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Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want (1 Viewer)

Alright, it's time, if I was worried about anyone else taking them, I would have taken them many rounds ago. My favourite live band/possibly just my favourite band period. Almost Killed Me being 2004 makes this choice pretty easy. I love Separation Sunday too but Boys and Girls in America has so many live staples that they're scratched into my soul.

Round 7 -

The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (2004)

Positive Jam

Killer Parties

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006)

First Night

Stuck Between Stations

 
Lots of excitement amongst some of my Chicago friends today, as Metallica is having a semi-spontaneous show where tickets went on sale this morning for $20 cash.  I told OH that this is the sum total of what I know about Metallica:  (1) they had a record called "Master of Puppets", and (2) they have a drummer named Lars something who is possibly a bit of a jerk.

Now he's been schooling me on Metallica.  It's not that I don't like the style of music - AFAIK - but somehow they just hit at the wrong time for my listening pleasure.  I liked some harder rock and/or metal when I was younger than that - AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, etc. - but given what he's told me, I think they were popular when I'd moved into stuff like Elvis Costello and They Might Be Giants.  Missed Guns 'n' Roses for the same reason (though I understand they weren't in the same genre or league anyway).

 
And another one that no one is sniping on me, aside from possibly @Steve Tasker, I have changed my mind on which albums I want about ten different times here, I love every one between 89 and 02 in one way or another. The post-96 albums turn away from their blues-rock sound and go in a more melodic direction that really lets Gord Downie's lyrics take the forefront and most of my favourite songs fall in the 96-02 timeframe but I need to take one of the classics here too, so I'll go with Day for Night, which is really the start of that transition and of the most solid front to back.

Round 8

The Tragically Hip - Day For Night (1994)

Grace, Too

Nautical Disaster

The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power (1998)

Bobcaygeon

Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man

 
krista4 said:
Yeah, I heard about that.  That is, I heard about it today when my friends were excited about the one in Chicago.
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I think hit and run club shows are a good tactic for acts that don't really need the money.  It gets their name out there in a positive light, generates goodwill with fans but without a big financial risk if a tour has to be cancelled.

 
Eephus said:
NV:  Who's your MP?
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Maryam Monsef - Liberal Party. I voted for her (and in turn for Justin Trudeau) last election. One of their key promises was electoral reform and by chance they put Monsef in charge of it... and then did nothing.

So, again, my riding is projected to go like 34% Liberal and 34% Conservative - and the balance split almost all among parties farther left of the Liberals, so I had to make the decision of strategically voting for the Liberal party again to keep the Conservatives out, or vote for the party that I actually align with, knowing they're probably going to top out at ~20% of the vote. But last time was supposed to be the last time I had to vote strategically. 

Anyway, I'm expecting a Liberal Minority, probably propped up by the NDP - the party to the left of them... which is exactly what it was before this election was called. The Liberal Party called the election thinking they could swing a majority, and then for a while polls were showing Conservative Minority but I just don't see a major swing on either direction.

 
Northern Voice said:
Alright, it's time, if I was worried about anyone else taking them, I would have taken them many rounds ago. My favourite live band/possibly just my favourite band period. Almost Killed Me being 2004 makes this choice pretty easy. I love Separation Sunday too but Boys and Girls in America has so many live staples that they're scratched into my soul.

Round 7 -

The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (2004)

Positive Jam

Killer Parties

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006)

First Night

Stuck Between Stations
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It was really me just being polite. I absolutely thought about taking them a couple times.

 
Was I @ed? Was waiting for that on a busy day...

so a 7th AND 8th?

7- The Replacements

Let it Be ('84)- I Will Dare, Androgynous   

Pleased to Meet Me ('87)- Skyway , Alex Chilton 

I know...people prefer the other album- Pleased came out a time and place for me that just sunk straight in and planted roots.

