Dalton
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I fell in love with U2 because of New Year's Day and the War album, but the 4 90's albums are my favorite.
Pretty close, but I'm disappointed that Up is on its way to only getting one song in the finals. That's bullshit.
So far, the order is:
1. Automatic For The People
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Murmur
4. Lifes Rich Pageant
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5. Document
6. Out Of Time
7. Reckoning
8. Fables Of The Reconstruction
9. Monster
10. Green
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11. Up
12. Accelerate
13. Reveal
14. Around The Sun
And I predicted:
1. Automatic
2. Lifes Rich Pageant
3. Murmur
4. New Adventures
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5. Document
6. Fables
7. Reckoning
8. Out Of Time
9. Up
10. Monster
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11. Accelerate
12. Green
13. Reveal
14. Around The Sun
Pretty close, but I'm disappointed that Up is on its way to only getting one song in the finals. That's bullshit.
I know I sound like a broken record, but if Document is closer in votes to the top tier than it is to the middle, it really should be bumped up. It just doesn't belong with those middle albums.
I know I sound like a broken record, but if Document is closer in votes to the top tier than it is to the middle, it really should be bumped up. It just doesn't belong with those middle albums.
And I think Out Of Time should be top tier.
We can't always get what we want, lazarus.
Damn, you beat me, I was going to say exactly that about Monster and use the same Mick Jagger phrase.
And I think Out Of Time should be top tier.
We can't always get what we want, lazarus.
And I think Out Of Time should be top tier.
We can't always get what we want, lazarus.
Well the decision to make it 4-6-4 is arbitrary, isn't it? Let the results dictate the spacing breakdown, not the other way around.
You have missed the point. He's talking statistically, not just because he likes Document. Even though it is fifth, it's a clear fifth, and voting indicates that it's notably higher in rating than the albums coming after it in the voting.
That's true. But I really am trying to be objective. It's widely considered one of the 80's best albums, and deserves to have more songs pulled from it than "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World..."
That's true. But I really am trying to be objective. It's widely considered one of the 80's best albums, and deserves to have more songs pulled from it than "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World..."
But thanks for the support, PFan.
The race has certainly tightened up between #5 and #6, but it's seven votes, whereas the difference between #4 and #5 is only four. You want to talk percentages, almost half the people who voted selected #5 Document, whereas less than a third selected #6 Out of Time.
90's alternative makes me laugh, sorry.
REM got no radio play on most FM stations during the 80's, they were truly alternative when the word meant something, and they were sort of musical heroes for me in a sense.
Yeah I suppose calling U2, REM, Smashing Pumpkins etc. alternative rock is kinda bonkers, eh? They were being played liberally on MTV after all. I suppose it was alternative to the grunge, which was the mainstream? I dunno.
Automatic got me into REM, so I still love that one the most overall, but I'm more into their '80s work. I just love the sound those early records have. It's not clear, but it's mysterious and beautiful.
You're definitely the exception to my theory that people generally hold closest to their hearts, the decade/years when they got into a lot of music for the first time.
There's a huge difference in '80s alternative (/college rock/indie) and '90s "alternative." In the '80s, bands like R.E.M., the Replacements, the Smiths, U2, etc. actually didn't fit into a category or genre, and they certainly weren't getting played anywhere other than radio stations on campuses or other underground stations.
Whereas, to me, '90s "alternative" means nearly nothing. It was a marketing tool to draw people to the supposedly more fringe types of music, making them feel more authentic for going against the mainstream, when in actuality, they're just as much in the mainstream as they were before because of the corporate ties to "alternative" music.
Well the decision to make it 4-6-4 is arbitrary, isn't it? Let the results dictate the spacing breakdown, not the other way around.
That's true. But I really am trying to be objective. It's widely considered one of the 80's best albums, and deserves to have more songs pulled from it than "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World..."
But thanks for the support, PFan.
The race has certainly tightened up between #5 and #6, but it's seven votes, whereas the difference between #4 and #5 is only four. You want to talk percentages, almost half the people who voted selected #5 Document, whereas less than a third selected #6 Out of Time.
You've passed broken record at this point, but I understand your issue. Like I said to you before, this is running until Tuesday, so we'll see how it goes from there. Just pray Out Of Time doesn't catch up with it, or you're screwed. There's no way I'm giving nearly half the albums 3 songs.
Which is why I said 90's alternative makes me laugh. It doesn't exist.
Both great choices. Personally I think Finest Worksong may be their best album opener and is one of their best songs period. But they have a lot of good openers; Harborcoat and Begin the Begin are also in my Top 5 songs, not to mention the blister of What's the Frequency, Kenneth, the classic anthem Radio Free Europe, and the odd-but-brilliant How the West Was Won...