Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

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Def Leppard is European, Foro :p

Except if you guys from the continent don't consider us, the Mighty isles people.
 
I stand up corrected! They did sound very American though. ;)
Here some tracks from the Midnight Oil album, called Diesel and Dust. A very strong album, both in music and in message. It is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues both near and dear to the band.

The Dead Heart:
Put Down that Weapon:
Bullroarer:
(mega hit) Beds are Burning:
 
I can't FUCKING believe Ghost Reveries got eliminated. Hell, out of Opeth albums alone it crushes Watershed which is still in the game. And now Awake is getting eliminated, too ? Both Opeth and Dream Theater are undervalued here. That's it, I'm going on a terrorizer mode.

Mob Rules
Screaming for Vengeance
Led Zeppelin IV
Holy Diver
Last in Line
Nostradamus
Bad Reputation
Let There Be Rock
Lights Out
Rumours
Spectres
Van Halen

Also, the fact that Balls to Picasso got promoted is a joke. There really is a severe bias towards Bruce albums.
 
Forostar said:
I am surprised about something else.


@Mckindog: would you please explain a bit more why you:
- eliminated Volume 4? It had 6 votes.
- promoted Balls to Picasso? It had 6 votes.
- did nothing with Nostradamus and Watershed? They had 6 votes.
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The devil made me do it. :devil2:
 
But seriously...
Fifty percent usually gets you eliminated so far in this game.
Balls got lucky as the most popular album from a weaker group (similar thing happened with Awoken Broken I believe).
Volume 4 did not as part of a strong group.
But I probably should have promoted Tyranny and had a tiebreak between Watershed and Nostradamus.
That could matter, but only if Tyranny gets eliminated while the other two advance.
 
mckindog said:
Fifty percent usually gets you eliminated so far in this game.
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I still don't get what you mean. Sorry.
I get it that Balls was most popular of that group. And I get it that Volume 4 had the most votes of its group.
Other than that: no.

And I don't recall having seen something like this. Will check the Awoken Broken example later.
 
Forostar said:
I still don't get what you mean. Sorry.
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If you look back at where I draw the cutoff line in most rounds it's at about 50 per cent of the votes — if half the voters tick an album it's usually gone, less than half, it usually sticks around.
It's not a hard and fast rule but I have been using it as a rule of thumb because it fits the voting pattern.
If you guys start getting stingier or more aggressive with your votes it will probably change.
 
Re the newly added era:

Should Survive: Van Halen and Rumours

Will Survive: Priests and Kings (defensible, but still wrong)
 
mckindog said:
If you look back at where I draw the cutoff line in most rounds it's at about 50 per cent of the votes — if half the voters tick an album it's usually gone, less than half, it usually sticks around.
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And this time it went different for every album with about 50 percent of the votes. It indeed happened in round 6 as well (results in round 7). A rare event. Thanks for explaining.
 
mckindog said:
:huh: I am surprised Nostradamus and Watershed outlasted Angel of Retribution and Ghost Reveries.
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This. GR wipes the floor with Watershed (and every Opeth album for that matter) and Angel of Retribution is one of the best Priest albums, where Nos is one of the worst.
Cornfed Hick said:
Re the newly added era:

Should Survive: Van Halen and Rumours

Will Survive: Priests and Kings (defensible, but still wrong)
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Van Halen and Rumors are two of the best albums, the people voting for them are crazy. Kings is a bit overrated, Hemispheres is much better.

I regret not voting for Stained Class. Another low tier Priest album. In fact I think I'd rate it as the 2nd worst of the new group. Behind the AC/DC.

Mob Rules
Master Of Reality
Holy Diver (I love Dio, but this wasn't his best album)
Kill Em All
Tyranny Of Souls
Let There Be Rock
News Of The World (I love Queen, but I was never a big fan of this one)
Superunknown
 
Mosh said:
Van Halen and Rumors are two of the best albums, the people voting for them are crazy.
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Part of what makes Rumours such a masterpiece -- apart from being a perfectly constructed album of perfectly constructed pop songs -- is the emotions that went into making it. The McVies had divorced and were barely speaking to each other, Mick Fleetwood had just discovered that his wife was having an affair, and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were in the midst of breaking up their romantic relationship and basically hated each other. Plus, they were all doing heroic amounts of cocaine. In addition to the obvious "break-up" songs like "Go Your Own Way" and "Never Going Back Again," there are other remarkable moments such as when, on the track "Second Hand News" (which is about Lindsay moving on and sleeping around with many women), Stevie Nicks is singing background vocals. Consider that: she is singing background vocals on a song about how happy Buckingham was to break up WITH HER! Amazing. The only criticism of the album is that they relegated the best Nicks track, "Silver Springs," to a b-side -- it is the angriest song from that recording session, and has since become a beloved classic in its own right. Even 20 years later, when performing the song in concert, the sexual tension was still crackling (watch Stevie and Lindsay starting around 2:16, picking up steam at around 3:39 through the end, and pay attention to the lyrics -- good Lord):

 
Cornfed Hick said:
The only criticism of the album is that they relegated the best Nicks track, "Silver Springs," to a b-side -- it is the angriest song from that recording session, and has since become a beloved classic in its own right. Even 20 years later, when performing the song in concert, the sexual tension was still crackling (watch Stevie and Lindsay starting around 2:16 through the end, and pay attention to the lyrics -- good Lord):

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:notworthy:I'm pretty sure Ive seen that concert, but I clearly didn't pay enough attention to that performance.
Helluva album to be sure.
 
Rules are here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/best-album-ever-survivor.25528/

Eliminated last round: Kill 'Em All, Bad Reputation, Dire Straits, Hemispheres, Let There Be Rock, Lights Out, Rumours, Spectres, Van Halen, Awake

Promoted to the playoffs: Superunknown, Watershed

SUDDEN DEATH TIEBREAKER
Pick only your least favourite between Tyranny of Souls and Nostradamus.
The winner advances to the playoffs

Nominations closed for 1987/88
 
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