Summer Madness: PA's Battle of the Albums

t d wombat wrote: micky wrote: interesting if that will get bloody or (as I suspect) most of the regular crowd will vote for Octopus.  It is a better album.. and we do have good tastes...but it will be the silent majority who seem to fricking LOVE Pawn Hearts that will drive it to victory. whose blood will there be to spill.. not each others.. and try as we might. .we have yet to find a way to sodomize those who vote and don't care to share their thoughts. Well you will simply have to try harder won't you ? Where there's a will eee there must be a way. I still wonder about those PawnHeartists. Either in the poll pages or maybe even here I did wonder how many of those who voted for PH had actually played it in the recent past and there were what, two or three responses ? Oh well, such it is.

I played PH last night.  While I still like it, I like Octopus more so will vote for O. 

Meltdowner wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Officially lost interest in the moderns, no good albums left for me. Officialy lost interest in both, especially since the classics final will probably be Pawn Hearts vs Octopus

interesting if that will get bloody or (as I suspect) most of the regular crowd will vote for Octopus.  It is a better album.. and we do have good tastes...but it will be the silent majority who seem to fricking LOVE Pawn Hearts that will drive it to victory.

whose blood will there be to spill.. not each others.. and try as we might. .we have yet to find a way to sodomize those who vote and don't care to share their thoughts.

yeah man... that one was sort of easy to predict though.  Not really a surprise to see those two in the final.

Definitely the fun goes out in the later rounds, especially when ones favorites have all bitten the dust.  Of the 4 probable finalists...  3 (Pawn Hearts, Octopus, and Hybris) got a combined 1 vote in total for me in all the earlier rounds.  Guess either my tastes are more far more evolved.. or just completely at odds than the rest of the forum.   I do wonder how different results would have been if we done, from the start, my idea to weight the voting. more for collabs, less for the anonymous voters.

At least Spirit of Eden is still in it.  The modern final will be so much more interesting.. a real difference in styles and ideologies.


Edited by micky - September 21 2015 at 17:57

awesome man!  That was the name of the game.. it wasn't the destination that mattered. It was the journey!

I found quite a few albums, and bands, through the contest myself.  I suppose when this all wraps up I'll post a closing report/summary of my journey through this and what really rocked my musical world. And hope others might do the same.

Officially lost interest in the moderns, no good albums left for me.

micky wrote: not many close ones this time around...  just like the band contests.. the real fun is the early rounds. Semifinal matchups classic albums Pawn Hearts v. The Rotters Club Yeti v. Octopus modern albums Hybris v. Vemod De-loused v. Spirit of Eden

I think the round of 16 had more drama in it. This last one was four easyish votes for me. The RPI albums are all out but they had a great showing. I'm astonished with how well Ceux du dehors did. None of my modern picks made it through and all of my classic picks did.

For this round...

Rotters Club > Pawn Hearts. Pawn Hearts is maybe my third favourite VDGG album and behind at least four Hammill solo efforts (Chameleon, In Camera, Fall of the House of Usher, Loops & Reels - not to mention the amazing Skeletons of Songs bootleg)... I'd honestly like Rotters Club to sweep the whole thing... every time I listen to it I love it more and more.

Octopus vs. Yeti will be really tight for me. I'm likely to plump for Octopus on the grounds of the highs, much as Yeti's a tiny bit more consistent. Octopus vs. Wolf City I know I'd be voting for Amon Duul.

Hybris vs. Vemod will take a relisten
De-Loused I probably prefer to Spirit of Eden but neither of them really get me where it counts.

alrighty... closing the Quarterfinals!

TGM: Orb wrote: t d wombat wrote: I wonder how many of the PH voters also voted for Octopus ? Maybe an upset on the cards ? Nah, wishful thinking. Lets face it the Pawnheartists will keep voting for the damn thing until the cows are well and truly bedded down. Nothing can stop this. Me I reckon that the only people to listen to PH in the last thirty years were the ones who voted against it. As a Pawnheartista, I've had a look at the full classics and come up with 12 of the original 128 that I'd probably vote for over it. By the fourth round it was down to three, I think only The Rotters' Club is left now. Regardless, the alternative was the cuddly Camel sweeping all and leaving devastation in their wake.

Yep ... I love the RC so will be rooting for that to the bitter end. I think I voted for PH once and then purely on the basis that inspired craziness deserves the odd pat on the back. To be fair, at that stage I hadn't listened to any VDGG for thirty odd years and my initial reaction to PH after all that time was "oh christ this is simply effing awful".  I've softened that stance a tadge since then but even so I couldn't care less if I never hear it again. Otoh I find some of PH's solo stuff somewhat more palatable especially (and I realise this could get me shot) "In a Foreign Town".   I've not listened to his solo stuff extensively btw but I also rather like PH7. 


Edited by t d wombat - September 14 2015 at 20:34

I wonder how many of the PH voters also voted for Octopus ? Maybe an upset on the cards ?

Nah, wishful thinking. Lets face it the Pawnheartists will keep voting for the damn thing until the cows are well and truly bedded down. Nothing can stop this. Me I reckon that the only people to listen to PH in the last thirty years were the ones who voted against it.