What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (4 Viewers)

3.  The War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream (2014)

I'm pretty familiar with this one but didn't love it as much as most of you nerds when it came out.  It's an hour in length so we'll see how far I get with it.

 
Steiner's selections by decade:

1960's(5): Rubber Soul (Beatles), Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (Norma Tanega), To Our Children's Children's Children (Moody Blues), Revenge (Cosby), How Can You be in Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (Firesign Theater)

1970's(5): Aja (Steely Dan), Live at the Cellar Door (Seldom Scene), Katy Lied (Steely Dan), Son of a Son of a Sailor (Jimmy Buffett), A Question of Balance (Moody Blues)

1980's(21): Especially for You (Smithereens), Green Thoughts (Smithereens), The Swing (INXS), Staring at the Sun (Level 42), 11 (Smithereens), Chris Isaak (Chris Isaak), The Message (Grandmaster Flash), Different Light (Bangles), Long Distance Voyager (Moody Blues), North of a Miracle (Nick Heyward), The Ocean Blue (The Ocean Blue), Echo and the Bunnymen (Echo and the Bunnymen), Built for Speed (Stray Cats), Whitney Houston (Whitney Houston), Hysteria (Human League), This is Spinal Tap (Spinal Tap), Mars Needs Guitars! (Hoodoo Gurus), Reconciled (The Call), Running in the Family (Level 42), Conflicting Emotions (Split Enz), Freeze Frame (J. Geils Band)

1990's(16): The Big Lebowski Soundtrack (various), Red Moon (The Call), Kamikiriad (Donald Fagan), Guaranteed (Level 42), View From 3rd Street (Jude Cole), Seal II (Seal), Blow Up (Smithereens), A Date with the Smithereens (Smithereens), Seal I (Seal), Start the Car (Jude Cole), Forever Blue (Chris Isaak), Christmas Eve and Other Stories (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Duran Duran (Duran Duran), Break Like the Wind (Spinal Tap), Jesus Freak (DC Talk)

2000's(2): Beauty and Crime (Suzanne Vega), Lover's Live (Sade)

2010's(1) Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) (Sex Bob-Omb + various)

-Not surprised it's 80's-heavy.

-5 female acts (plus half of The Human League); surprised there were that many

-5 Smithereens; thought there would be more

-4 Moody Blues; something to be said about concept albums

-3 Level 42; sounds about right

-2 Chris Isaak; a little surprised I didn't pick more

-2 Spinal Tap: :headbang: :headbang:

-2 The Call albums; sound about right

-2 Jude Cole; whoever made the veiled comparison to John Waite can suck it!

-2 Seal; sounds about right

-2 Comedy albums; also had Eddie Murphy, George Carlin and Bob Newhart in the hopper.

Final thoughts: While I don't have the range of tastes as most of you, I'm pleased with my choices; considering I only got sniped once or twice, I'd better be.

 
I'm doing a little spreadsheet clean up ...I'll first start with the folks that go back pretty far back - then move onto the more recent rds

@JZilla MIA since rd 24

@Mr. Ected MIA since rd 25

@Mrs. Rannous no picks since rd 38

@Chaos Commish no picks since rd 39

Realizing that there has been some concern about @JZilla do any of you guys still want to make picks?

Next ...

@wazoo11 we are missing picks in rds 26 - 29 and then they stop at rd 39

@Ilov80s we are missing rd 26 pick

 
Yo Mama's Island

(Siftin’ Through My Nifty Fifty)

I'm digging plenty of Seventies!  (11 total)

Free - Fire and Water (1970)

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (1975)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (1977)

The Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute (1978)

------------------------------------------------------------------

All the ladies love my Eighties!  (15 total)

AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)

Queen - The Game (1980)

Joe Jackson - Night and Day (1982)

Asia - Asia (1982)

U2 - War (1983)

Rufus and Chaka Khan - Stompin' at the Savoy Live (1983)

The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves (1984)

The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)

Erasure - The Two Ring Circus (1987)

Depeche Mode - 101 (1989)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

------------------------------------------------------------------

Rockin' / Hip-Hoppin' my hiney in the Nineties!  (13 total)

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

Metallica - Metallica "The Black Album" (1991)

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (1992)

Candlebox - Candlebox (1993)

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

Beck - Odelay (1996)

Sublime - Sublime (1996)

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Outkast - Aquemini (1998)