 
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Raging weasel said:
This is another band I've heard of but couldn't name a song and have never listened to an album by. I think I saw them open for Pearl Jam so have seen them live but don't remember anything other than they didn't suck.
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Given your tastes, I suggest you give It Still Moves a shot. If you don't like that one, they're probably not for you. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
haven't thought of it a ton, but I could easily give up tge 50s and 60s! 
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I'm with you for the most part.  Other than the Beatles, and the first two Zep albums were in the 60's technically....also Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed from the Stones.....their best album is Sticky Fingers in '71 though, imo.....Floyd's good stuff was in the 70's......Marley was the 70's

Is there anyone who doesn't think the 70's was the best music decade?

 
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Manster said:
I'm with you for the most part.  Other than the Beatles, and the first two Zep albums were in the 60's technically....also Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed from the Stones.....their best album is Sticky Fingers in '71 though, imo.....Floyd's good stuff was in the 70's......Marley was the 70's

Is there anyone who doesn't think the 70's was the best music decade?
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I actually compared them back when we did the MOADID and I decided I liked the 60's better at that point.  But I REALLY like a lot of stuff that you all don't fwiw.  70's does have Disco which I love.

 90% of the great Motown was 60's also. 

Even Something in the Air was 1969 , lol.

90% of the best Beach Boys was 60's.

The big Jimi's were 60's.

75% of the best Doors were 60's.

Simon and Garfunkel, the Hollies, the Guess Who, and the Mammas and the Papas...

The Who, Kinks, Stones, Floyd, Moody's, Steve Miller, CCR, Traffic, Sly, CSN, and Zeppelin ALL had some 60's goodness.

 
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rockaction said:
They weren't on my radar, but I've taken songs off of Surrealistic Pillow in recent drafts, up to and including "Today," which features Jerry Garcia on guitar. I really like Jefferson Airplane, but Pip knows way more about them than I, and he has included him in his yearly addendum drafts to the tim yearly lists of 100 songs.
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The main thing is that the four-album run from Surrealistic Pillow (1966) to Volunteers (1969) is really damn good. Their material got much less consistent after that, but Red Octopus is excellent if you don't mind the stereotypical mid-70s glossy production.  

 
PIK95 said:
I actually compared them back when we did the MOADID and I decided I liked the 60's better at that point.  But I REALLY like a lot of stuff that you all don't fwiw.  70's does have Disco which I love.

 90% of the great Motown was 60's also. 

Even Something in the Air was 1969 , lol.

90% of the best Beach Boys was 60's.

The big Jimi's were 60's.

75% of the best Doors were 60's.

Simon and Garfunkel, the Hollies, the Guess Who, and the Mammas and the Papas...

The Who, Kinks, Stones, Floyd, Moody's, Steve Miller, CCR, Traffic, Sly, CSN, and Zeppelin ALL had some 60's goodness.
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It was the last Rush-free decade

 
krista4 said:
Lots of excitement amongst some of my Chicago friends today, as Metallica is having a semi-spontaneous show where tickets went on sale this morning for $20 cash.  I told OH that this is the sum total of what I know about Metallica:  (1) they had a record called "Master of Puppets", and (2) they have a drummer named Lars something who is possibly a bit of a jerk.

Now he's been schooling me on Metallica.  It's not that I don't like the style of music - AFAIK - but somehow they just hit at the wrong time for my listening pleasure.  I liked some harder rock and/or metal when I was younger than that - AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, etc. - but given what he's told me, I think they were popular when I'd moved into stuff like Elvis Costello and They Might Be Giants.  Missed Guns 'n' Roses for the same reason (though I understand they weren't in the same genre or league anyway).
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These two hit at just the right time for a ninth grade rock to be fully enthralled. Later I would with up with They Might Be Giants (early college, and eagerly, also the Violent Femmes which meant young rock had tenth grade tastes his sophomore year of college, whereas the freshman year before had been The Go-Go's, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Stooges, et. al) and ridiculously more later (post-college and even into this board) Elvis Costello, but G N' R and Metallica came along at the right time. Young, almost pre-pubescent rock loved his hair metal and thrash in ninth grade, and weren't nothing going to change that in the free marketplace of ideas.

 
rockaction said:
Oh, it came from the other sex. I'd forgotten its context, too. At least I was able to remember the movie and that it was part of seated dialogue. That's not bad.
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I quote that movie IRL probably more than I should - although not as much as Airplane.

