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

Chaos Commish said:
Moorcheeba -- alt rock/r&b/electronica trip hoppers since the turn of the century hay days. When they added singer Skye Edwards to the project the sound became Sade meets Portishead. Mix in some Jamaican vocals and a little rap, and the first pick below works for me. Only their 3rd best-selling effort from the turn of the century, but after repeated listens, my favorite.

I like the current release even better. Trip Hop lives.

RD 9

Morcheeba

Big Calm (1998)

Blackest Blue (2021) currently on loop
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I am having a weird, vague Buffy the Vampire Slayer association with this one.  

 
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rockaction said:
I gave this some thought last night. Does this mean that the show is tawdry, really? It seemed like a Victorian period piece. Has Queen Victoria been sullied??

Inquiring minds...
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Bridgerton is a Regency drama.  It takes place in 1813, so no Queen Victoria (who wasn't born until 1819).

The show isn't tawdry.  It's more scandalous and sexual tension-y.  

The costumes and sets are amazing.

 
the moops said:
Two of my favorite shows were two very different Neil Young shows. One was him, solo, mostly on piano, at a small theater in Boston (1992 maybe?). The other was him rocking with Booker T and the MGs (1993 I think?)
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Those years check out. 1993 was the MGs tour. He's done a bunch of solo tours but one was in 1992. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
I am having a weird, vague Buffy the Vampire Slayer association with this one.  
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Is that a bad thing? :)

Morcheeba live is better than the studio recordings. That's always a good sign. Skye's vocals over Ross's guitar just makes me happy. He gets a lot of Gilmour out of that tele. I hear down beat soulful Floyd if thinking that way. It's more than the delay and reverb and psychedelia. It's tone that soothes me, which is my most preferred use of music as I age. And I probably have a crush on Skye. I won't miss them if they come near. 

Covering Niel Young here...

 
Manster said:
Man, I was trying to avoid the political drama in here....

Also, I'm blown away with the Taylor Swift selections by what I assume are middle aged dudes??  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  My daughter and her friends are into her.  I just don't know any adult male who actively listens to her.
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FYI, you can mark me down as another adult male who actively listens to Taylor Swift.  I didn't start until last December, but her two 2020 albums are both fantastic and anyone who is a music fan should give them a listen.  

Also, go look up her sales over the years, especially of physical product. She moves more CDs and vinyl than just about anybody these days, and you don't do that by appealing to just teenage girls (which is the stereotype).  People of all kinds listen to Ms. Swift.  Get on board, there is plenty of room. :yes:  

 
Ghost Rider said:
FYI, you can mark me down as another adult male who actively listens to Taylor Swift.  I didn't start until last December, but her two 2020 albums are both fantastic and anyone who is a music fan should give them a listen.  

Also, go look up her sales over the years, especially of physical product. She moves more CDs and vinyl than just about anybody these days, and you don't do that by appealing to just teenage girls (which is the stereotype).  People of all kinds listen to Ms. Swift.  Get on board, there is plenty of room. :yes:  
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This Taylor swift "old dude" phenomena is something I had no idea existed......is there a Jonas brothers thing too??

 
Ghost Rider said:
FYI, you can mark me down as another adult male who actively listens to Taylor Swift.  I didn't start until last December, but her two 2020 albums are both fantastic and anyone who is a music fan should give them a listen.  

Also, go look up her sales over the years, especially of physical product. She moves more CDs and vinyl than just about anybody these days, and you don't do that by appealing to just teenage girls (which is the stereotype).  People of all kinds listen to Ms. Swift.  Get on board, there is plenty of room. :yes:  
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I would say teenage girls aren’t her major demo. It’s more like women in their 20s and early 30s. That’s the audience that grew up with her. 

 
If this respected audience likes Taylor Swift, that's good enough for me. I know a few of her bigger hits, but where should I start with her best quality stuff? 

 
Not much for the Jonas Bros but that spin-off group made Cake by the Ocean and I would be a liar if I said I didn’t enjoy that.

