Red Mosquito

theplatypus wrote:"In Between Days" is a solid but mid-tier Cure song

Yeah, it's way down the list for me too.

This is going to be kind of boring if everyone defaults to voting for songs they're already familiar with.

I'll post YouTube videos in each voting thread but will also be creating a Spotify playlist for each round.

Spotify playlist for this round:

https://open.spotify.com/user/123180882 ... TXRiunWDrq

(Let me know if it doesn’t work, I've never done this before.)

I'll leave voting open for a week or so, then we have another round of this size to follow.

Thanks to Sarge for his administrative assistance!

Holy shit, Spenno. Good work.

Birds in Hell wrote:Spotify playlist for this round:

https://open.spotify.com/user/123180882 ... TXRiunWDrq

(Let me know if it doesn’t work, I've never done this before.)

I'll leave voting open for a week or so, then we have another round of this size to follow.

Thanks to Sarge for his administrative assistance!

That's fantastic. I will give this a go now. Not very familiar with their catalogue.

That was fun. Found some really cool songs.

Progressing from the first round:

Shake Dog Shake
Trust
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Three

All I Want
In Between Days
The Baby Screams
The Upstairs Room

Foxy Lady
Doing the Unstuck
Mint Car
Closedown

Faith
Treasure
Cut
The Snakepit

Doubt
Pictures of You
The Kiss
Numb

Wrong Number
Speak My Language
A Letter to Elise
A Night Like This

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Plainsong
High
Wendy Time

Want
Gone!
Primary
Charlotte Sometimes

Open
Bananafishbones
Push
Bare

10:15 Saturday Night
Three Imaginary Boys
Shiver and Shake
A Thousand Hours

Seventeen Seconds
Secrets
Fire In Cairo
Return

The Hanging Garden
The Perfect Girl
Fight
End

How Beautiful You Are
Apart
So What?
In Your House

M
Another Day
The Caterpillar
Close To Me

A Reflection
Strange Attraction
Lament
Sinking

Never Enough
Torture
Prayers for Rain
It's Not You

A few surprising results in there!

Next round up soon-ish.

Distribution was totally random but so many more tough choices this round!

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/123180882 ... mFfJI1cT7H

Scandalously, the studio cut of Killing An Arab isn't on Spotify, so I had to use the live version from Concert.

Going for this now.

Really helpful with the Spotify playlist.

2-3 votes per round. Should have went with my Warrant suggestion.

Yeah the tournout is hilariously bad

This will come down to too many 'Sophie's Choice' moments for me. I hated doing this in the LZ and Grunge tourneys, and quite honestly... the debates about the songs going head to head were non-existent or laughable.

theplatypus wrote:Yeah the tournout is hilariously bad

It's a bummer.

It's not like this has been some huge amount of work but there's still a bit of time invested in getting it together.

Strat wrote:Id be in for the Cure!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:The cure would be fantastic

durdencommatyler wrote:I only know two Cure songs. But sure, I'm in.

*cough*

I don't know, may as well let it play out now, I guess.

I’m enjoying this Spenno. There’s a few early albums I hadn’t heard. Any chance this round could be left open till Monday night?

Oh yeah, I'll leave this one up for a few more days yet.

I'm really enjoying the tournament. I'll vote soon on this round.

Phew. Got them done.

No Burn? My two fave Cure tracks aren't in this (Burn and Out Of This World)

LetMeSleep wrote:Phew. Got them done.

No Burn? My two fave Cure tracks aren't in this (Burn and Out Of This World)

I limited the scope to album tracks and standalone singles for the period covering their first two singles compilations, Standing on a Beach and Galore.

I was going to include Burn to make up the numbers until it was pointed out that I’d forgotten to include Boys Don’t Cry (whoops).

Out of This World would be great if it didn’t have Roger’s piano all over it.

I thought about including Bloodflowers but it feels quite distinct from the 80s/90s material and it would seem arbitrary then to exclude the self-titled album and 4:13 Dream, which would have made the tournament even bigger and more intimidating for an RM audience (which didn’t go so well anyway).

No worries. btw I'm enjoying the deeper cuts and expanding my appreciation.

Expand your appreciation for my ass