Brackets Are For Lovers (Hawthorne Heights Bracket) Bracket • Page 16

Darkside

 

@johnnyferris @DesolateEarth @tshreve just a heads up we move past Zero tomorrow and on to the HateHopeHurt EP trilogy, Followed by Bad Frequencies

 

Darkside- 3
Put Me Back Together-2

Currently

 

Put Me Back Together

 

Darkside- 3
Put Me Back Together-3

Currently

 

Darkside (tough choice!!)

 

I never would have guessed Darkside winning this thing

 

@Larry David vote!

 

Put Me Back Together

 

It's weird that they have Hurt but not the others :/

 

Thank god for Spotify and YouTube.

 

And that will do it for Zero! The final score of the round is:

Darkside- 3
Put Me Back Together-4

This will see Put Me Back Together join Blue Burns Orange, This Is Who We Are, Somewhere In Between, and Drive in the winner’s circle for the championship. Now here we go with this massive bracket:

The Hate/Hope/Hurt EP extravaganza round


Round 1 will run through To Monday:


ROUND 1

Hate Vs. Divided

Stay Awake/Stay Alive Vs. Chemicals

Young Again Vs. Oceans

Bury My Bones At Crystal Cove Vs. Nowhere Fast

Tail Lights Vs. Passengers

Running In Place (NIKI AM) Vs. Hurt

Beneath The Silver Strand Vs. Stranded

Wasted In NYC Vs. There Was A Kid Pt. 2

New Winter Vs. Four White Walls
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Round 2

Winner of 1 Vs. There Was A Kid Pt. 3

Winner of 2 Vs. Winner Of 3

Winner of 4 Vs. Common Crook

Winner Of 5 Vs. Vandemonium

Winner of 6 Vs. Hope

Winner of 7 Vs. Is This What You Wanted?

Winner of 8 Vs. There Was A Kid Pt. 1

Winner of 9 Vs. The Darkest Times

 

Hate
Stay Awake/Stay Alive
Oceans
Bury My Bones at Crystal Cove
Passengers
Hurt
Beneath the Silver Strand
Wasted in NYC
Four White Walls

A take: Hate is the best thing this band has ever released and Four White Walls is their best song of all time

 

I love the EP trilogy as a whole, but I think HURT is the best of the three. You can tell they really had their groove song writing and got a hang on the DIY process. Hate has some gems though, FWW, Oceans and Wasted In NYC specifically

 

@Patterns in Traffic @Larry David @johnnyferris @Davjs @choke @bachna84

Just a reminder for today’s festivities

 

Divided (This was a pretty easy decision - I think Hate is a pretty juvenile song and it feels like Hawthorne Heights is trying to be a band that they're not)

Stay Awake/Stay Alive (Chemicals is a solid song, but I prefer this one)

Oceans (This was another pretty easy one for me - I really like this song a lot)

Bury My Bones At Crystal Cove (Easy decision - this song is great and I don't really care much for Nowhere Fast)

Tail Lights (This was the toughest one for me up to this point, it's basically a coin flip - I'll give the slightest edge to Tail Lights since it has a reference to Ohio and as an Ohioan I think I have a legal obligation to vote for it)

Running In Place (NIKI AM) (Ugh, another tough one! I'll give Hope a little bit of love)

Beneath The Silver Strand (This wasn't too difficult)

Wasted In NYC (Easiest decision of the round!)

New Winter (This wasn't too difficult either - I really enjoy this song and it's really catchy)

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A few Hate/Hope/Hurt thoughts:

1) I hate (pun intended) that Hate and Hope aren't available on Apple Music. I listened to the songs from these two EPs on YouTube, but it's just kind of a pain.
2) I enjoy Hate and Hurt a fair amount more than Hope.
3) This was a pretty ambitious project for the band and it's a shame that it seems to have gone unnoticed by most people.


I'm seeing them this Sunday evening on the Silverstein tour and I'm looking forward to it! With Silverstein playing an extended set (or two sets really) I'm expecting Hawthorne Heights to have somewhere around 45 minutes. I'm thinking they'll likely stick to their first two albums plus a few songs from Bad Frequencies.

 

I know - I had to listen to a ton of songs first!

 

Divided (Hate is so juvenile, probably the worst HH song IMO. Divided is a standout on this EP.)

Chemicals (One of my favorites on Hope, nothing really stands out to me about SA/SA)

Young Again (This one was close, the prechorus on Oceans is great but that spoken word bridge brings it down a notch)

Bury My Bones at Crystal Cove (#teamcrystalcove)

Tail Lights (Close but I like this one a little more)

Hurt (I'm not intentionally voting for all the Hurt songs here but it's far superior to the other two EPs IMO)

Beneath the Silver Strand (See above)

Wasted in NYC (I can't see any of the "There Was a Kid"s advancing, but for the record I think they get progressively better on each EP)

New Winter (Pretty close but I'm not crazy about the hardcore gang chanting in FWW)

 

Current totals:

Hate-1
Divided-2

Stay Awake/Stay Alive-2
Chemicals-1

Young Again-1
Oceans-2

Bury My Bones At Crystal Cove-3
Nowhere Fast-0

Tail Lights-2
Passengers-1

Running In Place (NIKI AM)-1
Hurt-2

Beneath The Silver Strand-3
Stranded-0

Wasted In NYC-3
There Was A Kid Pt. 2-0

New Winter-2
Four White Walls-1

 

The only Kid song I can see progressing is 3. It’s a pretty dang good track

 

- Divided (Agree with @Patterns in Traffic on this match up for sure)

- Chemicals (A legit great song. A year ago I never thought I'd say that about this band haha. Tough match up though, SA is pretty good too)

- Oceans (both pretty ok tracks on par with each other. The ending to Oceans is pretty sweet and intense though)

- Bury My Bones At Crystal Cove (seems like no contest there)

- Passengers

- Running In Place (NIKI AM) (Hurt is a good song, and I hate Niki FM....but here we are. The follow up to FM is really good)

- Beneath The Silver Strand (My favorite on the Hurt EP, which is the best of these 3 IMO)

- Wasted In NYC (Not a fan of any of these Kid openers. Even if Wasted in NYC sucked, which it doesn't, it'd win haha)

- New Winter (I normally like heavier/louder more, but the chanting in Four White Walls didn't do it for me...)

 

the lack of Four White Walls love is WACK

 

I really want to participate in this but it seems too huge for me to have time to listen :/

 

you have three days!

 

but I am wack.

Also.....