Best Decade Tournament - 90s - Numbers wins!

[Jorge]

I'm not (..) grumpy and perpetually unimpressed

BULLSHIT

[Farmer John]

I've never seen someone so eager to begrudgingly vote.

I guarantee you I'm not the grumpy and perpetually unimpressed guy you appear to think I am, Farmer John.

And I am not the dick who's constantly attacking you that I must appear to be.

[Lament]

Put me down for a vote for bart too, since he only shares one of his ten artists with anyone left.

So to recap, I vote for...

bart
Anyone with a Hole song
Anyways whose opponent disparaged Hole in this thread

For now.

[Birds in Hell]

I've never seen someone so eager to begrudgingly vote.

I guarantee you I'm not the grumpy and perpetually unimpressed guy you appear to think I am, Farmer John.

And I am not the dick who's constantly attacking you that I must appear to be.

You also have Bill Murray as your avatar so you have that going for you.

[Farmer John]

I've never seen someone so eager to begrudgingly vote.

I guarantee you I'm not the grumpy and perpetually unimpressed guy you appear to think I am, Farmer John.

And I am not the dick who's constantly attacking you that I must appear to be.

You also have Bill Murray as your avatar so you have that going for you.

Thanks. I like your peacock.

[Birds in Hell]

I've never seen someone so eager to begrudgingly vote.

I guarantee you I'm not the grumpy and perpetually unimpressed guy you appear to think I am, Farmer John.

And I am not the dick who's constantly attacking you that I must appear to be.

You also have Bill Murray as your avatar so you have that going for you.

Thanks. I like your peacock.

Well, now we're getting somewhere.

[DeLima]

Yep. Good game DeLima. 12-11. I knew your team was a contender from the start.

good game man. it was as close as it gets.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I've never seen someone so eager to begrudgingly vote.

I guarantee you I'm not the grumpy and perpetually unimpressed guy you appear to think I am, Farmer John.

And I am not the dick who's constantly attacking you that I must appear to be.

You also have Bill Murray as your avatar so you have that going for you.

Thanks. I like your peacock.

Well, now we're getting somewhere.

[Rangi Guy]

Stip - ABNorman chose an Oasis song, and I can't vote for that
Numbers
Bada - love that STP track
Delima

[LetMeSleep]

Well done delima. It was a close one.

[stip]

19. Stip vs. Abnorman

abnorman is one of my top 3 teams, myself included. Best of luck


20. Durdencommatyler vs. Numbers
and numbers is the other

21. Bada vs. Bart
Bada

bada could be 4th. Most of my favorites advanced this time.


12. Delima vs. Farmer John
basically a toss up.

[DeLima]

These are all very tough matches

Stip - Don't Follow, All I Know, Violet and Hold On put Stip over the top. I'm not a fan of Counting Crows and Oasis but Norman's top 4 were tough to vote against.

Match 2 is really tough. Sliver, Just, Goin Out West and Tremor Christ are all top o the heap, and I love The Biggest Lie as the final pick. But Numbers' 2 through 7 are rock solid. In the end the team with Soundgarden gets the edge, barely. Numbers

Bada - this team is pretty solid top to bottom. Lithium, 4th of July, March of the Pigs, Go, Drown = good stuff.

DeLima - Farmer John has a great team and the match should be close

[DeLima]

A quick word about Milk It - to me, it's the absolute best of Nirvana. Lyrically and sonically, it's the noise of a mutually parasitic relationship melting down and taking a man with it. With Pearl Jam, there was always a release valve, a cathartic energy to most of the lyrically dark songs. With Nirvana the release valve was totally clogged by In Utero, and the sound you get is scary but honest.

[epilogue]

Norman
Numbers
bada
John

[DeLima]

And while I'm spouting off here, anybody who's read the Soundgarden thread knows how I feel about Like Suicide. Allow me to, uh, quote myself.

Like Suicide is basically as good as SG gets. The stately drum intro. The bass thudding in afterwards, and finally the ringing guitar comes in to fully introduce the picture. The unfolding story - I loved this song long before I knew it was about Chris killing an injured bird, but when I found out the origin of the lyrics, it didn't dislodge whatever meaning I had personally attached to the lyrics. I ended up appreciating the song more knowing that someone could turn a primal, personal experience like the mercy killing of a beautiful animal into this crashing, thundering thing without losing any of the subtlety of the experience. The repetition of the two prechorus lyric sections before the solo, as the band finally unleashes the full heaviness you always knew was coming. And then the solo, along with those drums that pound all around you, especially with headphones on. This is Matt, Kim, Ben and Chris all at the peak of their powers together. I put these guys up against any band when it comes to this song. The fade back down and the final chorus are the smooth exit needed after the power of the song's back half. SG, and music, at its best.

It's also a cool tidbit that Matt plays two drum kits on this track, which helps explain why the drums sound so fucking good with headphones on.

[Iholdthepain]

Oh come on that's a good fucking song. Did Flea ignore your twitter friend request or something?!

He got Marty McFly fired. Fuck that dude.

Haha!!! Fucking Needles!

[Iholdthepain]

Part of me wishes I took machine head or glycerine instead of violet

Both are infinitely better songs.

I'm pretty confident someone who is no longer with us wrote that song/album.

You guys are killing me over here.

Bush is middle of the road, obvious and often limp rock music. It's the easy listening of Alt. Rock. But I get more enjoyment out of the worst Bush song I've heard than I do out of the best Hole song I've heard.

I mean, at least, Gavin and the boys aren't pretending to be something they aren't. They know what Bush is. Sixteen Stone is better than Live Through This. But neither can hold a candle to Jagged Little Pill.

There is so much Bizarro shit going on here!

[Lament]

This sublime gem...



is infinitely better than anything Bush (or Alanis Morissette, for that matter) has ever done.

[Iholdthepain]

Not quite sure THAT ONE helps the cause... and didn't Billy Corgan write it?

How 'bout THIS instead:



Oh, and the guitar player dude co-wrote nearly all the songs on Live Through This... not Kurt, people...

Obviously there's influence, though. Criticizing her for playing the same style as Nirvana is like saying Sean Lennon sounds too much like John...

It's a dumb argument.

[Birds in Hell]

These guys know what's up.