4 runaways and 3 close matches at this point! Since it’s a new album bracket and we’ve had in the range of 40-45 voters, let’s plan on keeping this open until 8 or 9 PM Eastern tonight. Sound good? @Greg @Larry David If you guys want to update vote totals throughout the day, feel free! I’ll try to update every so often (am aiming at updating every 5 or so votes so nothing gets lost in the shuffle) but I have a couple things going on today where I’ll be away from my phone/computer for a bit.
It's an odd case, since there are only three original songs. You could probably give "Disintegration" a bye and have people vote between "Closer" and "Over." I mean, let's be honest, no way anything but "Disintegration" is winning that album.
Carry You Big Casino Let It Happen Always Be Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues Electable (Give It Up) Here It Goes - Just need to show this one some love
Carry You Chase This Light Let It Happen Always Be Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues (This had ZERO votes?????? Against a B-side?????) Electable (probably my least favorite song on the album, but I rarely vote for B-sides) Dizzy (hands down the best song on the album)
Current Totals: Feeling Lucky - 3 Carry You - 16 Chase This Light - 11 Big Casino - 8 Distraction - 2 Let It Happen - 17 Firefight - 7 Always Be - 12 Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues - 3 Open Bar Reception - 16 Electable (Give It Up) - 13 Be Sensible - 6 Dizzy - 17 Here It Goes - 2
I also rarely vote for b-sides unless I strongly prefer them over the album tracks (as was the case for me with 2 of the matchups here). I understand what you’re saying though-you hear the album tracks so many times more than b-sides typically, so it’s only natural to favor the songs you’re more familiar with, quality aside.
I like this idea. @BTDandFeelingThis should we do this mini-bracket after CTL? It’d make 9 total brackets-8 LPs plus this. Maybe add a wild card bracket to get it to an even number? What do you think?
Carry You Big Casino Let It Happen Always Be Open Bar Reception Electable (Give It Up) Dizzy Dizzy vs. Here it Goes was incredibly hard as those are 2 of my 3 favorite songs on the album.
Current Totals: Feeling Lucky - 3 Carry You - 20 Chase This Light - 12 Big Casino - 11 Distraction - 2 Let It Happen - 21 Firefight - 9 Always Be - 14 Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues - 3 Open Bar Reception - 20 Electable (Give It Up) - 15 Be Sensible - 8 Dizzy - 21 Here It Goes - 2
gutted that Here It Goes had to go up against Dizzy one of the best of the album has to die prematurely smh
It could work, I usually try to stick with 8 because it makes for a balanced Champions Bracket, but if you don’t mind some byes 10 will work. Your call!
Just put "Disintegration" up against whatever the hell won the Static Prevails round for a pre-championship bout. Feel like people would much rather have a SOMST song in the championship bracket than something from Static.
Let me think about it! One way or another we’ll do the SOMST mini-bracket after CTL wraps up :) It’d be pretty easy to wrap that up in a day. We’ll just do a couple 12 hour rounds
Carry You (Feeling Lucky is a blast of a song tho) Big Casino (had the hardest time with this one. the title track is incredible, but something about that opening guitar riff for Big Casino just seals it for me) Let It Happen Always Be (I'm shocked that this one is so close. I thought everyone hated Firefight (I love it)) Gotta Be Somebody's Blues (one of the best songs on the album, ya'll are trippin') Be Sensible (the band's best B-side against the weakest track on the album. easy choice.) Dizzy (this one sucks! dizzy is the clear choice here but Here It Goes is probably the catchiest song the band has written. sucks it can't make it past the first round.)
Carry You Big Casino Let It Happen Always Be Gotta Be Somebody's Blues Electable (Give It Up) Here It Goes (don't @ me, Dizzy is gonna win anyway so I'm inconsequential)
Carry You Big Casino Let It Happen Always Be Open Bar Reception Electable (Give It Up) Here It Goes @Larry David