Wish I saw half of what most of this thread sees in the title track. As singer-songwriter ditties slightly dressed up for a full band go, they've had more compelling ones.
It's the crescendo before the outro for me. Overall I'd say ANIGW is quite definitively a better song, but that one section might be my favourite bit in their entire discography. Btw as an aside I also support a trimming of the Catch All round. Even though they saw an official release, I think including a shit ton of super rough demos is a bit questionable.
I went through the list of demos and gave everything a quick listen. I'm fine not including the more "rough" sounding songs from the Juturna and On Letting Go deluxe editions. That would eliminate the following: Buddha - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Califone - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Devils Song (Demo Version) - On Letting Go (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Julian - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Learned Some Shit - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) New Sun (Demo Version) - On Letting Go (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Pearl Jam Jam - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Portishead Jam - Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) The Curse (Demo Version) - On Letting Go (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) Who (Demo Version) - On Letting Go (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) That would get our round down from 28 to 18. In that scenario, the first round would have 2 matchups. If we are going by what actually got officially released, I think we can also leave out Miracle Sun and Resentment (although there has been a little discussion on Resentment and I'm not sure that I want to be on @Anthony_Soprano's list). But if the majority is on board with that we'd have a 16 song bracket which would last 4 days (16->8->4->2->1) I guess this is what I'm proposing given the feedback. The list of songs for the next round would then be: 1,000 Witnesses - B-Sides 100 Steps (Demo) - Blue Sky Noise (Deluxe - Remastered) Airplane Dance (Demo) - Blue Sky Noise (Deluxe - Remastered) Awake In A Dream - Awake In A Dream/Rainbow Signs Record Store Day 7" Backmask - Appendage EP Battle, My Love - Hurricane Sandy Benefit EP Dark Pools - The Amulet (Deluxe Edition) Every Way - Appendage EP Handshakes At Sunrise (Demo) - The Inuit Sessions EP Indra's Net - The Amulet (Deluxe Edition) Lazarus - Appendage EP Nobody Can Change - Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation Sleep Underground (Demo) - Appendage EP Stare Like You'll Stay - Appendage EP Suspending Disbelief - The Inuit Sessions EP/Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) The Most Dangerous Commercials - B-Sides I think all of these songs are of pretty good quality and it would also shave a couple days off from this bracket.
Sweet bach, those are pretty much exactly the ones I was talking about cutting out bc they're low quality. Although FTR, most of those OLG demos sound like incredibly promising melodic ideas... they were on fire then.
Final Totals: The Amulet - 14 At Night It Gets Worse - 7 ---------- That'll do it for The Amulet! The next round will begin shortly.
"Catch All" Round One: 1) Indra's Net vs. Dark Pools 2) 1,000 Witnesses vs. Nobody Can Change 3) Backmask vs. 100 Steps (Demo) 4) Stare Like You'll Stay vs. Airplane Dance (Demo) 5) Sleep Underground (Demo) vs. Battle, My Love 6) Handshakes At Sunrise (Demo) vs. Lazarus 7) The Most Dangerous Commercials vs. Every Way 8) Suspending Disbelief vs. Awake In A Dream -------------------- Round Two: 1) Match 1 Winner vs. Match 2 Winner 2) Match 3 Winner vs. Match 4 Winner 3) Match 5 Winner vs. Match 6 Winner 4) Match 7 Winner vs. Match 8 Winner Round One begins now!
I'll copy and paste this from a few posts above just to remind everyone what releases these songs are associated with: 1,000 Witnesses - B-Sides 100 Steps (Demo) - Blue Sky Noise (Deluxe - Remastered) Airplane Dance (Demo) - Blue Sky Noise (Deluxe - Remastered) Awake In A Dream - Awake In A Dream/Rainbow Signs Record Store Day 7" Backmask - Appendage EP Battle, My Love - Hurricane Sandy Benefit EP Dark Pools - The Amulet (Deluxe Edition) Every Way - Appendage EP Handshakes At Sunrise (Demo) - The Inuit Sessions EP Indra's Net - The Amulet (Deluxe Edition) Lazarus - Appendage EP Nobody Can Change - Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation Sleep Underground (Demo) - Appendage EP Stare Like You'll Stay - Appendage EP Suspending Disbelief - The Inuit Sessions EP/Juturna (Deluxe Ten Year Edition) The Most Dangerous Commercials - B-Sides All of these are available on Apple Music, bandcamp, YouTube, or some combination of the three. Airplane Dance (Demo), The Most Dangerous Commercials, and Every Way are on other releases as well, but I recommend listening to the versions on the releases shown above. I completely understand if people do not want to participate in this bracket. We will start the wild card round on Friday and I will tag everyone in this thread before it begins.
Dark Pools 1,000 Witnesses Backmask Stare Like You'll Stay Sleep Underground (Demo) Lazarus The Most Dangerous Commercials Suspending Disbelief
Dark Pools 1,000 Witnesses Backmask Stare Like You'll Stay Sleep Underground (Demo) Lazarus The Most Dangerous Commercials Suspending Disbelief
Dark Pools 1,000 Witnesses Backmask Stare Like You'll Stay Sleep Underground (Demo) Lazarus Every Way Suspending Disbelief
Dark Pools 1,000 Witnesses 100 Steps (Demo) Stare Like You'll Stay Sleep Underground (Demo) Handshakes At Sunrise (Demo) Every Way Suspending Disbelief
Dark Pools 1,000 Witnesses 100 Steps Stare Like You'll Stay Sleep Underground Handshakes At Sunrise The Most Dangerous Commercials Suspending Disbelief