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There's no voting or judging here. The amusement is seeing what goes when, and making comments on picks as they happen.
It's the process that counts here. We don't pick winners in these drafts. Any talk about a winner is a literal joke. Those are Timdrafts™. timscochet is a specific poster who posts here and runs drafts with judges. These are judge-free, Manster.
I said my twelve year old daughter likes the same stuff as me. My sixteen year old son plays all that auto tune crap, but his favorites are Kanye and Kendrick. Joey Badass or something too? I dunno. Anyway, my daughter hears all his stuff and doesn't like it at all. Point is, I think I'm safe. Tonight while we were driving with her friends, she started asking for Arcade Fire. I don't actually play them a ton around her anymore, but that's all I played when she was a baby, lol. Made me smile.
Take a listen to the fourth Santana album [name redacted since it's not been picked]. https://open.spotify.com/album/0abfpuzzbTUNxasNmX04RU?si=ELcDfQDZS1afagfNgpLAhQ&dl_branch=1. I have it on right now.
Yea that makes sense. I'm intrigued......count me in if there's another draft
It's his 4th album. Here's a link. Name redacted since it's not been picked.
INI'd like to do NV's Rolling Stone top 500 draft. 25 drafters with 20 picks each, and you have to take one song within 1-25, 26-50, etc. up to 476-500.
We'd all end up with some garbage we'd hate.
I might have to be cutthroat and NOT leave Beatles songs for you.I'd like to do NV's Rolling Stone top 500 draft. 25 drafters with 20 picks each, and you have to take one song within 1-25, 26-50, etc. up to 476-500.
We'd all end up with some garbage we'd hate.
Very meditate so masochist uber flagellateI'd like to do NV's Rolling Stone top 500 draft. 25 drafters with 20 picks each, and you have to take one song within 1-25, 26-50, etc. up to 476-500.
We'd all end up with some garbage we'd hate.
The drafter on each corner would have no choice. Just what we left. BUT he/she gets to kickoff the next 25. This thread is more entertaining that San Jose St. v Hawaii.
If we mandated that 1-25 be drafted first, then 26-50, etc. But what if you had to pick one from each block but it didn't matter what order? If I only liked one song from, say, block 351-375, that would be my first round pick.
Yeah. Plus doing it in order means the people on the corners get 10 songs they love and 10 songs they are at best "meh" on and possibly hate.
Yes, this is what I was thinking. You'd have to draft from every block, but in no particular order. Makes for more strategy.
I would have thought you were serious if you wanted to use your Beatles countdown thread.I was serious about the idea.
@Pip's Invitationhas done a Beatles draft, and a Neil Young draft (I think?), and others like that on another board...
But Missy Elliot.....I mean thats like getting stuck with Nathan Peterman as ur starting QB
What if a few of chosen ones got to pick a band to expand the blocks? I'd take Steely Dan just to make you choose a song or two.
Correct. Beatles (group and solo combined), Stones, Neil, Dylan, Petty, REM, Bowie and soul/funk/R&B songs. Plus their version of the desert island draft (with songs instead of albums) and a "festival draft" of favorite live acts. Maybe one or two others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
I happen to like Missy Elliott a bunch and think that Timbaland's and her production on both those tracks is outstanding.
I'd be into that. I don't think I've heard a Steely Dan song I didn't hate...so I feel like I should listen to more as I'm SURE I'm missing something given their popularity with people whose taste I think is good.What if a few of chosen ones got to pick a band to expand the blocks? I'd take Steely Dan just to make you choose a song or two.
I can't really explain why I like them so much, as they don't sound like most of my other favorites. Their songs are just that good to my ears.
There's a unique quality to it that I could see either loving or hating. Obviously I'm the latter, as it just immediately makes me cringe or worse.
Soooooo subjective.....I've got a pretty eclectic musical taste but I just can't get into the poppy hip hop stuff.......for instance, I can't for the life of me understand how people can listen to Eminem.
I'm an out of the closet jazz lover and in the closet yacht rock lover. This is a fusion of both, such easy listening. Toss in Larry Carlton on guitar and Michael McDonald singing some and it's just uniquely lush ear candy for me. The songwriting is also a one off. Wish there were more like them.
That's probably a pretty close approximation of how I feel about them as well. Their approach was unique, that's for sure.
They were. For example, they had a bunch of drummers attempt the title track of Aja before they got a take they liked (Steve Gadd's).
Yes. Carlton was the only band member Fagan and Becker didn't carefully control in the studio. Even then Carlton tells a funny story about playing an intro to a song I forget at the moment that he was really proud of. The next day in the studio Fagan axed it and played his own. It's funny because guitar wonks think it's Carlton on the studio recording and give him mad props for it. He did/does play Fagan's version live, so there's that.
I love his solo acoustic shows, he approaches them like no one else. That said, I could see him trolling if he felt the vibe was off or whatever.
