 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" - "An intense blast of guitar power, rhythmic simplicity and ferocious brevity."
Spin (5/01, p.108) - Ranked #1 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "The apotheosis of punk....Blitzkrieg pop stripped down to its 1-2-3-4."
Spin - Included in Spin's list of Top Ten College Cult Classics "Everything good that's happened to music in the last fourteen years can be directly traced to The Ramones."
Spin - In Spin's 1995 Alternative Record Guide, this album is listed in the top spot of their Top 100 Alternative Albums.
Q magazine (5/02 SE, p.140) - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums."
Mojo (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "The coolest, dumbest, simplest, greatest rock'n'roll record ever to be cut by four sweet, dysfunctional screw-ups."

 

[Eric WK]

And here's my ballot:

1. AlternativeUlster, the only guy to steal albums from me. Damn I wish I had gotten Forever Changes.
2. BioHazard (It was tough.)
3. Vox-Pop
4. hXc_thugg
5. Owen
6. ------
7. I Push Fat Kids
8. Karakand
9. swoon
10. Mason
11. muttyeah416
12. DataStream
13. tekumseh (Another tough choice.)
14. teepo

 

[QVT]

1. Nihilism (vote against NMH more than for anything)
2. KarmaKramer
3. NameGenerated (the only list i have all 10 albums from)
4. hXc_thugg (boxer vote, although it'd be against muse on principal if not)
5. Owen (alligator)
6. Eric WK (graceland)
7. abstain because of radiohead and zappa
8. Karakand (whiskeytown)
9. Vatstep
10. Mason (aquemini)
11. abstain because of radiohead and pet sounds
12. abstain because of joy division and beastie boys
13. tekumseh
14. abstain because the dude picked a shitty fugazi album and that's pretty tough

 

[Chamber]

Hype!

Round One: At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Round Two: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Round Three: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Round Four: Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Round Five: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Round Six: Radiohead - Kid A
Round Seven: Beck - Odelay
Round Eight: M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Round Nine: Fionna Apple - When the Pawn..
Round Ten: Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways

 

[Squirrel Killer]

Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
Sister Ray

This album sums up what made VU VU. Experimentation throughout and a 17 minute long sing that doesn't feel too long.

Round Two: U2 - War
"40" (live Red Rocks version)

U2 before they started saving the world.

Round Three: Pink Floyd - The Wall
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)

Who the hell doesn't have some connection to this album?

Round Four: Bad Religion - No Control
Change of Ideas

It's probably been five years since I've listen to this album, but I can still sing along perfectly. Punk with intelligence.

Round Five: The Replacements - Let It Be
I will Dare
Androgynous

Five stars from Rolling Stone and Allmusic, still, I don't think this is most people's go-to Replacements album, but it's a favorite of mine with some rocking songs like I Will Dare, mixed in with some more melodic stuff like Androngynous and, perhaps my favorite Replacements tune, Unsatisfied.

Round Six: R.E.M. - Reckoning
Time After Time (AnnElise)

R.E.M. with the heartfeltness of their early years with the maturity of their sophomore effort.

Round Seven: Feist - the Reminder
1, 2, 3, 4

A little overexposed right about now, but deserved.

Round Eight: Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Velvet Roof
Taillights Fade

John Stewart loves them, so should you.

Round Nine: Game Theory - Lolita Nation
The Waist and The Knees
Chardonnay

Game Theory is the world's best pop group, bar none. The problem is, they were very experimental so they didn't get airplay and Scott Miller looks like a dork so they didn't get MTV time. Lolita Nation has been descibed as Game Theory's White Album, and the expectations that that claim carries are merited.


Round Ten: House Divided - The Chemical Memory
Full album

Ok, you guys have never heard of this group before now. It's my fault, more literally than I like to admit. An Ohio-based band that toured regionally in the mid-90's, I saw these guys at a battle of the bands thing a friend dragged me to, for the sole purpose of getting me to vote for them. I was so enraptured by their performance, I completely forgot that I was given a ballot at the beginning of the night. I argued with whoever was tabulating that I hadn't got a ballot, but was turned away. I found my ballot in my pocket the next day, and the next time I saw my friend, I found out House Divided lost by exactly one vote. There's some overlap with R.E.M.'s Reckoning, but it's worth it.

