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Topic	Rank the Tracks Week 79: Protest the Hero's Palimpsest (+ Ataris results)
BlueCrystalTear 09/05/22 7:59:21 AM #14:	Steiner posted... wow am only just learning for the first time that westlife didn't make it outside of the UK. you lucky dogs Flying Without Wings is awesome though. Each boy band here has a couple good songs, but there's one of these three that I feel we have to cover at some point. I voted for that one. But don't count on me listening to it more than twice. Johnbobb posted... also man you know it's rough when the best song on your album is a cover of someone else's song particuarly if your cover is nowhere near as popular The repetitive nature of that last album made it so the standout was the cover, the one song people had an existing attachment to. Again, if the Ataris done a couple of acoustic songs and maybe a rock ballad, the others would stick out more instead of blend together. Look at Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - that one weaves through various melodies and that makes multiple songs pop, including ones that wouldn't have if every song sounded like the title track. There's a lesson here in that you can't have an album where you have 14 songs that sound very similar to each other. Remember how I said that T-Swift's folklore was too long for this reason, and that it would have been much better if it was at least ten minutes shorter. Much like folklore was too morose for its length, So Long, Astoria felt like it was the same three songs played four times apiece, making no distinction between themes and giving them all that early 00s alternative vibe. The album does one thing and does it well, but that's at expense of having standouts. Note how I liked "Betty" the best musically on folklore ("this is me trying" the best thematically, and overall because of how close to home it hit) because I remembered it since it felt different. Aside from those two and the mega hit "cardigan" I don't really remember anything. The "Boys of Summer" cover is a standout largely because Don Henley and Mike Campbell wrote it instead of the Ataris. It's one of the three songs that tries something a little different. And since it's nowhere near as popular as the classic, it means the album did nothing memorable, and would have been better with a little more of the variety that having a cover exemplifies. Also tag, will listen later. May only be able to get one in this week. --- [This post adds nothing to the discussion but for whatever reason I felt the need to say it anyway.] <cite>BlueCrystalTear posted [p:967805496] in Rank the T... [t:80154142]...</cite> <quote>Steiner posted... </cite><quote>wow am only just learning for the first time that westlife didn't make it outside of the UK. you lucky dogs</quote>Flying Without Wings is awesome though.Each boy band here has a couple good songs, but there's one of these three that I feel we have to cover at some point. I voted for that one. But don't count on me listening to it more than twice. Johnbobb posted... </cite><quote>also man you know it's rough when the best song on your album is a cover of someone else's song particuarly if your cover is nowhere near as popular</quote>The repetitive nature of that last album made it so the standout was the cover, the one song people had an existing attachment to. Again, if the Ataris done a couple of acoustic songs and maybe a rock ballad, the others would stick out more instead of blend together. Look at Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - that one weaves through various melodies and that makes multiple songs pop, including ones that wouldn't have if every song sounded like the title track. There's a lesson here in that you can't have an album where you have 14 songs that sound very similar to each other. Remember how I said that T-Swift's folklore was too long for this reason, and that it would have been much better if it was at least ten minutes shorter. Much like folklore was too morose for its length, So Long, Astoria felt like it was the same three songs played four times apiece, making no distinction between themes and giving them all that early 00s alternative vibe. The album does one thing and does it well, but that's at expense of having standouts. Note how I liked "Betty" the best musically on folklore ("this is me trying" the best thematically, and overall because of how close to home it hit) because I remembered it since it felt different. Aside from those two and the mega hit "cardigan" I don't really remember anything. The "Boys of Summer" cover is a standout largely because Don Henley and Mike Campbell wrote it instead of the Ataris. It's one of the three songs that tries something a little different. And since it's nowhere near as popular as the classic, it means the album did nothing memorable, and would have been better with a little more of the variety that having a cover exemplifies.Also tag, will listen later. May only be able to get one in this week. --- [This post adds nothing to the discussion but for whatever reason I felt the need to say it anyway.]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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