Board 8 > Rank the Tracks Week 99: Birthday Massacre's Walking With Strangers (+BR result)

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poll for firefdr's week:
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
vs.
blur - Parklife
vs.
Coldplay - Parachutes

Previous results can be seen here:
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks_Set_2

The rules:
1. Listen to the album in full
2. Rank every track on the album
3. For the results, there will be a curve at the top of each list; two additional points between #1 and #2, and one additional point for the next two ranks. This way, the songs that really stick out to someone get an edge that is not immediately negated by someone else putting it lower. In the case of Demon Days, someone's 15th track will get 1 point, 14th 2 points, 4th 12 points, 3rd 14 points, 2nd 16 points, and 1st 19 points. For albums with greater than 15 tracks, everything ranked below #15 will be given 0 points and the scale for the top 15 will be the same as a 15-track album. For albums with more than 20 tracks, you only have to list your top 15 (with 16-20, I still like having the average rank listed)
4. If you want to include comments for individual songs, I will compile them in the results
5. The results will be posted at the beginning of the next topic
6. The deadline to vote is Sunday, January 29 at 8:00 AM EST - though I have recently been leaving them up for longer, so just try to vote by that afternoon
7. You can sign up to be added to the user cycle (a new user will be added to the end of the current cycle as long as there are four weeks remaining) - the next person on the list will choose 3 albums which the other users will vote on for the next topic.
7a. To ensure people are being given an actual choice, the three nominated albums must be by different artists. You can otherwise stick to a similar sound or era.
7b. The tiebreaker for these polls will be whichever is listed first in the poll options - make sure to deliver the results in order of your own preference (which will hopefully have the added benefit of influencing people toward your first choice if they can't decide).
7c. I have added a tiered vote structure - the least popular album will be removed and its backup votes distributed to the other two entrants.
8. Starting with the next cycle, every four weeks will be a competitive week where those listed choose a single album to face off against others.

The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers track list:
1. Kill the Lights
2. Goodnight
3. Falling Down
4. Unfamiliar
5. Red Stars
6. Looking Glass
7. Science
8. Remember Me
9. To Die For
10. Walking with Strangers
11. Weekend
12. Movie

Current cycle:
1/29: FoolFantastic competitive pick (David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust)
2/5: ZaziGuado (Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News)
2/12: firefdr
2/19: Johnbobb
2/26: Steiner/ChichiriMuyo/Great_Paul
3/5: VeryInsane
3/12: FoolFantastic
3/19: Seanchan
3/26: Johnbobb/ZaziGuado/jcgamer107
4/2: Giggsalot
4/9: RyoCaliente
4/16: darkx
4/23: Snake5555555555/Raetsel_Lapin/Seanchan
4/30: neonreaper
5/7: Great_Paul
5/14: jcgamer107
5/21: Giggsalot/MetalmindStats/rwlh
5/28: ChichiriMuyo
6/4: BlueCrystalTear
6/11: rwlh
6/18: NFUN
6/25: HBJDubs/firefdr/NFUN

Future cycle:
6/25: MetalmindStats
7/2: HBJDubs
7/9: Raetsel_Lapin
7/16: competitive week
7/23: Steiner
7/30: Snake5555555555
8/6: Jesse_Custer
8/13: competitive week

blur - Parklife > Oasis - Definitely Maybe > Coldplay - Parachutes

I've been dying to nom Parklife myself

(as usual, other topic will be open at least until tomorrow)

blur > coldplay > oasis

Coldplay > Oasis > blur

Coldplay > Oasis > blur

blur - Parklife > Oasis - Definitely Maybe > Coldplay - Parachutes

blur - Parklife > (do I have to rank the rest?) > Oasis - Definitely Maybe > Coldplay - Parachutes

Also just started my first listen to this week's album. Given how the song started, I did not expect female vocals.

Yeah... whoever nominated Birthday Massacre - thank you. I doubt I would have ever found this without you.

First listen done.

This is one of those "going in completely blind" albums for me. I'd say it was a generally enjoyable listen. My maybe slightly odd thought is that a lot of these songs sound like what you'd hear during the end credits of some movie.

ChichiriMuyo posted...

Yeah... whoever nominated Birthday Massacre - thank you. I doubt I would have ever found this without you.

:)

if I can vote, Oasis > blur > Coldplay

Yes, people should vote in their own rounds; you get the benefit of both voting and deciding the tiebreaker order

bump

Coldplay > Oasis > Blur

I enjoy the general sound of this album, but two listens in it's hard to separate out the individual songs. ...which unfortunately is something I feel like has been an issue with the last few albums we've covered... (I'm hoping I'm not the only one...)

Coldplay > Oasis > blur

1: Remember Me
2: Red Stars
3: Looking Glass
4: Kill the Lights
5: Science
6: Movie
7: Goodnight
8: Weekend
9: Walking With Strangers
10: Unfamiliar
11: Falling Down
12: To Die For

If you folks like this album but it feels a little samey from track to track, I advise you to check out their album Violet. Imo has some obvious standouts

It is a bit samey from track to track even though I really do like it.

Bad Religion - No Control results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
Seanchan (34)
FoolFantastic (38)
StifledSilence (38)
ChichiriMuyo (54)
Johnbobb (54)
HBJDubs (62)
Raetsel_Lapin (80)

General Album Comments

HBJDubs: Just a real good punk album. You is the very obvious #1 here, one of the most iconic songs from the Tony Hawk games

ChichiriMuyo: I've hit wall after wall with this one. I have a good friend, and we sort of came up in this music at the same time. I didn't know Bad Religion. He didn't know Social Distortion. You can gather how that peanut butter and chocolate worked out for a friendship that still lasts 25 years later. This album. It's good, I like it. I am struggling beyond belief to rank the individual tracks.

