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| Poll: WHO WILL WIN????! |
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| John Coltrane |
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20% |
[11] |
| Nick Drake |
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33% |
[18] |
| Tom Waits |
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37% |
[20] |
| Don't do this, do it the right way |
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7% |
[4] |
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| Total Votes : 53 |
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- #1
- Posted: 07/16/2014 21:05
- Post subject: BSAT Final: Nick Drake vs. John Coltrane vs. Tom Waits
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Alright, this one is a bit unorthodox, but hear me out...
Nick Drake and Tom Waits tied in the semifinal. Usually, a tie results in a tiebreaker round, but since it was so close to the end I thought that was kind of pointless. Rather, I'd like to just toss the winner of the other semifinal (John Coltrane) in with these two and have an all-out battle for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
I realize some of you may be unhappy with this, so I'll add an option to the poll for you to voice your displeasure. If enough people go for that option, we'll do this the normal way. But until then...
The Final Nominees:
John Coltrane
Captain: sp4cetiger
Nick Drake
Captain: MrFrogger
Tom Waits
Captain: Mercury
Poll will remain open for one full week. Take your time.
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- #2
- Posted: 07/16/2014 21:53
- Post subject: Re: BSAT Final: Nick Drake vs. John Coltrane vs. Tom Waits
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I'm not wildly opposed to the three-entry final, but I don't like that those who are opposed are encouraged to waste their vote on saying so...
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- #3
- Posted: 07/16/2014 21:57
- Post subject: Re: BSAT Final: Nick Drake vs. John Coltrane vs. Tom Waits
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| sp4cetiger wrote: | | I'm not wildly opposed to the three-entry final, but I don't like that those who are opposed are encouraged to waste their vote on saying so... |
Textbook example of the spoiler effect.
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Dingerbell
Gender: Male
Age: 27
- #4
- Posted: 07/16/2014 22:31
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Coltrane by miles, and I really like the other two.
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benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?
Age: 27
Location: California 
- #5
- Posted: 07/16/2014 22:37
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It's as easy a vote for Nick Drake against 2 as it would be for 1. Coltrane's a great musician, Wait's is a poet, but Drake is both, and I'd dare say maybe better at both, even in a much smaller sampling of his work.
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AgainstMeAgainstYou
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Location: Ajax, ON 
- #6
- Posted: 07/16/2014 22:41
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I just broke the tie in favour of Drake. All three of these men are amazing, all three have impacted me musically, but I grew up with Nick Drake's music thanks to my dad so I think that's what made this vote so easy.
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Skinny
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- #7
- Posted: 07/16/2014 23:55
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Nick Drake for me. If Mingus had been here then I'd have probably voted for him, but Coltrane is my least favourite of these three (by quite a large margin too, even though I still love quite a lot of his work). Him and Waits both obviously have a huge edge in terms of volume of fantastic material, but all three of Drake's albums are right up there among my very favourites of all-time. If I was told I could only keep one of their discographies, even with the hugely disproportionate numbers, I'd still choose Drake.
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AgainstMeAgainstYou
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Location: Ajax, ON
- #8
- Posted: 07/17/2014 00:00
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| Skinny wrote: | | Nick Drake for me. If Mingus had been here then I'd have probably voted for him, but Coltrane is my least favourite of these three (by quite a large margin too, even though I still love quite a lot of his work). Him and Waits both obviously have a huge edge in terms of volume of fantastic material, but all three of Drake's albums are right up there among my very favourites of all-time. If I was told I could only keep one of their discographies, even with the hugely disproportionate numbers, I'd still choose Drake. |
See I think that's the thing, too. We were fortunate to get a LOT of Coltrane albums, and Waits is still with us on what, his fifteenth album? Twentieth? We only got three from Nick with a small assortion of additional songs, and I would argue that all three of those albums are among the very best of all time. I have a soft spot for artists who had very minimal careers and yet released fantastic stuff during them.
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- #9
- Posted: 07/17/2014 00:16
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It's Coltrane for me, and not just to support my nom. Drake has a lot of gems, but sometimes his stuff is too mawkish for my taste. I have the opposite issue with Waits, who despite being a brilliant storyteller, fails to make a consistent emotional connection with me. This is all relatively speaking, of course, all three are pretty much must-listen for any music lover.
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- #10
- Posted: 07/17/2014 01:19
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Coltrane easily.
Tom Waits is great but I rarely feel like listening to him anymore.
Nick Drake is good but some of the arrangements on the first two albums suck, and his mumbly vocals are occasionally annoying.
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