LemonMelon
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Last round, Star Me Kitten was mercy ruled.
Votes:
Star Me Kitten - 10
Monty Got A Raw Deal - 2
Votes:
Star Me Kitten - 10
Monty Got A Raw Deal - 2
R.E.M. Survivor - Automatic For The People - Round 4
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LemonMelon
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Literally every song here is fantastic. Sidewinder is my least favorite though.
GirlsAloudFan
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Monty Got Himself A Raw Deal
elevated_u2_fan
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corianderstem
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Ayup.
If there are enough of us banding together, maybe we can get another elimination.
I'll probably be voting for Nightswimming before everyone else and garnering myself some hate around here.
It's beautiful, but it gets too repetitive.
elevated_u2_fan
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I'll probably be voting for Nightswimming before everyone else and garnering myself some hate around here.
It's beautiful, but it gets too repetitive.
oh wow, I thought I was the only person who thought that...
Lancemc
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Monty. Maybe we'll get a double-elim.
corianderstem
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It never occurred to me back in the day, but one year in the mid-90s, a friend of mine asked me to accompany him on the piano as he sang it at some sort of talent-show type thing.
After I'd played that piano riff about 50 million times during the course of the song, I thought "Well, damn. This is repetitive, isn't it?"
The one-two punch of it and Find the River to close the album is great, though. I just wish more people thought Find the River was a better song than Nightswimming.
elevated_u2_fan
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I definately think Find The River is better
One of my top 10 REM songs...
One of my top 10 REM songs...
phanan
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Let's go for a double. Monty and Sidewinder are obviously the next two to go.
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LemonMelon
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I only became tired of the riff when they used it a second time for Electrolite.
GirlsAloudFan
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I'm pretty sure a lot of people do think that Find The River is better than Nightswimming. They're my two favorites on the album, fo sho.
And I'll relate a quick story, just because I kind of feel like it. My best friend lost his Mom to cancer about four or five years ago. To this day, he keeps an old photo of his Mom on his car dashboard...turned backwards so that it reflects on the windshield. I can't listen to the song without thinking of him and his mom, and I can't listen to it without becoming completely immersed in memories, both good and bad. Every time that first verse rolls around...there I am riding shotgun in his beat-up red Cadillac, looking over at that photograph. So I have a pretty strong emotional attachment to that one. Every streetlight a reminder.
Irishteen
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As long as Find the River and Drive go down to the end, I really don't care how this turns out...mainly because this album is so solid, those two songs are just on another level
corianderstem
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I swear I never even noticed that.Aw, man. That's really lovely.
GirlsAloudFan
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The funny thing is that he doesn't like R.E.M. and has never heard Nightswimming. So I guess doing that is more common than I thought.
Annnnnnnyways...double elimination!
lazarus
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I love Sidewinder, I don't care if it's slight. Certainly not as stupid as Stand, Get Up, Shiny Happy People.
Great fucking chorus. And you have to love Stipe's laugh after "Dr. Zeus".
I'm voting Monty.
Great fucking chorus. And you have to love Stipe's laugh after "Dr. Zeus".
I'm voting Monty.
corianderstem
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Oh, I do!
GirlsAloudFan
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Who is Dr. Zeus? Did he write the Zorax? Zat in the Hat? Green Zeggs and Zam?
I'm assuming Laz was hinting at the way Stipe says Suess.
Michael stated in an interview once that he laughed after that line because no matter how many takes they tried, he could not pronouce the word “Suess”, instead saying it with a “Z” sound.
GirlsAloudFan
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Ahhhh, word. I did not know that. That problem with the pronunciation must be a Georgia thing.
lazarus
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intedomine
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Monty, it's a difficult decision, because I don't feel there any songs here that stand out as being significantly better than the others. They are all roughly equally as brilliant as each other. Hate to see any go. I would like to see Try Not To Breathe progress....but there's a part of me that requires Sidewinder and Sweetness to progress, ah, this ain't good. I might have been jumping on Nightswimming bery soon, but I listened to this album yesterday and even that's too good to go.
agentorange
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I'll further a raw deal for Monty.
Just in case anyone might be interested in an Automatic tribute collection, here's a link to Rogue Wave's version of Sidewinder (free download!). I think it's pretty creative. I also heard them do a great live version of Catapult a few years ago.
Drive XV: 3. Rogue Wave - "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Just in case anyone might be interested in an Automatic tribute collection, here's a link to Rogue Wave's version of Sidewinder (free download!). I think it's pretty creative. I also heard them do a great live version of Catapult a few years ago.
Drive XV: 3. Rogue Wave - "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
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