Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
Charity Music Draft - Theme 2 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Captain Cranks
- Start date
simey
Footballguy
TripItUp
Footballguy
Third Eye Blind - How's It Going to Be
There are plenty of better breakup songs and Third Eye Blind doesn't make any "best" lists, but this is the song that impacts me the most because of the timing of its release and my divorce. Sad times.
There are plenty of better breakup songs and Third Eye Blind doesn't make any "best" lists, but this is the song that impacts me the most because of the timing of its release and my divorce. Sad times.
Last edited by a moderator:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
How can you not love a guy with stuff like that sparkin' his head and stuff like this:
in his heart?!
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
SWC
Bromigo
cripers ok so sorry so this next pick is a song that reminds me of a long long long time ago when i was somewhat regularly driving between the big whiskey and the old dominion in the midst of a dying long term and long distance relationship and i would usually set out about 6 ot 7 pm after traffic had quit in va and drive straight home through the night along 64 to lexington then north to cincy then to indy then chicago and then finally make it home to brewtown and it was the loneliest drive ive ever done at one of the loneliest periods in my life i was unsettled and i think if i am being honest i was trying to hang on to the idea of a relationship and an idea of what she and i would have been instead of what we actually were and it killed me for a long time seeing her later and happier with other guys than we had ever been but i found the one my lady and it worked out better than i could have ever imagined life has a funny way of putting you where you need to be all the same this song is the sound of open road just me and the truckers and my thoughts and a relationship dying no matter how many miles i kept driving to try and prevent it take that to the bank brohans
austin plaine something more
austin plaine something more
Last edited by a moderator:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
SOD. i forget, at my peril, how on top of it Crow was in her Annus Mirabilus
and Difficult Kind captures the definite maybe of this theme like a winter fly
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
SWC
Bromigo
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Rd 2: Urge for Going by Joni Mitchell
When the sun turns traitor cold
And all trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
When the sun turns traitor cold
And all trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
krista4
Footballguy
OH ran out to work and asked me to post his.
2.08 Nina Nastasia - That's All There Is
My dreams have come and gone
The world is spinning faster each day
And I am not the one
My future promised I'd be
I'm not hiding anything
I'm not trying to fool you at all
You keep expecting everything
We're not like our pictures on the wall
There's nothing wrong with us
We still belong
But that's all there is
So stop all your dreamin
It makes me so sad
Let's keep what we had
Sundays never last
It seems like it's the only time you'll sleep
And you can't help looking back
At everything you promised we would see
You go out almost every night
Pretending you're like everyone you meet
But all I ever want is you
All I ever want for you to see
There's nothing wrong with us
We still belong
But that's all there is
So stop all your dreamin'
It make sme so sad
Let's keep what we had
2.08 Nina Nastasia - That's All There Is
My dreams have come and gone
The world is spinning faster each day
And I am not the one
My future promised I'd be
I'm not hiding anything
I'm not trying to fool you at all
You keep expecting everything
We're not like our pictures on the wall
There's nothing wrong with us
We still belong
But that's all there is
So stop all your dreamin
It makes me so sad
Let's keep what we had
Sundays never last
It seems like it's the only time you'll sleep
And you can't help looking back
At everything you promised we would see
You go out almost every night
Pretending you're like everyone you meet
But all I ever want is you
All I ever want for you to see
There's nothing wrong with us
We still belong
But that's all there is
So stop all your dreamin'
It make sme so sad
Let's keep what we had
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Hammer meets nail.
Round 2: Ramp of Death, Stephen Malkmus
Not sure if the lyrics below are 100% accurate, as I think the last line is "Or start a void in me." Hard to say though as all lyric sources say differently.
Round 2: Ramp of Death, Stephen Malkmus
Not sure if the lyrics below are 100% accurate, as I think the last line is "Or start a void in me." Hard to say though as all lyric sources say differently.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
I can just pick any time after missing, right?
(Which I'm sorry about, but had something come up. This is the first I've checked in the threads today.)
(Which I'm sorry about, but had something come up. This is the first I've checked in the threads today.)
Last edited by a moderator:
Ilov80s
Footballguy
landrys hat
Footballguy
2
The Afghan Whigs
What Jail Is Like
I'll warn you
If cornered
I'll scratch my way out of the pen
Wired
An animal
The claustrophobia begins
The Afghan Whigs
What Jail Is Like
I'll warn you
If cornered
I'll scratch my way out of the pen
Wired
An animal
The claustrophobia begins
Last edited by a moderator:
rockaction
Footballguy
Cool.
Round 2.xx
Artist: Nada Surf
Song: Killian's Red
Not so much a break-up song as a song about a town and melancholia. Fits a mood, though. Yearning for something once there, maybe...
