In a snake, with 20 gms, it gets really long between picks for people. I think that was the rationale.
With this way the wait for the bottom selections will be a much longer wait on average then the above.
The snake draft works like a wobble effect where the wait time favours one end for one round the swings to favour the other for the next round..... Even number rounds favours the top, and odd number rounds favour the bottom equalling out the time for each selection
Right now it's just favours the top end
What the hockey draft and millions of album selections that you mentioned have to do with time I don't know.
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I don't think it really matters either way. The draft order was randomly picked, and every agreed to the straight draft style. Plus, it's all for fun, just to see some new stuff you may not have heard of otherwise.
Ever notice there's actually many good albums out there?
Took me a while, but I finally got to a conclusion.
As our 2nd round pick, team Twist/Shout picks Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye in the R&B / Funk category.
Wikipedia:
Released August 28, 1973 on the Motown subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place from June 1970 to July 1973. Let's Get It On served as Gaye's first venture into the funk genre and romance-themed music. The album has been noted by many music critics for its sexually explicit content, and has been called "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded."
The sexual balladry and seductive, funky sound present on the album later influenced many contemporary soul musicians and helped pioneer slow jam music, as well as the quiet storm and contemporary R&B genres. Following its initial reception of general favor from critics, the album has been regarded by many music writers and critics as a landmark recording in R&B and soul music, as Gaye's smooth soul sound on the album marked a change for his record label's previously success with the "Motown Sound" formula, while also helping further funk music's popularity during the 1970s.
I also have to quote the liner notes: "I contend that SEX IS SEX and LOVE IS LOVE. When combined, they work well together, if two people are of about the same mind. But they are really two discrete needs and should be treated as such. Time and space will not permit me to expound further, especially in the area of the psychce. I don't believe in the overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it it can be very exciting if you're lucky.
I hope that the music that I present here makes you lucky. "
God bless Oslo. I thank thee Oslo for bestowing these rock n roll beauties known as Turbonegro upon our wretched souls.
Team Goätwar Galore humbly chooses Turbonegro – Scandinavian Leather as our 2nd round choice in the category of Album – Rock. Although not the usual named fan favourite(Apocolypse Dudes) Scandinavian Leather is everything you’d want/desire/lust/need in a rock n roll record. Actually that should read ROCK N ROLL. Filthy, clever and hooks more infectious than a $2 hooker, Turbonegro brings the swagger.
We'll take, in the 81-85 category, a personal fav, and... in our mind, the seminal album in an outstanding career... Bruce Springsteen's midwest opus, Nebraska
I think this one pretty much speaks for itself. Some of the greatest songwriting known to man exists on this album. One you can listen to again and again. Timeless in every sense of the word.
10/10 - allmusic: When they hit the major labels, Urge Overkill followed through on their promise with the blistering Saturation. It's stadium rock by clever post-punkers who are smart enough to not let their carefully crafted image interfere with the music. Every one of the 12 songs is a killer, from the outlandish menace of "Stalker" to the moving ballad "Back on Me," as well as the tongue-in-cheek "Woman 2 Woman" and the radio hit "Sister Havana."
#47 - Best Albums 1993-2003 - Magnet Magazine: This sexy beast of a record is so crisp and ready-for-prime-time that some in the know dubbed Saturation Urge Overkill’s Monkees record—i.e., others might’ve had a significant hand in the album’s performances...Saturation is the sound of Urge growing into its Nehru jackets and medallions on the major-label dime. Has there ever been a more poignant song about *&%^$ than “Bottle Of Fur”? A better song about a communist hottie than “Sister Havana”? Never.
Rolling Stone: Saturation is to grunge what Cheap Trick's In Color was to punk. Urge don't ignore the aggression wafting up from the underground; you can hear it in the snarl of the guitars and the shotgun crack of Blackie Onassis' snare drum. There's even a nod to Big Black on the pitiless, feedback-belching "Stalker."But when guitarist Nash Kato beckons, "Come around to my way of thinking," on the opening track, "Sister Havana," it's also an invitation to another world, a world where melody and melodrama get their due.
peter12, if you are leaving and won't have forum access, perhaps PM troutman with 2 or 3 picks that he can post in your absence. There are 5 GMs to go ahead of you. I don't think it will happen very fast.
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Though it's in keeping with the jammy, appealingly tossed-off feel of their debut, Loose Fur's second album, Born Again in the USA, isn't quite as, well, loose as Loose Fur was. Actually, in its own mellow, affable way, it manages to be pretty accomplished while keeping the freewheeling, creative spark that made Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O'Rourke's collaboration fun the first time around. A mix of rambling instrumentals and songs that border on the poppy side of these artists' work, Born Again in the USA has a laid-back, late-'60s/early-'70s feel to it, particularly on the two Tweedy-sung songs that open the album.
I was going to pick Wilco - A Ghost is Born, which is just a fantastic album, until I saw that Wilco had already been picked. So, in the interest of having more selection in the picks, here's an awesome Tweety side project. I've probably listened to this record almost weekly since it came out. Just some stellar tunes on it.