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

------------------------------------------------------------------

Not to be obscene, here comes my Aughts' and Teens!  (11 total)

System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da (2001)

Linkin Park - Reanimation (2002)

Muse - Absolution (2004)

Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2006)

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

The Temper Trap - Conditions (2009)

The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)

Spoon - Hot Thoughts (2017)

Yo Mama’s Island Playlist

:headbang: :headbang:

 
Binky The Doormat said:
I'm doing a little spreadsheet clean up ...I'll first start with the folks that go back pretty far back - then move onto the more recent rds

@JZilla MIA since rd 24

@Mr. Ected MIA since rd 25

@Mrs. Rannous no picks since rd 38

@Chaos Commish no picks since rd 39

Realizing that there has been some concern about @JZilla do any of you guys still want to make picks?

Next ...

@wazoo11 we are missing picks in rds 26 - 29 and then they stop at rd 39

@Ilov80s we are missing rd 26 pick
Click to expand...
Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis (1957)

 
Last edited by a moderator:
This wasn't by design, but thinking back through my music listening days my island makes a ton of sense. So let's play a game of arbitrary end points...

1970-75: 7 - music's heyday

1976-85: 1 - and if I had been first to Bruce then this would have been 0 and the above 8

1986-90: 6 - building towards my peak

1992-97: 11 - my peak

1998-2004: 5 - when music mostly sucked

2005-08: 13 - if you had told me before we started that this # would be higher than 92-97 I'd have called you a fool

2009-15: 3 - when i wasn't listening

2016-19: 4 - then I started again

 
Yo Mama said:
I'm digging plenty of Seventies!  (11 total)

Free - Fire and Water (1970)

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (1975)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (1977)

The Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute (1978)

Rockin' / Hip-Hoppin' my hiney in the Nineties!  (13 total)

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

Metallica - Metallica "The Black Album" (1991)

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (1992)

Candlebox - Candlebox (1993)

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

Beck - Odelay (1996)

Sublime - Sublime (1996)

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Outkast - Aquemini (1998)

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
Click to expand...
Impressive couple of decades.

 
So my island is pretty mainstream, so it won’t be too groundbreaking for whoever “visits”, but I will have some suggestions for some lesser known stuff based on musical tastes.  Maybe we can do a Match dot com like survey between island drafter and visitor to make album recommendations. 🤠

 
I finally caught up again while listening to the playlist.  Think it was 5 pages this time.   

Would love to offer some comments but life is crazy busy these days.   The playlist is enjoyable though.   Last 3 songs:

Dance, dance, dance by Chic.  Love it.   

Marianne Faithful by Broken English.   Boring to me 

Chalk dust Torture by Phish.   Decent   Better than I expected   

 
Instead of doing all my paperwork to wrap up the school year, I decided to procrastinate a bit more and dissect my draft. I had a group of albums that I loved and knew would be hot commodities. Those were my first targets. Then I mostly pivoted to a mix of albums I really wanted but were a bit more off the beaten path along with some that I was surprised slipped. From there, I was conscious of trying to get albums to fill out genres I like. 

By genre: 

15- rock, 10- jazz, 7-R&B,  5- hip hop, 4- folk, 4-electronic, 4- blues, 1-country. 

By decade: 

50s: 5

60s: 16

70s: 6

80s: 4

90s: 4

00s: 9

10s: 6

I took 10 albums released between 1963 and 1965 alone. 

Oldest album was 1955 and most recent was May, 2019. 

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Eephus said:
3.  The War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream (2014)

I'm pretty familiar with this one but didn't love it as much as most of you nerds when it came out.  It's an hour in length so we'll see how far I get with it.
Click to expand...
I don't love these guys either, I keep trying but it doesn't quite click with me. 

 
MAC_32 said:
This wasn't by design, but thinking back through my music listening days my island makes a ton of sense. So let's play a game of arbitrary end points...

1970-75: 7 - music's heyday

1976-85: 1 - and if I had been first to Bruce then this would have been 0 and the above 8

1986-90: 6 - building towards my peak

1992-97: 11 - my peak

1998-2004: 5 - when music mostly sucked

2005-08: 13 - if you had told me before we started that this # would be higher than 92-97 I'd have called you a fool

2009-15: 3 - when i wasn't listening

2016-19: 4 - then I started again
Click to expand...
Huge arbitrary end points alert. Music gets awesome again in like 00/01 with Modest Mouse, White Stripes, The Strokes, etc...

