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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (1 Viewer)
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Speaking of Foreigner.
Songs About Booty Calls.
Songs About Booty Calls.
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Have you guys ever done just a full on geographical draft before? You could have songs by artists associated with or from or songs about specific cities, regions, or countries.
So eephus' list has London and Paris, Ireland, and New Orleans. But other ones (some of which I'm sure have been previous Genrepalooza categories.
Georgia On My Mind -- While this would be for Georgia, you could narrow it to Atlanta or broaden it to Georgia and Florida and call it Florida Georgia Line.
Golden Gophers and Drawn Out Winters - Minneapolis
New York State of Mind -- Duh
Madchester -- The whole 24 Hour Party People Scene
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oy Oy Oy -- Australia (and New Zealand?)
California Knows How to Party -- You could probably also do LA and the Bay Area
PDX -- Pacific Northwest
You Know How I Know You're Gay?-- Asia
Bless the Rains -- Africa
My Favorite Mitten -- Detroit and the Rest of Michigan
Outlaws and Guitarists Who Look Like Rabbis -- Texas
Hello, Cleveland! -- Ohio
I Saw Mommy Booing Santa Claus -- Philly and Pennsylvania
This Genre is Wicked Hahd -- Boston and New England
Take Off, Eh! -- Canada
The Final Countdown -- Wild Card Europe
A Horse With No Name -- Wild Card US
So eephus' list has London and Paris, Ireland, and New Orleans. But other ones (some of which I'm sure have been previous Genrepalooza categories.
Georgia On My Mind -- While this would be for Georgia, you could narrow it to Atlanta or broaden it to Georgia and Florida and call it Florida Georgia Line.
Golden Gophers and Drawn Out Winters - Minneapolis
New York State of Mind -- Duh
Madchester -- The whole 24 Hour Party People Scene
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oy Oy Oy -- Australia (and New Zealand?)
California Knows How to Party -- You could probably also do LA and the Bay Area
PDX -- Pacific Northwest
You Know How I Know You're Gay?-- Asia
Bless the Rains -- Africa
My Favorite Mitten -- Detroit and the Rest of Michigan
Outlaws and Guitarists Who Look Like Rabbis -- Texas
Hello, Cleveland! -- Ohio
I Saw Mommy Booing Santa Claus -- Philly and Pennsylvania
This Genre is Wicked Hahd -- Boston and New England
Take Off, Eh! -- Canada
The Final Countdown -- Wild Card Europe
A Horse With No Name -- Wild Card US
Northern Voice
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I thought about something like this too bit we've covered a lot of US geography in the fantasy football/music drafts where the song had to be associated the city the player was born in, played college in or NFL team plays for.
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It's a great idea, but like NV said, we've done that a bunch of times in the service of shtick by which we select football teams. It's at the point where I know where bands originated or where their lead singer was born, etc., without much prodding.
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Boris The Sprinkler is from Green Bay. I picked them this year because they were in keeping with the punk schtick.
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Combining the last two suggestions, I had an idea of something like a "my hometown" draft, the idea being we draft local ish to us stuff, put together a playlist of stuff that may be less widely known. But that's less a draft than just a bunch of internet people making 8th grade tape mixes for each other
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Combining the last two suggestions, I had an idea of something like a "my hometown" draft, the idea being we draft local ish to us stuff, put together a playlist of stuff that may be less widely known. But that's less a draft than just a bunch of internet people making 8th grade tape mixes for each other
Can we do "my current town" or "what I think of as my hometown" and not "my original hometown"? I don't want to have to draft a bunch of Johnny Cougar FFS.
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Saturday Night/Sunday Morning Mixtape Draft.
Side A - Up Tempo Mix for Saturday Night (dancing, workout, fist pumping)
Side B - Down Tempo Mix for Sunday Morning (slower, quieter stuff)
14 rounds, 7 songs per side. Draft for both mixes at the same time.
Diversity rule: Each side must include a minimum of three genres. Genre is determined by the artist not the song, e.g. "Fame" would be considered Rock because it's Bowie even though the song's style is R&B. Allmusic is the authoritative source for an artist's genre.