Round 2.xx
Artist: Nada Surf
Song: Killian's Red
Not so much a break-up song as a song about a town and melancholia. Fits a mood, though. Yearning for something once there, maybe...
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
2.16 Scarborough Fair, Simon and Garfunkel
This is a general mood play although when researching its meaning I found, "lyrics for "Scarborough Fair" talk about unrequited love. A young man requests impossible tasks from his lover, saying that if she can perform them, he will take her back. In return, she requests impossible things of him, saying she will perform her tasks when he performs his."
Sounds fitting for a relationship whose partners have agreed isn't going to work.
Also in my endeavor I found an interview where Art Garfunkel says he didn't know what the words were truly about but that he's concluded it's about loss.
This is a general mood play although when researching its meaning I found, "lyrics for "Scarborough Fair" talk about unrequited love. A young man requests impossible tasks from his lover, saying that if she can perform them, he will take her back. In return, she requests impossible things of him, saying she will perform her tasks when he performs his."
Sounds fitting for a relationship whose partners have agreed isn't going to work.
Also in my endeavor I found an interview where Art Garfunkel says he didn't know what the words were truly about but that he's concluded it's about loss.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Round 2
A few months ago our heroes girl started going for drinks after work with her friends a couple nights a week. Soon it was every night and she would come home later and later if she came home at all. He soon realized the woman he was living with wasn't the woman he married. He's become a Victim of Changes -Judas Preist
A few months ago our heroes girl started going for drinks after work with her friends a couple nights a week. Soon it was every night and she would come home later and later if she came home at all. He soon realized the woman he was living with wasn't the woman he married. He's become a Victim of Changes -Judas Preist
krista4
Footballguy
I haven't listened to much (any?) Nada Surf, because I intensely disliked their one "hit." This might have been a mistake on my part. This song is perfect for this theme, and I love the singer's voice. He sounds very handsome, and I'm not going to look him up, in case I'm wrong.
Great pick.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
2.20 Paranoid Android, Radiohead
When i am King, you will be first against the wall
I may not have much experience with couples ennui, but i have been trapped by loved ones in a frozen tomb lo these many years, so i know how to seethe.
i never liked my parents. they never did me no wrong, never did me much right, arent nice people, i got out as soon as i could and didnt look back. for almost fifty years, i was dutiful - called at least monthly, visited semi-yearly, never let em in on my life, never allowed drama to take the day.
for some reason i still dont understand, about ten years ago i took a job op back east just to be closer to fam. folks were well into their 80s - just seemed right. had a heart attack, lost the job, headed back west.
then me Ma started to fail. almost 90, asking for me. hell, they'd raised me, respected the distance i imposed and were human beings. i can spend her last months with my mother, i knew how much keeping my wife out of hospice as long as possible had meant to her.
that was more than seven years ago. i made the mistake of promising Ma she'd never see the inside of a home and that revived her to almost full health. i stayed and kept my promise, just for drill. she's been gone a year, but now me Da is too old to take care of himself and, so far, i havent the heart...
i wish eldercare was noble, rewarding work. at a point, it's almost the opposite. the 80s arent good, but the 90s are the 80s drunk & underwater. and, whether you care about em not, parents have ALL your buttons, cuz they installed them. for the first few years, the rage over their cottage pathologies was nigh on unbearable. it reduced me to a child, ruined 50 years of self-reform. the first management technique i discovered was playing Paranoid Android and exhaling all my GreenMileCreepieCrawlies to the drone of it until til i could see "from a great height". eventually, i found out that Ativan interrupts the rage cycle quite nicely and that turned dread into mere drudgery. simple, actually, but i do indeed know how to seethe now. have a nice day.
@higgins
When i am King, you will be first against the wall
I may not have much experience with couples ennui, but i have been trapped by loved ones in a frozen tomb lo these many years, so i know how to seethe.
i never liked my parents. they never did me no wrong, never did me much right, arent nice people, i got out as soon as i could and didnt look back. for almost fifty years, i was dutiful - called at least monthly, visited semi-yearly, never let em in on my life, never allowed drama to take the day.
for some reason i still dont understand, about ten years ago i took a job op back east just to be closer to fam. folks were well into their 80s - just seemed right. had a heart attack, lost the job, headed back west.
then me Ma started to fail. almost 90, asking for me. hell, they'd raised me, respected the distance i imposed and were human beings. i can spend her last months with my mother, i knew how much keeping my wife out of hospice as long as possible had meant to her.
that was more than seven years ago. i made the mistake of promising Ma she'd never see the inside of a home and that revived her to almost full health. i stayed and kept my promise, just for drill. she's been gone a year, but now me Da is too old to take care of himself and, so far, i havent the heart...
i wish eldercare was noble, rewarding work. at a point, it's almost the opposite. the 80s arent good, but the 90s are the 80s drunk & underwater. and, whether you care about em not, parents have ALL your buttons, cuz they installed them. for the first few years, the rage over their cottage pathologies was nigh on unbearable. it reduced me to a child, ruined 50 years of self-reform. the first management technique i discovered was playing Paranoid Android and exhaling all my GreenMileCreepieCrawlies to the drone of it until til i could see "from a great height". eventually, i found out that Ativan interrupts the rage cycle quite nicely and that turned dread into mere drudgery. simple, actually, but i do indeed know how to seethe now. have a nice day.