 
Northern Voice said:
Alright, it's time, if I was worried about anyone else taking them, I would have taken them many rounds ago. My favourite live band/possibly just my favourite band period. Almost Killed Me being 2004 makes this choice pretty easy. I love Separation Sunday too but Boys and Girls in America has so many live staples that they're scratched into my soul.

Round 7 -

The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (2004)

Positive Jam

Killer Parties

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006)

First Night

Stuck Between Stations
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Never liked the sound of these guys. Then I met Craig Finn at party one night, and rather than be all fanboy, I played it cool and pretended like I had no idea who he was - and asked him what he does with his time. With his stupid voice, he replied "I'm a writer". Made me like that band even less, which I wasn't sure was possible

 
ok... nobody else is going to take them, but I can't afford not to just in case.

#1 son got to sing backup on their more recent album- taking an already favorite band of mine into the outer limits and a must have album for me in any of these drafts. Singer Austin showed up to the recording- 10am, Sat at the Manhattan School of Rock location (ground and cellar floors of an old ####ty townhouse on the upper east side) still completely hammered from the night before. This was Floppinho and a handful of younger kids from School of Rock, where the director was friends and former bandmates with Austin. First run through- kids wide eyed, shy and quiet. Nailed it.

Kids didn't know about the drunk thing, but were terrified of everything else at first- but he couldn't have been nicer. Very patient, and did great with them- getting most of what he wanted them to do eventually. I pretty much bum-rushed him afterwards and he still couldn't have been nicer, offering tickets to an upcoming show in our hood for Floppinho and I (Floppinho was JUST under drinking age at that point as a 9yo) and unfortunately was the ONE night the wife had something important planned for us. Stoopid wife. Floppinho is on the liner notes on the album and also got to perform with them a year or two later (after his voice had changed) in SummerStage Central Park- trying to figure out afterwards what he can do to keep performing in front of 5k people.

8- Parquet Courts

Light up Gold (2013)- 

Master of My Craft,

Stoned and Starving

Wide Awake! (2018)-

Almost had to start a Fight/ In and out of Patience,

Freebird II,

Wide Awake!,

Death Will Bring Change (Live w a screaming muppet)

eta: and #### Tom Brady.

 
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Whenever I participate in these music drafts, I'm reminded that I've spent most of my life in the shallow end of the pool.

8.14- Level 42: Running in the Family (1987) and Guaranteed (1991)

Running in the Family is the album after their breakthrough World Machine and their hit Something About You, but I prefer the entirety of the songs on this album.  The one that I still love hearing when it comes up on my Spotify playlist is Children Say, probably because I'm in the window that fits line: Children say come what may/Be strong for the friends you've known/As one fine day  far away/We will remember the love we used to own

As for Guaranteed, it's full of songs that resonated with who I was when I first heard it, and 2 songs from that album, both of which also made my funeral song draft list, resonate with me still. My Father's Shoes reminds me of my own time as a prodigal son, and I can't put A Kinder Eye in any better words than from the song itself: Across the page (across the ages)/the moving hand of history bleeds/for a kinder eye to see us/not as we are, but as we dream

For songs, I'm going with only 1 from the first album but 3 from the second:

Chidren Say

Guaranteed
My Father's Shoes
A Kinder Eye

 
PIK95 said:
I actually compared them back when we did the MOADID and I decided I liked the 60's better at that point.  But I REALLY like a lot of stuff that you all don't fwiw.  70's does have Disco which I love.

 90% of the great Motown was 60's also. 

Even Something in the Air was 1969 , lol.

90% of the best Beach Boys was 60's.

The big Jimi's were 60's.

75% of the best Doors were 60's.

Simon and Garfunkel, the Hollies, the Guess Who, and the Mammas and the Papas...