FoolFantastic: Really liked this album. Always a fan of being introduced to a good new (to me) punk band. My ranking here feels entirely meaningless, but this is one of those albums that benefits from everything flowing together so well.

ChichiriMuyo: Blistering fast. Relentless. Even when they give you a moment to catch your breath, they still go hard. This is ten hours of sonic assault in a 26 minute tracklist. If the CIA wanted to use Western music to torture Guantanamo Bay prisoners they should have chosen "No Control." I absolutely love it.

Seanchan: I'm not sure if I'd say this is a truly enjoyable album because it's a bit relentless. But I'd venture to say it's a good one. Doing a song ranking is always going to be a bit arbitrary here because, much like last week, these songs all glom together after a while.

No Control track ranking

15. Henchman (Track #8)
Score: 39 (Average Rank: 10.43/15)
Biggest Fan(s): ChichiriMuyo (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs (#15)

14. Change of Ideas (Track #1)
Score: 40 (Average Rank: 10.29/15)
Biggest Fan(s): FoolFantastic (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): StifledSilence, ChichiriMuyo (#15)

13. It Must Look Pretty Appealing (Track #9)
Score: 41 (Average Rank: 10.14/15)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs, Raetsel_Lapin (#6)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic, Johnbobb (#15)

12. I Want Something More (Track #12)
Score: 42 (Average Rank: 10/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#5)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic, Seanchan (#14)

11. Sometimes I Feel Like (Track #4)
Score: 44 (Average Rank: 9.71/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): StifledSilence, Johnbobb (#14)

10. Billy (Track #14)
Score: 47 (Average Rank: 9.43/15)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#14)

9. The World Won't Stop (Track #15)
Score: 49 (Average Rank: 9/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#15)

8. Anxiety (Track #13)
Score: 50 (Average Rank: 9.43/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#13)

7. Big Bang (Track #2)
Score: 52 (Average Rank: 8.71/15)
Biggest Fan(s): FoolFantastic (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs, ChichiriMuyo (#14)

6. Automatic Man (Track #5)
Score: 62 (Average Rank: 7.29/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#12)

5. Progress (Track #11)
Score: 76 (Average Rank: 5.86/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb, ChichiriMuyo (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs (#13)

4. Sanity (Track #7)
Score: 78 (Average Rank: 5.71/15)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Seanchan (#15)

3. You (Track #10)
Score: 80 (Average Rank: 6/15)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs, StifledSilence (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): ChichiriMuyo (#13)

2. No Control (Track #3)
Score: 90 (Average Rank: 4.14/15)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs, Raetsel_Lapin, FoolFantastic (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb, ChichiriMuyo (#7)

1. I Want to Conquer the World (Track #6)
Score: 99 (Average Rank: 3.86/15)
Biggest Fan(s): FoolFantastic, ChichiriMuyo, Seanchan (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#10)

Hmmm...only 1 ranking submitted so far...

Was going to do another listen tonight but going to do it tomorrow instead.

I listened but haven't gotten to rank them yet, will get it in tonight or tomorrow

I like this album, I really do. However it was very difficult to actually rank the tracks. Let's just say the band was very consistent throughout. There's nothing wron with a band or an album having a sound, but it does leave me feeling like the ranking is less defined than usual. If I had discovered this years ago and listened to it a lot more I might feel better about this ranking.

1. Looking Glass
2. Science
3. Goodnight
4. Kill The Lights
5. Unfamiliar
6. Weekend
7. Remember Me
8. Walking With Strangers
9. Movie
10. Falling Down
11. To Die For
12. Red Stars

1. Science
2. Goodnight
3. Looking Glass
4. Red Stars
5. Weekend
6. Unfamiliar
7. To Die For
8. Kill the Lights
9. Falling Down
10. Movie
11. Walking with Strangers
12. Remember Me - The one song here that isn't really sticking with me.

I was looking forward to this album after voting for it before, and it definitely did not disappoint me, from front to back. Thank you for nominating it, Snake!

With that push, I'm planning (perhaps more hoping) to resume my past participation in as many weeks as possible, so with that in mind...

Coldplay > blur > Oasis

Imma be honest... the number of times I was panicking to get it done at 5-6 am because I was afraid to miss the deadline... no one gave me special treatment. Now the topic creator doesn't even get it in on time? Someone owes me a few hours of sleep, as if you could make it up to me.

I like the extra leniency; I was quite close to needing extra time this week & I know there was at least one week in the past where I had to hastily submit a "first impressions" list because I just could not listen to an album multiple times that week. The delayed updates as of late make things much more laid back and I don't have to stress as much.

It sucks that you had to sacrifice to participate in the past and I'm truly sorry that you had to go through that. It would be good if no one else had to sacrifice to participate in the future.

ChichiriMuyo posted...

Imma be honest... the number of times I was panicking to get it done at 5-6 am because I was afraid to miss the deadline... no one gave me special treatment. Now the topic creator doesn't even get it in on time? Someone owes me a few hours of sleep, as if you could make it up to me.

Then don't bother? Jesus Christ.

I decide not having a tight deadline is better for everyone, and you fucking blow up at me about it? What purpose does that serve, exactly?

As the host of this series, I'm not required to participate. I listened to this album and didn't find myself caring enough to be able to differentiate between most of the tracks, so I was skipping ranking this week.

But if you feel the need to personally attack me over extending a deadline, which apparently gave you trouble in the past and thus should make you happy that you have a bit of extra time (and I literally give you a full week every week that you could have used instead of waiting until the last second), I'll go ahead and end the trouble by removing you from the cycle and asking you to stop participating.