Best Decade Tournament 2000s: mike wins for realz!

[Kaius]

ha.

I wasn't. I like some of his stuff. 7 nation army was a great pick, whoever that was

Seven Nation Army is a classic song, it's like the Stairway To Heaven of that decade.

It's not near my favorite Stripes song, but it transcended it's genre and will live on like classic songs do.

Ah

[stip]

Brett takes:

Evangelista - Hello, Voyager!

is this really 12 minutes of a band tuning with a jack white impersonator squawking on a soapbox?

Seriously, what was the draw of this song for you? This is baffling.

Jack White impersonator? How do you equate Carla Bozulich's voice with his? That's what's truly baffling. Did you finish listening to it? I admit it does have a bit of a "tuning-up" feel at the beginning, but it evolves into a pretty dark drone for most of its duration.

The biggest draw for me here is a bit on the unusual side as it's the lyrics first followed closely by the mood. I can relate to them in a small part, as I can to most of Carla's lyrics, because I've dealt with depression, and I've dealt with being a bit of an outsider. Granted, I've not had even a fraction of the difficulties she speaks to in this song, and many others. I'm not gay, I'm not a woman, I've not had a history with drugs and homelessness, I'm not part of any number of other oppressed groups or classes, besides growing up poor and not being much better off now. But I can still relate to a point, and I can still empathize. So that's the draw.

The lyrics, if anyone's curious:

Spoiler: show

Voyagers! Open your cramped legs locked in that flying suit of lights. Open your eyes. You are with us now. Adjust your eyes to the dark. We are all the same. A small group of lucky aces bound together in black air burning out our hopeful eyes. Dust and wind bleed out the skies. Monuments, architecture,flat at our feet. Rubble and blood, rubble and blood, rubble and blood. Still! Still I stand before you, dear stranger and I say: Yes! Yes, we can climb out from the tangled metal and cement and say: Yes!. Yes, we can look upon the dark sky of day and say: I never was who I seemed to be.

When there's no hope. When there's no hope left, there is only one word, one word, one word that has dried on your parched lips. Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? The word is love! The word is love! The word is love! Love! Tell the truth and be free. This is my hit and run. This is my porn collection. This me feeling superior to you. This is me selling you out when you needed me most. This my huge, diseased, throbbing prick. This is my homosexual inclinations. This is me loving someone I'm not supposed to love. Is this me? This is what I don't want people to see. Look upon them and let me be free, let me be free, let me be free, let me be free.

This is me I don't think normal people, doing things, doing things I don't think normal people do. But I can see you. Haha. You're dirty too, you're dirty too, through and through, you're dirty too. We are reigning in the dust. And when there's no hope, when there's no hope, there's only one word. There's only one word that hasn't dried on your parched lips. The word is love. Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me?

There's only one word that has hasn't dried completely in your parched throat. Can you say it with me? The word is love.

It's a powerful sentiment. Was this what drew you to her, or were you already a fan?

[stip]

I can only assume joey hasn't made his pick because he's listening to my dresden dolls song.

[stip]

kaius, you have a pick too.

Get your head in the game!

[numbers]

Stip, are we doing the tournament for the current decade?

[Kaius]

I'm deliberating.

[Heathen]

Can we move on to the 2010s already?

[numbers]

I'm definitely in for that if we do it.

[Heathen]

Let's try to keep the silly to a minimum and not include 2014 at least.

[Kaius]

I'm drastically more ill-prepared for the next decade than the rest. I'm probably going to duck out.

[numbers]

f that, there are songs from 2014 that I want.

[Heathen]

I'm drastically more ill-prepared for the next decade than the rest. I'm probably going to duck out.

I'm pretty sure KoL and Arctic Monkeys released something this decade.

[Heathen]

f that, there are songs from 2014 that I want.

There are songs from 2015 I want.

[Kaius]

I'm drastically more ill-prepared for the next decade than the rest. I'm probably going to duck out.

I'm pretty sure KoL and Arctic Monkeys released something this decade.

I'm pretty sure you can shut the hell up.

[numbers]

I liked KOL's most recent album.

[Heathen]

I'm drastically more ill-prepared for the next decade than the rest. I'm probably going to duck out.

I'm pretty sure KoL and Arctic Monkeys released something this decade.

I'm pretty sure you can shut the hell up.

PRETTY SURE I CAN'T

[epilogue]

Okay, so for my last two picks... There are so many artists I wanted to include. I can't believe I'm going to walk away with a team lacking Pearl Jam, They Might Be Giants, Ryan Adams, Glen Hansard, Arctic Monkeys and Sufjan Stevens. When I started planning for this, I thought for sure they would all be locks. But here we are.

For my 9th pick I'm going with The Decemberists. They are my favorite band from this decade, hands down. Actually, they were the first band to knock Pearl Jam from the top spot on my favorite list.

The question is, which Decemberists song will I take? The Crane Wife is my favorite of their albums. So, I should probably grab something from that record. But that record is already represented in this tournament. And since you just can't go wrong with any Decemberists track, I'll dip back a bit further to their sophomore effort, Her Majesty, and the first Decemberists song I ever heard.

In Pembroke City when I was young
I lived by the Castle Keep
And six cold pennies is all I earned
To work... as a chimbley sweep....



The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep

[BigRedLedbetter]

ha.

I wasn't. I like some of his stuff. 7 nation army was a great pick, whoever that was

Seven Nation Army is a classic song, it's like the Stairway To Heaven of that decade.

It's not near my favorite Stripes song, but it transcended it's genre and will live on like classic songs do.

I saw Jack White live two years ago and he closed with Seven Nation Army. I've rarely seen a crowd respond the way they did to that song. It was a great show too.

[Kaius]

I liked KOL's most recent album.

It was better than the previous two, that's for sure.

[epilogue]

ha.

I wasn't. I like some of his stuff. 7 nation army was a great pick, whoever that was

Seven Nation Army is a classic song, it's like the Stairway To Heaven of that decade.

It's not near my favorite Stripes song, but it transcended it's genre and will live on like classic songs do.

Ah

What Mick said.