@higgins
Last edited by a moderator:
rockaction
Footballguy
I still can't get over thinking that Radiohead borrowed the theme from Marvin, The Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's and wrote a very meaningful song about it. In fact, I'll bet if I were to look it up, there'd be mention of Marvin.
As for your parents, well, remember Dr. Demento's response to Marvin, The Paranoid Android. They made him a woman, but her sentiments, while pure, were a little more nefarious than freely chosen love...
Marvin, I love you
Remember I am programmed to...
Last edited by a moderator:
higgins
Footballguy
I'm gonna continue wikkid's Radiohead lead (and my surreal motif) with....
2 -- 'How to Disappear Completely', Radiohead.
2 -- 'How to Disappear Completely', Radiohead.
johnnycakes
Footballguy
I'm going through my second divorce now, so I know a bit about living together as roommates. I do question the blastability of some of our selections, fwiw. Mine are definitely blastable.
2.22 How Many More Times - Led Zeppelin
2.22 How Many More Times - Led Zeppelin
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
Yeah...the blasting is odd in this context. An angry, resentful separation? Sure. She'd be getting a heavy dose of Pantera coming her way. Sad, depressing, amicable separation with you both locked in the house? Unless you're getting hammered and jamming out together, nobody's blasting anything.johnnycakes said:
ETA - this theme has a lot of elements and it's fun to see people getting fixated on different things.
Last edited by a moderator:
krista4
Footballguy
I kept the "blasting" as I was following the language of the original theme. You could blast it in your headphones or your head. Blasting is in the eye of the beholder for this one.
Last edited by a moderator:
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post receive exactly one of each of the emoji options to start off.wikkidpissah said:
Sorry to hear about your plight with your parents. Sounds like you’ve done your duty very well. I have had a kind of similar experience with elder care myself and can totally get using this fantastic song in the way that you do. :(
Last edited by a moderator:
Lehigh98
Footballguy
Oops, I found another one I like even better while I was scrolling through playlists on the way home from work last night. Also, no one has picked my other two so I may run out of picks before I run out of songs at this rate.
When I started dating my future wife, she and her friends were big fans of Barenaked Ladies, who I hadn't really gotten into at that point. Was dragged along to a concert and liked them immediately. Fun show, some great songs, and they're Canadian so instantly likeable of course. One song that really stood out to me was:
2.12 - Break Your Heart - Barenaked Ladies
This is a live version probably from the same year that I saw them for the first time. Steven Page really sings his ### off live and it's worth a listen if you've never heard it.
The song is basically about a guy just staying in a relationship because he doesn't want to hurt his girlfriend and then the eventual breakup and catharsis. If this goes onto a Spotify playlist, please use the version from the far superior "Rock Spectacle" live album rather than the Born on a Pirate Ship album version. TIA
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I had google what hits Nada Surf had. Yeah, their Popular song was pretty bad. I would recommend an additional song or two, but they have several draftworthy songs that may be blipping on a nearby radar. They really have that happy/sad sound locked down tight. And he does have a purty voice.krista4 said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Wait, so I can't blast my metal songs? 
krista4
Footballguy
Was eager to see your pick as you had one of my top three in the first round. Had never heard this song. Great lyrics, and the guy really blasts it. Negative points for not being good-looking enough, though.
I kid!
I'll be interested to see what you recommend after this draft is done.
Wait, so I can't blast my metal songs?
Oh, you're required to blast yours.
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
2nd Round - Fall Out Boy - "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"
Alright, I have to take this one. This is genuinely my favorite Christmas song of all-time, and there's never been a more perfect draft theme in the history of FBG drafts to select this song.
It's the most emo, most petty, most delightfully-bitter Christmas song you will ever hear.
These are your good years
Don't take my advice
You never wanted the nice boys anyway
And I'm of good cheer
Cause I've been checking my list
The gifts you're receiving from me
Will be
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
And all I want this year
Is for you to dedicate your last breath to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Alright, I have to take this one. This is genuinely my favorite Christmas song of all-time, and there's never been a more perfect draft theme in the history of FBG drafts to select this song.
It's the most emo, most petty, most delightfully-bitter Christmas song you will ever hear.
