BYT - G0 - 2000 (Skinny) defeats 1970 (RockyRaccoon) - Tournaments

Defago · 2015-02-22T15:32:21-05:00

2000 IN FULL EFFECT The Albums: (The Disposable Pop Edition) Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor They're right. This album is pretentious. It has no cohesion and just at times seems like they added parts that really add nothing to the overall experience and just are adding tangents to what is already a mess. For instance, the opening melodic part of Antennas to Heaven after the ambient part with the children and stuff just seems random and entirely unnecessary. This album tries so hard to be epic and i've given it years of proper unbiased judgement from someone who already listens to ambient and am familiar with a host of lengthy music/songs and the patience it can take sometimes to familiarize oneself with new music that is just as lengthy or even more so. Actually, in terms of length this is actually not that bad, but however.....I must admit there are parts, like the opening of sleep with the guy speaking and the ending part of sleep plus the part with the preacher which are quite emotional and very good, but these type of sections are so few and far between what is really an album with as much cohesion as two like charges. I mean really, if this fucking band would figure out that transition in music is just as if not more important to the overall experience rather than just adding some good sounding idea THAT IS FUCKING FILLER because ultimately it does not mesh in the end (see opening paragraph) If they didn't have a problem shifting musically they'd make something that is not only shorter (because length =/= epic) but musically more rewarding because it wouldn't take so damn long to get there. Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah Ghostface strings together unengaging, nonsensical lyrics for the sake of hitting a rhyme over boring beats that lack the character of those that back the first wave of Wu albums. His entertaining flow and the album's couple of highlights--such as the feature-packed tracks "Buck 50" and "Wu Banga 101"--aren't enough to lift Supreme Clientele, its exhausting length, grating vocal hooks, terrible structure and overlong skits capping off this supremely overrated entry in the Wu catalog. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey The critical acclaim this received at the time, and to an extent has continued to receive, just confuses me. It seems completely bizarre that this is considered to be her best album in some quarters - to me, it just sounds like she removed all the appealing things about Rid of Me and Dry, and replaced them with nothing. It's such a dull album that I returned it to HMV the same day I bought it, and it took me over four years to muster up the energy to listen to anything else she did. The View From This Tower - Faraquet "Cut self not" is a great opener and really the only reason to listen to this album. Its close to post hardcore perfection. I love its erratic guitars and catchy aggressive hook. Somehow along the rest of the album the band turns into a lame The Police tribute band. The quality dip really catches you by surprise, it seems that they lost all motivation and energy after recording the first tune. Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu As a general rule of thumb, when an artist begins a song with the words “Here’s my philosophy”, you know you’re in trouble. Only triteness will follow. And when that line is completed with “living in a penitentiary” that makes matters far worse. Erykah Badhu improves matters somewhat from that cringe-inducing opening number (it's like if Lenny Kravitz was a woman, instead of occasionally just looking like one), but not by much. This music with its touches of funk and soul is so horribly lame and dated it might as well have been a set on That ‘70’s Show. Badhu is-at least on Mama’s Gun-often a shrill and irritating vocalist and her lyrics are just bad poetry (“I’m an orange moon and I shine so bright. Cause I reflect the light of my sun”). I would take her parts on Outkast’s “Humble Mumble” over the entirety of this silly trifle. The Singles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8 One More Time - Daft Punk "One more time, we're gonna celebrate". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK30r_SIZ-g Paper Bag - Fiona Apple "I got to fold, 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABuWphlnZ1A 7 Days - Craig David "We were makin' love on Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday, we chilled on Sunday". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fKuyIQ8Lc Black Helicopters - Non Phixion "Had the time of his life, a capitalist with a communist wife". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is It Wasn't Me - Shaggy & Rayvon "Picture this, we were both butt naked, bangin' on the bathroom floor". Rock the vote.

BYT - G0 - 2000 (Skinny) defeats 1970 (RockyRaccoon)

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Poll: Choose the team you prefer!

2000:		67%	[27]
1970:		32%	[13]

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Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

2000 automatically lost my vote by considering Lift Your Fists as a plauasable contender in the tournament

Gotta make a few concessions. Besides, it could be worse. It's not like I put forward Explosions in the fucking Sky.
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Gotta say I'm not crazy about either of these teams. There's nothing here I dislike and there are plenty of albums I'd be happy to have in my collection, but the only thing that really inspires me to love is Lennon's solo debut. In a closer match-up, I'd probably give it more time and consideration, but voting 1970 here.

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