 
Manster said:
This Taylor swift "old dude" phenomena is something I had no idea existed......is there a Jonas brothers thing too??
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Not to my knowledge. 

Ilov80s said:
I would say teenage girls aren’t her major demo. It’s more like women in their 20s and early 30s. That’s the audience that grew up with her. 
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Perhaps, but there is a general rock forum I go to (another forum!!), which is mostly men in their 30's and older, and there are quite a few Taylor fans there. That is what got me interested, as I kept seeing her name get mentioned like in threads about favorite lyricists or favorite songwriters of the 21st century, stuff like that, so I was like, hmmmm, I must be missing out on something.  Turns out I was. 

zamboni said:
If this respected audience likes Taylor Swift, that's good enough for me. I know a few of her bigger hits, but where should I start with her best quality stuff? 
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Check out her two 2020 albums, Folklore and Evermore. Both are outstanding.  They are not as immediate as her pop hits, but the more you listen, the more you get lost in that laid back vibe. There is almost no country or pop on those records, it's more like laid back folksy indie rock (but the records do not rock at all).  And they are both brilliant lyrically.  She gets crap for supposedly always writing about exes, and for sure she has written her share of those, but the lyrics on these two albums, while occasionally pulling from her own experiences, are mostly fictional narratives. 

I would also highly recommend her 2012 album, Red, which has the most variety of any of her own albums. She was (thankfully) drifting away from country, but there are still tinges of it at times.  And she had gone full pop yet like she was on her next album, but there are songs where she starts to run in that direction. And there are songs that rock as well (not rock like Metallica rock, but more like U2 in the later 80's rock).  The biggest hit off this album was her first number 1, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which is a fairly silly song, so if that is the one you hear first, do not let it discourage.  The opening five tracks are just one great song after another, culminating in what is probably her most loved song, All Too Well (this was her highest ranking song in that recent Rolling Stone 500 greatest songs list), which wasn't even a single or a hit.  It is not too often where a hit maker's most popular song is a deep cut. 

 
I’m not saying there aren’t adult male Swift fans. I was just saying her core  is a bit older now. They were teens but have grown. Red is almost a decade old now. That and 1989 were huge with the girls in HS then. Those kids I taught are now in grad school, married, working alongside me, etc.

 
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Ilov80s said:
I’m not saying there aren’t adult male Swift fans. I was just saying her core (like her) is a bit older now. They were teens but have grown. Red is almost a decade old now. That and 1989 were huge with the girls in HS then. Those kids I taught are now in grad school, married, working alongside me, etc.
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Well, sure, but you make new fans along the way.  My 14-year old niece loves Taylor.  My 42-year old male cousin is a fan.  I know a guy from NY who is mid 50's and has also become a big fan in the last year.  Even if her core is what you say it is, and that might be the case, you do not stay as popular and relevant as she has for this long now without constantly picking up new fans. 

 
For me these drafts have been a huge reason (along with gin? ;)  ) that I started embracing the pop.   Not that I listen to a ton, but I've said without shame that 1989 is a great album top to bottom.   I listen to it quite a bit.   I like a bit of other pop like Katy, Kesha, Lady Gaga, etc..  but none of them have a top to bottom good album like TS - they are more for a spotify party mix than popping on an album.   So I became a fan in my 40s too.  

 
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Ghost Rider said:
Well, sure, but you make new fans along the way.  My 14-year old niece loves Taylor.  My 42-year old male cousin is a fan.  I know a guy from NY who is mid 50's and has also become a big fan in the last year.  Even if her core is what you say it is, and that might be the case, you do not stay as popular and relevant as she has for this long now without constantly picking up new fans. 
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Yeah certainly. I’m really not criticizing you, more supporting you for the crowd saying Swift is just for teen girls. That may have been the case 15 years ago but she and her music have matured quite a bit over time.

 
I put her on ignore years ago. My 22 yr old daughter was, well, her age tells the story. We've both had her on ignore lately. I will be open minded but if this praise for the lyrics fails for me, she's on a very short leash.

