SAXON SURVIVOR 2012 RESULTS: Lionheart triumphant
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You know using the same 1-10 scale I used on the old Daily Song rankings, I give Battle Cry an eight (excellent), Waiting for the Night a seven (good) and Rock the Nations a 7 1/2. I don't know if I would give the best of the rest even a five (meh).
It's a bad album.
It's a bad album.
- 2 songs per album get promoted to the playoffs.
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: The last six songs from Rock The Nations
In walks Destiny, Saxon's most despised album, but not its worst
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: The last six songs from Rock The Nations
In walks Destiny, Saxon's most despised album, but not its worst
Add the terrible decision to market Saxon as a hair band to the super-glossy AOR production and little wonder this album failed.
Stepping back from that though, the songwriting depth is actually clearly superior to the previous three albums. And Ride Like the Wind is a great cover.
I'm going to have to think on this one a bit.
Stepping back from that though, the songwriting depth is actually clearly superior to the previous three albums. And Ride Like the Wind is a great cover.
I'm going to have to think on this one a bit.
- 2 songs per album get promoted to the playoffs.
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated Where the Lightning Strikes, For Whom the Bell Tolls, We Are Strong, Jericho Siren.
Waiting for the Night eliminated in the tiebreaker. Battle Cry and Rock the Nations promoted to the playoffs.
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated Where the Lightning Strikes, For Whom the Bell Tolls, We Are Strong, Jericho Siren.
Waiting for the Night eliminated in the tiebreaker. Battle Cry and Rock the Nations promoted to the playoffs.
- 2 songs per album get promoted to the playoffs.
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: I Can’t Wait Anymore, Calm Before the Storm, Warrior
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: I Can’t Wait Anymore, Calm Before the Storm, Warrior
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
In the Saxon topic I noted that I like the album better than the last albums bar the previous:
But I ought to play the whole album again as well.
- Crusader (1984)
- Innocence Is No Excuse (1985)
- Rock the Nations (1986)
But I ought to play the whole album again as well.
It's a little better than I remembered.
Or it least it starts out very strong before gradually falling off.
Altar of the Gods is great and marks a kind of transition for the band — the fury we hadn't seen since the early days, in a more modern, polished form that teases what they'd do on Unleash the Beast.
And Solid Ball of Rock is such a fun, fist-pumping song. Must rule live.
There are others I like, but those two definitely deserve to move on.
Or it least it starts out very strong before gradually falling off.
Altar of the Gods is great and marks a kind of transition for the band — the fury we hadn't seen since the early days, in a more modern, polished form that teases what they'd do on Unleash the Beast.
And Solid Ball of Rock is such a fun, fist-pumping song. Must rule live.
There are others I like, but those two definitely deserve to move on.
I might have been suckered in by Altar's energy after finding the last few albums lacking in that category. I agree it's not the hookiest song.
If you want to talk hooks, the chorus of I'm On Fire sticks in me for days.
If that one moves on instead of Altar, I'd be OK with that.
- 2 songs per album get promoted to the playoffs.
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: Ain't Gonna Take It, Bavarian Beaver, Crash Dive
- 10 songs that survive until the end of the album rounds also get promoted to the playoffs.
- Until we get to the final 10 songs you can vote for as many songs as you want.
- Once we reach the top 10, votes get limited to 3 votes. Top 5 means 2 votes only and Top 3 means just the 1 vote. If you vote for more songs at these stages, I just won't count your votes.
- I'll eliminate as many songs as I deem necessary to keep the game fair and moving quickly.
- Rounds will be two days long
Eliminated last round: Ain't Gonna Take It, Bavarian Beaver, Crash Dive