Alt/Rock Album RDs #69 - Blue Weekend (Wolf Alice)

[Red]

Maybe "Miracle" deserved a little better, but four of my top five are the top four, so I guess I can't complain too much.

[Green Baron]

House on Fire is sooooo lame

The Violence does not deserve Top 4, what a disappointing song that was

[YotamTS]

The album was a bit disappointing but at least my top 4 is the same as the top 4, hopefully it can even end up in the same order.

[Daryl the Beryl]

PULSE ALT/ROCK ALBUM RANKDOWN #16 RESULTS: WOLVES BY RISE AGAINST (WAVE THREE OF RESULTS)

Placings	Pulse Rankdown Overall Song	Total Points
1	The Violence	89
2	Welcome to the Breakdown	88
3	Wolves	83
4	How Many Walls	63

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[Green Baron]

Boo. "Wolves" had the most number ones BY FAR. "Welcome to the Breakdown" had more number twos than "The Violence" had number ones.

I guess what I'm saying is that "The Violence" did not deserve this #1. Not at all.

[Daryl the Beryl]

This would be our first album to rank with no singles entering the top 50 of any radio chart yet (so far), as well as the first to not reach the top 100 on the Billboard 200. Pulse proves that the Nothing but Thieves fanbase is strong as ever, as Broken Machine leads the pack for the most voted album. Blanking, Algiers' The Underside of Power is eliminated. Entering the ballot are albums by The National and Queens of the Stone Age, with 4 suggestions each. The War on Drugs have 2 suggestions again.

Album Rankdown #17: Nothing but Thieves - Broken Machine

Due date of submission: November 23, 2017, 10PM PST (please do it on time!)

Do not rank "Reset Me", "Number 13", and the other versions of "Sorry" and "Particles", but you may wish to include where you'd rank them in a post in this thread.

Here's the form to submit your list for the rankdown, and your votes and suggestions for the next rankdown!

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[Green Baron]

I've still never listened to this album in full yet. Guess I'll start now.

[Lordef†ones]

I've only listened to this twice cause I listened to Visions of a Life around the same time and fell in love. Oh and then Snails dropped an album. Sorry NBT.

[Red]

Nov 7, 2017 20:17:53 GMT -5 Green Baron said:

Boo. "Wolves" had the most number ones BY FAR. "Welcome to the Breakdown" had more number twos than "The Violence" had number ones.

I guess what I'm saying is that "The Violence" did not deserve this #1. Not at all.

To be fair, it's not like the rest of the album is that much better than "The Violence". It's a pretty lackluster album by Rise Against standards. I would have rather seen those two songs win, too, but I expected "The Violence" to win. shrug

Ayy, NBT gets their due. Excited to see what others who haven't listened to the album yet think about the album.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Just opened the form. Forgot to make it open for submissions, since I copied the other form for the last rankdown.

[rainie]

Oh gee, wonder what #1 is gonna be ;)

[wheatsquares33]

Well damn if I knew I could've saved The Violence from being number one by voting in the RA rankdown I would have, Welcome to the Breakdown is much better (...even though The Violence was a top 10 hit on my chart, which is way too high, that song has not held up at all for me).

I'm pretty inconsistent with these, but I do like the NBT album so I might give this one a shot. I've only listened to it once and could easily go for a second listen.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Ah man, I listened to this "Broken Machine" already. I only liked "Amsterdam". the rest of the album sucked bad. It was broken alright. 

[Lordef†ones]

This is the kind of melodic hard rock I like!

[peacebone]

It just hit me right now while listening to the album...does the synth line that comes in near the end of "Sorry" heavily remind anyone else of the main synth line from the Killers' "Smile Like You Mean It"?

(I also think I'm going to have the most unpopular ranking of this album on here)

[Red]

Nov 14, 2017 0:40:52 GMT -5 peacebone said:

(I also think I'm going to have the most unpopular ranking of this album on here)

That depends...did you put "Soda" at #1"? :kii:

[Daryl the Beryl]

9 more days!

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[Daryl the Beryl]

5 more days!

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Man I LOVE this album. It avoided the sophomore slump beautifully and it showed off a different side of them. I submitted this morning btw.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

This is one of those albums that sounds better when you just listen to it alone. last time I listened to it I was inserting hard rock songs in between every other track and it sounded pretty crappy compared to the other songs. I did find a few songs that sounded pretty cool. BTW, "Sorry" sounded so much better once I opened my ears to the "Smile Like You Mean It" vibe it had.

also why didn't we rank "Reset"? IT was one of my favorites there. "Number 13" was quite alright too. 

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I also submitted new albums I have not seen on the favorites list yet.

[Daryl the Beryl]

3 more days!

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[Lordef†ones]

I can't rank Reset Me? That'd be in my top 3!

[rainie]

Listening to the album right now and goddamn, it's excellent. Yeah it's a bit on the generic side I suppose, but if you're gonna do straightforward alternative rock this is how to do it. I'm so surprised that the album has underperformed so far, but I suppose Sorry really wasn't the best first single choice. It's honestly kind of an outlier in the album's sound and it's easily one of the weakest tracks, though it's not bad by any means. Based off what I've heard so far I probably would've gone with Particles first -- it's one of the softer songs on the album so alt shouldn't have a problem with it, but it has a huge hook and was way more instant for me then Amsterdam which took a few listens to really grow on me. I'm Not Made by Design, Get Better, and of course Amsterdam would be good singles too.

[WILL]

I may participate in this. If I don’t get it done before the deadline, could you tag me for the results?

[YotamTS]

I guess I'll just listen to this album when I'm not as busy as of now. Only heard I Was Just A Kid, Amsterdam, Sorry, I'm Not Made By Design & Particles and while all of them are at least good Sorry is the weakest one.

[Daryl the Beryl]

2 more days! (reminder for newcomers: submit through the Google form attatched instead of through PM)

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[Daryl the Beryl]

1 more day! (reminder for newcomers: submit through the Google form attatched instead of through PM)

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[American Idiot]

Just checking, but did you get my submission?

[Daryl the Beryl]

Nov 26, 2017 0:18:55 GMT -5 American Idiot said:

Just checking, but did you get my submission?

Yes.