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Post by Green Baron on Oct 26, 2017 20:44:10 GMT -5
Star Roving, and no apology for stealing this one from my rankdown?
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 20:45:26 GMT -5
glad to see that Baron's rankdown won't be the only one with some Slowdive in it! :)
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 20:45:34 GMT -5
Star Roving, and no apology for stealing this one from my rankdown? That's cute, you think that I'm stealing a song that I've already used for multiple tournaments. Book Two, Chapter Eight: The Year That IS Happening
Oh hey, look, it's another song that Green used for his Sports Soundtrack rankdown. Would you look at that? And just like "Painkiller", this was never getting switched out for something else. I'm sure that I could have switched it out, as I'm not short of songs to possibly include from this year, but when I've already submitted the song for both a Rock Tournament AND the Summertime Madness tournament, it's going to be mighty difficult for me to just suddenly say, "Nah, I'm not including you in the Journey after all of that." Just isn't going to happen. Let's go star roving.
Give it away now, girl Can't hold down tonight Every black and white Secret's a blinking light
SONG #31 Slowdive - Star Roving
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 20:46:11 GMT -5
Anymore other genre songs?
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 26, 2017 20:46:45 GMT -5
I was not expecting 2017 to be its own category - thought this was still part of the last one
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 20:48:31 GMT -5
Anymore other genre songs? Depends on your stance on one artist still to come. This is the opening track of this band's latest album release, an album that continues this band's steady greatness. The first single they released to promote this album...wasn't their best, to put it mildly, but this song (and a couple of others) definitely helped to add to this band's impressive discography. Oh, and this band is the second of five to feature in both Journey rankdowns so far.
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 20:49:14 GMT -5
Mastodon - Sultan's Curse
(almost said Feet Don't Fail Me, but QOTSA weren't in the other Journey)
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 20:51:23 GMT -5
Mastodon - Sultan's Curse I still need to listen to the new EP they just released. I'm slacking. We have a repeat offender! And of course, it had to be Mastodon, didn't it? After all, they released yet another pretty great album this year, another great album to add to Mastodon's impressive discography, and it only makes sense that one of the songs off of that album would be among my favorites of this year. Which song? Well, it's not "Show Yourself", if you're somehow guessing that that would be my choice. It's also not "Steambreather", a personal chart #1 for me this year. It's also not great album tracks "Andromeda" or "Jaguar God". Instead, one only needs to start Emperor of Sand from the beginning to find the song being featured here...
Tired and lost, no one to trust Who is there to give the push All I have learned, straighten the curve Like a circle to return
SONG #32 Mastodon - Sultan's Curse
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 20:53:57 GMT -5
This is the opening track of this band's latest album release, an album that continues this band's steady greatness. The first single they released to promote this album...wasn't their best, to put it mildly, but this song (and a couple of others) definitely helped to add to this band's impressive discography...hey, wait a minute, wasn't this the hint that I just used for the last song? ...oh, it also applies to this song? Fair enough. (Also, it was featured in Lord's first ever rankdown. And it was the song that someone thought the last hint MIGHT be for.)
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 20:54:30 GMT -5
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 20:59:18 GMT -5
Yeah, the timing on this turned out to be exquisite. Speaking of impressive discographies...and, briefly going back to #31, speaking of songs that appeared in another poster's Rankdown, how ya doin', Lord? And what a song to include, by a band that absolutely, 100% needed to be included in the Journey at some point. Queens of the Stone Age are one of my absolute favorite bands ever, no question. Songs for the Deaf is one of my favorite albums ever, and I'd say a good half-dozen of their songs are among my favorite songs ever. I'm not sure if this song is going to end up being one of those select few, but it absolutely is my favorite from their most recent album, Villains. What can I say? Queens of the Stone Age know how to make a good opening track.
Time to go, regret it later We're gon' take it as it comes Future tense meets middle finger We take the long way home
SONG #33 Queens of the Stone Age - Feet Don't Fail Me
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:02:14 GMT -5
Another band featured in Lord's first rankdown, unlike the previous song, this song was not the one chosen for said rankdown. This song hasn't, as of yet, been released as a single, but, it's the song that I desperately want to see become a single from their latest album. And yes, Daryl, it DOES mean that it's not that song.
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 21:02:49 GMT -5
I'm Not Made by Design
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:05:15 GMT -5
Basically rushing my way to the finish line here...kind of. I'll explain soon. It's time to get Nothing But Thieves involved in the Journey, and not a moment too soon. To Daryl's chagrin, I did consider using "Amsterdam" for this particular rankdown, but I didn't want to have too many songs overlapping from other people's rankdowns, so I pushed "Amsterdam" to the side. And besides, there's so many great choices from NBT'S latest album, Broken Machine, to make that I don't even need "Amsterdam". I could roll with "Particles", "Live Like Animals", "Broken Machine", or especially the album opener "I Was Just a Kid", but if you've been paying attention to my posts about NBT lately, you likely know what song I'm going to choose instead. Please choose it as a single, guys...please.
I live on oxygen, a bastard monkey boy Do what the hell I like, I'm no celestial toy Your goddess is bathed in gold while keeping us in line We're killing each other for a woman in the sky
SONG #34 Nothing But Thieves - I'm Not Made by Design
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:06:44 GMT -5
To me, there's only one way to close this set of songs out, and that's with an album that I enjoy even more than the album that features song #34. It's not QUITE the album that I like the most from this year, but it's not far off, and this was the song that stood out to me the most from their latest album. It's a song that I used for the Summertime Madness tournament, and it even won a matchup, to my surprise!
