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3.06 - CHVRCHES - "Clearest Blue" (Crescendo)

Favorite crescendo song of the past few years that I can think of.  The entire first 2 minutes of the video is just a slow buildup.  From 2:01 through 2:31, it picks up faster and finally explodes into a dance party.  There's about 20 seconds of filler in the beginning of the video, so the actual album track, you subtract ~20 seconds from those times.

Obligatory Lauren Mayberry pic

 
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Steve Tasker said:
3.06 - CHVRCHES - "Clearest Blue" (Crescendo)

Favorite crescendo song of the past few years that I can think of.  The entire first 2 minutes of the video is just a slow buildup.  From 2:01 through 2:31, it picks up faster and finally explodes into a dance party.  There's about 20 seconds of filler in the beginning of the video, so the actual album track, you subtract ~20 seconds from those times.

Obligatory Lauren Mayberry pic
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This is just such a great song

 
Eephus said:
Crescendo is a tougher category than I first thought so I'm getting it out of the way early.  Crescendos seem to be more common in classical music than pop, in part because of the dynamics of acoustic vs electric instruments and probably some reluctance to play too quietly at shows or on the radio. 

A lot of the quiet/loud songs I came across when researching turn out to not really have crescendos at all.  I'm talking about songs that have a quiet verse but transition abruptly to a loud chorus.  A band that rhymes with Dixies does this a lot.

The songs that finally made my crescendo shortlist fell into two categories:  either songs that build from the beginning or (mostly dance) songs that build into the drop. 
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This comment from Eephus got me thinking a lot about the crescendo category and a lot of the songs and bands that came to find for me first are like he says with the abrupt change from quiet to loud or build and drop several times.

This one I think is pretty close to a true 6 minute crescendo, which means it starts out very quiet and slow and takes some patience as it really takes its time building up to the final release (which even then is restrained by the standards of these guys). It has a nice bass through it that also builds as it grows louder.

3.07 - "Spanish Sahara" - Foals - Crescendo

 
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KarmaPolice said:
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
A separate one for each category would work best, but hey anythings a bonus :thumbup:
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I was at least going to do the separate bigger categories - Instrument, Production, etc..  but with switching picks that will drive me insane.  Megamix or bust!!
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Like NV said, I think you could do something like that at the end of the draft. would be interesting, especially the Unique Structure Category!!!

 
Northern Voice said:
This comment from Eephus got me thinking a lot about the crescendo category and a lot of the songs and bands that came to find for me first are like he says with the abrupt change from quiet to loud or build and drop several times.
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I'll agree that abruptness isn't crescendo but I don't mind that mine has more than one crescendo.  Hell it's a 14 minute song.

 
With the one hour clock, I'm up.

intro is a category that has options I think. You can go with an awesome first few notes or for a long extended lead into a song. 

This one is the latter. When I see this band live, as I will again on Sunday, this is usually what I'm waiting to hear an 8 or 9 minute version of. 

It starts slow and gradually more instruments and effects come in. There are a half dozen times where you think it's going to start but the intro just keeps building and building and then when the vocals do kick in, it's a really great song.

i professed my love of this song (drunk) around a campsite with @Steve Tasker who's now on the clock this summer...

4.04 - "I Will Possess Your Heart" - Death Cab for Cutie - Intro https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-yP7mb8UE

 
Northern Voice said:
This comment from Eephus got me thinking a lot about the crescendo category and a lot of the songs and bands that came to find for me first are like he says with the abrupt change from quiet to loud or build and drop several times.

This one I think is pretty close to a true 6 minute crescendo, which means it starts out very quiet and slow and takes some patience as it really takes its time building up to the final release (which even then is restrained by the standards of these guys). It has a nice bass through it that also builds as it grows louder.

3.07 - "Spanish Sahara" - Foals - Crescendo
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That was on my shortlist

 
4.05 - Blood Orange - "Time Will Tell" (Instrument - Piano)

Dude is a god to me.

This song may sound mishmashed, and it is - it is pretty much a mashup of lyrics from about 10 different Blood Orange songs set to a new beat.  Apparently this was recorded in the studio as a jam session in 1 live 15-minute take where Dev Hynes basically freestyled a mashup of his own lyrics over his studio band jamming on a piano, guitar, and drum machine....and it turned out so amazing they cut it to 5 minutes, left it as is and threw it at the end of Cupid Deluxe.  He played this as his set-ender at Bonnaroo this summer and it was ####### mesmerizing how he nailed this performance.  I was 2nd/3rd row.

Also keeping this in my back pocket as a backup falsetto song, possible category change later on.

