Interactive Poll 2021 0010: Duos of Contrast

Sorry for the delay, and sorry for just mentioning the names of my winners this time. I just wasn't in the mood. 

My votes go to:

1-) Logan: Lipstick to Void & Disney Town
2-) Lewian: Algebra of the Sky & Adnos I-III
3-) Cristi: Streets of Fire & Longing

Tough one as usual. Went with these:

Edited by Lewian - January 31 2021 at 16:00

this is hard, with duo songs option, one of the songs stands out and the other one not so much, makes voting really hard

I'll be voting tomorrow; and the next day, unleash my own poll and conquer the universe. 

suitkees wrote: Cristi: Ah, Place Vendôme really sounds good. It's rather straight forward hard rock to my ears, but it works for me - great singing and playing, well written song. Although not surprising it is very solid and captivating. Nicely paired up with Helloween's ballad Longing: a beautifully orchestrated song. Don't know from when this one is, but to me it's up to Helloweens' best.

I'm gonna listen and vote tomorrow 

^ I really liked "Everybody's Been Burned & Tend My Garden". That's a particular one where I regretted not giving it a vote.

While I recognised that "this approach might very well lend itself to a listener liking one of the selections while disliking the other" I had been planning to do duos or short song trios for this round for a long time. Of course Lorenzo did duos last round. I've done polls like that at PA before and received complaints when they were done as duos of contrast (but then I went quite extreme in the contrast, so it would not surprise if someone hated one selection and loved the other). Done in fun in the extreme case, but also I was curious to see how people would approach it. I thought also about doing a lightning round where we are back to nominating one and limited to one week.

I wouldn't want a duos approach to become the standard. I hope people will come up all sorts of challenges and twists in this series, which will make people think about how they will approach their nominations and develop strategies for how they will vote. For me it's not just about finding and sharing music we like, but is the whole process and the challenges that come with it. Every one has been challenging and creative in its own way.

By the way my last post didn't come out quite right. Alternative Rock isn't something that I very much associated with Kashmir (reminded me of some "Indie Rock" too I like whether one likes the term or not), though my mind does tend to automatically subcategorise based on ones they remind me of no matter how vaguely, and if alt. rock in any way (and at least I'm not calling it vanilla rock), then it is not the kind that I ever would have taken issue with, but this silly stab at humour came to mind (control alt delete etc.) and I ran with it. So instead of being substantive, the alt.rock association I made (even if not much thought out) was serving an intended joke that worked in my head, but not well in text (or at least not in my text).

It is kind of interesting, Anders, that we voted for two of the same, and the other was for each others option.

I did partially consider how they juxtaposed to me. At one time I was thinking, because I listened to all a few times on different days, this is really tough cause there were many duos that I could have gone with depending on my approach, but all three duos I voted for did work together for me. In the case of Kee's choice, Elevation was the standout (and my personal favourite of this poll) and with Lewian's Adnos I-III is the one that pushed me in that duo direction (listening to it at night with my closed I really appreciated it).

All interesting choices and approaches.

Edited by Logan - January 29 2021 at 14:59