Summer Madness: PA's Battle of the Albums

micky wrote: The Rotters Club would be my darkhorse to reach the final... beating the Camel/VDGG survivor in the semi-final.. then again I could see YS having a good chance against TRC. Very different.. and fans of the more dissonant and aggressive might give the closet of edges to YS in that matchup.  Reallly  the top half is sort of wide open.. a LOT of great albums... no real shoe'ins.  Then again.. the bottom half is pretty wide open as well. The favorite is in tough fight.. likely the next best album IMO on that side of the bracket is losing.. perhaps that Hatchet album is the dark horse.  what it is doing to a superior Squire album is not only criminal.. and indictment of the forums.. but a clue, no a reminder that the power of Ivan's army of gen-bobbleheads should never be underestimated.

I honestly think Hackett has benefited so much from the fact that he's just kept making decent interesting music forever. He's a better guitarist than he's ever been and his tastes and ideas have been expanding constantly up until his most recent album, which isn't something you can say for any of the other classic prog musicians. Also a *beautiful* classical guitarist and great arranger.

heavy action in the polls today...

shoujld be a great week and weekend as most polls average around 60 votes.. a bit more for the most popular acts.. less for the foreign ones

most polls are already in the 40 to 50 vote range and Progspin is only able to call 3 of the polls. Hachett, Oldfield, Amon Duul II,  and is almost ready to call only a 4th... Hatfield and the North.

a lot of close ones.. and a couple still too close to project this early.



Edited by micky - August 09 2015 at 18:19

Only in 5 polls of the 16 in this round of classic polls, my favorite is winning 

Moogtron III wrote: Only in 5 polls of the 16 in this round of classic polls, my favorite is winning  Well, it's still early in the week, um...

and many WAY WAY too close to call..

look at that bottom of the bracket... 6 of 8 polls with margins 3 or less.

even more fun... look at the bottom 4... TOTAL vote margin...

2 votes.

wide frickin open...

yeah...  I have 3 album in my top 20 still left... all 3 appear to be on to the 4th round baring major major movement.  My 4th favorite ... in a complete dogfight with another classic and fellow member of my top 100 list.

We knew as the tournament went on.. the choices would get harder.. nice to see the polls reflect it.  Makes me think we did a damn good job selecting these things.. as much of who we included.. in who we did NOT include.


Edited by micky - August 10 2015 at 06:34

Of my four top 10 albums still in the competition

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - August 10 2015 at 07:22

Moogtron III wrote: micky wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Only in 5 polls of the 16 in this round of classic polls, my favorite is winning  Well, it's still early in the week, um...  and many WAY WAY too close to call.. look at that bottom of the bracket... 6 of 8 polls with margins 3 or less. even more fun... look at the bottom 4... TOTAL vote margin... 2 votes. wide frickin open... yeah...  I have 3 album in my top 20 still left... all 3 appear to be on to the 4th round baring major major movement.  My 4th favorite ... in a complete dogfight with another classic and fellow member of my top 100 list. We knew as the tournament went on.. the choices would get harder.. nice to see the polls reflect it.  Makes me think we did a damn good job selecting these things.. as much of who we included.. in who we did NOT include. Right, my faves will defend themselves with vehemence, I'm sure  Yes, it's nice to see duels where only in the last minute one can see who is the clear winner. The fun of the early stages in the polls is the amount of albums. The fun in the later stages of the polls is seeing all the photo finish duels between the best of the best.

yeah...  the tweak we did.. leaving out the populars by the big heavies is really paying off now.

Much like the battle of the bands.. the early rounds herewere great.. but due to enivitablity of the last ones standing..  it lost a bit LOT of steam.

here.. sh*t man... there are at least 12 albums there IMO. A third.. that have (had prior to 3rd round winnowing)  realistic chances to win the tournament.  A lot of quality.. and less of the fanboy idol worhips attached to some bands and albums.  We will have to suffer Hachett in lieu of Genesis.. but like any forum.. every contest needs the character that wears the black hat.  Gives you something to root against


Edited by micky - August 10 2015 at 14:59

Just a reminder that my vote for You (v. Octopus) wasn't accepted. My vote might make all the difference.

and closed we are!!! tabulating results!

and would like to wait on the tiebreak being settled being settled before moving on... but don't have all day.  So on to the moderns we go!!!

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BREAKING NEWS!! -  We got word this morning that PA's Tournament Chairman Mad Mick wanted to make an announcement to the forum. We just got word he has left his office and is now holding court in the bar and with a microphone. Let's break our regularly scheduled programming and listen to his address.  We'll return to 'How to make a profit running a Prog website' hosted by M@X after this special annoucemnt

'Hello ladies and gentlemen. First off I want to thank everyone for their participation in the contest polls and also thank everyone for their patience as we have severely disrupted the poll section with our flood of polls.  I'll make this short and sweet then answer any questions.

We are changing the schedule of the next stage of the tournament. We were originally going to run the 8 polls of the 4th round of the classics next week, followed the next week by the 8 polls of the modern polls then take a one week break for the Labor Day weekend. Instead of doing that we are taking a break next week and then on Saturday the 29th we will run both the classics and modern 4th round polls (16 in total).  Those polls will run for 2 weeks over the Labor Day weekend since many proggers, including myself with be getting drunk and enjoying Ut Gret and the rest of the bands at Progday.  I felt this was a good move as it relaxes the stranglehold we have had on the polls section for a week plus reflects the notion that with the 4th round we have hit the real decision point for these polls and any winners from these.. could be and should be seen as potential tournament winners. The merely good or simply great have been eliminated. Those albums still standing should be considered the cream of the crop.

after a commerical break I would like to get into another change we are implementing starting with the 4th round...