The Who, Kinks, Stones, Floyd, Moody's, Steve Miller, CCR, Traffic, Sly, CSN, and Zeppelin ALL had some 60's goodness.
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You could almost group latest 60's with the 70's

 
rockaction said:
These two hit at just the right time for a ninth grade rock to be fully enthralled. Later I would with up with They Might Be Giants (early college, and eagerly, also the Violent Femmes which meant young rock had tenth grade tastes his sophomore year of college, whereas the freshman year before had been The Go-Go's, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Stooges, et. al) and ridiculously more later (post-college and even into this board) Elvis Costello, but G N' R and Metallica came along at the right time. Young, almost pre-pubescent rock loved his hair metal and thrash in ninth grade, and weren't nothing going to change that in the free marketplace of ideas.
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I wore out my Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning cassettes.......I'm an old school Metallica guy....i have all their stuff, but Kill em all, RTL, MOP, Garage Days, and And Justice......those albums are all time......its too bad Cliff Burton died.....he was the leader and a very talented bass player, and song writer....always wondered what Metallica would've been like had Cliff survived that crash.

I remember when my buddy brought the Appetite for Destruction tape on the bus to school......I put on the headphones, and looked at the cassette jacket, and was blown away.......dirty, sleazy, druggy...they looked strung out on heroin, and super sketch.....slash's guitar....Axl's screeching......perfect rock band for that time and place.

 
YES

Fragile (1971)

90125 (1983)

These guys haven't been drafted yet. They put out some really high quality prog during a 3-album run in 1971 and 1972. I'd have taken any of those but Fragile is usually considered their best and has their most famous '70s song, Roundabout. It was the first of two albums with their best lineup of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman. The proggy workouts were still pretty focused by the genre's standards, and the harmony singing set them apart from their other scene-mates. 

Roundabout

South Side of the Sky

By the '80s, prog was out of fashion, and many of those bands who kept at it produced awkward, ill-fitting records. But 90125 (named after its serial number) was very different, probably because it was not intended to be a Yes record at all. The band had broken up in 1980. Squire and drummer Alan White briefly attempted to form a band with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, then hooked up with South African guitarist/singer Trevor Rabin, who had several albums of more mainstream music under his belt. After bringing in original Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, the band went to work on an album to be put out under the name Cinema. About halfway through the sessions, someone in power suggested to Squire that he bring in Anderson and release the material under the Yes name. Despite trepidation from Rabin, who had nothing to do with the Yes legacy, that is what they did, and Anderson added vocals and lyrics to a set of streamlined songs already mostly completed by Rabin, Squire et al. The result was an evolution into a new-wave-y sound that didn't sound forced at all, with just enough vocal and instrumental flourishes to please the old Yes fans. The record was a major commercial and artistic success and produced a surprising #1 hit, Owner of a Lonely Heart. 

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Changes 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
YES

Fragile (1971)

90125 (1983)

These guys haven't been drafted yet. They put out some really high quality prog during a 3-album run in 1971 and 1972. I'd have taken any of those but Fragile is usually considered their best and has their most famous '70s song, Roundabout. It was the first of two albums with their best lineup of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman. The proggy workouts were still pretty focused by the genre's standards, and the harmony singing set them apart from their other scene-mates. 

Roundabout

South Side of the Sky

By the '80s, prog was out of fashion, and many of those bands who kept at it produced awkward, ill-fitting records. But 90125 (named after its serial number) was very different, probably because it was not intended to be a Yes record at all. The band had broken up in 1980. Squire and drummer Alan White briefly attempted to form a band with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, then hooked up with South African guitarist/singer Trevor Rabin, who had several albums of more mainstream music under his belt. After bringing in original Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, the band went to work on an album to be put out under the name Cinema. About halfway through the sessions, someone in power suggested to Squire that he bring in Anderson and release the material under the Yes name. Despite trepidation from Rabin, who had nothing to do with the Yes legacy, that is what they did, and Anderson added vocals and lyrics to a set of streamlined songs already mostly completed by Rabin, Squire et al. The result was an evolution into a new-wave-y sound that didn't sound forced at all, with just enough vocal and instrumental flourishes to please the old Yes fans. The record was a major commercial and artistic success and produced a surprising #1 hit, Owner of a Lonely Heart. 

