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

rockaction said:
Take care, Pip. Best of luck with everything. It's a bit of a disruption, the whole process from nighttime until it's done, so best to you.
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rockaction said:
Take care, Pip. Best of luck with everything. It's a bit of a disruption, the whole process from nighttime until it's done, so best to you.
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Mrs. Rannous said:
Enjoy the go.  Hope it goes well for you.
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Yo Mama said:
Good times. That drink to clean you out is the worst. 
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PIK95 said:
I usually get one every two years.  I think I have had five or six.  I am super overdue.  I was scheduled to have one a month ago, but I canceled a few days before over a hurricane.  No way I was drinking that stuff just to get canceled.  Good luck! Tonight is the worst part by far.
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zamboni said:
My fluid was the powder poured into some Gatorade - tasted fine.

Good luck, Pip - really not so bad.

Just a reminder to skip me as well if my turn comes up. 
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Thanks, everyone. My drink was powder + Gatorade as well, so not so bad. 

 
Hey, everyone's bored. Anyone want to see me re-create the Sticky Fingers cover on imgur?

Oh, c'mon. The magic of the internet?

:lmao:

 
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Northern Voice said:
Going to my first Peterborough Petes (exhibition, but still) game in 554 days tonight.  I should be able to pick still. 
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Way back in the day, there was someone in one of my MFL dynasty leagues calles Peterborough Petes.  Was it you?  Who the heck are they?

 
PIK95 said:
Northern Voice said:
Going to my first Peterborough Petes (exhibition, but still) game in 554 days tonight.  I should be able to pick still. 
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Way back in the day, there was someone in one of my MFL dynasty leagues calles Peterborough Petes.  Was it you?  Who the heck are they?
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If it was a FBG (or Huddle) league, maybe? I was in an early one with Memphis Foundry here. Leather Helmet League, and their was a sister league called Pigskin Something, I think?

 
                                                                                 monks

                      

                                                                                 black monk time

 
Billy Bragg & Wilco

Mermaid Avenue (1998)

”Ingrid Bergman”

”Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”

Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 (2000) 

“Airline to Heaven”

”Remember the Mountain Bed” 

Featuring the lost lyrics of Woody Guthrie as set to music by Bragg and Wilco. Great folky stuff if you like this sort of thing. And I do. 

 
Northern Voice said:
If it was a FBG (or Huddle) league, maybe? I was in an early one with Memphis Foundry here. Leather Helmet League, and their was a sister league called Pigskin Something, I think?
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Yup, pigskin dynasty, lol.  I was in both.  Bluepointers might have been my team.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
It looked correctly aligned on my screen before I posted it, but then it came out all hippled.  Thought you were making fun of my hippling.
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No, man. That was great. I think I can speak for ilov, too. I don't know the exact placement of where "The Beatles" goes, so I just went with it.

 
Today's album discovery was George Harrison's Brainwashed. I only skimmed the thread last night so I didn't read krista's usual extensive notes so I was going in cold. 

I'm going out on a limb to say Jeff Lynne worked on the record. It has an instantly recognizable sound that's a fine match with George's aging chops. George could always write a melody and there are some lovely songs here.  I drifted in and out on the lyrics but that's not uncommon on a first listen. As a fellow Pisces, I appreciate that he considers us deep instead of just odd.

George has an old brown shoe of a voice that's lost a little range since his Beatles days. He provides his usual tasteful leads and I'm sure he and Lynne had their pick of the finest session musicians. In spite of the album's many delights, there is a sameness to the middle part of the album. There are a lot of mid-tempo numbers strumming down the road. I found myself waiting for John or Paul or Lucky or Lefty to jump in and sing for a while.  The end of the album was pure filler with a ukulele bit and a blues song that I didn't love. I would have included the title track that closes the album because my tolerance for all things brainwashing related is at an all-time low but the song was redeemed by the Indian coda.

Liked it, would listen to the first half again.

 
Eephus said:
1) As a fellow Pisces, I appreciate that he considers us deep instead of just odd.

2) my tolerance for all things brainwashing related is at an all-time low

3) Liked it, would listen to the first half again.
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One lol, two assent, three like.

Go cat go.

