REM song tournament: Lament Wins!

[stip]

Tournament rules: Draft will begin at 12:01 am on 5/4. You have 8 hours to pick on weekends, 6 hours to pick during the week. If your turn is skipped you can draft immediately as soon as you get back. If you know your turn is coming up please PM someone your pick.

You must draft 16 songs. One song from each of the 15 studio albums and one song that isn't on one of the studio records (Dead Letter and Chronic Town are not counted as part of the 15). 16 songs total


Round 1:
1a. Stip vs. Chud (8-5)
1b. Kaius vs. Phil Pritchard (7-6)

Round 2
2. Lament vs. Stip (7-6)
3. DcT vs. Chris H2 (8-5)
4. Darth_Vedder vs. PhilPritchard (8-5)
5. PryTo vs. Platy (7-6)

Round 3
6. Lament vs. Chris_H_2 (8-3)
7. Darth_Vedder vs. Theplatypus (6-5)

Round 4
8. Theplatypus vs. Lament (9-3)

Lament
1. Country Feedback
2. At My Most Beautiful
3. Electron Blue
4. Fall on me
5. Electrolite
6. Talk About the Passion
7. We All Go Back to Where We Belong
8. Time After Time
9. Green Grow The Rushes
10. The One I Love
11. I Don't Sleep, I Dream
12. I'm Gonna DJ
13. Stand
14. Walk it Back
15. Beachball
16. Monty Got a Raw Deal

Chud
1. Harborcoat
2. World Leader Pretend
3. Hope
4. Sweetness Follows
5. Crush With Eyeliner
6. Shaking Through
7. Zither
8. Belong
9. Superman
10. Saturn Returns
11. Can't Get There From Here
12. Supernatural Superserious
13. Mine Smell Like Honey
14. There She Goes Again
15. Around the Sun
16. Fireplace

Darth_Vedder
1. Drive
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Begin the Begin
4. Driver 8
5. Circus Envy
6. Little America
7. Orange Crush
8. Binky the Doormat
9. Near Wild Heaven
10. Oddfellows Local 151
11. Bad Day
12. Sing for the Submarine
13. Why Not Smile
14. I'll Take the Rain
15. High Speed Train
16. All the Best

ThePlatypus
1. The Great Beyond
2. Nightswimming
3. Perfect Circle
4. Imitation of Life
5. Cuyahoga
6. King of Birds
7. Walk Unafraid
8. Second Guessing
9. Leaving New York
10. Man Sized Wreath
11. Every Day is Yours to Win
12. Good Advices
13. I Took Your Name
14. I Remember California
15. Low
16. The Wake Up Bomb

Stip
1. You Are the Everything
2. Uberlin
3. Losing My Religion
4. So. Central Rain
5. What if We Give it Away?
6. Leave
7. Try Not to Breathe
8. Finest Worksong
9. Life and How to Live It
10. I Wanted to be Wrong
11. Houston
12. Chorus and the Ring
13. Star 69
14. Crazy
15. Parakeet
16. West of the Fields

PhilPritchard
1. The Lifting
2. Me in Honey
3. Maps and Legends
4. Until the Day is Done
5. Bang and Blame
6. Blue
7. Letter Never Sent
8. So Fast, So Numb
9. Final Straw
10. Exhuming McCarthy
11. 9-9
12. Hallelujah
13. You're in the Air
14. The Wrong Child
15. Just a Touch
16. Ignoreland

Pryto
1. It Happened Today
2. Living Well is the Best Revenge
3. Welcome to the Occupation
4. Swan Swan H
5. Let Me In
6. Turn You Inside Out
7. Pretty Persuasion
8. Sad Professor
9. Wendell Gee
10. Endgame
11. Pilgrimage
12. All the Way to Reno
13. Star me Kitten
14. Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
15. New Test Leper
16. Aftermath

Chris_h_2
1. E-bow the Letter
2. Find the River
3. Half a World Away
4. Disturbance at the Heron House
5. Daysleeper
6. What's the Frequency, Kenneth
7. Feeling Gravity's Pull
8. The Flowers of Guatemala
9. Sitting Still
10. Pop Song 89
11. Beat a Drum
12. Hollow Man
13. Boy in the Well
14. Gardening at Night
15. Alligator/Aviator/Autopilot/Antimatter
16. Rockville (Don't Go Back To)

Durdencommatlyler
1. How the West Was Won and Where it Got Us
2. It's the End of the World as We Know It
3. Man on the Moon
4. These Days
5. Strange Currencies
6. Get Up
7. Lotus
8. Camera
9. She Just Wants To Be
10. Oh My Heart
11. Accelerate
12. Shinny Happy People
13. We Walk
14. Wanderlust
15. First We Take Manhattan
16. Auctioneer (Another Engine)

Kaius
1. Be Mine
2. 7 Chinese Brothers
3. Texarkana
4. Untitled 11th Song
5. Tongue
6. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
7. Suspicion
8. I've Been High
9. Khoutek
10. I Believe
11. Ascent of Man
12. Discoverer
13. Fretless
14. Catapult
15. Horse to Water
16. Lightin' Hopkins

[stip]

I am in

[stip]

Number of songs will depend on number of players

[stip]

Plus all contestants get extra points if they write a 1000 word fan fic staring theplatypus and at least two members of REM

[Norah]

in

[Lament]

Mark me down for a first round exit.

[stip]

The lyrics especially. That's such an unjustly overlooked song

[Rangi Guy]

I'd be keen for this

[Kaius]

I'll play

[Jorge]

I want

[Kevin Davis]

I couldn't possibly top my domination in the last REM tournament so I'll let a new era of starry-eyed dreamers have a go at it. Godspeed.

[PryTo]

In

[Kaius]

How's this work?

[Lament]

How's this work?

We all take our shirts off and start swinging hammers like we're in the Finest Worksong video.

[Rangi Guy]

Shit! I was hoping it'd be more like Pop Song 89, but more homoerotic

[Kaius]

How's this work?

We all take our shirts off and start swinging hammers like we're in the Finest Worksong video.

It's getting real sexy in here all of the sudden.

[Lament]

Shit! I was hoping it'd be more like Pop Song 89, but more homoerotic

That's how they do it over at the Pit. Cause they love censorship.

[Lament]

R.E.M. fun fact - stip is the kid in the "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" video.

[Kaius]

I'm gonna go do some pull ups to prep for this video shoot

[Lament]