Desert Island IV Album Game: Round 5, Match 7

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Please vote for the playlist you like the most.

  • Irishteen/Lemonchick

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • LemonMelon

    Votes: 11 68.8%

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Please vote for the tracklisting you LIKE THE MOST.

Welcome to the seventh match of the fifth round of the Interference Desert Island Game IV! The premise of this game is that all of the Interferencers have been stranded on a desert island and we can only take up to 160 minutes of music with us (either as a continuous iPod playlist or two 80 minute CDs or any other format of our choosing). The object is to see which forum member can fit the most musical goodness into these 160 minutes.

For every win, each player will receive three points. If there is a tie, each player gets two points. If a player loses a match but is within three votes of the winner, that player will earn a single point.

At the beginning of each round, I will include the updated standings. Remember, the top two from each group moves on to the quarterfinals.

Back in Match 3, Axver and Lancemc finished in a 7-7 tie, meaning they both receive two points.

The penultimate match of Round 5 should be an interesting contest, as Irishteen/Lemonchick and LemonMelon look for a possible spot in the quarterfinals. Below are the tracklistings.

If you don't know the songs, or wish to hear how each tracklisting flows, feel free to check out the Desert Island website. :)


Forum name: Irishteen/Lemonchick



7/7/7

The inspiration for this playlist was very simple - each day represents the seven days we spent together from the moment we first met until our last moment together. On the first day we met by a fountain (hence the cover image), and each one of the songs describes either the mood of the day or the topics of conversations we had. The Backstreet Boys was more of an inside joke (and I'm responsible for it - Lemonchick), and we know it's a pretty risky choice for this game but it just fits...so we couldn't get rid of it...and we hope it doesn't completely ruin our chances. Day two actually takes place during the evening, we went to a concert (Final Fantasy and Do Make Say Think) and then the other songs are just ones that fit the mood of what happened afterwards. The third day takes place in a variety of places...but mostly a cemetery and hopefully explains itself, except probably the Book I Read which is there because I randomly took a book from her and started reading it, yes I'm weird (Irishteen).Day four is (we hope) self-explanatory. While the last three days are just songs we like and we think fit well with the story and hopefully flow decently into one another, only a couple of them are there for a real reason like the Pulp song.

Day One

1. Kaiser Chiefs – "Oh my God" – Employment (3:35)
2. Bright Eyes – "First Day of my Life" – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2:52)
3. Radiohead – "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" – In Rainbows (4:09)
4. The Shins – "New Slang" – Oh, Inverted World (3:50)
5. Backstreet Boys – "The One" – Millennium (3:47)
6. Leonard Cohen – "Take This Waltz" – I'm Your Man (6:00)

Day Two

7. Stars – "The Night Starts Here" – In Our Bedroom After the War (4:53)
8. Do Make Say Think – "Ontario Plates" – Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn (7:03)
9. Final Fantasy – "Many Lives -> 49 MP" – He Poos Clouds (3:45)
10. Sigur Rós – "Saeglópur" – Takk... (7:39)
11. The Killers – "Read my Mind" – Sam's Town (4:07)
12. KT Tunstall – "The Beauty of Uncertainty" – Drastic Fantastic (5:02)

Day Three

13. Feist - "I Fell it All" – The Reminder (3:40)
14. Talking Heads – "The Book I Read" – Talking Heads: 77 (4:10)
15. The Smiths – "Cemetry Gates" – The Queen is Dead (2:41)
16. Ash – "Lost in You" – 1977 (4:19)
17. The Arcade Fire – "My Body is a Cage"- Neon Bible (4:47)

Day Four

18. Richard Ashcroft – "You on my Mind in my Sleep" – Alone With Everybody (5:06)
19. Snow Patrol – "Chasing Cars" – Eyes Open (4:28)
20. Morrissey & Siouxsie - "Interlude" – Interlude(5:49)
21. Morrissey – "Let me Kiss You" – You Are The Quarry (3:31)
22. The Corrs – "Breathless" – The Best of The Corrs (3:27)

Day Five

23. The Verve – "This Time" – Urban Hymns (3:51)
24. Blur – "Tender" – The Best of Blur (7:42)
25. U2 – "Spanish Eyes" - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (3:16)
26. R.E.M. – "Be Mine" – New Adventures in Hi-Fi (5:34)

Day Six

27. Pulp – "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E" – Different Class (6:01)
28. Oasis – "Let There Be Love" – Don't Believe The Truth (5:32)
29. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – "Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart" – Kicking Against the Pricks (3:45)
30. Peter Gabriel – "Book of Love" – Shall We Dance (3:37)
31. David Bowie – "Heroes" – The Best of Bowie (3:37)

