I propose re; greatest hits - 2 cd max - no box sets - a band/artist can only be selected once by all GMs for greatest hits
So, if I choose Band X as my greatest hits/compilation choice, no one else can choose Band X in the Greatest hits category, but they are still available for other categories?
Another question - We are only allowed to choose an artist once, but what if I am choosing a soundtrack that has a song or a few from an artist I have already picked, is that okay? Am I being too nitpicky now or what?
So, if I choose Band X as my greatest hits/compilation choice, no one else can choose Band X in the Greatest hits category, but they are still available for other categories?
Yes
maybe we should move all rule questions to the workshop thread?
I propose re; greatest hits - 2 cd max - no box sets - a band/artist can only be selected once by all GMs for greatest hits
not sure Im a big fan of that, for the reason i outlined before.
also, it gets a little sticky then if someone were to say...choose a greatest hit album in one of the decade categories, not saying it will happen but it certainly could
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Let's not take this so seriously. It is not a competition.
and one of the points of the exercise is to get a broad spectrum of stuff, not much fun if every one of your picks (or everyone else's) is from the same artist.
and one of the points of the exercise is to get a broad spectrum of stuff, not much fun if every one of your picks (or everyone else's) is from the same artist.
I'm personally planning on picking a few favourites, then look for a bunch of lesser knows.
I know my tastes are not very exotic, and are often things you can hear on the radio, but I'm going to go through a few of my lesser know CDs and pull out a few things that people may not have heard of, or have forgotten about.
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I'm personally planning on picking a few favourites, then look for a bunch of lesser knows.
I know my tastes are not very exotic, and are often things you can hear on the radio, but I'm going to go through a few of my lesser know CDs and pull out a few things that people may not have heard of, or have forgotten about.
I think a lot of what makes these fun is just picking things I like and seeing how I compare against other people. What makes it weird for me, is that I tend to avoid magazines and radio stations, etc. I discover a lot of music on my own, and if I find myself playing it enough times, I consider it something I like. To then find out that I like the same things a lot of other people like, even though I might get there through different means, is comforting.
Sorry guys, didn't mean to clog up the thread with my questions.
As for the draft, I will admit that in the 90s and early 2000's, I was very boyband oriented, it's pretty much all I listened to for awhile. But in the last few years, I have come out of the fog and realized a lot of it wasn't really good, so I am trying to go back and find stuff that I missed the first time around. I am hoping this draft gives me a lot of "new to me" music that I can look up and enjoy.
I am already having trouble with the metal category though. I just don't like it, not my thing at all. I'll probably defer that one to my brother. He loves that stuff.
Look the whole point of this is to get a feel for other people's music and maybe pick up something cool you have never heard before. There is taste in music and there is no taste in music. Just put down what you like.
Sorry for the delay and I hope I do this right but with the second overall selection in this year's CP Album Draft, Hart50 would like to select... in the Live Album category...
The Allman Brothers Band-At Fillmore East
IMHO this is a tour de force from a Band at the peak of their powers before various tragedies hit them, notably the death of Duane Allman. Not only is it one of the best live albums ever it is one of the best albums over the last 40 years. Here is some additional background material.
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Thanks DFF, if people would like to listen to another great album with Duane Allman on it I would also highly recommend Layla and other Assorted Love Songs by Derick and the Dominos. The combination of Clapton and Allman is simply stunning.
Also agree with Layla and Assorted Love Songs...so many people only know Layla, but it's an unbelievable album. (Although I would think that other albums should only be mentioned after they've been picked)
In the category Album - 1994-1996, I select The Stone Temple Pilots - Purple.
Their sophomore album, Purple, sometimes also known and 12 Gracious Melodies, is filled with the band's effort to distance set their own path and shake the "second rate Pearl Jam" label that had been foisted on them after Core.
The first hit off the album, Big Empty, actually became a hit before the album was released, since it was also included on the soundtrack for "The Crow". All this did was to whet the appetite of the public, and the album debuted at #1.
The name of the album, Purple never appears on the album, other than as a chinese symbol on the cover.
As for myself, I heard this song played may times at my local pub, and discovered no many how many times I heard it I always enjoyed it, something that I can not say for very many albums. And even the hook laden hit "Interstate Love Song" is still a personal favourite, as are most of the tracks on the album. When I'm not sure what I want to listen to next, I am never disappointed by this album, and I have been listening to it for over a decade. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...0:aifuxqwhld6e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_(album)
1. "Meatplow" Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo, Scott Weiland 3:37
2. "Vasoline" R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo, Weiland, Eric Kretz 2:56
3. "Lounge Fly" R. DeLeo, Weiland 5:18
4. "Interstate Love Song" R. DeLeo, Weiland 3:14
5. "Still Remains" R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo, Weiland 3:33
6. "Pretty Penny" D. DeLeo, Weiland 3:42
7. "Silvergun Superman" R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo, Weiland 5:16
8. "Big Empty" D. DeLeo, Weiland 4:54
9. "Unglued" R. DeLeo, Weiland 2:35
10. "Army Ants" D. DeLeo, Weiland 3:46
11. "Kitchenware & Candybars" (see below) R. DeLeo, Weiland 8:07
Silvergun Superman
Pretty Penny
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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