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Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want (2 Viewers)

Doug B said:
Did you manually code the colored text, or is there still a way to color text within the composition/edit box?
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You can color the text with the underlined A icon second to the right of the menu bar when you are composing.

 
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I'm gonna break our streak and go with a band already taken, because I think the other options I'm considering are more likely to make it back to me. 

THE BEATLES

Abbey Road (1969) 

Despite the presence of Octopus's Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer, this is nearly a perfect album for me, and alternates with Revolver as my #1 Beatles album. George contributes two of his very best songs and John and Paul bring mostly strong material. The side 2 medley was a revolutionary idea for its time and still sounds glorious today. Their studio got new equipment just before this album was recorded, giving it a "warmer" sound that tons of acts have tried to replicate over the years. 

Here Comes the Sun

Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

Let It Be (1970)

Their only studio album not released in the '60s was recorded before Abbey Road but mired in tension and controversy. But I think the end product came out great, combining the raw rock and roll that brought them to prominence in the first place with indelible melodies. Some folks (including Paul) think Phil Spector ruined some of the tracks, but I've never been particularly bothered by those. 

I've Got a Feeling

Get Back

I'm sure krista will have more to say about these.

@Yo Mamaup. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Is that the episode with Glad Tidings or the Them song? Van as a person does seem to truly suck. That’s been true even when he was young. Luckily I am quite good at separating the art and artist but I also can’t blame anyone turned off by him. Though considering MJ was already drafted, I figure Van isn’t the weirdest or most problematic person drafted so far so I let myself off the hook. 
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Glad Tidings.

I get it in terms of taking him.  Since I'm seeing it as a DID, I don't want him on my island.  Everyone has to draw their own lines in terms of separating art from the artist, and I don't think there's a right answer.  This came up the other day when I mentioned an old Woody Allen movie (Take the Money and Run) to OH, and he asked me if I'd still watch a Woody Allen movie now.  I then launched into a complicated matrix of how I view the art of people who are distasteful or worse, and I realized it might not make sense even to me.  :lol:   

 
krista4 said:
Glad Tidings.

I get it in terms of taking him.  Since I'm seeing it as a DID, I don't want him on my island.  Everyone has to draw their own lines in terms of separating art from the artist, and I don't think there's a right answer.  This came up the other day when I mentioned an old Woody Allen movie (Take the Money and Run) to OH, and he asked me if I'd still watch a Woody Allen movie now.  I then launched into a complicated matrix of how I view the art of people who are distasteful or worse, and I realized it might not make sense even to me.  :lol:   
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It's a "I know it when I see/feel it" situation. I don't think I could sit through a Woody movie these days, but there are other awful-in-real-life artists that I don't think would be a problem for me. I think it would bother me more in a movie/TV context than in a music context, and I don't think I have a good answer as to why. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I'm gonna break our streak and go with a band already taken, because I think the other options I'm considering are more likely to make it back to me. 

THE BEATLES

Abbey Road (1969) 

Despite the presence of Octopus's Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer, this is nearly a perfect album for me, and alternates with Revolver as my #1 Beatles album. George contributes two of his very best songs and John and Paul bring mostly strong material. The side 2 medley was a revolutionary idea for its time and still sounds glorious today. Their studio got new equipment just before this album was recorded, giving it a "warmer" sound that tons of acts have tried to replicate over the years. 

Here Comes the Sun

Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

Let It Be (1970)

Their only studio album not released in the '60s was recorded before Abbey Road but mired in tension and controversy. But I think the end product came out great, combining the raw rock and roll that brought them to prominence in the first place with indelible melodies. Some folks (including Paul) think Phil Spector ruined some of the tracks, but I've never been particularly bothered by those. 

I've Got a Feeling

Get Back

I'm sure krista will have more to say about these.

@Yo Mamaup. 
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Good Call.  Those Were both my next pick.  I Me Mine!!! Let it Be (1970) is my favorite Beatles Record.   I know...

I was spinning Beatles ALL DAY yesterday, and even made a hits playlist, lol.  Dang.  The Long and Winding road is better, I disagree with Paul on that one.

 
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krista4 said:
Glad Tidings.

I get it in terms of taking him.  Since I'm seeing it as a DID, I don't want him on my island.  Everyone has to draw their own lines in terms of separating art from the artist, and I don't think there's a right answer.  This came up the other day when I mentioned an old Woody Allen movie (Take the Money and Run) to OH, and he asked me if I'd still watch a Woody Allen movie now.  I then launched into a complicated matrix of how I view the art of people who are distasteful or worse, and I realized it might not make sense even to me.  :lol:   
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Mine is irrational. I go with people whose art I can't separate from the artist. It's conclusory. MJ is one of those guys, though I know Off The Wall and Thriller are just incredible albums because I loved them both as a youth (before MJ got scary weird).

 
rockaction said:
Mine is irrational. I go with people whose art I can't separate from the artist. It's conclusory. MJ is one of those guys, though I know Off The Wall and Thriller are just incredible albums because I loved them both as a youth (before MJ got scary weird).
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I would throw Ted Nugent (and his records) off  a bridge fwiw.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I'm gonna break our streak and go with a band already taken, because I think the other options I'm considering are more likely to make it back to me. 

THE BEATLES

Abbey Road (1969) 

Despite the presence of Octopus's Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer, this is nearly a perfect album for me, and alternates with Revolver as my #1 Beatles album. George contributes two of his very best songs and John and Paul bring mostly strong material. The side 2 medley was a revolutionary idea for its time and still sounds glorious today. Their studio got new equipment just before this album was recorded, giving it a "warmer" sound that tons of acts have tried to replicate over the years. 