Day Seven

32. Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Hard to Concentrate" – Stadium Arcadium (4:02)
33. Director – "Be With You" – Be With You (3:58)
34. Regina Spektor – "Fidelity" – Begin to Hope (3:47)
35. The Moldy Peaches – "Anyone Else But You" – Juno OST (2:58)
36. The Cure – "Love Song" – Disintegration (3:30)

Total Runtime: 2:39:35



Forum name: LemonMelon



The mid-life crisis is a topic that has been well-trodden within popular culture. Whether it be films like American Beauty or even in children's cartoons, age is always important issue. For some, aging is a horrifying experience, and for others it's simply taken in stride. In this playlist, the protagonist has pressed down the majority of these fears, but they pop up in a single night via a lengthy dream detailing his first summer after graduating high school; a period that is both giddy and terrifying. Starting out as a welcome shot of freedom from the daily grind he faces in his adult life, the dream gradually becomes more alienating and heartbreaking. Things turn around at the end when he gets his perspective straight, but not before learning some hard lessons that could have been easily avoided. Musically, the set is mammoth, featuring 44 songs of varying genres and time periods. These work together to tell the tale and create an atmosphere. It was a great task to put all of this together, so I hope you receive a ton of enjoyment out of it. Please refer to the programme and track listing below to help you more closely follow the plot.

(Track 1) Act 1: Dawn begins silently following an evening of celebratory debauchery. He is asleep, she is awake, watching the sun rise. High school has ended, and they will soon be completely on their own, with summer pressing in. Will it be spent fortifying their futures, or in more frivolous ways? She decides the former, and he is ambivalent. She gets up and walks away, out of his life, without his knowledge. It will be a rough morning.

(Track 2) Act 2: He awakes, and finds her gone. He is numb at the moment, but it will sink in shortly.

(Tracks 3-4) Act 3: As the song playing in his head fades, he quickly decides to continue on rather than to examine the cause of his sorrow any further. He goes out to run some errands on a beautiful summer day, which makes this easy, but he still remembers the good times on the way.

(Tracks 5-8) Act 4: During his time out, he finds someone new. His pain is masked even further, and he continues on with his week as if nothing happened.

(Tracks 9-10) Act 5: They date for a short time, only to end in a depressing breakup.

(Tracks 11-16) Act 6: He is strong, however, and his friends rally around him to make this time easier.

(Tracks 17-18) Act 7: The sadness is now gone. He begins looking for love once more, but cautiously, refusing to settle down for any length of time. He can finally live…or so he thinks.

(Tracks 19-20) Act 8: He goes on his usual summer vacation, forgetting all of his problems.

(Tracks 21-23) Act 9: He falls in love while there, but it all ends too soon.

(Tracks 24-29) Act 10: When he arrives back home, he finds summer is drawing to a close faster than he expected, and responsibility will soon be no longer optional. He is alone, and his friends are now nowhere to be found. He reflects on this, and grows sadder and more self-destructive.

(Tracks 30-32) Act 11: But, in his moment of deepest sadness, he meets a woman that changes his life. He is in love once more, but he has changed; no longer will he take for granted what has fallen in his lap.

(Tracks 33-40) Act 12: He finds out that they are going to different schools, and will soon be separated. However, instead of letting this get him down, he elects to grin and bear it, looking for the silver lining.

(Tracks 41-43) Act 13: After much reflection, he finally is at peace with the situation. It is now autumn, and it is time for him to move on with his life.

(Track 44) Act 14: He wakes up and finds it was all a dream. It is winter, hardly the summer paradise he remembers from his youth, which he still pines for, as evidenced by the dream he just had, but it was a necessary bit of catharsis, and he now appreciates what he has more than ever.


