Best Ever Albums

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

LedZep — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 05:50:39 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/20/2022 09:50

Ultimate Fighting Champion wins 9-7

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

Repo — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:34:52 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 04/19/2022 18:34

Love both!!! Both super impressive!

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

EyeKanFly — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:27:53 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 04/19/2022 15:27

Ended up voting for "Shiver Lung". I agree that it's a bit long but it was still engaging on multiple listens, something I wasn't sure would be the case after the first listen.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

kokkinos — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:12:09 GMT

Author: kokkinos

Posted: 04/17/2022 20:12

Ultimate Fighting Champion is nice and fun, but hardly made an impression, I could live with or without it. Shiver Lung, on the other hand, is a fabulous piece of art and easily gets my vote.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

Streams — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:01:18 GMT

Author: Streams

Posted: 04/17/2022 00:01

Ash Fure's approach is particularly interesting in her approach to material, installation, and the ethics of group realization/performance but all context aside, "Shiver Lung" is a delightfully visceral piece in some arcane way.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

Fischman — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:07:10 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 04/16/2022 03:07

Dregs vocal is an auto DQ for me.
Easy vote to Shiver.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

travelful — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:09:50 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 04/15/2022 16:09

I like them both about equally, but I do think Shiver Lung coulda been trimmed down just a couple minutes. Two cool nominations I probably would have never heard if not for this tournament.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

EyeKanFly — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:13:03 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 04/13/2022 18:13

Streams, you nominate some totally bizarre, out-there stuff that I certainly wouldn't have listened to otherwise. Kudos to you, this is very cool! More so than any other new track in the tournament so far, this one makes me want to seek out more by the artist. Ash Fure's Something to Hunt is now on my agenda, so thanks for that.

I'm not sure that I get the Magnetic Fields vibes from Golden Dregs that others are getting, but I will say I enjoyed that track. When it ended, I thought "oh that was a nice short little indie piece" and then looked and saw it was 4 minutes (when I thought it was like... <2). Something must be good about a song if I totally lose any semblance of time while listening 🤣 .

Gonna wait before voting, right now leaning towards "Shiver Lung". Definitely want to listen to both again.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

DommeDamian — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:00:55 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 04/13/2022 08:00

Yes that Golden Dregs can bring thoughts over to Magnetic Fields musically, but at least Stephen Merritt didn't sing like he was bored out of his mind, and he also sang the opposite of boring ideas.
Silver Lung was an interesting piece of sound art, albeit not something I will return to but still, I go with that.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:20:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/13/2022 06:20

Yeah, Ultimate Fighting Champion was very Magnetic Fields and very easy on the ear. Got my vote. Shiver Lung was just too challenging and esoteric for me.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

Hayden — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:10:31 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/13/2022 02:10

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You think you know a decade, then this tournament comes out of nowhere and WHAM all kinds of stuff I've never heard of. Enjoyed both of these. Two very good tracks in their respective spectrums.

Think the only edge I might give Golden Dregs is that Shiver Lung feels like it overstays its due by 2-3 minutes. Ultimate Fighting Champion has great playlistability. Have to be in a super specific mood to vibe to Shiver Lung.

I'll give it a sec before voting. I'm liking both.

Re: [Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

dihansse — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:19:24 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 04/12/2022 19:19

The Golden Dregs track reminded me a lot of the Magnetic Fields in all aspects of the song but I liked it. And Shiver Lung sounded like its title: a bit too experimental and going nowhere for me.

[Round 1-Match 22] Ultimate Fighting Champion vs Shiver Lung

LedZep — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:13:16 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/12/2022 11:13

The Golden Dregs - Ultimate Fighting Champion
Nominated by: LittleM1971

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Ash Fure - Shiver Lung
Nominated by: Streams

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Please listen to both songs before voting. The poll will be tallied in 7 days. See the spreadsheet for the full tournament bracket.