Trouble is out and we're on to the final three.
4 - Trouble At The Henhouse
5 - Road Apples
6 - In Violet Light
7 - Man Machine Poem
T8 - Up to Here and In Between Evolution
10 - Music @ Work
11 - World Container
12 - Now For Plan A
13 - We Are The Same
Vote for the album that you feel is the weakest overall and after 24 hours we will remove the album with the most votes. In the event of a tie, both (or more) albums will be removed.
The poll will end Wednesday at 11:06am Eastern.
Happy voting,
Shane
FC gets my vote. I know it's "the classic Hip album," and I love many of the songs on it. But the production is terrible and it sounds very flat. That said, I believe DFN and PP are easily the Hip's strongest albums. DFN is dark and brooding. PP is upbeat and perhaps some of their strongest songwriting. For me, DFN takes the cake, but these deserve to be the top three. Fare thee well, Fully Completely.
I'm gonna do this a bit piecemeal. FC has three lowish points: Looking for a Place to Happen, We'll Go Too, and The Wherewithal.
PP has four lowish points: Save The Planet, Fireworks (barf), The Rules, and Chagrin Falls.
Advantage FC
Epic, defining tunes on FC: Courage, Hundredth, Locked, 50 MC, Wheat Kings
Epic, defining tunes on PP: Poets, Bobcaygeon
Advantage FC
Others on FC: Pigeon Camera is ++, Lionized is +/-, Fully Completely is +, Eldorado is +
Others on PP: Something On is +, Thompson Girl is +/-, Membership is +/-, Escape is ++, Emperor Penguin is ++
Advantage PP
Final Score: FC 2, PP 1
Gotta vote off PP.
ct
Oh and PS, I'm just assuming DFN wins the whole thing.
^ Your math checks out - even if my heart says to protect PP. In fact, FC is probably the Hip album I listen to the least. Not that it's necessarily my least favourite, but it's just so over-played. Not the records fault..but I'm desensitized to it. Biases aside; credit where credit is due. PP gets my vote.
Chris Tanz Wrote:I'm gonna do this a bit piecemeal. FC has three lowish points: Looking for a Place to Happen, We'll Go Too, and The Wherewithal.
Final Score: FC 2, PP 1
Gotta vote off PP.
ct
I think you've summed it up nicely with this analysis. I concur with everything here (PP is also getting my vote) except for the labelling of 'Looking' as a "lowish point". It's a great song and probably the one from Fully Completely that could have benefited the most from full Don Smith production values (other than just the re-mix that is on Yer Favs - which is an improvement). I love the guitars and with a little more Road Apples crunch it would be a top tier tune on FC.
potsie Wrote:I think you've summed it up nicely with this analysis. I concur with everything here (PP is also getting my vote) except for the labelling of 'Looking' as a "lowish point". It's a great song and probably the one from Fully Completely that could have benefited the most from full Don Smith production values (other than just the re-mix that is on Yer Favs - which is an improvement). I love the guitars and with a little more Road Apples crunch it would be a top tier tune on FC.
I could have probably reversed Lionized and Looking in the batting order. I actually love the YF version of Looking, mostly because it still sounds so different after all those billions of listens to the FC version.
ct