Here Comes the Sun

Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

Let It Be (1970)

Their only studio album not released in the '60s was recorded before Abbey Road but mired in tension and controversy. But I think the end product came out great, combining the raw rock and roll that brought them to prominence in the first place with indelible melodies. Some folks (including Paul) think Phil Spector ruined some of the tracks, but I've never been particularly bothered by those. 

I've Got a Feeling

Get Back

I'm sure krista will have more to say about these.

@Yo Mamaup. 
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I kept thinking I should take Let It Be due to scarcity, but in the end despite the presence of my #2 favorite (some days #1) Beatles song, "Across the Universe," and a lot of other favorites, overall I prefer A Hard Day's Night.  The Spectorization certainly factors into that.  "Dig A Pony" is one of their most underrated songs IMO.

 
krista4 said:
I kept thinking I should take Let It Be due to scarcity, but in the end despite the presence of my #2 favorite (some days #1) Beatles song, "Across the Universe," and a lot of other favorites, overall I prefer A Hard Day's Night.  The Spectorization certainly factors into that.  "Dig A Pony" is one of their most underrated songs IMO.
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You picked their best album, IMO.

Revolver is good, too.

 
rockaction said:
Mine is irrational. I go with people whose art I can't separate from the artist. It's conclusory. MJ is one of those guys, though I know Off The Wall and Thriller are just incredible albums because I loved them both as a youth (before MJ got scary weird).
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When I was a youth I had this MJ album, and wanted a hat like his. I love the Off the Wall album, and I like Thriller, but I just can't draft him knowing about his alleged sexual abuse on some young boys. I don't fault someone who does draft him at all. It's my issue. I don't turn the channel if one of his tunes I like comes on the radio. I guess in some ways I'm a hypocrite, because I have drafted Big Ben in the past, and I do believe he is a rapist.

 
Sorry for the holdup - was driving a couple hours to my daughter’s softball tournament. Pick forthcoming. 

 
Doug B said:
simey said:
You can color the text with the underlined A icon second to the right of the menu bar when you are composing.
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Hmmm, will try next time I’m on a laptop.
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Dang it -- no dice. This is what the composition menu bar looks like in Windows 10 using the latest version of Chrome. Do I have something set wrong in my profile, maybe?

EDIT: Hmmm ... If I choose "Create New Topic", I get the full composition menu. All other composition menus are truncated.

 
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Yo Mama said:
Going for a true scarcity pick here, I have about 5 I want for my next pick. 
 

Yo Mama selects:

1.21.5 - Nirvana

Bleach - 1989

Nevermind - 1991

I’ll pick some songs later. Got some low profile drinking to do here at the park. 
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This was one of the others I was considering. Great pick(s). 

 
Yo Mama said:
Sorry for the holdup - was driving a couple hours to my daughter’s softball tournament. Pick forthcoming. 
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Sweet, someone else volunteered to keep the scorebook (I thought I was going to have to do it). Now I can drink more and don’t have to pay too much attention all day. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
krista4 said:
Glad Tidings.

I get it in terms of taking him.  Since I'm seeing it as a DID, I don't want him on my island.  Everyone has to draw their own lines in terms of separating art from the artist, and I don't think there's a right answer.  This came up the other day when I mentioned an old Woody Allen movie (Take the Money and Run) to OH, and he asked me if I'd still watch a Woody Allen movie now.  I then launched into a complicated matrix of how I view the art of people who are distasteful or worse, and I realized it might not make sense even to me.  :lol:   
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It's a "I know it when I see/feel it" situation. I don't think I could sit through a Woody movie these days, but there are other awful-in-real-life artists that I don't think would be a problem for me. I think it would bother me more in a movie/TV context than in a music context, and I don't think I have a good answer as to why. 
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Ditkaburgers and I have had this discussion many times over the past few years. It's probably been more common regarding film directors who as a group seem to be a lot more manipulative and creepy than the general population. It's a more collaborative medium than music so I find it harder to cancel an entire work for the transgressions of a single artist. Yet I still I can't get DB to watch a Polanski movie with me.

I pretty much assume every rock star in the 70s engaged in sketchy semi-consensual sex with underage groupies. I think modern moral standards inform my views of historical musical works but only to a degree.

I acknowledge there are a lot of weasel words here so maybe the talks with DB are having some effect.

 
Doug B said:
Very hard to choose here ... this draft format supports this band especially well.

The Police, Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
The Police, Synchronicity (1983)

Making sure I got "Message in a Bottle" and "Synchronicity II" broke the various ties going on in my head.

@PIK95
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Whoa though that might last a a couple rounds. Great pick, this draft is going to be tough. 

 
Doug B said:
Very hard to choose here ... this draft format supports this band especially well.

The Police, Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
The Police, Synchronicity (1983)

Making sure I got "Message in a Bottle" and "Synchronicity II" broke the various ties going on in my head.

@PIK95
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Nice - I had a slightly different pairing in mind, had it gotten back to me.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
You picked their best album, IMO.

Revolver is good, too.
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Interesting!  I do see why A Hard Day's Night would be your favorite.  Until the last 2-3 songs of side 2, it's as good as it gets.  Side 1 might be the most solid of any of their records.

@Eephus, have we done an Album Sides draft?

 
I've decided upon my next two pairs, so snipe me at your peril. ☠️👹 

Edit:  I'm only worried about one being sniped, due to scarcity.

 
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