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

Northern Voice said:
It's interesting they're showing a Cincinnati/Los Angeles game with a full French broadcast. I'd assume this is the Quebec station actually covering it, unless anyone can give me another reason they'd have a full broadcast of this game en francais
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Those Chocolate Chip cookies in the lobby though...

 
Northern Voice said:
Ate one and stashed a second. 
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We used to stay at the Double D every year when we went north for tournaments.  Our team now stays at a Radisson because of the pools, but we often sneak back in just to get cookies on the way to and from games.  Luckily other teams from our club still stay there, and with the uniforms they can't tell the kids apart.  🙂

 
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We have an election here Monday. And our elections are far more complicated than the US but no less stupid. 

We have 5 or 6 real parties. We have the "Liberal" party. Probable equivalent of your Democrats. And we have a "Conservative" Party. In theory your equivalent of Republicans but way left of that. Maybe close to your Democrat party and Liberal party left of that. 

Anyway, they're both going to get 35% ish of the vote. The other 30 is almost all going left of centre (NDP "New Democrat Party" will get 15-20%, Green 5 or so, Bloc Quebecois (once upon a time Quebec separatist party but that makes no sense for anyone) 5% or so and a small amount to People's Party of Canada - new far right, Trumpy party. 

It's going to be a minority. It should be a Liberal-NDP government. It could be a Conservative led government. 

Last election, the Liberal party promised electoral reform/representation by vote but didn't follow through because if they did they would be irrelevant.

My beliefs lean NDP. Hey look! The Canadian is a lefty! Breaking News! But I may vote Liberal to keep the Conservatives out. Except the Liberals were supposed to enact electoral reform, so this didn't need to happen anymore. 

TL;DR,.. I think most countries would be best served with a multi party system, where there is never a majority government and everyone votes to their heart. And then there are true coalitions formed between those parties to pass laws and make things happen. This exists in Europe. I think it could in Canada too. And would always be left leaning, because Canada, but would represent a true share of the people. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Have you heard any Nickelback during the trip? Do you agree with my assessment that with every note, the singer sounds like he is trying really hard to poop? 
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I went through the Sirius dial and "Photograph" came on PopRocks at one point. I think it's fairly harmless pop-rock and I understand why it was a huge hit. I'd be less kind to most other Nickelback songs. 

 
Northern Voice said:
I went through the Sirius dial and "Photograph" came on PopRocks at one point. I think it's fairly harmless pop-rock and I understand why it was a huge hit. I'd be less kind to most other Nickelback songs. 
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I think it was in the jukebox draft thread where someone wrote a lengthy post arguing that that song would be revered if it was by any other band. 

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
Meat Loaf

Bat Out of Hell  (1977)

All Revved Up with No Place to Go

For Crying Out Loud

Bat Out of Hell II:  Back Into Hell  (1993)

@Raging weasel
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My best friend growing up loved these albums. We hit grade 9 and we went seperate paths, different friend groups. I walked the line of athletes and geeks, I suppose (got along with all of them but few true friends), and he quickly got into weed and then much harder drugs. 

My bike was stolen around that time and everyone said it was him but no proof. 

He lived three doors down from me growing up and I still live in the neighborhood (in a new house I own) and I see his parents all the time. Last I heard from a former mutual high school friend, he was still deep into the ketamine, etc.. his parents were super hard on him and I think he rebelled. I say hi to them but really, I have no idea what to say. I don't ever mention (former best friend growing up)'s name

 
Northern Voice said:
My best friend growing up loved these albums. We hit grade 9 and we went seperate paths, different friend groups. I walked the line of athletes and geeks, I suppose (got along with all of them but few true friends), and he quickly got into weed and then much harder drugs. 

My bike was stolen around that time and everyone said it was him but no proof. 

He lived three doors down from me growing up and I still live in the neighborhood (in a new house I own) and I see his parents all the time. Last I heard from a former mutual high school friend, he was still deep into the ketamine, etc.. his parents were super hard on him and I think he rebelled. I say hi to them but really, I have no idea what to say. I don't ever mention (former best friend growing up)'s name
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Meat Loaf is responsible

 
the moops said:
It's only 8 here, but I have put a few too many substances in my body. Gonna make both picks real quick. If @HellToupee wants my 2nd pick, so be it

Pearl Jam

Yield 1998

Vs 1993

Had a tough time choosing which ones here. Obviously hard to leave off Ten

Sigur Ros

Agaetis Byrjun 1999

Kveikur 2013
 
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I just heard Pearl Jam’s sound check on the beach while sitting on my balcony last night - they sounded great. There’s a big festival here tomorrow and they’re headlining. I’m not officially going but will be able to hear the bands I want just walking around town.

 
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No, the band I was thinking of is the pop/rock band of pop/rock bands and they had already been picked. I just can't believe some of their albums are still out there. I almost picked them, but seriously left them for somebody.

Who went with Wings.

 
rockaction said:
No, the band I was thinking of is the pop/rock band of pop/rock bands and they had already been picked. I just can't believe some of their albums are still out there. I almost picked them, but seriously left them for somebody.

Who went with Wings.
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I did make a strategic error there and should have snapped up another I had in mind, but I don't think it's the band you're talking about anyway.  Not sure the other I want will get back to me now.  :(

 
krista4 said:
I did make a strategic error there and should have snapped up another I had in mind, but I don't think it's the band you're talking about anyway.  Not sure the other I want will get back to me now.  :(
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I think I botched my pick. I had a Haruki Murakami short story all queued up and everything. I didn't go with it. It's kind of funny, though. Live and learn.

 
I think the MBV pick was best, though. Good that they're represented. I plan on picking unrepresented bands regardless of date from here on in. I will have no doubles!

 
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I do not think I'm getting nerd points for this exercise if we're going ten rounds. I'll probably show an actual recency bias towards the post-millennial side of things. There has been so much good music released since I've been thirty, it's kind of funny and wonderful, IMO.

 
Looks like I was @'ed, so I'll go ahead and make my next pick.

FWIW, this is an audible prompted by @Eephus' last pick.

7.12: Swing Out SIster It's Better to Travel (1987) and Shapes and Patterns (1997)

Time to take some more Y chromosomes out of the playlist.

Like Sade, Swing Out Sister's vocalist Corrine Drewery has a voice that's delicate yet never overpowered at the same time and makes me think of exotic locations and romantic situations. Needless to say, I'd listen to her sing the phone book too.

When they hit in the late 80's, their sound was singular in the pop world, and as the current trends moved on from their sound, they stuck with what they knew and were good at. They reappeared on the periphery with Am I the Same Girl and then dropped off the radar again.  That didn't mean they weren't continuing making sweetly playful timeless music, with offerings as recent as 2018.

From the first album, I'm going chalk with their two hits, Break Out and Twilight World.

I'll confess here that I picked the second album strictly for the first track, Somewhere in the World, but to me it's a marker in their career arc that the more things changed around them, they were able to bend all of that change to their will to fit their style.  Normally I don't care much about the fashion/style side of the equation when it comes to my music, but I make an exception here.  Corrine knows exactly what makes her look good and she's stayed in her wheelhouse with only small variations along the way.  

@KarmaPolice is OTC.

 
I was pissed at RW for a half a second, but then realized when I went with Massive Attack last night it was because I was going to take these guys this round and was having a ##### of a time deciding between Badmotor and this one to pair with LtL:

ROUND 7:  MORE SOUNDGARDEN 

LOUDER THAN LOVE ('89)

SUPERUNKNOWN ('94)

@El Floppo

 
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