 
Ilov80s said:
KarmaPolice said:
Oh, for sure I've heard We Are Young, or st least enough to know the chorus.  I am guessing that one y'all were talking about.  
Click to expand...
There's another song you also may be familiar with. The band was everywhere for half year period or so. 
Click to expand...
I didn't want to spoil much last night but the one guy in fun. (Nate Reuss) was in a decently big indie rock band before fun - The Format - and has had some hits after fun. with P!NK.

Another (Jack Antonoff) has had some success as the lead singer of Bleachers and has co-written and/or produced on many of the best pop albums of the last few years (Taylor Swift, St.Vincent, Lorde, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lana Del Rey, Charli XCX), he got Grammys and stuff.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Northern Voice said:
Huge arbitrary end points alert. Music gets awesome again in like 00/01 with Modest Mouse, White Stripes, The Strokes, etc...
Click to expand...
White Stripes, yes. My add was just their last release, so it ended up in the 2nd window. I never got too into Modest Mouse or The Strokes though. They're in the i wouldn't turn them off but wouldn't seek them out category. There were others in that genre I was after (i.e. Franz) but I just didn't prioritize high enough. 

 
Abrantes said:
Going back to this earlier post just to note that being super into video games all my life, I wish I could've gotten some game music on my island. Alas, it's not something we typically consume in album format, but there are so many game songs that bring me joy or move me immediately when I hear them. There were multiple game drafts in the FFA, but I don't know if there was ever a game music one. I'll try to come up with a list of some of my favorites, though mine'll be pretty different from Tasker's 'cause I wasn't a Nintendo kid.

:nerd:
Click to expand...
nobody:

me: Abrantes Game Island

Non-comprehensive playlist, of course. Some glaring omissions (like Persona 5) due to the original versions not being on Spotify. Others I included versions by different artists so I could get them in.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
The War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream (2014) - drafted by @shuke in round 13

I never really bonded with these guys and their blend of Dad Rock and Ambience.  It's fine on the surface and cool to blast in the car when going down the highway but the closer I listen to them, the less I hear.  It's been a while though and as I've mentioned before, my taste for ambient music has grown in the decade or so that the War on Drugs has been around.

I think my favorite parts were the instrumental intros and/or outros that surround the actual songs.  There are some lovely textures of guitars, synths and other instruments.  I heard some bass clarinet in there this time, which is one of my favorite non-french horn instruments.  But once the singing and drums kicked in, my problems with this band returned.  The vocals are nondescript and buried in the mix.  The lyrics I heard held nothing of consequence and mostly just drift in and out like another instrument.  The drummer could have been replaced by a metronome for all he or she does.  When I first listened to Slave Ambient, I had the mental image of the child in Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" video banging on the snare drum.  It's been almost ten years and I can't unsee it.

I don't really dislike the War on Drugs but just find them sort of meh.  The obvious point of comparison is the band's old colleague Kurt Vile.  He performs similar guitar based jams but I think he's a better songwriter. 

 
Binky The Doormat said:
zamboni said:
Binky The Doormat said:
PICK 50.20

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN (1967)

Like this one better than their first (already taken anyway).  

Songs

- Mr. Soul 

- Rock And Roll Woman
Click to expand...
I took this about 20 rounds ago and you were even pissed I sniped you. :lol:
Click to expand...
reaction

THIS IS NOT FUNNY GDAMMIT!!!!

ETA:  Clearly I'm exhibiting early onset dementia.  
Click to expand...
NEW PICK 50.20

FRANK ZAPPA - OVER-NITE SENSATION (1973)

I'll leave Dinah Moe Hum off the playlist ...though it was a seminal moment for most teen boys when they first heard it.  Frank hasn't got much love on the playlist ...likely because he is so divisive.  He deserves a lot more representation on the list.  It was a tough choice between this and Sheik Yerbouti.  

Songs

- Camarillo Brillo

- Dirty Love

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Binky The Doormat said:
NEW PICK 50.20

FRANK ZAPPA - OVER-NITE SENSATION (1973)

I'll leave Dinah Moe Hum off the playlist ...though it was a seminal moment for most teen boys when they first heard it.  Frank hasn't got much love on the playlist ...likely because he is so divisive.  He deserves a lot more representation on the list.  It was a tough choice between this and Sheik Yerbouti.  

