Red Mosquito

Jaeti wrote:

Leatherhead wrote:There's not one song on BS or LB better than anything on Gigaton.

There are a few songs from those two albums that I could cite if I disagreed strongly, but...I don't.

warehouse wrote:Dance of the Clairvoyants their best song since Yield

stip wrote:Gigaton is clearly the best album but I think many of the best songs on those albums are better than almost half of Gigaton.

tragabigzanda wrote:I'd put the best songs on Backspacer head-to-head with the best songs on Gigaton any day.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I'd put the best songs on Backspacer head-to-head with the best songs on Gigaton any day.

There are only 2 great songs on Backspacer, so that logic makes sense to me.

dad wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I'd put the best songs on Backspacer head-to-head with the best songs on Gigaton any day.

There are only 2 great songs on Backspacer, so that logic makes sense to me.

Which ones?

tragabigzanda wrote:Five stars:
The Fixer

Two Stars:
Quick Escape

Ello Sailor wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Five stars:
The Fixer

Two Stars:
Quick Escape

lmfao WHAT

tragabigzanda wrote:Backspacer

Five stars:
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar

Four Stars:
Gonna See My Friend

Three Stars:
Got Some
Force of Nature
Supersonic

Two Stars:
Speed of Sound
The End

One Star:
Amongst the Waves
Just Breathe
Unthought Known

I'd rate 6/11 songs as three stars or higher, which means that 54% of this album doesn't suck

Gigaton

Five Stars:
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Comes Then Goes

Four Stars:
Seven O'Clock
Take the Long Way

Three Stars:
Who Ever Said
Alright
Retrograde
Rivercross
Never Destination

Two Stars:
Quick Escape

One Star:
Superblood Wolfmoon
Buckle Up

I'd rate 9/11 songs as three stars or higher, which means that 81% of this album doesn't suck.

So technically I'd say that Gigaton is the better album, but it has more to do with three awful songs weighing down Backspacer, and Gigaton having a whopping four songs rated at three stars. Gigaton is getting by more on its weighted mediocrity vs. Backspacer's sucky tracks, rather than some perceived creative excellence that Gigaton puts forth.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dad wrote:Where does Never Destination fit into your ranking?

Fixed! So Gigaton's non-suck rating jumps to 81%, but it's even more disproportionately because of its three-star song offering.

Ello Sailor wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Five stars:
The Fixer

Two Stars:
Quick Escape

lmfao WHAT