It's a mixtape, not a playlist so make 'em flow.
Side A - Up Tempo Mix for Saturday Night (dancing, workout, fist pumping)
Side B - Down Tempo Mix for Sunday Morning (slower, quieter stuff)
14 rounds, 7 songs per side. Draft for both mixes at the same time.
Diversity rule: Each side must include a minimum of three genres. Genre is determined by the artist not the song, e.g. "Fame" would be considered Rock because it's Bowie even though the song's style is R&B. Allmusic is the authoritative source for an artist's genre.
It's a mixtape, not a playlist so make 'em flow.
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It might be better to be able to pick your spot. Manchester would be more fun than Milwaukee.
ETA: or randomize a common location for each round, e.g. everybody has to pick a Boston artist
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My problem with this is that I don't necessarily know the less known stuff, and what I know isn't on Spotify. Otherwise, I'd be converting new Judy's fans.Combining the last two suggestions, I had an idea of something like a "my hometown" draft, the idea being we draft local ish to us stuff, put together a playlist of stuff that may be less widely known. But that's less a draft than just a bunch of internet people making 8th grade tape mixes for each other
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I remember we had to make a rule that you couldn't pick people who died during the draft.
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Yeah that was the whole controversy. He died during the draft and Joe thought we were celebrating his death. I will admit I think some one called him the "steal of the draft" which may have been in poor taste and then when reports came out he may not be dead Mister Ected posted the Monty Python link.
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We need to get back to naming albums with roman numerals like Chicago or Queef Wellington.
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And this was the first I heard of that and they're one of my favorite bands. That is the extent to which I keep up with new music these days.
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I am the king of unoriginal thinking when it comes to these things. Maybe one day it'll strike me late night. I remember seeing a psychiatrist and they told me I had a "blank page" problem, which meant that I have trouble just coming up with things to construct when there aren't any restrictions and I'm the one imposing order on things. It was really their way of telling me I'd pretty much failed the Rorschach test and that I was certifiably loopy.
I was just so hungover I could barely see straight, though, and it was pretty much a misdiagnosis.
Anyway, that might be a reason why I have trouble with coming up with imaginary worlds with rules.
I was just so hungover I could barely see straight, though, and it was pretty much a misdiagnosis.
Anyway, that might be a reason why I have trouble with coming up with imaginary worlds with rules.
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Not sure that qualifies as loopy or any kind of real problem, just a certain type of thinking and trait. Pretty normal based on my experience as a teacher. It's not too uncommon to find a bright, motivated student that struggles a bit outside of structure.
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I was half-kidding. But no, my answers on the Rorschach deviated so far and so consistently from the norm that the evaluator thought I had psychotic (not the misuse of the term) tendencies. Truth was, I was seeing stars from booze. They quickly ditched that diagnosis.
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The Rorschach always seemed like BS to me. What do you think of it?
Also, I was more generally referring to the irregularity of human intelligence. It can be very inconsistent, quirky, etc. I am regularly shocked by things certain students do and don't excel at. The mind is a very interesting puzzle.
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I think that, to a degree, the Rorschach is BS. They really are measuring your answers against everybody else's perception of reality. She explained it to me in some detail. I came away with a newfound respect for the methodology, but they're really not very good at evaluating "normal" people that aren't, say, barking at trees. They've done studies where they make psychiatrists and those trained in the art try and identify crazy people, and unless you're significantly impaired, they have a lot of trouble determining who is functional and who isn't.
To the latter point: I agree. The mind is extraordinarily complex. I don't even bother trying to fathom it. I'm not sure I could ever understand the bigger things, and the more I try, I tend to get awfully lonely (and scared) vis a vis the universe. It's a big, incomprehensible world out there, and we've done pretty good ordering the chaos without knowledge of the reasons or origin of our existence that I'm impressed humanity has gone on without immolating completely or going really berserk. Self-consciousness and self-awareness, which would seem to be a gift, is also an enormous curse.
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And how's that for music draft talk?
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Saturday night bonus draft. What we got?
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