Best Decade Tournament 2000s: mike wins for realz!

[DeLima]

You've really handcuffed me here.

[PryTo]

At least I have some assurance that you'll vote for my team. I have great taste in music!

[DeLima]

Team PryLima

[PryTo]

DeTo

[DeLima]

As soon as we settle on what name we're going with we're good to go

[PryTo]

This is the sort of thing that always breaks up the great bands.

[epilogue]

I was probably always going to pick a Decemberists song, and there are a few I could happily go with. I decided on this one for 2 main reasons:

1. For us all to have a group RM 2000's tourney sing-a-long; and
2. For Dwight Schrute (the Office was such a fantastic series during the 2000's so this is kinda my own mini tribute as well)

The Decemberists - Sons and Daughters


And in spoilers The Office version:

Spoiler: show

And reason #3 - the use of the word "dirigible" in song. It's been a criminally under-used word imo.

So glad to see a Decemberists tune in here.

You'll definitely see at least one more.

[DeLima]

Hopefully our demos will get collected and released anyway

[stip]

Abnorman drafts the brutal

Tom Waits - Road to Peace



'maybe god himself is lost and needs help'

[stip]

Brett takes:

Evangelista - Hello, Voyager!

[epilogue]

Great pick.

Loving these last few, team.

[stip]

main post should be updated. I'm home tomorrow with sick kids so I need to head to bed.

[PryTo]

Hopefully our demos will get collected and released anyway

The band members spend a year recording their next album A Season in Hell, during which DeLima's artistic and creative talents often are buried beneath his arrogant and rebellious traits, leading to arguments between him and PryTo. At one point, PryTo tells DeLima he doesn't understand what he's looking for, to which DeLima responds that he wants to be great. Stip replies "We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey." DeLima makes it clear that if the band cannot be great, then there is no reason to ever play music again.

The band's second album is a culmination of all that DeLima had ever hoped to do with music, different from anything that anyone else had ever done to that point, and he was satisfied with it. However, it is controversial and considered dark and strange by the record company, Satin Records, and is rejected, not to be released. In the early morning hours after Satin refuses to release the new album, DeLima's car crashes through the railing going over the Stainton Memorial Causeway. DeLima is declared dead, but his body is never found.

[Birds in Hell]

Big Business - 'Grounds for Divorce'

[DeLima]

This is...uh....

Why do you guys get to survive?

I guess that's the price of greatness

[DeLima]

And I guess there's a chance I'm out still there recording demos for the third record

[PryTo]

And I guess there's a chance I'm out still there recording demos for the third record

Actually, this is how it goes down:

Satin Records, who twenty years prior had rejected DeLima and the Cruisers last album A Season in Hell, launches an "DeLima Lives!" campaign to make more money from his image in a publicity stunt, despite them not believing he is alive. The record label re-releases the band's first album, which becomes an even bigger hit than it had on its first release. The "lost recordings" from Season in Hell are released and become yet another hit album. In fact, DeLima is living, and had simply slipped away following the car crash in which he was believed killed. By that stage in his life, he simply wanted to leave music behind him. The newly generated constant spotlight surrounding his supposed death angers the reclusive rocker, by now living in Canada as a construction worker under the name Joe West.

So you've got that going for you.

[Birds in Hell]

Big Business - 'Grounds for Divorce'

Fun fact: this makes the third song in my list featuring drummer Coady Willis (see also the Melvins and Murder City Devils tracks). This was completely unintentional, I only realised just prior to making this pick.

[DeLima]

I'll take it.

And I do live in Canada.

Dammit though those years of privacy were nice.

[PryTo]

And I do live in Canada.

And you're a construction worker. And your name is Joe West. Anyone else got chills right now?