Post subject: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Sad wins!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:10 am
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Today's Matches:
Finals: Insignificance (29) vs Sad (44)
Insignificance's road to the finals: Speed of Sound, Get Right, Amongst The Waves, Undone, Light Years, Parting Ways Sad's road to the finals: Get Right, All or None, Of The Girl, I Am Mine, Grievance
Binaural: Breakerfall,God's Dice, Evacuation,Light Years,Nothing As It SeemsThin Air,Insignificance, Of The Girl, Grievance, Rival,Sleight of Hand, Soon Forget,Parting Ways
Riot Act: Can't Keep, Save You, Love Boat Captain, Cropduster, Ghost, I Am Mine,Thumbing My Way, You Are, Get Right, Green Disease, Help Help,Bushleaguer, 1/2 Full, Arc, All or None
S/T: Life Wasted, World Wide Suicide, Comatose, Severed Hand,Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, Unemployable, Big Wave, Gone,, Army Reserve, Come Back, Inside Job
Backspacer: Gonna See My Friend, Got Some, The Fixer, Johnny Guitar, Just Breathe, Amongst the Waves, Unthought Known, Supersonic, Speed of Sound, Force of Nature, The End
Misc:Last Soldier, Hitchhiker, In The Moonlight, Fatal,Otherside, Sad, Undone, Man of the Hour, Education, Santa Cruz, Love Reign O'er Me,Down,Puzzles and Games
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Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:12 am
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All fairly easy calls
1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand (Last soldier is a good song though) 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget (Undone is my favorite song in this bracket) 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost (I like both of these but Parachutes is probably the better song)
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Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:17 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
That last one was the only tough one, I love both of those songs.
Actually, I love Speed of Sound too but I think the studio version is kinda lacklustre, while the studio version of Insignificance slays - I'm happy to let it win out.
Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:26 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
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Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:31 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wavei like heady PJ but they went wrong with LY. 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air no contest here. 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed HandLS is good but SH is the better song - more ambitious arrangements and images. 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker Can't Keep might be my favorite song this band has released in the 2000s. 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight i went with the least bad of the worst seriously, i prefer ATW's music over the other by a large margin. 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound i really dislike SoS, so no contest here. Insignificance is one of their most forward-thinking political rockers. 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget SF is the embryo of what Ed could express with the uke while Undone is fully-mastered by the band - even if Ed's voice should have been better. 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost i've never got the Ghost love. sorry, this is one of the forgettables from Riot Act for me. Parachutes is lovely - unlike anything PJ has done before or since.
Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:37 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:38 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:03 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
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Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:12 am
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theplatypus wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Parachutes is unlike anything they've done before? Have you heard All Those Yesterdays?
They're not that similar. "Ghost" is alright but it's kind of a boring two-chord number compared to "Parachutes".
I had a hard time with that matchup. I really like Parachutes. It's the only song on S/T that I really like. But I'm a big fan of Ghost too. I don't think Parachutes and ATY are incredibly similar, but one certainly reminds me of the other.
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Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:41 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
Post subject: Re: Best of the 2000s Tournament: Matches 1-8 6/28 to 6/29
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:45 am
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1. Light Years vs. Big Wave 2. Got Some vs. Thin Air 3. Last Soldier vs. Severed Hand 4. Can't Keep vs. Hitchhiker 5. Amongst the Waves vs. In The Moonlight 6. Insignificance vs. Speed of Sound 7. Undone vs. Soon Forget 8. Parachutes vs. Ghost
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seriously, i prefer ATW's music over the other by a large margin.