 

[muttyeah416]

Hey, guess I'm going to start promoting my list:

Radiohead - OK Computer

Paranoid Android - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ISR5SWtsOk&feature=related

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Olsen Olsen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2GjOC79gVI&feature=related

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Radio, Radio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7JFP6ZOCI

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

Master Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64IVhjOrTAo

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

Zurich is Stained - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoYNXrJfGM

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_DcqPkEYM

Elliott Smith - XO

Waltz #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygcdR1orJI

The Knife - Silent Shout

Like A Pen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNSd-x1yEs

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

Scenario - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZLq6R-ZtM

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

Blue Rondo A La Turk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc34Uj8wlmE

 

[teepo]

gee, i'm going against some heavy hitters, then again it's exactly what i expected to be put up against. whenever i picked an album for my team, it was never with the intention of winning but rather introducing GAF to some of my favorite albums and musicians that the majority of its users may have never listened to or even heard of. hopefully my intentions will not go to waste.

1. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me

Tarpit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baxuj9l0pZQ

2. Sonic Youth - Sister

Schizophrenia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_bCyirfn8

3. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

(circle): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sPxde77NRE

4. Fugazi - Red Medicine

Do You Like Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv8poVospPs

5. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

I See A Darkness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBVAfvRpps

6. Comus - First Utterance

The Herald: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pmZ5CdJ640

7. Jesus Lizard - Goat

Mouth Breather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIERMxKaKCQ

8. Cocteau Twins - Treasure

Persephone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBSij1Xmmjw

9. Coil - The Apes Naples

Fire of the Mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjhGXjSK4Ik

10. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Frates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJxV589a78A

 

[Kevtones]

My big list:

Radiohead - The Bends
Planet Telex
Fake Plastic Trees
My Iron Lung

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Crosseyed and Painless
The Great Curve
Listening Wind is not on youtube

Portishead - Dummy
Sour Times
Strangers
Roads

Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Tractor Rape Chain
Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
I Am A Scientist

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Race For the Prize
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate/Sleeping On the Roof

Bjork - Post
Army of Me
Possibly Maybe
Her stuff is all getting taken off youtube by the record companies…

The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Norwegian Wood
(The Bird Has Flown)
In My Life
I'm Looking Through You

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Shadows
Autumn Sweater
Deeper Into Movies

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
The Rainbow
Eden
I Believe In You

Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Cryptograms
Lake Somerset
Spring Hall Convert

 

[Kevtones]

1. Abstain - too tough of a choice.
2. KarmaKramer - our tastes are very similar.
3. Vox-pop - neither list was consisten for me though.
4. hXc_thugg - one of my favorite drafts
5. Abstain - supreme highs and lows for both drafts.
6. Eric WK - Turn On the Bright Lights might be the unsung pick of the draft for me, I really love that record.
7. Can't vote, good luck n0b!
8. CosmicBus - On the strength of Laughing Stock being the greatest thing ever.
9. swoon - still bitter about loosing Emergency & I.
10. Abstain - neither grabbed me particularly
11. muttyeah416 - Ford has an incredibly strong 1-4 but Mutt wins with one of the better full drafts.
12. Flynn - picks 2/3/7 cement it for me.
13. Chamber - DSOTM is the best Floyd record.
14. teepo - both good drafts but yours is amazing. Goat is a steal.

 

[Karma Kramer]

The Flaming Lips - "Ego Tripping the Gates of Hell"

Aphex Twin - "Meltphace 6"

Gas - "Pop 4"

Panda Bear - "Take Pills"

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Storm: Lift Yr. Skinny
Fists Like Antennas To Heaven / Gathering Storm /
"Welcome To Barco Am/Pm..." / Cancer Towers On
Holy Road Hi-Way"

Pink Floyd - "Dogs"

 

[Karakand]

Also, what are the voting rules for participants? Are we allowed to vote on bouts that we aren't in, none of them or all of them?

I'm not voting at all. EVEN IF IT COSTS ME A WIN.

 

[Hitman]

Kramer, Nihilism, VoxPop, hxc thug, Owen, Eric WK, n0b, Karakand, swoon, Mason, muttyeah, DataStream, Chamber, teepo,

 

[Hitman]

Man I wish I participated.. the idea seemed so stupid though.

 

[Karakand]

Man I wish I participated.. the idea seemed so stupid though.

Even if this is a cluster fuck the drafting was a lot of fun. There's always next time!

 

[Hitman]

Even if this is a cluster fuck the drafting was a lot of fun. There's always next time!

