Red Mosquito

I'll put up a randomized bracket once drafting is done. We'll start voting once its up.

We'll need to have 4 of the 10 teams in an extra round of matches. I'll be one of those teams. I'll draw the other 3 randomly

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:For my final pick, since I have to have something from Fables:

Auctioneer (Another Engine)

this is one of my favorite IRS years songs and I am appalled that it took so long for someone to fix it

I'm so glad to hear you say that. I feel the exact same way.

Aftermath seems like a good note to end upon. A really nice song live.



This was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined in. There are some really nice lists out there and I think pretty much everyone snagged at least one song that was at or near the top of my list. Special thanks for stip for cat herding duties. Onward!

stip wrote:I'm surprised low lasted this long.

I almost picked Low. Stipe sings the hell out of it and I really like the song. I didn't think it fit in as well with my other songs as "Endgame," but I was wavering. I literally flipped a coin to make the final call.

All and all, I've over the moon about my team. I love the songs I was able to snag. There's only one song on me team that I'm lukewarm on. Everything else I genuinely like or love.

PryTo wrote:

stip wrote:I'm surprised low lasted this long.

I almost picked Low. Stipe sings the hell out of it and I really like the song. I didn't think it fit in as well with my other songs as "Endgame," but I was wavering. I literally flipped a coin to make the final call.

I was set to take Low once you snagged Endgame. I only changed my mind because SHP fit my mood perfectly when my turn to pick again rolled around.

durdencommatyler wrote:First We Take Manhattan

This song rules. It was on my very short list for wild card songs. I love their version. Wasn't it on the end of the world soundtrack? Anyway, I'll be curious to see what all of the wildcard picks turn out to be.

If we do this again, I think Dead Letter Office/Chronic Town could be counted as a 16th album. There are plenty of gems on there to choose from and it would make the wild card picks that much more interesting. I couldn't not pick something from Chronic Town, but I had to cast aside a lot of great tunes to snag it.

durdencommatyler wrote:

PryTo wrote:

stip wrote:I'm surprised low lasted this long.

I almost picked Low. Stipe sings the hell out of it and I really like the song. I didn't think it fit in as well with my other songs as "Endgame," but I was wavering. I literally flipped a coin to make the final call.

I was set to take Low once you snagged Endgame. I only changed my mind because SHP fit my mood perfectly when my turn to pick again rolled around.

In a perfect world, SHP would always fit one's mood better than Low. Such is life that this is not always the case.

stip wrote: I was thinking of holding off on taking a song from Hi-Fi until the very end just because it's so deep. There are still 3 songs from Hi-Fi I'd be happy to have

I was in the same boat. Some of my least favorite Hi-Fi songs got scooped up early and some of my favs are still available. I'm mixed on that album. It has some of my all-time favorite REM songs but about half of it does nothing for me. It was the first album they released that was not, like, my favorite album of the year. I kept listening to it and wondering when it was going to sink in. Never did. But the good stuff on it is as good as anything in the catalog -- just seems like I'm at odds with others as to which songs those are. I think most of us would agree on Electrolite.

I can't believe my second-favorite, non-REM-proper-album song is on the verge of not being picked (again!).

I'm the opposite, Pry.

Hi-Fi was the first REM album that me stand up and take notice. And I adore every song on that thing. I struggle with a lot of the REM catalog. They have some truly phenomenal songs, but they don't have a lot of albums that I love. Hi-Fi, Automatic and Collapse are excellent. Up and Monster are really, really good, but each have songs I don't care for. Everything else is really uneven, I think.

Which is further evidence that I really don't belong in an REM thread, let alone a tournament.

Well, I really dig Pageant, too. That's a pretty solid record through and through. I'd rank it with Up and Monster.

Well, I might as well pick the song I thought I had already picked a couple rounds ago... Ignoreland.

PryTo wrote:Aftermath seems like a good note to end upon. A really nice song live.



This was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined in. There are some really nice lists out there and I think pretty much everyone snagged at least one song that was at or near the top of my list. Special thanks for stip for cat herding duties. Onward!

Aftermath is one of those songs I kinda liked when ATS came out, and came to like a lot more once we had accelerate and it was easier to appreciate Aftermath for what it is

durdencommatyler wrote:Well, I really dig Pageant, too. That's a pretty solid record through and through. I'd rank it with Up and Monster.

just give accelerate a few more listens

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Well, I really dig Pageant, too. That's a pretty solid record through and through. I'd rank it with Up and Monster.

just give accelerate a few more listens

Collapse Into Now is the late-career album that really does it for me. I don't mind Around the Sun and I've been liking Accelerate more and more recently, but I'm pretty much obsessed with Collapse Into Now right now.

The Wake-Up Bomb

Fireplace

Slim pickings left on Collapse...not sure what I'm gonna go with, but I only have 3 songs to choose from.