These are your good years
Don't take my advice
You never wanted the nice boys anyway
And I'm of good cheer
Cause I've been checking my list
The gifts you're receiving from me
Will be
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
And all I want this year
Is for you to dedicate your last breath to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
krista4
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
This is another song that I listened to a bunch during my Lost Years and that very much encapsulated my state of mind. It says so much in so few words, and can be interpreted in so many ways if you're feeling hopeless/depressed/questioning. I'm pairing it with the instrumental that follows it on the album, as I always considered them a single entity and the second conveys the same feelings as the first without words.
Round 2:
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate / Sleeping on the Roof -- The Flaming Lips
Love
In our life
Is just too valuable
Oh, to feel
For even a second
Without it
But life
Without death
Is just impossible
Oh, to realize
Something is ending
Within us
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Round 2:
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate / Sleeping on the Roof -- The Flaming Lips
Love
In our life
Is just too valuable
Oh, to feel
For even a second
Without it
But life
Without death
Is just impossible
Oh, to realize
Something is ending
Within us
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Last edited by a moderator:
rockaction
Footballguy
Yep. My friends and I used to recite the most emo lyrics we could think of whenever we got drunk in the late aughts. Surprised that one never made it.Those lyrics are fantastic.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Zegras11
Footballguy
Just finished listening and scoring the first two rounds. 1-5 for the song and 1-5 for how well it fits the theme. Will be interesting to see who I send in when we are done. A lot of real cool songs and a few WTF's LOL.
Flying down to see @krista4's Kracken vs Ducks Wed night, Chiefs at Chargers Thursday night, Yotes and Ducks Friday night (use to have ST before moving to Boise) during an 8-day stay on 39th In Newport Beach with the gram kids and fam. I'll try to make my pick after we check in and before we leave for the game, but I'll still be in the air when I'm up, so just skip me until then. 6pm PT????
Flying down to see @krista4's Kracken vs Ducks Wed night, Chiefs at Chargers Thursday night, Yotes and Ducks Friday night (use to have ST before moving to Boise) during an 8-day stay on 39th In Newport Beach with the gram kids and fam. I'll try to make my pick after we check in and before we leave for the game, but I'll still be in the air when I'm up, so just skip me until then. 6pm PT????
krista4
Footballguy
Wow, sounds like a great trip! (Kraken not Kracken, btw.) If you want me to post your pick, please feel free to send to me.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
In the scenario for the draft and our house set up, I basically imagined myself moving more crap downstairs and basically living out of the basement in the extra rooms. I will be blasting my music, and I would assume sometimes in a slightly immature, passive aggressive, purposely irritating manner.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Round 3:
This was another song I played a lot during my Lost Years and had a hard time getting through without breaking down. Its message applied both to the initial shock of being left, and subsequently being friend-zoned by women I was interested in.
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
This was another song I played a lot during my Lost Years and had a hard time getting through without breaking down. Its message applied both to the initial shock of being left, and subsequently being friend-zoned by women I was interested in.
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
higgins
Footballguy
This’ll be my lead-off song — edgy emotion straight off a breakup — performing alone, in the dark.
3 — Big Love (live), Lindsey Buckingham.
@wikkidpissah
3 — Big Love (live), Lindsey Buckingham.
@wikkidpissah
Last edited by a moderator:
johnnycakes
Footballguy
Last edited by a moderator:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
BREAKING NEWS: FFA declares America officially post-racial.
What else does one make of the fact that Rd1 of CMD uses Artists of Color (25 yrs i been asking "what the hell is the difference between people of color and colored people?") 40% of the time to celebrate their unmitigated joy/"just got paid" moments but, in the 1st fitty picks of rd2, only Prince and his damn doves are all up in our prolims. God Bless America!!
But my heart blames it on me.
3.04 Blame It On The Sun, Steve Wonder
My last two are gonna be the songs i sing to myself to get far enough inside my blues not to feel so bad. The next one is a ripper, so ima give y'all a break on wiksplainin' this heartrending paean to blame.
@Chaos Commish
What else does one make of the fact that Rd1 of CMD uses Artists of Color (25 yrs i been asking "what the hell is the difference between people of color and colored people?") 40% of the time to celebrate their unmitigated joy/"just got paid" moments but, in the 1st fitty picks of rd2, only Prince and his damn doves are all up in our prolims. God Bless America!!
But my heart blames it on me.
3.04 Blame It On The Sun, Steve Wonder
My last two are gonna be the songs i sing to myself to get far enough inside my blues not to feel so bad. The next one is a ripper, so ima give y'all a break on wiksplainin' this heartrending paean to blame.
@Chaos Commish
Last edited by a moderator:
Ilov80s
Footballguy
yeah I’m scoring based on song quality and how much it hits the theme but also if the playlist is cohesive. The songs should work together imo.