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Changes 
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Nice - I was eyeballing these. Although I liked 90125 back then a lot more than I do now.

 
Since the updated rules specify rounds 9 and beyond, I'm going to post my 9th round pick as well.

9.13. Jimmy Buffett- A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973) and Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)

If any of you ever visited the Terrapin Taco House near the University of Maryland in the early to mid 90's, you no doubt were treated to the strains of Jimmy Buffet.  When the place changed hands in '89, the new owners, former employees who ditched their white collar jobs and bought out their former employer, both loved Buffett's music and had his entire catalog cycling over the speakers.  I only knew Margaritaville before they took over and wasn't much of a fan, but the relentless hours of hearing Jimmy over and over and over and over finally wore me down to the point where I would sing along and I even took the time to condense all of his albums that they had into a few mix tapes. When I moved on from slinging tacos, I left Jimmy behind as well and while haven't really missed him in the nearly 30 years since I heard him every day, he was a part of a memorable era in my life and thus deserves a little recognition.

The first album comes from before Jimmy was wasting away in Margaritaville and was just a hick with a brash and active imagination, and Son of a Son of a Sailor is the follow up to the album that had Margaritaville on it, and while it has more omens of his morphing into the alpha parrot head, it still had traces of his country boy roots--Livingston Saturday Night--one of only two Buffett songs to make my Spotify list.

Why Don't We Get Drunk
Peanut Butter Conspiracy

Livingston Saturday Night

 
the moops said:
Never liked the sound of these guys. Then I met Craig Finn at party one night, and rather than be all fanboy, I played it cool and pretended like I had no idea who he was - and asked him what he does with his time. With his stupid voice, he replied "I'm a writer". Made me like that band even less, which I wasn't sure was possible
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He is a writer. Maybe he didn't elaborate, because he got a weird vibe from you. Perhaps your approach wasn't as cool as you think.  😀

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Since the updated rules specify rounds 9 and beyond, I'm going to post my 9th round pick as well.

9.13. Jimmy Buffett- A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973) and Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)

If any of you ever visited the Terrapin Taco House near the University of Maryland in the early to mid 90's, you no doubt were treated to the strains of Jimmy Buffet.  When the place changed hands in '89, the new owners, former employees who ditched their white collar jobs and bought out their former employer, both loved Buffett's music and had his entire catalog cycling over the speakers.  I only knew Margaritaville before they took over and wasn't much of a fan, but the relentless hours of hearing Jimmy over and over and over and over finally wore me down to the point where I would sing along and I even took the time to condense all of his albums that they had into a few mix tapes. When I moved on from slinging tacos, I left Jimmy behind as well and while haven't really missed him in the nearly 30 years since I heard him every day, he was a part of a memorable era in my life and thus deserves a little recognition.

The first album comes from before Jimmy was wasting away in Margaritaville and was just a hick with a brash and active imagination, and Son of a Son of a Sailor is the follow up to the album that had Margaritaville on it, and while it has more omens of his morphing into the alpha parrot head, it still had traces of his country boy roots--Livingston Saturday Night--one of only two Buffett songs to make my Spotify list.

Why Don't We Get Drunk
Peanut Butter Conspiracy

Livingston Saturday Night
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It's interesting......seems like Parrot heads play his music on a constant loop.  I also worked in a setting that had all Buffet, all the time.  It had a slightly different effect on me....just not my style, and definitely not on constant loop!.....I'd be ok never hearing cheeseburger in paradise again.

 
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Manster said:
It's interesting......seems like Parrot heads play his music on a constant loop.  I also worked in a setting that had all Buffet, all the time.  It had a slightly different effect on me....just not my style, and definitely not on constant loop!.....I'd be ok never hearing cheeseburger in paradise again.
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Reminds me that I miss all-you-can-eat buffets. Stupid virus.

 
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