Round four is here. The final eight albums. What album will come out on top? NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU'VE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS. STOP DOING THIS SHIT. For this matchup, we start with: (7) Jimmy Eat World - Futures vs. (31) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
i made peace with myself that the best album remaining and a top 5 album ever will lose to an album that i like, so it's ok. bowie baby. im an alligator im a momma poppa comin for you.
Man I am really scratching my head at the Futures love, haha. I just don't get it! Clarity is the much better album, and I can say that after deep diving Jimmy for the past two weeks.
i know i shouldn't be surprised but what on earth is happening here bleed american is worse than futures, sure, but it getting blown out by a legacy album and futures blowing out another legacy album with arguably just as big of a following if not bigger is wild. not saying ziggy should be blowing futures out but it should be much closer than this.
I mean, kind of? Not a perfect metric, but the Springsteen thread has like 10x as many posts as the Bowie thread. I’m actually impressed Ziggy made it as far as it did when classic albums I’ve seen get a lot more talk around here (Purple Rain, Rumours, a bunch of Beatles albums) fell in prior rounds.
i kinda get what you're saying, but at the same time Bowie beat the #2 overall album and maybe thee most beloved album on the boards in the ap days and their vote totals through the three previous rounds are roughly the same. so this round does seem like a bit of an outlier.
in matchups I wish we got just to satisfy my curiosity, adding Futures vs Clarity to the OKC vs IR list