Round 1E: Last Kiss vs. All Night vs. Thin Air

Post by **stip** » Tue February 09, 2016 1:27 pm

Vote for your favorite

Post by **stip** » Tue February 09, 2016 1:50 pm

This is tough. Dismissing Thin Air is easy enough. The music is pretty but the overall song bounces a bit too much between schmaltz and something that's trying to add extra layers that are A: not necessary and B: undermine, rather than enhance, the song's identity. Just Breathe is my preferred version of this sentiment.

All Night, like BRY, deserves to have been on No Code, though I like BRY a bit more. Still, this song is raucous good time. I would have liked to see them try this one during the Backspacer sessions had Lost Dogs not already come out. It would have fit well.

Even though it's a cover, Last kiss is a great cover, and it's a genuinely unaffected and moving performance. This song used to make me tear up, and in its weird way makes grief seem enviable--like your life is incomplete without this kind of over the top melodrama.

Gonna vote for Last kiss.

Post by **evenslow** » Tue February 09, 2016 1:52 pm

This is a tougher one. Thin Air is a really nice place to reside but all I can think of is PJ kicking ass and taking names with the Roots on All Night so, All Night.

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:07 pm

Thin Air

Post by **Jorge** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:20 pm

I know she's reached my heart

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:21 pm

I really love thin air. I really love All Night.

Ugh.

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:22 pm

Thin Air is a fantastic little ditty.

Post by **stip** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:22 pm

That's all well and good, but I can't help noticing that no one else is voting for Last Kiss.

Post by **Jorge** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:27 pm

I actually really like "Last Kiss", but those two other songs are better.

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:29 pm

stip wrote:That's all well and good, but I can't help noticing that no one else is voting for Last Kiss.

It used to make me weep too, stip. It is lovely.

E.H. Ruddock · Post by **E.H. Ruddock** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:31 pm

theplatypus wrote:I actually really like "Last Kiss", but those two other songs are better.

Yeah, All Night and Thin Air are fantastic. Last Kiss is just "stip good".

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:31 pm

Take Thin Air out of this match and I'd vote for Last Kiss easily.

darth_vedder · Post by **darth_vedder** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:37 pm

stip wrote:Dismissing Thin Air is easy enough.
Gonna vote for Last kiss.

Post by **epilogue** » Tue February 09, 2016 2:48 pm

So happy to see Thin Air has such a healthy lead. Proud of you, RM.

chewm · Post by **chewm** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:14 pm

All of these songs are pretty good and I enjoy them almost equally. Thin Air I guess.

Post by **stip** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:16 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:
theplatypus wrote:I actually really like "Last Kiss", but those two other songs are better.
Yeah, All Night and Thin Air are fantastic. Last Kiss is just "stip good".

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:19 pm

Thin Air easily.

I hate Last Kiss. It is definitely bottom 5 PJ in my book. It might be bottom 1.

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:21 pm

Man, Thin Air is such a touching, odd little song heightened by Blake's production. All Night is a fun novelty, but I don't love it as much as everyone else seems to. The best thing I can say about Last Kiss is that it gave a lot of money to Kosovo refugees.

Thin Air by a long mile.

Post by **epilogue** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:23 pm

Last Kiss is still one of my favorite PJ covers. But, as I've said before, covers don't count in this tournament as far as I'm concerned. So this is really just a match up between All Night and Thin Air. Both are lovely and have their strengths. But Thin Air gets the vote. I played it at my wedding after all!

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Tue February 09, 2016 3:35 pm

Me too!

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