Summer Madness: PA's Battle of the Albums

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

^ What would have put Pawn Hearts over the edge would be Italian vocals.  Can you imagine PH with say....Alvaro Fella?  So much better

I hear ya man.  Vocals are another instrument, for me, not much more.  


Edited by Finnforest - September 26 2015 at 09:27

micky wrote: Finnforest wrote: ^ What would have put Pawn Hearts over the edge would be Italian vocals.  Can you imagine PH with say....Alvaro Fella?  So much better YES!!!  not to mention not having a f**king clue what they are singins..  that adds so much to the prog listening experience.  Every progger seems to think they are some kind of philosopher or social activist.. just play music man.. and have an interesting sounding vocalist.. singing the yellow pages in a language we don't understand.

Ignorance is bliss, they say 

P.S. Is there anywhere, Micky, that we can actually see a printed out draw--like they do for tennis tournaments or the NCAA Bastketball tourney?