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Post by janinho on Sept 16, 2019 16:29:26 GMT -5
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Post by janinho on Sept 16, 2019 16:31:27 GMT -5
The Top 2
Nothing But Thieves vs Tool
Amsterdam vs Eulogy
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singingrulebritannia
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Sept 16, 2019 16:35:44 GMT -5
Hello again, 'lowest rank on the winner' position. I don't know how "Amsterdam" is going to beat "Eulogy" if "Song For the Dead" didn't.
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Post by janinho on Sept 16, 2019 16:43:08 GMT -5
My condolences AI and Daryl.
Debut
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Congrats to rowell, trilogy and wheat. Especially to rowell and his p-p-p-perfect top 3!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Sept 16, 2019 16:44:32 GMT -5
Oh!
Well that's a relief.
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Post by Red on Sept 16, 2019 17:06:54 GMT -5
{"I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE TOP TEN ALREADY" WORD WALL}#10: I think it got the support that I would have expected, honestly. A couple of rankings are slightly lower, but not THAT much lower than I would expect. #9: Given how tanked this was in the RD of mine this was in, I'm glad that it made the top ten at all here...especially given that it was in position to finish in or around where it finished in my RD up until the last couple of movements. #8: I was kind of anti-rooting against this. Not that I don't like it, because I do, a lot, but I think it would have been a bit of a boring winner. #7: This song is just massive. Even though I don't love Royal Blood quite as much as I used to, I'll always have a soft spot for the first album, and particularly songs like "Ten Tonne". #6: Oh my god, it was almost in the top five for the entire rankdown. And here I was, thinking it would struggle to make the top 20. #5: gates doing the most, as always...though, in this case, given that it was my lowest remaining, I'll allow it. #4: Really glad this made the top five. I'm glad that we're starting to see more representation of the In Utero non-singles, because there's a lot of good ones. Oh, and my top three is the RD top three. B-A-S-I-C #3: I was going to say that I am very disappointed in one of you, but I think that I'll just say that I'm really happy to see this make the top three and leave it at that. Top Two: Honestly, now that QOTSA is out, I don't really care about the winner, as I like the two songs below it pretty much equally. I just ranked "Eulogy" a spot higher because, you know, Travels. I do find it funny that the top three was my top three, but in reverse. I swear that this happened before. I had a feeling that "Amsterdam" might win, though, given that "Eulogy" was bound to have at least one sort of-tanker, because that's just the nature of the beast with Tool in rankdowns. Another fine rankdown hosted as always, janinho.
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Post by janinho on Sept 17, 2019 17:26:53 GMT -5
Thank you all for participating. :)
It was a fun time as always. Especially since Amsterdam and SFTD were within five points for the whole submission process until the last two lists.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 18, 2019 3:11:24 GMT -5
None of the songs in the top 10 would have been in my top 10 list except maybe "Amsterdam". The Ghost song was o.k. too. That was a good song. Volbeat would have been my #1. I'm still on a Volbeat high. #2 would have been "Hier kommt Alex" that was my fav of the German songs. This RD had some good songs , but There were just too many songs I wasn't familiar with at all to rank them justly without listening to them at least 5 times. The one song I would have had trouble being fair to was the one by Highly Suspect for all the shit he said about no liking Rock. I hate shit talk like that and now they are on Active top 10 with their "rockless" song "16". To further my point I was also pissed at Jani Lane for many years after I saw the youtube interview with him talking shit about "Cherry Pie". I can't stand when bands talk shit about songs or a genre that are basically there lively hood.
for Rock's sake this would have been my top 10 at only one time listening to songs.
1. Volbeat f/ Johan Olsen - For Evigt 2. Die Toten Hosen - Hier kommt Alex 3. The Smashing Pumpkins - Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts) 4. Sunrise Avenue - Fairytale Gone Bad (I charted this song) 5. Bad Religion - Punk Rock Song 6. Nothing But Thieves - Amsterdam 7. Pennywise - Revolution 8. The Interrupters - Title Holder 9. Tocotronic - This Boy is Tocotronic 10. Mando Diao - Gloria
Also is this the same Dover from your list? Cuz I Download? Checked this tonight.
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Post by janinho on Sept 18, 2019 4:18:07 GMT -5
None of the songs in the top 10 would have been in my top 10 list except maybe "Amsterdam". The Ghost song was o.k. too. That was a good song. Volbeat would have been my #1. I'm still on a Volbeat high. #2 would have been "Hier kommt Alex" that was my fav of the German songs. This RD had some good songs , but There were just too many songs I wasn't familiar with at all to rank them justly without listening to them at least 5 times. The one song I would have had trouble being fair to was the one by Highly Suspect for all the s**t he said about no liking Rock. I hate s**t talk like that and now they are on Active top 10 with their "rockless" song "16". To further my point I was also pissed at Jani Lane for many years after I saw the youtube interview with him talking s**t about "Cherry Pie". I can't stand when bands talk s**t about songs or a genre that are basically there lively hood. for Rock's sake this would have been my top 10 at only one time listening to songs. 1. Volbeat f/ Johan Olsen - For Evigt 2. Die Toten Hosen - Hier kommt Alex 3. The Smashing Pumpkins - Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts) 4. Sunrise Avenue - Fairytale Gone Bad (I charted this song) 5. Bad Religion - Punk Rock Song 6. Nothing But Thieves - Amsterdam 7. Pennywise - Revolution 8. The Interrupters - Title Holder 9. Tocotronic - This Boy is Tocotronic 10. Mando Diao - Gloria Also is this the same Dover from your list? Cuz I Download? Checked this tonight. Yes, but that's from their awful electro pop album. Check out their late 90s/early 00s stuff. Great post grunge/Alt Rock.
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