 
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Narrator: He did not have a pair of leather pants. That honor belonged to his old friend John, in NY, who actually was in Playgirl magazine. Presumably with those pants on. They were probably two hundred dollars or something like that. Ridiculous. That is the only male he ever knew that owned a pair of leather pants. The same goes for females, but that was our protagonist's fault, not anybody else's.

 
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krista4 said:
My prior write-up of Brainwashed:

"Brainwashed was released a year after George’s 2001 death, having been completed by Jeff Lynne and Dhani based on specific instructions left by George for its completion.  George’s first solo studio album in 15 years was warmly received by critics and the public alike, reaching #18 on the US charts and being nominated for three Grammy awards (and winning one).  One critic deemed it the best album by a Beatle since Paul’s Flowers In The Dirt in 1989.

As I mentioned in prior write-ups, the writing and recording of these songs reached back many years, with some beginning as early as 1988, but when George found that his condition was terminal, he sped up his work on this album.  In addition to completing as much as he personally could, he left Lynne and Dhani a guide to everything he planned for the recordings should he not complete them, including a timetable of recordings and all the sessions that were booked, how he wanted each of the instruments to be employed and sound, and even instructions on the album artwork and packaging.  Lynne and Dhani kept to the timetable already planned by George and followed the instructions closely.  Lynne said, “His life was in those final songs. … We gradually just filled them in. It was just about mixing them and making them sound like George would like them. You just had to go with your gut feeling." 

George’s meticulous work in cataloging what he wanted, and the equally meticulous work of Lynne and Dhani to realize George’s vision, shine through on this album.  These songs not only sound full and complete, but they sound like the songs you’d expect had George completed them, eschewing some of Lynne’s tendency toward grand production in favor of a more subtle style.  The only primary musicians on this record are George, Dhani, Lynne, and…sigh…Jim Keltner.  Reflecting the long period over which they were written and recorded, the songs on this record vary broadly in style and in lyrical content, balancing the light and humorous with the more serious and profound, but they still sound cohesive in their warmth and focus.  The result is my second favorite George album, with seven of the 12 songs making my countdown.  If only John and Yoko had been able to follow the same path for Milk and Honey…but John had the “disadvantage” of not knowing his time was going to be cut short.

I don't know the story behind the cover art on this one, nor do I like it much.  I assume some reference to TV, etc. brainwashing the masses."
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I had no idea this was a posthumous release made with his son. Now I feel like an ###.

 
I listened to Kanye's Graduation at work today. Have to say it was better than I expected but still didn't like it much. Most of the music was decent enough but the lyrics and vocals just aren't my jam. I recognized a couple of the songs and liked Good Morning the best. Unfortunately it got progressively worse but I powered through.

I will say it's better than all the gangster rap my brothers and friends subject me to when I'm at their place.

 
SANTANA

Santana (1969)

Abraxas (1970)

Santana's early albums were revolutionary, mixing genres within the psychedelic rock context in a way that hadn't really been attempted before. Their first two records, which conveniently fall into different blocs for our purposes, have no weak links. 

Santana:

Treat

Soul Sacrifice

Abraxas:

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen

Incident at Neshabur

@Yo Mamaup

 
Pip's Invitation said:
SANTANA

Santana (1969)

Abraxas (1970)

Santana's early albums were revolutionary, mixing genres within the psychedelic rock context in a way that hadn't really been attempted before. Their first two records, which conveniently fall into different blocs for our purposes, have no weak links. 

Santana:

Treat

Soul Sacrifice

Abraxas:

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen

Incident at Neshabur

@Yo Mamaup
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My older brother had these albums...before I fell for Queen, both of these (and the Beatles) were my jam.

 
And I didn't even know that Wilco/Bragg collaboration happened. Looking forward to giving this a listen, even though Wilco inexplicably never turned my crank.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
SANTANA

Santana (1969)

Abraxas (1970)

Santana's early albums were revolutionary, mixing genres within the psychedelic rock context in a way that hadn't really been attempted before. Their first two records, which conveniently fall into different blocs for our purposes, have no weak links. 

Santana:

Treat

Soul Sacrifice

Abraxas:

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen

Incident at Neshabur

@Yo Mamaup
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I used to live across the street from this mural of Santana.  It got a lot of sun and faded badly. You can't even see the wall anymore because there's a building on the corner

 
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