Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick - BFJ (329th) + SKIP J-LO (324/325th)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:56 am

Why didn't I take Dykstra first in the baseball draft? Because I have fucking INTEGRITY.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:58 am

This draft is a lot less quantifiable, and I think no one would have been shocked if you had gone with The National super early and therefore probably not mocked you (and least not in any stronger terms than Shirley's recent "hispter" comment).

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:23 pm

Any of the three original releases can go in this pick, so I went with the original, the one that introduced the world to the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hard to argue with this track list.

"Purple Haze"
"Manic Depression"
"Hey Joe"
"Love or Confusion"
"May This Be Love"
"I Don't Live Today"

Side two

"The Wind Cries Mary"
"Fire"
"Third Stone from the Sun"
"Foxy Lady"
"Are You Experienced?"

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:07 pm

So even though I came to it about 8 years late, this is my best combination of personal love, overall acclaim and won't be here in the next round considerations ...

- I badly want to circumvent my own rules and pick the 20th anniversary re-release to get "Lift" added on but I'll play it straight.

- At what point does a certain band equal Aaron Rodgers here?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm

HOTH is objectively not LZ's 5th or 6th best album.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:30 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:07 pm So even though I came to it about 8 years late, this is my best combination of personal love, overall acclaim and won't be here in the next round considerations ...

- I badly want to circumvent my own rules and pick the 20th anniversary re-release to get "Lift" added on but I'll play it straight.

- At what point does a certain band equal Aaron Rodgers here?

There goes one of my 3 remaining hopes for my second pick. I would've gone In Rainbows, (or maybe The Bends), but I can't argue with picking this one.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:31 pm

I would've taken it at 3 but I really had to be sure I got Frank.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:35 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm HOTH is objectively not LZ's 5th or 6th best album.

So like 7 out of 9 then?

Personally, I think of it in the 4/5 range. Some ranking done for nostalgic reasons.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:35 pm

How many rounds are we doing?

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:01 pm

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:35 pm
Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm HOTH is objectively not LZ's 5th or 6th best album.
So like 7 out of 9 then?

Personally, I think of it in the 4/5 range. Some ranking done for nostalgic reasons.

I
Physical Graffiti
III
IV
Houses of the Holy
Presence
II
In Through the Out Door

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:04 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:35 pm How many rounds are we doing?

Until every artist is gone.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:56 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:01 pm
Rush2112 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:35 pm
Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm HOTH is objectively not LZ's 5th or 6th best album.
So like 7 out of 9 then?

Personally, I think of it in the 4/5 range. Some ranking done for nostalgic reasons.
I
Physical Graffiti
III
IV
Houses of the Holy
Presence
II
In Through the Out Door

I
IV
Physical Graffiti
House of the Holy
In Through The Out Door
Presence
II
III

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:12 pm

But III has Tangerine!

*had to go look that up

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:21 pm

You're all wrong.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:25 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:12 pm But III has Tangerine!

*had to go look that up

Ramble On. Friggin pleb.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:34 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:21 pm You're all wrong.

Don't be offended -I would call the top 4 "Absolute Classics" the next 3 as "Great albums" and the last one as "better than all but a couple Stones albums."

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:41 pm

♫ Well I'm a fool in the rain and its raining
And I'm getting real wet while out here
So I'm thinkin' 'bout going back in-side ba-by
Then maybe I'll grab a beeeeeer
Oooo ♫

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:42 pm

I'm considering quitting The Swamp over the low ratings of Zeppelin II.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:45 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:42 pm I'm considering quitting The Swamp over the low ratings of Zeppelin II.

This.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:51 pm

I feel ya, plus the added insult of IV being in the top half...

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:20 pm

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:51 pm I feel ya, plus the added insult of IV being in the top half...

Side two of IV is better than any side of the albums I ranked below it. Yeah, I'm with you on the overrated nature of Black Dog, Rock and Roll and certainly Stairway to Heaven...

Maybe I'd switch House of the Holy with IV, but that second side of IV could be their best side to an LP they ever did. I'm tempted to say side 3 of Physical Graffiti, but nah. I tend to think of Physical Graffiti as a whole four sided effort.*

*My rankings definitely reflect radio-overplay fatigue from my youth in the late 70s until the hair bands pushed Zeppelin off the radio by the mid 80s.

duff · Post by **duff** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:22 pm

I am getting nervous that my hopeful 1st rounder will still be there. Radiohead going hurts the most, but they were never failing to 16. And it would have been The Bends for me followed by OK Computer.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:27 pm

This scene always pissed me off, because Kashmir isn't on that album.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:33 pm

The Beatles. the White Album

I wanted to go with them, but had a hard time picking the particular album.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:39 pm

Aw, my junior year of college, every week night at around 10:30, we'd smoke a joint, have a glass of JW Black, and play a game of Trivial Pursuit whilst listening to the White Album.

Also, Rocky Raccoon is one of my best 5 or 6 songs on the piano.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:40 pm

You guys knew how to party.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:42 pm

I almost felt compelled to pick them given that they're probably our most played artist over the last 18 months here but it just didn't feel right.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:47 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:40 pm You guys knew how to party.

Also why I hardly ever got laid in college.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:14 pm

Damn SC. I didn’t really think they would fall to me, but I did have a draft strategy for the first two rounds built around the possibility they would.

I guess I need another one.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:15 pm

Quincy Jones thinks your pick sucks.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:01 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:27 pm This scene always pissed me off, because Kashmir isn't on that album.

Summer '82. Saw it around the time it came out with the only guy who was old enough to drive me and my friends to see it (we were 12 at the time).

I had all the Zeppelin cassettes by that time, and wondered if the director was trolling us.*

*I didn't think in the terms of 'trolling', because that hadn't entered my (or, I think anybody's) vocabulary at that point in time.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:11 pm

Not a huge fan of the album as a whole but Blackbird would be in the running for my first pick in a song draft so I’ll be visiting SC Cabin for that alone.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:50 pm

Kinda nuts the Beatles made it to 7.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:52 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:15 pm Quincy Jones thinks your pick sucks.

I'm going to stand on a street corner all day tomorrow and Friday, passing out copies of both of those interviews to passers by.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:21 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:11 pm Not a huge fan of the album as a whole but Blackbird would be in the running for my first pick in a song draft so I’ll be visiting SC Cabin for that alone.

Could you post that again but change it to “I’ll be visiting SC Cabin for that Beatles song alone”? No reason.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:44 pm

Wow. Really thought SC was going to go alt country with that pick. Really thought I had a chance with what I knew of the musical tastes of those picking before me.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:32 am

Is there a recap somewhere?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:40 am