Songs

- Camarillo Brillo

- Dirty Love
Click to expand...
C'mon, somebody, tell him you drafted it in round 6 just so we can watch the reaction.

 
KarmaPolice said:
LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING IN THE MIX OF GETTING ANOTHER DRAFTER'S ISLAND ASSIGNED TO YOU FOR SOME SEXY, I MEAN ALBUM EXPLORING.  

So far I have written down:

KA

Buffaloes

N.V.

Dr. Octopus.  

IIronicallydon'tlov80s

Raging Weasel

mac 32

Long Ball Larry

Yo Mama

Shuke

Tasker

Eephus

Abrantes

Mrs. R

mphtrilogy

Otb-lifer

Binky 
Click to expand...
Have I missed anybody - that puts us at 17 without krista and bonzai. 

 
Northern Voice said:
rcam said:
50s - 0

60s - 2

70s - 0

80s - 12

90s - 22

00s - 2

10s - 12
Click to expand...
What happened with the 00s? Just busy life stuff or stopped listening to new music? Just curious since it pops back up in the 2010s.
Click to expand...
No, I just didn't like most music around that time. Really, if you look more closely at my list. From 1996-2009 there are only 2 non-rap albums chosen (Blink-182 and a Depeche Mode). I absolutely hated the Lilith Fair era. That was followed by some emo-rock (bleh). That isn't to say there weren't a few songs here and there I liked - but definitely not enough out there for me to start searching out music much less entire albums. I also wasn't a huge fan of bands like Coldplay, Bush, Nickelback, Maroon 5, (I am sure I am missing some)etc. etc. etc. which all seemed to be on the radio all. the. time. in the aughts.

I have an iTunes playlist that is all my 5 star songs (representing songs I like and I never feel the urge to skip) almost no original music is from that timeframe.

I have an iTunes playlist that is more selective than that - songs/artists that I can individually loop and be happy for quite a while. Over that time frame, again other than rap, it looks like I find about 1.3 songs/year that I loved.

Now, my lack of 70s music is just that the drafters here like that music more than I like it so it goes quickly. If we had a draft of favorite non-rap songs/artists from 1996-2009 I wouldn't even make an attempt.

 
Abrantes said:
Abrantes said:
Going back to this earlier post just to note that being super into video games all my life, I wish I could've gotten some game music on my island. Alas, it's not something we typically consume in album format, but there are so many game songs that bring me joy or move me immediately when I hear them. There were multiple game drafts in the FFA, but I don't know if there was ever a game music one. I'll try to come up with a list of some of my favorites, though mine'll be pretty different from Tasker's 'cause I wasn't a Nintendo kid.

:nerd:
Click to expand...
nobody:

me: Abrantes Game Island

Non-comprehensive playlist, of course. Some glaring omissions (like Persona 5) due to the original versions not being on Spotify. Others I included versions by different artists so I could get them in.
Click to expand...
The Music of Diablo: 1996 - 2011 - 15 Year Anniversary by Matt Uelmen

Album is awesome if you played Diablo at all.

Here is a d2 soundtrack

 
Last edited by a moderator:
rcam said:
No, I just didn't like most music around that time. Really, if you look more closely at my list. From 1996-2009 there are only 2 non-rap albums chosen (Blink-182 and a Depeche Mode). I absolutely hated the Lilith Fair era. That was followed by some emo-rock (bleh). That isn't to say there weren't a few songs here and there I liked - but definitely not enough out there for me to start searching out music much less entire albums. I also wasn't a huge fan of bands like Coldplay, Bush, Nickelback, Maroon 5, (I am sure I am missing some)etc. etc. etc. which all seemed to be on the radio all. the. time. in the aughts.
Click to expand...
if you don't mind, how old are you?

 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

John Maddens Lunchbox
Desert Island Song Draft - Alphabet thievery afoot - Thievery abounds, XTC and Queen popular. Starting Round 25. Chaos coming
37 38 39
Replies
2K
Views
44K
northern exposure
northern exposure
Eephus
Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want
52 53 54
Replies
3K
Views
59K
rockaction
rockaction
Eephus
The Return of the Desert Island Jukebox Draft - Drop in a quarter
92 93 94
Replies
5K
Views
128K
Pip's Invitation
Pip's Invitation

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 4 (members: 0, guests: 4)
Back
Top