WILDCARD MATCH UP. WHO WANTS TO GO HEAD ON WITH HITMAN?

 

[AlternativeUlster]

I used to feel the same way about the doors, but after a recent revisit the album seemed perfect and my opinion has yet to go back (about the album, I still wouldn't call myself a fan of the band).

Also, what are the voting rules for participants? Are we allowed to vote on bouts that we aren't in, none of them or all of them?

I like the idea of not being able to vote in your own bout. It seems like that is what everyone is doing and I guess it could be like a boxing bout where you can't be on the panel of your own judges.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Posted the rest of my list in the other thread:

7 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
8 Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
9 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
10 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Sorry for being late

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Posted the rest of my list in the other thread:

7 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
8 Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
9 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
10 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Sorry for being late

Meh, why not? I will update the OP.

 

[Ford Prefect]

As for Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's Bwyd Time, the entire album in all its psychedelic perfection can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUftTWBh8ww&feature=PlayList&p=15608B3382DA919C&index=0

One of my top 3 bands ever. Most underrated band of all time.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

This is the most confusing shit ever, there really should have been a space at the start of thread for people to whore it up or whatever. I still don't understand why you are labeling all the songs as rounds.

1) AlternativeUlster - Abbey Road's easily my fav Beatles, and I love that MSP. And I was ready to say to hell with Aeroplane and Discovery and Daydream Nation and T. Rex and whatever the fuck else. But then I realized that Built To Spill wasn't There's Nothing Wrong With Love.

2) Karma Kramer - Kinda a tough pick. Bio's got Zepp and my favorite Stones, but at the same time a lot of stuff I just don't like. KK's more my style, but honestly I got tired of a lot of stuff on there. A bit silly, but CSNY is what pushed me over.

3) Vox Pop - Had half a mind of not voting as I simply don't listen to much metal and most of Vox's picks are basically cheating. Was this draft regulated at all?

4) hXc_thugg - I simply don't like most of Wes' picks, and if anything is going to get me to vote against The Go! Team, it'd be old school Of Montreal.

5) The Crimson Kid - Owen's got a really weird list. Good albums, but nothing that really struck me as amazing. Plus if someone's going to roll with mainly a college radio lineup, matching up against Change is not how you win.

6) Eric WK - Eric's got a very good list, I wouldn't know where to start.

7) n0B - There's like maybe one list I've seen thus far that would make me vote against Spiderland.

8) CosmicBus - Rather indifferent to both lists, so Cibo Matto takes vote just for someone listing them despite the GAF-hate.

9) swoon - By far the hardest round for me to pick so far. Back and forth so much. So much of Vats' list just kicks total ass. Also this might be my tiredness speaking, but I never realized how much Gang sounds like math rock till just right now. But I'm still going with swoon, just way too many classics. FBB is what pushed me over.

10) Mason - Any Beatles is not better than anything else, but Revolver sucking ain't going to change I simply like most of his list and not much of the other.

11) Ford Prefect - I was never not gonna vote for you of course. I saw you pimping the Mynci in that last post and knew you'd easily come through with the whole list. SFA, Mynci, both VU and John Cale, PF, Bowie, Frank Black, fucking Pet Sounds? Yea, I was never not going to vote for you. Which isn't to say mutty is bad. Not at all. Not the biggest fan of some picks, but it's all quality.

12) Flynn - Another ridiculously hard pick, but on too many of DataStream's choices I like other albums by the bands more.

13) tekumseh - As much as I don't want to vote for Wilco or Smile, stupid fun is always gonna knock the socks off that all that depressing prog nonsense for me. Seriously, matching Kid A and Crimson King and DSOTM and friggin Porcupine Tree up against Fountains of Wayne and Derek & The Dominoes had to be on purpose right?

14) teepo - I made up my mind after reading DNG's list and then seeing Dinosaur Jr as your first pick.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

This is the most confusing shit ever, there really should have been a space at the start of thread for people to whore it up or whatever. I still don't understand why you are labeling all the songs as rounds.

1) AlternativeUlster - Abbey Road's easily my fav Beatles, and I love that MSP. And I was ready to say to hell with Aeroplane and Discovery and Daydream Nation and T. Rex and whatever the fuck else. But then I realized that Built To Spill wasn't There's Nothing Wrong With Love.