1. The Moody Blues – “Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling” – Days Of Future Passed (3:49)
2. The Magic Numbers – “Mornings Eleven” – The Magic Numbers (5:32)
3. Prince – “Play In The Sunshine” – Sign O The Times (5:05)
4. XTC – “Grass” – Skylarking (3:06)
5. The Flaming Lips – “Buggin” – The Soft Bulletin (3:16)
6. The Velvet Underground – “Sweet Jane” – Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition (4:07)
7. Van Morrison – “Brown Eyed Girl” – Blowin’ Your Mind (3:03)
8. Supergrass – “Alright” – Supergrass Is 10: Best Of 1994-2004 (3:03)
9. Sly And The Family Stone – “Hot Fun In The Summertime” – The Essential Sly And The Family Stone (2:37)
10. Jimi Hendrix – “Wait Until Tomorrow” – Axis: Bold As Love (3:01)
11. Neil Young – “Cinnamon Girl” – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (3:00)
12. Donovan – “Season Of The Witch” – Troubadour: The Definitive Collection, 1964-1976 (4:54)
13. The Smiths – “Cemetry Gates” – The Queen Is Dead (2:39)
14. Beck – “Jack-Ass” – Odelay (4:01)
15. The Shins – “One By One All Day” – Oh, Inverted World (4:08)
16. Led Zeppelin – “Dancing Days” – Houses Of The Holy (3:42)
17. Paul McCartney – “That Would Be Something” – McCartney (2:37)
18. De La Soul – “Eye Know” – 3 Feet High And Rising (4:12)
19. Weezer – “Surf Wax America” – Weezer (1994) (3:06)
20. The Streets – “Fit But You Know It” – A Grand Don’t Come For Free (4:10)
21. Stevie Wonder – “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” – Innervisions (4:45)
22. The Pixies – “Here Comes Your Man” – Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of Pixies (3:21)
23. The Zombies – “Time Of The Season” – Odessey And Oracle (3:31)
24. R.E.M. – “Country Feedback” – Out Of Time (4:05)
25. U2 – “Staring At The Sun” – Pop (4:36)
26. Pink Floyd – “Summer ‘68” – Atom Heart Mother (5:29)
27. Mason Williams – “Classical Gas” – The Mason Williams Phonograph Record (3:03)
28. Love – “Alone Again Or” – Forever Changes (3:14)
29. Jefferson Airplane – “White Rabbit” – Hits (2:31)
30. Neil Diamond – “Sweet Caroline” – Gold (3:18)
31. Spoon – “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” – GaGaGaGaGa (3:08)
32. The Beach Boys – “All Summer Long” – The Greatest Hits Vol. 2: 20 More Good Vibrations (2:05)
33. Blur - “Badhead” - Parklife (3:25)
34. Radiohead - “All I Need” - In Rainbows (3:47)
35. No Doubt - “Simple Kind Of Life” - Return Of Saturn (4:16)
36. Bob Dylan - “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” - Blood On The Tracks (2:52)
37. The Kinks – “Big Sky” – Village Green Preservation Society (2:52)
38. The Beatles – “Rain” – Past Masters, Vol. II (3:01)
39. The Rolling Stones - "Love In Vain" - Let It Bleed (4:19)
40. The Who – “Love Ain’t For Keeping” – Who’s Next (2:10)
41. Oasis – “Who Feels Love?” – Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (5:43)
42. Pulp – “The Trees” – We Love Life (4:47)
43. Al Stewart – “End Of The Day” – Time Passages (3:09)
44. The Mamas & The Papas – “California Dreamin” – Gold (2:39)

Total time: 159:31



Competition master list.


Have fun!
 
Irishteen/Lemonchick's list has some fun songs but overall I'm going with LemonMelon.
 
Irishteen said:


Good luck to you too, and looks like you'll be sailing through :wink:

If LMP beats Zoots, we're both out regardless. I think we both know who we should really be cheering for. :wink:
 
If Irishteen/Lemonchick win this match, they're almost assured of getting the second seed, even if LMP wins, because their vote differential is much better (I can't see LMP making up 9 votes).

If LM wins this match by more than three votes, and LMP loses, he'd get in.

If LMP wins and Irishteen/Lemonchick lose, he's in.

All sorts of possibilities.
 
phanan said:
I'm betting that while people usually vote for the playlists they like the most, it might be more strategic voting this time around.

I haven't voted strategically YET (thought about it, but haven't done it). However, I personally refuse to stab LMP in the back, no matter the gains. Wouldn't it be pretty low of me to cast the vote that locks him out, though I prefer his list, just so I can move on?
 
LemonMelon said:


I haven't voted strategically YET (thought about it, but haven't done it). However, I personally refuse to stab LMP in the back, no matter the gains. Wouldn't it be pretty low of me to cast the vote that locks him out, though I prefer his list, just so I can move on?

I haven't strategically voted either, although I wouldn't take this game so serious that it would matter either way.

And I'm genuinely trying to figure out who to vote for in that match. They both have pros and cons that even out, in my eyes.

And this match is quite tough as well.
 
phanan said:


I haven't strategically voted either, although I wouldn't take this game so serious that it would matter either way.

And I'm genuinely trying to figure out who to vote for in that match. They both have pros and cons that even out, in my eyes.

And this match is quite tough as well.

The difference between voting strategically in DI vs. voting strategically in a survivor game is that this is actual people we're dealing with...people who took a lot of time to put together the best list possible. It's not a huge deal, but still.

I'm surprised I'm even ahead right now. It seems as if my list has become more appreciated over the past couple of rounds. Maybe more folks listened to it since the first two rounds?
 
I thought LemonMelon's was probably the best list out of our group, slightly ahead of Irishteen/Lemonchick. I don't know if he'll slip into the quarters or not, but he's making it interesting.
 
Irishteen said:
Congrats on kicking our ass LM

Your list was solid, and beloved my quite a few. Makes me feel a bit better about the first two rounds I got destroyed in. :wink:
 
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