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Jun 5, 2011 - 11:12PM

Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Open tiebreakers:

The Wipers - Youth Of America vs
Sade - Love Deluxe

Next vote wins.

Division 1:

Tori Amos - Under The Pink vs
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Division 2:

The Velvet Underground - VU vs
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate

Division 3:

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds vs
Prince - Lovesexy

Division 4:

This Heat - Deceit vs
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On

Greg

Jun 5, 2011 - 11:17PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Tusk
VU
Seventeen Seconds
Deceit

Nassim

Jun 5, 2011 - 11:26PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Division 1:

Tori Amos - Under The Pink

Division 3:

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

Division 4:

Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On[/quote]

BillAdama

Jun 5, 2011 - 11:56PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Stephan votes:

All easy choices this week, with a nicely bolded top 4.
1. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
2. Tori Amos - Under The Pink
3. The Velvet Underground - VU
4. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
5. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
6. Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
7. Prince - Lovesexy
8. This Heat - Deceit

sonofsamiam

Jun 6, 2011 - 1:11AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Is it OK if I jump on in?

Open tiebreakers:

The Wipers - Youth Of America vs
Sade - Love Deluxe

Great epic post-punk. Glad they're moving on.

Division 1:

Tori Amos - Under The Pink vs
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Division 2:

The Velvet Underground - VU vs
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate

Division 3:

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds vs
Prince - Lovesexy

Really tough, but 17 Seconds is tighter.

Division 4:

This Heat - Deceit vs
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On

That's the best Built To Spill album, but Deceit is one of the best albums I've heard.

BillAdama

Jun 6, 2011 - 1:45AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Yep, anyone can vote whenever they want so long as they've heard both the albums in the match.

Wipers advances. Looks like you beat MB to the punch.

Moonbeam

Jun 6, 2011 - 1:57AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

BillAdama

Yep, anyone can vote whenever they want so long as they've heard both the albums in the match.

Wipers advances. Looks like you beat MB to the punch.

Division 3 is a heartbreaker. Lovesexy is my #2 album all-time, though, so it advances.

sonofsamiam

Jun 6, 2011 - 2:13AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

BillAdama

Yep, anyone can vote whenever they want so long as they've heard both the albums in the match.

Wipers advances. Looks like you beat MB to the punch.

Shoot, I didn't realize, sorry Moonbeam. (That said, I never could get into Sade.)

Moonbeam

Jun 6, 2011 - 2:21AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

sonofsamiam

BillAdama

Yep, anyone can vote whenever they want so long as they've heard both the albums in the match.

Wipers advances. Looks like you beat MB to the punch.

Shoot, I didn't realize, sorry Moonbeam. (That said, I never could get into Sade.)

No problem at all! I didn't have a chance to listen to Youth of America, but I'll give it a shot once I get my computer back.

Jackson

Jun 6, 2011 - 3:08AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Perfect From Now On over Deceit

This Heat can sure make some great songs ("Paper Hats" and "S.P.Q.R" from this album), but listening to Deceit all the way through isn't as satisfying as I would like. Plus, Perfect From Now On is an amazing album, particularly the way it comes out of the gate firing with "Randy Described Eternity" and "I Would Hurt a Fly." The production just sounds so massive and substantial, a unique approach compared with the ubiquitous lo-fi in 90s indie.

Brad

Jun 9, 2011 - 3:18PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Fleetwood Mac - tusk
Elvis Costello - blood& chocolate
The cure - seventeen seconds
Built to spill - perfect from now on

Thanks!

BillAdama

Jun 9, 2011 - 10:48PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

This Heat - Deceit
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Velvet Underground - VU
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Prince - Lovesexy

Division 1 is the only hard vote for me this week. Deceit is in my top 100.

BillAdama

Jun 12, 2011 - 1:35PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Since somebody voted late last week, reminder: 9 hours left to vote.

Romain

Jun 12, 2011 - 3:21PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Division 1:
WINNER Tori Amos - Under The Pink vs
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Division 2:
WINNER The Velvet Underground - VU vs
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate

Division 3:
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds vs
WINNER Prince - Lovesexy

Lovesexy is a perfect album, only hits !

Kingoftonga

Jun 12, 2011 - 4:32PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Division 1:

Tori Amos - Under The Pink vs
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Division 3:

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds vs
Prince - Lovesexy

beefsupreme

Jun 12, 2011 - 5:15PM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Division 2: The Velvet Underground - VU
Division 4: Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
On first listen I really like This Heat's album, Perfect from Now On is an old favorite though...I got to see them play the whole thing live a couple years ago too.

BillAdama

Jun 13, 2011 - 12:03AM

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album 2: Round 2.7

Tiebreaker: Wipers - Youth Of America def Sade - Love Deluxe

Division 1:

Tori Amos - Under The Pink 4 TIED WITH
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk 4

Next vote wins, and if the tie isn't broken in a week, it goes to the special tiebreaker.

Division 2:

The Velvet Underground - VU 4 def
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate 3

Division 3:

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds 7 def
Prince - Lovesexy 1

Division 4:

Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On 5 def
This Heat - Deceit 3