2) Karma Kramer - Kinda a tough pick. Bio's got Zepp and my favorite Stones, but at the same time a lot of stuff I just don't like. KK's more my style, but honestly I got tired of a lot of stuff on there. A bit silly, but CSNY is what pushed me over.

3) Vox Pop - Had half a mind of not voting as I simply don't listen to much metal and most of Vox's picks are basically cheating. Was this draft regulated at all?

4) hXc_thugg - I simply don't like most of Wes' picks, and if anything is going to get me to vote against The Go! Team, it'd be old school Of Montreal.

5) The Crimson Kid - Owen's got a really weird list. Good albums, but nothing that really struck me as amazing. Plus if someone's going to roll with mainly a college radio lineup, matching up against Change is not how you win.

6) Eric WK - Eric's got a very good list, I wouldn't know where to start.

7) n0B - There's like maybe one list I've seen thus far that would make me vote against Spiderland.

8) CosmicBus - Rather indifferent to both lists, so Cibo Matto takes vote just for someone listing them despite the GAF-hate.

9) swoon - By far the hardest round for me to pick so far. Back and forth so much. So much of Vats' list just kicks total ass. Also this might be my tiredness speaking, but I never realized how much Gang sounds like math rock till just right now. But I'm still going with swoon, just way too many classics. FBB is what pushed me over.

10) Mason - Any Beatles is not better than anything else, but Revolver sucking ain't going to change I simply like most of his list and not much of the other.

11) Ford Prefect - I was never not gonna vote for you of course. I saw you pimping the Mynci in that last post and knew you'd easily come through with the whole list. SFA, Mynci, both VU and John Cale, PF, Bowie, Frank Black, fucking Pet Sounds? Yea, I was never not going to vote for you. Which isn't to say mutty is bad. Not at all. Not the biggest fan of some picks, but it's all quality.

12) Flynn - Another ridiculously hard pick, but on too many of DataStream's choices I like other albums by the bands more.

13) tekumseh - As much as I don't want to vote for Wilco or Smile, stupid fun is always gonna knock the socks off that all that depressing prog nonsense for me. Seriously, matching Kid A and Crimson King and DSOTM and friggin Porcupine Tree up against Fountains of Wayne and Derek & The Dominoes had to be on purpose right?

14) teepo - I made up my mind after reading DNG's list and then seeing Dinosaur Jr as your first pick.

Whoops, I just realized how that might confuse someone. The albums (you mean albums not songs, right?) were picked during those rounds of the Draft. The Draft was regulated and the basic restrictions were no live albums of the hits, no greatest hits, each participant can't pick the same artist in the draft (can't have 2 Beatles records but could have a Beatles record and a John Lennon record), and each round of the Draft was picked once per day for 10 days straight starting at midnight eastern.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

Whoops, I just realized how that might confuse someone. The albums (you mean albums not songs, right?) were picked during those rounds of the Draft. The Draft was regulated and the basic restrictions were no live albums of the hits, no greatest hits, each participant can't pick the same artist in the draft (can't have 2 Beatles records but could have a Beatles record and a John Lennon record), and each round of the Draft was picked once per day for 10 days straight starting at midnight eastern.

Yea songs, I'm tired. Scrolling over each round is fairly interesting. Mad props for Come On Pilgrim being the first Pixies to go.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Yea songs, I'm tired. Scrolling over each round is fairly interesting. Mad props for Come On Pilgrim being the first Pixies to go.

It was a lot of fun to play dude. You should play it next time. I was thinking about doing a minor league thread maybe after the tournament of people picking albums that weren't picked during this Draft for another 10 list and I think Vox is going to do a Movie draft.

 

[Doytch]

1) Ulster: Sick top 4
2) Biohazard: Sgt. Pepper and Nevermind balance out AC/DC (whom I despise)
3) <<<Not voting, I don't really listen to metal>> If I have to pick one, it'd be Vox-Pop, but don't count it unless you have to.
4) Wes: Hardest one for me. 69 Love Songs, Boxer and Hunky Dory are some awesome albums, but Funeral is my favourite this decade, and Sigur Ros, Go! Team, and Justice mean I can't vote against it.
5) Owen: Like em all
6) Squirrel Killer: Floyd and Velvet Underground
7) I Push Fat Kids: BABYS GOT THE BEEEEEEENNNDSS
8) Karakand: White Album? London Calling? Done.
9) swoon
10) Mason: First list I like top to bottom.
11) FordPrefect
12) Datastream
13) Chamber
14) teepo

 

[Timedog]

DAMN! KarmaKramer is going to get rocked.

