Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Rangi/varies/bugs
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:40 pm
by ABNorman
durdencommatyler wrote:
ABNorman wrote:Most of my picks reflect what I was actually listening to in the 90's - for a couple of years it was Nirvana and nothing else, then I started raiding my brother's record collection for things like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, RHCP and REM.
Waits, however, I didn't even know about until my musical tastes branched out in the 00's, but he's since become a top 5 artist for me. Sometimes it's a bit of a slog to get to the gems on his albums, but Bone Machine is a fantastic record pretty much from top to bottom.
Same with me.
Waits is the only one on my team (so far) that I discovered well after the fact. Just got into him in the past few years.
But Bone Machine is a beast. It's my all time favorite album. And Earth Died Screaming was my first favorite Tom Waits song. It's still top five for sure. And, as I said, it's #2 on Bone Machine for me.
And I'm guessing Goin' Out West isn't #1 since you ummed and ahhed about it? I was tossing up Earth Died Screaming or
but I just happened to have listened to EDS more recently.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Rangi/varies/bugs
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:43 pm
by epilogue
ABNorman wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
ABNorman wrote:Most of my picks reflect what I was actually listening to in the 90's - for a couple of years it was Nirvana and nothing else, then I started raiding my brother's record collection for things like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, RHCP and REM.
Waits, however, I didn't even know about until my musical tastes branched out in the 00's, but he's since become a top 5 artist for me. Sometimes it's a bit of a slog to get to the gems on his albums, but Bone Machine is a fantastic record pretty much from top to bottom.
Same with me.
Waits is the only one on my team (so far) that I discovered well after the fact. Just got into him in the past few years.
But Bone Machine is a beast. It's my all time favorite album. And Earth Died Screaming was my first favorite Tom Waits song. It's still top five for sure. And, as I said, it's #2 on Bone Machine for me.
And I'm guessing Goin' Out West isn't #1 since you ummed and ahhed about it? I was tossing up Earth Died Screaming or
but I just happened to have listened to EDS more recently.
Yeah, my favorite song on the record is a later track. But I don't dislike one single thing about Bone Machine. The other pick you were considering is a song I once described as
. And I've never been able to beat that description.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:52 pm
by i got bugs
I could never get into waits.. Every song I ever heard by him he sounds like he's smashed.. I dl'ed his discography, maybe I'll give him another listen
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:53 pm
by Theodore Bundy
Be*Witched - C'est La Vie
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:53 pm
by numbers
Fugees- Ready Or Not
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:54 pm
by Heathen
knee tunes is skipped again so it's hungover Jorge's turn now
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:56 pm
by Jorge
Elliott Smith- "Between the Bars".
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 4:58 pm
by dsb1218
I was giving serious thought to both The Fugees and Elliott Smith for my next pick...man, this decade was stacked.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:00 pm
by ABNorman
Plat continues to soundtrack the mellow portion of my roadtrip.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:04 pm
by stip
Heathen wrote:I pick:
Leonard Cohen - The Future
I really wanted to find a way to make room for that. Great pick
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:06 pm
by stip
Big fan of the bone machine picks
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:06 pm
by epilogue
theplatypus wrote:Elliott Smith- "Between the Bars".
Great song.
I imagine Elliott will take one of my two remaining slots. He's got so much phenomenal material, but this one is definitely a favorite.
Nice pick.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:07 pm
by epilogue
stip wrote:Big fan of the bone machine picks
I'm on the edge of my seat for your Waits pick.
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:07 pm
by stip
Leaving grandparents. Will update on road
Re: Best Decade Tournament - 90s: Knee tunes/Dct
Posted: Sun July 27, 2014 5:08 pm
by epilogue
stip wrote:Leaving grandparents. Will update on road
GRAMMA TAKE ME HOME GRAMMA TAKE ME HOOOOME GRAMMA TAKE ME HOME GRAMMA TAKE ME HOME!