 
Steelpan drum, amazing sample, some voice modulation tools on Young Thug. This song has a lot to offer, but I think I am going to highlight the Steelpan drum. The African singer, dirty South rapper, and throwback acapella chorus gets just the right touch of exotic and eccentric with the steelpan (all produced by a white guy from England). This is the best track off 2015's best album. 

3.x "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)"- Jamie xx, Young Thug, Popcaan (2015)  WORLD INSTRUMENT (Steelpan drum)

 
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Ilov80s said:
Steelpan drum, amazing sample, some voice modulation tools on Young Thug. This song has a lot to offer, but I think I am going to highlight the Steelpan drum. The African singer, dirty South rapper, and throwback acapella chorus gets just the right touch of exotic and eccentric with the steelpan (all produced by a white guy from England). This is the best track off 2015's best album. 

3.x "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)"- Jamie xx, Young Thug, Popcaan (2015)  WORLD INSTRUMENT (Steelpan drum)
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I considered this but wasn't sure if it an actual steel drum or a drum machine reproduction (or whether that matters for this draft).  Great song.  I might grab another off this album later for a different category, have one on the long-list.

 
For Acoustic Guitar, I'm going to go with something nice and simple.

4.06 - Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy (MTV Unplugged)

I enjoy watching SRV playing the 12 string he has here, he makes it seem like there is more than one instrument playing at the same time.

I will admit that I was a big fan of Unplugged. I love listening to songs broken down to the bare minimum, acoustically.

 
Mr. Ected said:
3.05 - 'Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Part 2' - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Keyboards - Electric)

Another easy one, there are few keyboardists ever who are better than Keith Emerson (RIP). To know that they played mostly with a keyboard, drums and a bass guitar makes their complex music more special; add to that the fact that the song released in late '73 makes these keyboards even more incredible. Now on this song, there is a regular electric guitar solo in the middle (~2:00 on this version) followed by a small drum solo that are not to shabby (Lake and Palmer are great musicians in their own right) but it is the keyboards throughout that are spectacular.
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NOW we're talkin! Actually the piano parts are even better than electric, but it's all phantasmagorical. Been waiting unrequited for 45 years for Emerson to put out an all-piano album, but he never stopped humping his C3 long enough.

Some great work here guys, and many of em 1sters for this ol' fart, which is a joy. STAY ON MY LAWN!!

 
Steve Tasker said:
I considered this but wasn't sure if it an actual steel drum or a drum machine reproduction (or whether that matters for this draft).  Great song.  I might grab another off this album later for a different category, have one on the long-list.
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I feel like we might be sniping each other quite a bit here. I actually did look and it seems as the steeldrums were real and added at the very end after he spliced together the version of the song YT did and Popcaan recorded. 

 
With so many on skip, I almost feel like an AM and PM pick system might be easier than an order. Maybe for next week/weekend?

 
Combine members of Spoon, Wolf Parade, New Bomb Turks and Handsome Furs and you get sick synth music? Not quite, but this song features a synth line so catchy and yet still dark that Greg Hawkes of the Cars can't believe he never thought of it. 

4.x "My Love is Real" Divine Fits (2012) KEYBOARD (ELECTRIC) 

 
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FUBAR said:
Which I'll take now and risk that EB would have taken. 

5.02 dire straits, money for nothing - intro

One of the first videos I loved, I want my. ..I want my MTV!
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I'm not sure there's a better intro in rock. Memorable, unique, fun. Has it all.

 
I think I owe rounds 3 & 4

3.09  Choir - Elbow - One Day Like This

Choir enters at about the 2:30 mark for the refrain "Throw those curtains wide/One day like this a year would see me right"

Lovely song, no matter how overplayed

 
For Bass, I'm going with Chris Squire of Yes. His work is sometimes hidden behind Jon Anderson's voice (not falsetto! info for another category!), Steve Howe's guitar and the bunch of great Yes keyboarders that reads like a list of Spinal Tap drummers; however it's there, it's important to the music, it's complex and it is beautiful.

5.05 - Roundabout - Yes (Bass Guitar)

 
FUBAR said:
I'm mildly embarrassed that I have no idea who elbow is. 
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The album this is on 'The Seldom Seen Kid' is where I would start. They're really good. That's their most accessible, the albums before it are a bit more dense, I'd say and after the "hits" on this one they got even more bombastic. I like all versions of them, but this one is right in the middle and would give you an idea if you want to check them out further.

 
Playlist is updated.  That one Canadian guy isn't on spotify, and I didn't see the acoustic version of Pride and Joy on there either.  Otherwise, all draft picks should be on it. 

 
I have to admit to not getting the timing down of the draft. The distance between my picks has varied from two full days to just a couple of hours. I've lost track.

 
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