WAT.

 

[teepo]

this thread needs a tally!

 

[Mr. Piles]

n0b crushes all

 

[Meliorism]

1) AlternativeUlster - Abbey Road's easily my fav Beatles, and I love that MSP. And I was ready to say to hell with Aeroplane and Discovery and Daydream Nation and T. Rex and whatever the fuck else. But then I realized that Built To Spill wasn't There's Nothing Wrong With Love.

I like how you were praising my list and bashing his and still went with him!

And Keep It Like a Secret is definitely better than There's Nothing Wrong with Love. And Perfect From Now On.

 

[roosters93]

1. Nihilism
2. BioHazard
3. Vox-Pop
4. Wes
5. The Crimson Kid
6. Eric WK
7. I Push Fat Kids
8. Karakand
9. Vatstep
10. Mason
11. FordPrefect
12. DataStream
13. tekumseh
14. DieNGamers

 

[Ford Prefect]

1.AlternativeUlster - Electric Warrior! Forever Changes!
2.KarmaKramer
3.Vox-Pop - sorry, metal guy, guy with very similar tastes to mine wins.
4.hXc_thugg
5.Owen - Pixies!
6.Squirrel Killer - VU!
7.n0b - I've just been getting into NEU!, that record is so great.
8.CosmicBus - gonna be honest, I haven't listened to a single album on your list... but I am very intrigued.
9.swoon - same (except for Flying Burrito Bros.; love that album)
10.Mason - like someone else said, picking Come On Pilgrim first was very inspired (do EPs even count in the draft? guess so, ha)
11.bastard stole my Cohen!
12.Flynn
13.tekumseh - props for BW's Smile

Spoiler

even though the Beach Boys tapes are far superior

14.DieNGamers - I actually like Station to Station more than Low, so I'm not sure why I picked the latter

11) Ford Prefect - I was never not gonna vote for you of course. I saw you pimping the Mynci in that last post and knew you'd easily come through with the whole list. SFA, Mynci, both VU and John Cale, PF, Bowie, Frank Black, fucking Pet Sounds? Yea, I was never not going to vote for you. Which isn't to say mutty is bad. Not at all. Not the biggest fan of some picks, but it's all quality.

Dude, you dig the Gorky's? omg make sex to me

 

[AlternativeUlster]

this thread needs a tally!

I am going to do a tally tomorrow night. I might be leaving for LA tomorrow night so it might be a couple of days before ROUND TWO OF THE MUSIC TOURNAMENT AHAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! will start.

 

[Karakand]

Neato you gonna hit up Amoeba?

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Neato you gonna hit up Amoeba?

Oh yeah. For sure if I go. It depends on how much plane tickets are. My friend Daniel found some for 150 round trip yesterday. I hope to find early R. Stevie Moore records, this Super Supers Mama Soul 7", the B-Girls 7" Fun at the Beach (Greg Shaw before he died said I should pick it up since I kept on bugging him about Nikki and the Corvettes), and Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes' Paix on LP. The latter is the big one I want.

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

1.Nihilism
2.Biohazard
3.Vox-Pop
4.Wes
5.The Crimson Kid
6.Eric WK
7.n0b
8.Karakand
9. Vatstep
10.Mason
11.FordPrefect
12.Flynn
13.tekumseh
14.teepo

 

[Onemic]

Are people still allowed to enter? If so I think I'll be up for it.

 

[Kevtones]

Are people still allowed to enter? If so I think I'll be up for it.

Couple weeks late, I think.

 

[Ford Prefect]

I am going to do a tally tomorrow night. I might be leaving for LA tomorrow night so it might be a couple of days before ROUND TWO OF THE MUSIC TOURNAMENT AHAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! will start.

If I lose when you tally tomorrow, you should extend it for those couple of days

I guess I could count right now but I'm too scared. I just read about the prizes... that's so fucking awesome dude :lol

 

[Vox-Pop]

Here are my reasons for my picks--if you can call it that--it's really late.
I tried to evaluate the whole list of picks, but most of the time just picked the list with my favorite bands in them, I also tried to avoid picking list with nothing but famous classics. I really should've waited for you guys to support your list by posting some songs, might have changed my picks, well it's too late now. Sorry for the run-ons.

