I mostly listen to post-rock/metal and heavier prog stuff, which all kind draw a straight line back to pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd. The Wall, WYWH, and DSOTM, while all brilliant albums (and probably 'better' than Meddle by many metrics), were kind of dead-ends. No new branches of the musical family tree grew out of them.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:17 pm
by sancarlos
I wasn't criticizing. Just surprised. But, that explanation certainly makes sense.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:18 pm
by P.D.X.
Oh no worries. That was the explanation that I didn't have time to type up at initial posting.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:30 pm
by P.D.X.
Obligatory
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:47 pm
by govmentchedda
Is that the Linklater baseball movie?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:53 pm
by mister d
SC with the first shitting on of the draft.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:56 pm
by sancarlos
That movie is about college guys in 1980. I was a college guy in 1980. And one of my college roommates had that same exact bong.
Linklater did his period homework
Re: SWAMP DRAFT???
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:56 pm
by Jerloma
Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:19 am
Nice pick!
My wife is going on holiday...
By the way, for anyone who missed this brilliant reference, the song D'yer Mak'er' is based on this joke...
- "My wife is going on vacation."
- "Jamaica?"
- "No, she went on her own accord."
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:06 pm
by EnochRoot
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:13 pm
I mostly listen to post-rock/metal and heavier prog stuff, which all kind draw a straight line back to pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd. The Wall, WYWH, and DSOTM, while all brilliant albums (and probably 'better' than Meddle by many metrics), were kind of dead-ends. No new branches of the musical family tree grew out of them.
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:05 pm
It was a toss-up between that and Animals. PF hipster-ism at its best.
Could have gone More if you really wanted to be a bastard.
Animals and Meddle are top tier for me.
When I was a stoned teenager, I had everything Floyd put out - and even enjoyed Ummagumma. But now my collection is reduced to a couple of songs from Animals and Meddle.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:05 am
by mister d
Anyone ever heard a Floyd album named The Wall? Bit obscure but not too bad.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:09 am
by Pruitt
Too maudlin for this old guy.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:16 am
by A_B
mister d wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:05 am
Anyone ever heard a Floyd album named The Wall? Bit obscure but not too bad.
Come on dude. We know shit. We don't need you educatin'.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:19 am
by Ryan
I like how you can play it over Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the whole thing fits
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-3 L-Jam
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:54 am
by L-Jam3
I'm doing this more strategically, because I'm not sure this artist is making it back to me. So while I'm leaving a number of phenomenal albums on the board, I have to go with Mr. Francis Albert, and his best (or second best, considering In the Wee Small Hours) of the Capitol years:
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-4 Chedda
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:23 am
by govmentchedda
I've got two in mind. Pretty sure neither would make it back to me in the second round. Pick should be in before noon.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-4 Chedda
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:27 am
by mister d
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:23 am
I've got two in mind. Pretty sure neither would make it back to me in the second round. Pick should be in before noon.
Do you promise not to open a PM until after you pick if I send it to you now and we check later to see if we have the same two?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-4 Chedda
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:30 am
by govmentchedda
Choosing between their albums is a bit like picking your favorite child, but give me Alligator by the National.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-4 Chedda
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:38 am
by mister d
I'm modifying the one album rule.
(I was going in a different direction figuring you were my only real threat and I could get them at the bottom of the next round. Fuck off.)
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:02 am
by govmentchedda
I thought there was more of a chance that my other potentials would make it back to me, even though they're more widely popular.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:06 am
by Ryan
This is like Joey Votto going 4th overall, right?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:08 am
by mister d
If laid back dads with beards love Joey Votto, yes.
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:13 pm
I mostly listen to post-rock/metal and heavier prog stuff,
Familiar with Earthless? Heard them for the first time today. Pretty great.
Hell yes. Right in the sweet spot between stoner/doom and prog.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:08 am
by mister d
Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:06 am
This is like Joey Votto going 4th overall, right?
Revisiting, I think the comp is Joe Thornton? Its not defensible overall by any means, but maybe more defensible than other contemporaries would "should" go sooner? And he has a beard.
Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:06 am
This is like Joey Votto going 4th overall, right?
Revisiting, I think the comp is Joe Thornton? Its not defensible overall by any means, but maybe more defensible than other contemporaries would "should" go sooner? And he has a beard.
Would you have taken them at 4, knowing that I was lurking at 6 and 33?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:11 am
by mister d
Not at 4, but if it was like 15th with you twice in between probably?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:15 am
by govmentchedda
The twice in between is what did it for me. Also, curious what album you would have chosen. I gave serious consideration to High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me, and was surprised that I didn't rate Boxer higher for this exercise.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:26 am
by mister d
Boxer, no doubt. Its my personal #1 album of all time. If I'm listing out their albums (starting with Alligator), the gap between 1 and 2 is probably greater than any other, unless I'm particularly down on Trouble Will Find Me that day.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:32 am
by govmentchedda
I've always said Boxer was my favorite as well, but in looking at the track listing, I felt like Alligator offered a wider range of song styles.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:34 am
by Shirley
I love how the first album was Led Zeppelin's like 5th or 6th best album (4th if you really love it and are down on III). And then Meddle, by Pink Floyd.
It's like you're trying to be mainstream hipsters.
(BTW, I think Animals is probably my most-listened to Floyd album. I guess that makes it my favorite. I played the hell out of that one while studying in high school.)
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:35 am
by mister d
Its ups are the best of any album, but there are a handful of downs that qualify as mediocre enough to feel pre-Alligator that it offsets the ones I really like.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:37 am
by A_B
Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:34 am
I love how the first album was Led Zeppelin's like 5th or 6th best album (4th if you really love it and are down on III). And then Meddle, by Pink Floyd.
It's like you're trying to be mainstream hipsters.
(BTW, I think Animals is probably my most-listened to Floyd album. I guess that makes it my favorite. I played the hell out of that one while studying in high school.)
Wait til you see what Billy Joel album I pick! It'll be classic.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:46 am
by rass
mister d wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:26 amBoxer, no doubt. Its my personal #1 album of all time. If I'm listing out their albums (starting with Alligator), the gap between 1 and 2 is probably greater than any other, unless I'm particularly down on Trouble Will Find Me that day.
So you would have passed on your personal #1 album, knowing there was no chance the band would get back to you, because it wasn't "valuable" enough at #4?
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:48 am
by mister d
As a strategic move, sure. Same way I'd pass on Jeter for Brett thinking Jeter might last until later on or something like that. This isn't real, Rass. I can still listen to it whenever I want.
Re: Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick 1-5 BFJ
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:54 am
by rass
Exact
mister d wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:48 amThis isn't real, Rass.
Exactly. So why over think it and not take what you love?
