5873/6000: Semifinals
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5873/6000: Semifinals
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The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Thursday August 4th at 9 PM EST.
5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
vs.
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
vs.
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Thursday August 4th at 9 PM EST.
5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
vs.
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
vs.
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
Splish splash, I was raking in the cash
Re: 5873/6000: Semifinals
Storm
Black
Black
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
Pearl Jam - Black
I'm so, so happy to see Follow Your Arrow get so much attention here, but it's unfortunately run up against a song that deserves much better than #5971. "Black" not being on the same level as "Jeremy" or "Alive" has always been shocking to me. I would have easily taken "Follow Your Arrow" over "Echoes."
Pearl Jam - Black
I'm so, so happy to see Follow Your Arrow get so much attention here, but it's unfortunately run up against a song that deserves much better than #5971. "Black" not being on the same level as "Jeremy" or "Alive" has always been shocking to me. I would have easily taken "Follow Your Arrow" over "Echoes."
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Wow, people seem to agree here, but I'm going with
Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
Pearl Jam - Black
Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
Pearl Jam - Black
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Storm
Black
Black
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
Pearl Jam - Black
Pearl Jam - Black
...will keep us together.
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Re: 5873/6000: Semifinals
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
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I missed the first round of this tourney, so I decided it wouldn't be "fair", so to speak to hop in late. But I've been keeping track of it out of mild interest. Imagine my horror when I opened this thread and saw that "Echoes", my #10 song of all time per the last poll, had been eliminated AND that with my vote, it would have pushed into a tiebreaker.
Although "Storm" is a fair enough replacement.
Although "Storm" is a fair enough replacement.
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Storm
Follow Your Arrow
Tough not to vote for Black, which is in my top 500
Follow Your Arrow
Tough not to vote for Black, which is in my top 500
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5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.
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This time I've (tried to) select unplugged covers (but I haven't been able to find one for "Storm"). I strongly recommend you to listen to the early version on "Im nin'alu," that's how the song sounded ten years before it (relatively) broke into mainstream.
1. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu (unplugged 1978)
vs.
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
3. Pearl Jam - Black (unplugged 1992)
vs.
4. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow (unplugged 2013)
Definitely not the semifinals I would have liked. I like the first match-up but not that much the second one ("Echoes" vs. "Aïcha" would have been much better for me). Now we are not going to have neither the long-tracks-with-short-titles final nor the Hebrew vs. Arabic final (well, that second option was not going to happen anyway). And, looking at the votes so far, we are not going to have a female final also. Anyway the epic-tracks final we are heading to sounds good enough to me. And moreover having a non-English song on semifinals makes me really happy…
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Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
Pearl Jam - Black
Poor Ofra. (I really liked the traditional version Honorio posted, too. When I first heard "Im nin'alu" in 1989, I had no idea it went back so far.)
Pearl Jam - Black
Poor Ofra. (I really liked the traditional version Honorio posted, too. When I first heard "Im nin'alu" in 1989, I had no idea it went back so far.)
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Re: 5873/6000: Semifinals
I'm going for the underdogs!
Im nin'alu vs. Storm
I was voting for Storm until the last second when I heard Honorio's link for Im nin'alu. The original is far better than the official version!
Black vs. Follow Your Arrow
Black is a good song, but Follow Your Arrow is in my top 250, so not really a competition.
Im nin'alu vs. Storm
I was voting for Storm until the last second when I heard Honorio's link for Im nin'alu. The original is far better than the official version!
Black vs. Follow Your Arrow
Black is a good song, but Follow Your Arrow is in my top 250, so not really a competition.
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5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
I really like Follow Your Arrow, but Ten remains my favourite Pearl Jam album and Black is one of the reasons why.
Echoes not winning is a mystery of 'Kuwait getting the World Cup' proportions.
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
I really like Follow Your Arrow, but Ten remains my favourite Pearl Jam album and Black is one of the reasons why.
Echoes not winning is a mystery of 'Kuwait getting the World Cup' proportions.
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Storm & Black !
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Really can't believe that Echoes lost to Black -- I think that was the true final right there. It would've been cool for a 23 minute song to win something on this site. Maybe a 20-minute one still has a chance, though I'm guessing it is an outside shot.
That said, it is awesome to see such non-AM-ish artists as Ofra Haza and Kacey Musgraves here in the semifinals. Sadly, however, I must stay true to myself and vote for my actual favorites:
Storm
Black
Both of those are my very favorites for each of those bands.
That said, it is awesome to see such non-AM-ish artists as Ofra Haza and Kacey Musgraves here in the semifinals. Sadly, however, I must stay true to myself and vote for my actual favorites:
Storm
Black
Both of those are my very favorites for each of those bands.
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Don't forget "Stella," which remarkably won our Unacclaimed Songs poll at 36 minutes (equaling nearly an "Echoes" and a half)! (And, thanks to your recommendation, "Stella" is now my personal favorite 20+ minute song ever.)sonofsamiam wrote:Really can't believe that Echoes lost to Black -- I think that was the true final right there. It would've been cool for a 23 minute song to win something on this site.
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Re: 5873/6000: Semifinals
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
5971. Pearl Jam - Black
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vs.
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
vs.
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
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Re: 5873/6000: Semifinals
5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu: 7
vs.
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm: 12
5971. Pearl Jam - Black: 14
vs.
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow: 5
vs.
5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm: 12
5971. Pearl Jam - Black: 14
vs.
5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow: 5
Splish splash, I was raking in the cash