This would have ended much sooner if I had the time to prepare the next bracket yesterday. Final scores: With You Around - 2 The Sound of You and Me - 16 The Sound of You and Me is declared the winner of this album. Next up is, possibly my favourite album of theirs, Southern Air!
YELLOWCARD'S BRACKET AVENUE For those who are new to the concept, these are randomly generated brackets (no seeding!) where we go from album to album and put the songs from an album against each other. We vote on each matchups until we have a winner for each albums. Those songs will then face off in a Champions bracket to decide the best overall Yellowcard song! Same rules as the other brackets: Rules: 1. Voting will take place over 10-24 hour period, depending on how close the matches are (if there's a wide margin too far to beat, the round may be run ruled to not waste time). 2. You must vote on every match in a round. If you don't, your votes don't count. Just reply to this thread with your choices. I will not vote unless there is a tie needed to be broken. 3. Feel free to discuss why you chose one song over the other and why you like that song. It's what keeps these fun! 4. I avoid byes into rounds if I can, but sometimes it's necessary. These are randomly generated; I do not pick them. 5. Once your votes are counted, signified by me 'liking' your post, there are no vote changes. Choose wisely before posting! 6. The King John Rule: Only participate if you've heard these songs. You are welcome to look them up and listen before hand, but if there's evidence you haven't heard them before or you're just voting to help/hurt a song your votes will not count. And the most important rule of them all : Have fun and stay respectful of each other. YELLOWCARD FACE OFF: SOUTHERN AIR ----- Round 1 1) Awakening Vs. Ten 2) Surface of the Sun Vs. Telescope Round 2 Winner of 1 Vs. Rivertown Blues Always Summer Vs. Southern Air Winner of 2 Vs. A Vicious Kind Sleep in the Snow Vs. Here I Am Alive Round 1 starts now!
-Awakening -Surface of the Sun Oh wow this next round is going to be the most tough in this whole thing. Awakening vs Rivertown? Summer vs SA? Sleep vs Here I Am? How does one choose.....
ugh this game is actually so hard lol Awakening (I feel bad because of course ten is an emotional song that tugs on my heart strings, and it's a good song, but it's not a great song) Surface of the Sun (both of these songs are kinda meh to me, am I the only one?)
This bracket (and probably all the other ones from here on out) is going to be really tough: Awakening Surface of the Sun (two of my favorites on the album, but Sun is a contender for my favorite YC song ever, so I have to go with that)
Telescope is one of their best songs period. Surface is great too, that bridge is perfect. It was a no contest for me but I can see why Telescope would lose between the two. Awakening is too far on the wrong side of "YC on autopilot" to beat out a track like Ten for me. It has all the makings of a good pop-punk album opener, but remains a pretty unremarkable song overall.
Awakening Surface of the Sun This is one of those albums every band should hope to put out at this late of a stage in their career. So good