Chasing Some Mirage: The Boss Tourney. LMS & Born To Run win

[Higgs]

Lowlight has a monster of a team here, with my Personal Scoring System (PSS™) giving him 11 points, and that's without the bonus point for no album repetition.

Born to Run, State Trooper and No Surrender all nabbed him top points, as did 'Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street', an absolute steal with the 2nd last pick of the whole shebang.

Monkey's team did get the bonus point, and comes in at 9 points, with Promised Land, The River and Gypsy Biker all scoring top marks. In the end She's The One and Two Faces was the difference, neither managing to disturb the scorers.

Vote for Lowlight.

Higgs' team is a thing of beauty and results in a full 17 points under the PSS™, including the bonus point. He was recently quoted as saying that if he had it all to do again he would have snagged Thunder Road with his first pick (it was on the board at the time, taken by Scott with the pick immediately following), but, as they say in the classics, shit happens.

guestT' team actually gave this reviewer a lot of new listening, some good, some not so. Atlantic City, I'm Going Down and Better Days all score top votes, but no bonus point in play here. 9 points.

Vote for Higgs in what is sure to be his usual R1 exit.

[Monkey_Driven]

Apologies if I missed this, but how long is each round staying open for voting?

2 days max.

Maybe keep it open for one week day since this is a holiday weekend?

[MissingTheSchoolBus]

Monkey
guestT

[Higgs]

Dude, what the fuck?

Now I have people coming out of posting retirement just to vote against me??

[epilogue]

Okay, so this is a little difficult for me and I almost feel bad for voting at all because I'm so new to so many of these songs. A lot of what I'm basing my vote on is first impressions. I'm sure a lot of these songs really open up and change the more familiar you are with them. So, anyway, here's where I'm at right now being a fairly novice Springsteen listener...

MD and lowlight have really evenly matched teams. The River and Gypsy Biker were my favorite discoveries from MD's team, while E Street Shuffle was probably the song that did the least for me. Drive All Night and Does This Bus... were my favorite discoveries from lowlight's team, while Open All Night was the one that did the least for me.

In the end I have to give the edge to lowlight. But really it comes down to how much I love Born to Run. Like I said, both teams are so good and so well matched, it really just comes down to that song being the best of the two teams. It was the tie-breaker.

Higgs might have the best team in this thing. Holy shit. I love every single song on his team. Streets of Philadelphia, Lonesome Day, and One Step up were the only three I knew at the start of this tournament. And I already loved all three of those. Terry's Song and Candy's Room were my favorite discoveries. Not a bad song in the bunch.

I also really enjoy tcms's team. I have it on the same level as MD and lowlight's teams. I just think he's out-matched by Higgs' monster team here. I knew I'm Goin' Down and The Wrestler before the tournament. Gave It A Name and Living In The Future were two discoveries that totally blew me away. Great fucking songs.

All four of these teams are solid. Thanks for including me and introducing me to all this new music. This has been fantastic. I can't wait to see how these songs evolve and change for me over the years.

lowlight
Higgs

[evenslow]

Sorry I've been MIA not around the net much all weekend.

Monkey
Higgs

[Strat]

Lowlight
guestT - Holy shit I might place my life on this team for the remainder of the tourney. Atlantic City, Going Down (great great great song), The Wrestler, and Living in the Future - are all tops.

[LetMeSleep]

Apologies if I missed this, but how long is each round staying open for voting?

2 days max.

Maybe keep it open for one week day since this is a holiday weekend?

Good idea. If anyone wants to listen ahead then darth, slow, Bada and LV are in round 1b which we'll start voting tomorrow. Darth and LV playlists in OP.

[guestT]

Whoa, been away for a couple days. Pleasantly surprised to see my humble squad getting some votes!

My votes:

Monkey vs. Lowlight
Tough matchup for Monkey, going up against the murderer's row of BTR-->State Trooper-->No Surrender. As much as I love Promised Land I have to give the nod to Lowlight.

Higgs vs. me
Growin' Up, Candy's Room, One Step Up, Lonesome Day, Terry's Song...all songs I hoped to add my team but Higgs kept snatching them up first. It's almost enough to make me give him my vote, but I can't bring myself to vote against Atlantic City. I vote Me.

[MissingTheSchoolBus]

Dude, what the fuck?

Now I have people coming out of posting retirement just to vote against me??

Man, sorry about that. That's true, Ive never posted much since the new forum happened (I was formerly known as Walter Sobchak). But I've been a lot in Bruce Springsteen lately (reading born to run for example).
I truly chose the 2 teams that have songs that I like the most.
No hard feelings I hope.

[Norah]

never apologize for a post

[epilogue]

never apologize for a post

This should be your custom rank, Pete.

[LetMeSleep]

Shutting this round down in fifteen minutes.

[epilogue]

Shitting this round down in fifteen minutes.

[LetMeSleep]

Damn phone damn Joey.

[LoathedVermin72]

SHIT 'ER DOWN

[epilogue]

This is my favorite tournament.

[LetMeSleep]

19 Votes.

Lowlight wins 11-8

guestT wins 12-7

[epilogue]

Congrats to those advancing!

[LetMeSleep]

Round 1b
Darth Vedder
1. Kitty's Back
32. Dancing In The Dark
33. Johnny 99
64. Reason To Believe
65. Ramrod
96. Cadillac Ranch
97. You'll Be Coming Down
128. Pink Cadillac

vs

Evenslow
4. Rosalita
29. Brilliant Disguise
36. Bobby Jean
61. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
68. Out In The Street
93. Empty Sky
100. Pay Me My Money Down
125. I Wanna Be With You

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Bada
8. Jungleland
25. Born In The USA
40. Two Hearts
57. Ain't Good Enough For You
72. Restless Nights
89. Streets Of Fire
104. Fade Away
121. Roulette

vs

LV
13. I'm On Fire
20. Hungry Heart
45. Something in the Night
52. Highway Patrolman
77. Radio Nowhere
84. Lift Me Up
109. Further On (Up the Road)
116. Point Blank