Anberlin Band • Page 59

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Unstable: 11
IJSW: 8

Safe Here: 8
Someone Anyone: 11


Round 2

Unstable Vs. No Love To Speak

Other Side Vs. City Electric

God, Drugs, & Sex Vs. Self Starter

Type Three Vs. Modern Age

Someone Anyone Vs. Orpheum

Little Tyrants Vs. Intentions

Innocent Vs. Said Too Much

Dead American Vs. Desires

 

Unstable
Other Side
Self-Starter (ouch)
Type Three (OUCH!)
Orpheum
Little Tyrants
Innocent
Dead American

Type Three vs. Modern Age is the worst early matchup since Godspeed vs. (*Fin). I don't love either one more than the other.

 

No Love to Speak
Other Side
Self Starter
Modern Age
Orpheum
Little Tyrants
Said Too Much
Desires

 

Since Intentions is most likely getting shut out, I just want to underline how wonderful it is. Is there a more danceable Anberlin song in existence?

 

Mathematics but that might be just me

 

Unstable
Other Side
Self Starter
Type Three
Someone Anyone
Little Tyrants
Innocent
Desires

 

No Love To Speak (Such a strong song)

Other Side (City Electric is my least favorite on Devotion. Still pretty good, but probably the only song from this era that I would say is just good and not great)

God, Drugs, and Sex (This was so hard but in the end I chose the closer over the opener, both top tier songs though)

Modern Age (Another really tough round. Modern Age is one of the best on the album though)

Orpheum (Again, very tough.)

Intentions (This one sucked so much. I kept going back and forth :( Little Tyrants is a fantastic song, a fan favorite, and will likely blow this out of the water, but I love Intentions so I am gonna give it some love and give it the push)

Said Too Much (This is not getting any easier. Said Too Much has the edge but just barely)

Desires (and finally two very strong harder tracks. Desires wins for me but, like basically every other matchup save maybe the first 2, it was close and hard to choose)

Wow. That was a struggle.

 

Nope, thinking about it more, that one's definitely a close second. Stranger Ways is pretty dance-y too in a unique way.

 

-Unstable
-Other Side
-Self Starter
-Type Three
-Someone Anyone
-Little Tyrants
-Innocent
-Dead American

 

Unstable
Other Side (I still like City Electric, probably more than most other people do)
God, Drugs, & Sex (major ughhhh, I'm a sucker for their epic album closers)
Type Three (fav song on album but so hard to vote out Intentions)
Someone Anyone
Little Tyrants
Said Too Much
Desires

That was way more agonizing than the other albums have been. And this is only the first full round?!

 

Did not expect Type Three to do so well doming out of the gate. I love it, but also voted for it partly cause I thought Modern Age would shut it down.

 

No Love To Speak

Other Side

Self Starter

Modern Age

Orpheum

Intentions

Innocent

Desires

 

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

I have my reasons for the brackets I embrace.

 

I believe we have our first ever round of reasonable scores! Well done, team.

Unstable: 4
No Love To Speak: 3

Other Side: 7
City Electric: 0

God, Drugs, & Sex: 2
Self Starter: 5

Type Three: 4
Modern Age: 3

Someone Anyone: 3
Orpheum: 4

Little Tyrants: 5
Intentions: 2

Innocent: 4
Said Too Much: 3

Dead American: 2
Desires: 5

This is one of those rounds where you get a high five

 

Little Tyrants has 2 too many votes against it. I don't like it.

 

Unstable
Other Side
Self Starter
Modern Age
Someone Anyone
Little Tyrants
Innocent
Desires

Holy hell that was tough. These songs bring back so many great memories. Falling in love with my girlfriend in Barcelona. Damn.

 

Can we talk for a minute about how awesome it was for them to release this? 3 discs and I’m pretty sure it was relatively cheap iirc.

 

No Love To Speak
Other Side
God, Drugs, & Sex
Modern Age
Someone Anyone
Intentions
Innocent
Desires

 

I voted for all of those too!

 

This may be the most romantic sentence I have ever read.

 

Unstable
Other Side
God, Drugs, & Sex
Modern Age
Orpheum
Little Tyrants
Innocent
Desires

 

Unstable

Other Side

Self Starter

Modern Age

Orpheum

Little Tyrants

Innocent

Desires

Great round, great album!

So many of my favourite Anberlin tracks are here. I think Self-Starter is my favourite opener. Little Tyrants is phenomenal. Modern Age is a favourite that has grown on me recently.

God, Drugs & Sex is a good closer but doesn’t match Self-Starter - interesting the first and last got paired though!

This album has one of the strongest openings - back to back greatness for a few songs!

 

Unstable

Other Side

Self Starter (tough, but the bridge to Self Starter is just too good)

Type Three

Orpheum

Intentions (tough)

Innocent

Desires

Such a wonderful album.