1. AlternativeUlster.
AlternativeUlster and Nihilism both had some good picks. AU wins it because he picked some of my favorites though, even took one of my picks. Sorry Nihilism but competing against Discovery, Electric Warrior, and Psychocandy is just unfair.

2. KarmaKramer.
BioHazard listed some classics, and I mean --classics, but I'm not a fan of a lot of those bands, so pick so my pick goes to KK. My Bloody Valentine <3
3. ----------------
4. hXc_thugg.
Both Wes and hXc_thugg had some great picks. hXc_thugg took Closer away from me, ruined my draft list too. I had a hard time choices which picked a greater list but in the end it came down to hXc_thugg choosing Closer and Boxer.

5. Owen.
The Crimson Kid did a good job choosing, but sadly that's about it. Owen takes the prize by going with Alligator as his first choice.

6. Eric WK.
Squirrel Killer, I was going to give you the win for just picking White Light / White Heat, but Eric WK had a better list--The Smiths -- Television--Bob Dylan--Pink Flag.

7. I Push Fat Kids.
I hate to say this but I choose I Push Fat Kids because his list was more familiar. I will definitely check out some of you album choices n0b, that one of the reasons I liked the draft, introduced me to some good music.

8. Karakand.
Again sorry CosmicBus but your list was forien to me, I've only heard of Jim Carroll Band, Leonard Cohen, Wilco, and Sam Cooke before, thus Karakand wins. Karakand had some good picks London Calling--White Album--Low Life.

9. Vatstep.
Vatstep picked Entertainment, Songs about Fucking, and Suicide, swoon had a good list, but none of them were my particular taste, except for Out of Step.


10. Mason.
Mason picked some nifty albums like Violent Femmes and Revolver. Sorry Cyan but Metallica is my most hated band of all time, so you lose.

11. muttyeah416.
I hated my this choice, but FordPrefect should have won this round--he picked Low, Velvet Underground with Nico, and Paris 1919, some amazing albums, but at the time of choosing a winner he hadn't finished his list, so I gave the win to muttyeah416. Muttyeah416 had some good picks as well though, he took XO from me, and had Songs of Leonard Cohen--my favorite Leonard Cohen album.

12. DataStream.
DataStream won because he picked Ziggy Stardust, my favorite and BEST Bowie record, and Unknown Pleasures, the second best Joy Division album. Sorry Flynn, Trans-Europe Express and Raw Power were very good picks.

13. tekumseh
Good job on picking Let it Bleed, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Who's Next, gotta give props to Chamber for Relationship of Command The Shape of Punk to Come.

14. teepo.
DieNGamers too much metal made me pick teepo.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

I hope I'm not too late to vote. Not really sure why I put this off...

1. Nihilism
2. KarmaKramer
3. Vox-Pop
4. hXc thugg
5. Crimson Kid
6. Eric WK
7. I Push Kevtones
8.
9. swoon
10. Mason
11. FordPrefect
12. Flynn
13. tekumseh
14. teepo

Since I'm obviously not going past this round (I guess because most of my picks aren't ones people have heard), this isn't a grab for votes or anything, I'm just going to take a cue from AlternativeUlster and share my first album picked because it's been out of print in both the UK and the US for a few years now and since the band's label doesn't give a shit about that, neither do I.

Catherine Wheel, Adam & Eve
http://www.zshare.net/download/610477851fab61ac/

Even though this is my all-time favorite by a large, large margin, I don't really expect it'll be that big of deal to anyone who listens to it now. Still, if it turns you on to the band, then cool and if not, no big deal, right? I will say for Kevtones' benefit that Tim Friese-Greene plays on this and it's even more fucking fantastic because of it. Just try telling me you don't hear elements of Talk Talk all over this one. Also, a few publications ranked the CD as the second best that year... all because goddamn Radiohead had to release OK Computer around the same time. That said, the Big Takeover did give it album of the year, for whatever it's worth. Suck on that, Thom. :lol

 

[tekumseh]

1. AlternativeUlster
2. BioHazard
3. Vox-Pop
4. hXc_thugg
5. The Crimson Kid
6. Squirrel Killer
7. I Push Fat Kids
8. Karakand
9. Vatstep
10. Cyan
11. Ford Prefect
12. DataStream
13. (tekumseh)
14. DieNGamers

 

[Owen]

Hey I want to vote but haven't had a chance to go through all the lists yet... give us an extra day or two since we were shut down for E3 for a couple days there!

