Best Decade Tournament 2010->: Finals 9/18-9/20

[William Bloke]

I like this tune.
This is a pretty good song.
I quite enjoyed this.
Love this tune.
this song is great.
This song is great

vs.

This is ok.
Eh. Also just OK.
More safe middle ground fare.
Stock standard stuff.
Inoffensive.
Unremarkable.
Back to the safety zone.

Vote goes to Farmer by a nose.

Looks like a pretty big nose to me.

Yeah, but the 3 songs I liked least were all on FJ's team which pulled him back-aways. I use a very professional and technical numerical voting system. Honestly, I could be audited by KPMG.

Oh, and:

True fact: Western Australians will generally cock up one out of three calculations.

[Brett]

Norm had a couple of songs that were okay, but the rest didn't interest me. While I find the overall vibe of Platy's team to be a little too "folksy," the quality of most of his picks is higher. Janelle, Elvis Costello, and Eluvium are my three favorites from his team. Vote for ThePlatypus.

The middle section of LMS's team is "blah," but he brackets it well with a good opening string and a fine closing set, as well. The only things I really liked from DeLima's team were the '90s staples of Radiohead, PJ, and Soundgarden. Vote for LMS.

I'm not really wild about anything on Farmer John's team, but he's got some decent enough tunes that have some personality. Numbers takes on a field trip through the indie rock landfill. He's got some better tunes on the back half, culminating with "The Suburbs," but it's not enough to lift him to victory. Vote for John.

[epilogue]

Norman
DeLima
Farmer John

[stip]

I am just not going to be able to listen to these between now and the end of voting tomorrow, most likely. If any matches are close I'll try to find the time to listen to those. Otherwise I'm abstaining.

I'm sorry

[numbers]

Stip is abstaining? What the hell is RM coming to?

[DeLima]

Seriously. We've lost our rudder

[LetMeSleep]

I thin we can legitimately blame Bono for this. Stip, leave that album alone for two days.

Alternatively, this time frame is self imposed. Just leave it open for another day.

[DeLima]

We only have 9 votes for this round so far anyway

[numbers]

I think B should have to come in here and write a lengthy review of the playlists, if his man is gonna bang out for this round.

[LetMeSleep]

And are 6 of those the playlist makers?

[Rangi Guy]

Plat
DeLima
Numbers

[stip]

I thin we can legitimately blame Bono for this. Stip, leave that album alone for two days.

Alternatively, this time frame is self imposed. Just leave it open for another day.

Bono didn't help. But I just can't make time to listen tonight or last night. Work stuff

[ABNorman]

And are 6 of those the playlist makers?

People who've voted:

DeLima, BRL, DcT, Heathen, KP, LMS, Numbers, Bada, Varis, Brett, Rangi.

So 3 playlist makers HAVEN'T voted. I should hopefully get time tomorrow morning.

[i got bugs]

Didn't get to vote.. In the process of listening to a lot of the songs.. my wifi was down as a lot of these YouTubes were posted and without wifi, forget it.. There was a ton of stuff picked where I was completely like what the fuck is this.. There were a few teams where I never heard of any of the songs

[i got bugs]

Just got to listen to a bunch of plats.. Some I liked.. mainly the folky.. that eluvium stuff isn't for me tho

[i got bugs]

Other people I can't get into.. churches and St Vincent

That digital witness song by St v is decent but I don't think anyone picked it.. dl'ed the churches album a while back n could not get into it at all

[William Bloke]

Other people I can't get into.. churches and St Vincent

That digital witness song by St v is decent but I don't think anyone picked it.. dl'ed the churches album a while back n could not get into it at all

I hear you, bugs. Not really my thing either.

[i got bugs]

The dfa white is red song is great..

I didn't know it by name at the time.. not like it mattered cuz I faced bada.. that whole album is really good.. didn't pick from it bec it was a leak n didn't think there were YouTubes yet

[Mike]

abnorman
1: Good song.
2: Very good song.
3: Very good song.
4: Not my thing.
5: Good Song.
6: I feel like I should like War On Drugs more
than I do. This was nice enough.
7: Good song.
8: That was pretty cool. Rap isn't my thing most
of the time but Outkast/Big Boi I like most of the time
9: Very good song.
10: Not my thing.

platy:
1: Nice song.
2: That was good, I should check her out
3: Not my thing.
4: Nice song.
5: Nice song.
6: Hey, I know that voice. Is that Ira? Ah, the comments
tell me it is. Good song.
7: Very good song.
8: Nice song.
9: That was good.
10: Very Good Song, that video is beautiful.

this is pretty close, so i decided to give 3 points for "very good", 2 points for "good" and 1 point for "nice" and 0 point for "Not my things". no one had a song that annoyed me. abnorman wins with 18:16. platy's team had the disadvantaged that i knew almost no songs here and most of them were only just nice/pleasent on the first listen. they might grow on me with more listens.

[Mike]

lms:
1: good song
2: good song
3: very good song
4: good song
5: very good song
6: good song
7: nice song
8: nice song
9: not my thing
10: swans are hit and miss for me, this was more miss
than hit

delima:
1: good song
2: good song
3: good song
4: not my thing
5: nice song
6: very good
7: nice song
8: i like this more than i remembered, i always enjoy hearing eddie from that era
9: thats one of the few black keys song i really enjoy. good one
10: nice song, i'm just not a big fan of chris cornell

this one goes to lms.