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 21:09:07 GMT -5
well, it can't be Ran/Suzanne/Star Roving since you've used those already...Carin at the Liquor Store?
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:11:37 GMT -5
well, it can't be Ran/Suzanne/Star Roving since you've used those already...Carin at the Liquor Store? I can hear Daryl celebrating from here. It's okay, Daryl...I gotchu. If we're talking about songs from this year, there's really only one song left that could possibly get the Journey treatment, right? It comes from my second-favorite album of 2017 to date (and, honestly, I'm wondering if it might actually be my favorite), and it's the song that IMMEDIATELY stood out to me as the highlight from that album. Remember, that's an album that I thought was my second-favorite of the year so far, and it was still a clear highlight. Sorry, "I'll Still Destroy You", "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness", "Day I Die"...there's only one choice from this National album. It's okay, though...you can blame it on me. I really don't care, though, as it was a foregone conclusion what song I was going to choose for this rankdown.
It wasn't so bad, I wasn't that sick Got taken by love, I wasn't that quick Foregone conclusion It's gonna be different after tonight You're gonna see me in a different light
SONG #35 The National - Carin at the Liquor Store
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:14:35 GMT -5
This last group of songs holds a near and dear place in my heart for a reason that will become apparent as soon as this first song is revealed. This 1975 song is the title track from this artist's third album, and, perhaps (and I stress the word "perhaps"), this New Jersey icon's most popular song. It has become such a part of his identity that he even used the title of this song (and the album) as the title of his autobiography that was released last year.
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 21:33:48 GMT -5
Born to Run
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:37:50 GMT -5
Never mind, we're doing this now. Book Two, Chapter Nine: My Favorite Songs of All Time
And so, it comes down to this. I've been wanting to show off these five songs in a rankdown format ever since I came up with the Journey concept. These five songs are absolutely, unequivocally, my favorite songs of all time. (Also, spoiler alert: These next five songs will be my top five. Surprise!) The first song really took a hold of me around the time that Bruce Springsteen released his 2007 album Magic. When I fell in love with The Gaslight Anthem in 2008, it should come as no surprise that the main reason I fell in love with them is because they reminded me quite a bit of The Boss at times, and, in particular, this song. It's also the reason that I fell head over heels in love with "Come on Eileen", as that song might as well be the British version of this song. It always comes back to "Born to Run".
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway nine, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line
SONG #36 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 26, 2017 21:39:11 GMT -5
I can already predict #40 from here.
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:39:57 GMT -5
I can already predict #40 from here. And very likely #39. We'll get to that bridge when we have to cross it, though. For now... The next song finally allows for the Journey to tackle one of the most influential bands of all time. I have long said that I consider two songs to be "virtually perfect", and this 1975 song is the first of the two. The singer of this band has claimed that it is the band's definitive song, which...is pretty crazy coming from the singer of THIS BAND, but he might just be right. It was also sampled infamously years later in a song by a rapper that featured the guitarist of this band. You may know these guys better as their current-day incarnation, Greta Van Fleet.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 26, 2017 21:45:54 GMT -5
Stairway to Heaven?
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 21:46:09 GMT -5
Kashmir
(Mr. Plant certainly isn't wrong!)
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:48:05 GMT -5
Kashmir (Mr. Plant certainly isn't wrong!) Hard to disagree with Robert Plant. I've had many goals over the years when it comes to listening to music, but one constant is the endless search for perfection. I also contradict that goal often by saying that it's pretty much impossible for a song to be "perfect". No song, no matter how much I may love a song, can possibly be "perfect". Having said that, there are two songs that I feel come closest to that distinction, songs that are "virtually perfect", songs that I absolutely would not change ANYTHING about. This is the first of those two songs, one I discovered a little while after the other "perfect" song, and it's by a band many consider to be one of the greatest of all time. On this song, a song that Robert Plant himself claimed is their "definitive song", they lived up to that moniker. All hail Led Zep.
Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace Sounds caress my ear And not a word I heard could I relate The story was quite clear
SONG #37 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:49:32 GMT -5
Remember how I said way back in the hint for song #4 that Queen was the first of five artists that would be making repeat appearances in the second book of the Journey (and Mastodon was the second)? Well...it's time to deal with the other three right now. The next song is the final song off of this band's seminal 1967 album, an album that has taken on an almost mythical status in the 50 years since its release. This song, in particular, has become one of the titanic achievements from this fabulous band.
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Post by peacebone on Oct 26, 2017 21:51:55 GMT -5
A Day in the Life
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 26, 2017 21:52:17 GMT -5
A Day in the Life, isn't it
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Post by Red on Oct 26, 2017 21:56:55 GMT -5
As if there was any doubt. When I considered what Beatles song to include for the first Journey, my mind immediately jumped to this song. I love so many of their songs that I've genuinely lost count as to how many I love exactly, but even among the many songs of The Beatles that I love, this one somehow finds a way to stand out just that much more. For years, I've said that Abbey Road is probably the best album I have ever listened to, but Sgt. Pepper is right up there, and it features my favorite Beatles song by a mile. It's also kind of a predictable choice, but when a song is just as masterful as this one is, sometimes, it's okay to be predictable. Allow me to show you what happens when a Lennon composition and a McCartney composition are jumbled together. (Spoiler: Magic ensues.)
I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph
SONG #38 The Beatles - A Day in the Life
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Post by maine on Oct 26, 2017 21:59:22 GMT -5
Ooh yes at Agent Fresco. I have them in a different rankdown coming up.
"See Hell" was one I didn't get into, but still a solid song from a solid band that deserves more recognition.
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