 

[Timber]

Catherine Wheel, Adam & Eve
http://www.zshare.net/download/610477851fab61ac/

^^ THIS IS AWESOME EVERYONE DOWNLOAD IT! ^^

Thank you so much for sharing this! I hadn't heard anything by and of this band before, which made me curious. Just now I listened to the album in its entirety and I'm sorry to say I did not meet your expectations because I am tremendously impressed. When Future Boy was over I knew I was listening to something special.

Some songs I didn't like nearly as much as the rest, specifically Delicious, Broken Noise and Satellite. They sound kind of like Pavement except not as good, especially the former. But most of the songs are epic and have a great big and bombastic 90s rock n roll sound and they're just an absolute joy to listen to.

I've only listened to it once so it's still hard to describe the music and my feelings towards it; looking forward to listening to it again and again... Oh yeah, I really like the singer's voice and, from what I picked up, his lyrics as well.

Also, I looked up the album on wikipedia and noticed that a mag that awarded it AOTY is called Big Takeover which is a mind blowing Bad Brains song, so that fact alone makes me inclined to trust their judgment over anyone else's.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Oh man, you don't know how happy that makes me: it's like having a decade-plus of posting on GAF validated by a single comment.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

I'll extend it for a couple of days. I am pretty busy at the moment and all that rock n roll stuff.

 

[Flynn]

Late vote. E3 and all that.

1. AlternativeUlster
2. Biohazard
3. Vox-Pop
4. Wes
5. The Crimson Kid
6. Eric WK
7. I Push Fat Kids
8. Cosmic Bus
9. Vastep
10. Mason
11. muttyeah416 (this may have been the toughest choice)
12. Flynn (me!)
13. Chamber
14. teepo

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Since Ulster is, I think, traveling at the moment, I tallied up the final votes:

BOUT ONE:
AlternativeUlster (17 votes)
vs
Nihilism (7 votes)

BOUT TWO:
BioHazard (10 votes)
vs
KarmaKramer (15 votes)

BOUT THREE:
Vox-Pop (17 votes)
vs
NameGenerated (4 votes)

BOUT FOUR:
Wes (9 votes)
vs
hXc_thugg (15 votes)

BOUT FIVE:
Owen (10 votes)
vs
The Crimson Kid (13 votes)

BOUT SIX:
Eric WK (16 votes)
vs
Squirrel Killer (7 votes)

BOUT SEVEN:
I Push Fat Kids (16 votes)
vs
n0b (7 votes)

BOUT EIGHT:
Karakand (17 votes)
vs
Cosmic Bus (6 votes)

BOUT NINE:
swoon (11 votes)
vs
Vatstep (14 votes)

BOUT TEN:
Mason (17 votes)
vs
Cyan (5 votes)

BOUT ELEVEN:
FordPrefect (9 votes)
vs
muttyeah416 (12 votes)

BOUT TWELVE:
DataStream (9 votes)
vs
Flynn (13 votes)

BOUT THIRTEEN:
Chamber (11 votes)
vs
tekumseh (13 votes)

BOUT FOURTEEN:
DieNGamers (7 votes)
vs
teepo (15 votes)

 

[Vox-Pop]

Yay!

 

[Karakand]

Didn't we agree on double elimination? Don't strikethrough those names yet!

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Yeah, we can do double elimination if you want to. Yeah, I am in Austin now but I should have more downtime here. I will start a new thread sometime tomorrow. Thanks Bus for tallying it up. Here was my list but it doesn't change anything:

1: ****
2: KarmaKramer
3: Vox-Pop
4: hXc
5: The Crimson Kid
6: Squirrel Killer (Reckoning, White Light, and Let It Be are all in my top 50 records with the first 2 in my top 20)
7: n0b (really close)
8: CosmicBus (another too close to consider)
9: Vatstep (Suicide, Queen, the Boss, Big Black vs. Nina Simone, Dismemberment Plan, and Pulp)
10: Mason
11: FordPrefect
12: Flynn (The first 3 are all in my top 50)
13: Chamber
14: teepo (maybe my favorite list other than my own, Coil, Comus, Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Cocteau Twins all in my all time top 100 and really like every record on the list).

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Double elimination, really? You're going to drag this out even longer than it's already been? Next you guys are going to tell me that you subscribe to this "new school" bullshit where everyone is a winner and no one ever loses.