 
Maroon 5?  I think every female I've ever met loves them.....kinda like Journey.....do you know any gal who doesn't love Journey?

 
Okay, it's 11 AM EST. 

Here are a triad that's predictable from me but hits all the right decades. The production of EL-P and Trackstar mixed with the rap duo stylings of Jaime Meline and Michael Renner (El-P and Killer Mike) are festival favorites and favorites of budding rap impresarios everywhere. If ever there was an on-brand pick for somebody in this draft, this was it, but it hits all the right decades, checks the boxes, and puts a bunch of good records on my metaphorical decade island. And even worse than lazily s/t or eponymous albums, they're all sequels, and come to find, one's an abbreviation of eponymous leanings and also a sequel, so that one checks all the lazy/debatable boxes.  

Run The Jewels 2 (2014)

Jeopardy

Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1

Angel Duster

Run The Jewels 3 (2016)

Call Ticketron

Panther Like A Panther

A Report To The Shareholders/Kill Your Masters

RTJ4 (2020)

yankee and the brave (ep. 4)

goonies vs. E.T.

a few words for the firing squad (radiation)

 
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OK, it's time.

Round 11:

NEIL YOUNG

On the Beach (1974)

Zuma (1975)

Ragged Glory (1990)

The packaging of Neil's Archives Vol. 2 showed us that contemporary reviewers did not understand On the Beach. At all. They thought it was weird and depressing. Those of course are two of the many reasons why it's great. An apocalyptic theme pervades, despite the songs being written at different points between 1970 and 1974, and side 2 has a marvelously hazy vibe to it due to being recorded under the influence of something called honeyslides. 

Revolution Blues (#15 on my Neil countdown)

On the Beach (#18 on my Neil countdown)

Zuma was Neil's return to a more mainstream rock sound after three albums of stuff that was definitely not that. IMO it, along with side 2 of Rust Never Sleeps, are the main sources of the "Godfather of Grunge" label. And those of you who followed my Neil countdown know it's home to my favorite song of all time.

Danger Bird (#23 on my Neil countdown)

Cortez the Killer (#1 on my Neil countdown)

After a career revival the year before with Freedom, Neil cemented his place in the hard rock canon with Ragged Glory, which updates and distills everything great about his work with Crazy Horse. It holds a special place in my heart because it prompted the tour on which I saw Neil live for the first time, which remains the greatest show I have ever seen by anyone.

F*!#in' Up (#11 on my Neil countdown)

Love to Burn (#31 on my Neil countdown)

 
rockaction said:
I find the reductive talk about Taylor Swift as boring as the counter-reductive talk. That's my two cents.

Okay, it's 11 AM EST. 

Here are a triad that's predictable from me but hits all the right decades. The production of EL-P and Trackstar mixed with the rap duo stylings of Jaime Melina and Michael Renner (El-P and Killer Mike) are festival favorites and rap impresarios everywhere. If ever there was an on-brand pick for somebody in this draft, this was it, but it hits all the right decades, checks the boxes, and puts a bunch of good records on my metaphorical decade island. 

Run The Jewels 2 (2014)

Jeopardy 

Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1

Angel Duster

Run The Jewels 3 (2016)

Call Ticketron

Panther Like A Panther

A Report To The Shareholders

Runt The Jewels 4 (2020)
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Oh man, this was going to be my pick tomorrow. 

 
Yo Mama said:
Oh man, this was going to be my pick tomorrow. 
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And yet you went with Rush instead. 

There's a lesson somewhere to be learned...

;)

Just kidding. You and Tasker really sniped me in the turns coming this draft. Oh well. I still got to pick and have a ton of fun. All of my picks were almost my first picks, really. The bonus round? Just gravy. 

Nice job, Yo Mama, I'm always happy when you're a part of these. 

 
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Love to see the 11 A.M. picks from everybody. Good work, all!

Some on-brand, and some curveballs (did not see krista and R.E.M., but I think -- I know -- she gets pigeonholed with the Beatles, so that's cool.)

 
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