One of the better known punk acts that I thought someone might take but if not I will go ahead even though I tell myself to mix it up a bit more... the Dead Kennedys.
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Tropical Island Music Artist Draft - FINIS
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I don't think I was going to take them, althoguh I probably should have rather than what I am going to to instead. Glad they got picked up though, and of course you were the logical person to do it.
This group would have been my 20th and final pick if we had stopped (they were option 3), but I figured they were pretty safe. I pick them now as a nice complement to my previous pick of the Boston Pops. My next pick is...
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bone-thugs-n-harmony-p44741/songs
This is really off the strength of the one album, E 1999 Eternal, which has a good eight or nine songs I'd be happy to shuffle up and listen to over and over. Plus they have several other albums that probably aren't as good but would be available to me if I was so inclined.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bone-thugs-n-harmony-p44741/songs
This is really off the strength of the one album, E 1999 Eternal, which has a good eight or nine songs I'd be happy to shuffle up and listen to over and over. Plus they have several other albums that probably aren't as good but would be available to me if I was so inclined.
You know despite the name, that was one of the few hip hops acts I actually respected back in the early days when I was still making up my mind whether it was a worthwhile area of music to explore. With both them and the Fugees taken now, as well as Eminem earlier, largely forecloses any possibility of me taking a hip hop act.
Sticking with the 90s theme, and adding another one of my favorite albums of all time with Throwing Copper. Their later stuff is a bit hit or miss, but they have enough singles to make this a worthwhile selection, and add a bit more alternative, 90s flavored nostalgia for me. With my 26th pick, I select:
Live
More: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/live-p22774
Live
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I thought that with Throwing Copper they were poised to go straight to the top - such an amazing album and a big jump (in my opinion, I know others who disagree) from their debut. But after that, they did kind of go bleh instead of getting better. I was pretty disappointed by that, but at least they did give us Throwing Copper.
Next up, Wilco
With the draft expanding to 30, I’m getting to the point where I’m drafting artists for their outstanding works rather than their entire catalog - and it isn’t as though Wilco hasn’t done a lot of good work in their time, but this pick really doesn’t happen without Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Amazingly (despite the fact that YHF routinely makes the top ten of album lists of the 2000s) Reprise Records refused to release the album and cut Wilco loose as a consequence. Wow, that was dumb.
Years active: 1994-present
Catalog: 10 studio albums (~9.5h),
Landmark songs: Can’t Stand It; Kamera; Jesus, Etc.; Handshake Drugs; Impossible Germany
Songs I keep coming back to:
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - my first Wilco song. My initial impression was, "Wow, is it all like that?" Well, not quite, but it's not unrepresentative either.
Hummingbird - This one stands out for having a great melody and a solid piano role
With the draft expanding to 30, I’m getting to the point where I’m drafting artists for their outstanding works rather than their entire catalog - and it isn’t as though Wilco hasn’t done a lot of good work in their time, but this pick really doesn’t happen without Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Amazingly (despite the fact that YHF routinely makes the top ten of album lists of the 2000s) Reprise Records refused to release the album and cut Wilco loose as a consequence. Wow, that was dumb.
Years active: 1994-present
Catalog: 10 studio albums (~9.5h),
Landmark songs: Can’t Stand It; Kamera; Jesus, Etc.; Handshake Drugs; Impossible Germany
Songs I keep coming back to:
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - my first Wilco song. My initial impression was, "Wow, is it all like that?" Well, not quite, but it's not unrepresentative either.
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One of my favorites of the 90's, and really one of my favorites ever. I probably could've drafted them in my Top 10 but felt they were safe to wait. There have been a couple picks lately though that have scared me enough to take them here.
I got introduced to these guys through the 3am single and loved it. I bought the Yourself or Someone Like You CD and probably played it enough to break it. Back 2 Good was one of my anthems of 1998. Loads of memories from these guys for me.
Matchbox Twenty
I got introduced to these guys through the 3am single and loved it. I bought the Yourself or Someone Like You CD and probably played it enough to break it. Back 2 Good was one of my anthems of 1998. Loads of memories from these guys for me.
Matchbox Twenty
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One of my favorites of the 90's, and really one of my favorites ever. I probably could've drafted them in my Top 10 but felt they were safe to wait. There have been a couple picks lately though that have scared me enough to take them here.
I got introduced to these guys through the 3am single and loved it. I bought the Yourself or Someone Like You CD and probably played it enough to break it. Back 2 Good was one of my anthems of 1998. Loads of memories from these guys for me.
Matchbox Twenty
I got introduced to these guys through the 3am single and loved it. I bought the Yourself or Someone Like You CD and probably played it enough to break it. Back 2 Good was one of my anthems of 1998. Loads of memories from these guys for me.
Matchbox Twenty
i'll take the Andrews Sisters
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-andrews-sisters-p3078
The Andrews Sisters were the most successful female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century in the U.S. One source lists 113 singles chart entries by the trio between 1938-1951, an average of more than eight per year.
http://youtu.be/r3ntMHk_QiM
http://youtu.be/c1hv32rOXfQ
http://youtu.be/bCY09s-c41A
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-andrews-sisters-p3078
The Andrews Sisters were the most successful female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century in the U.S. One source lists 113 singles chart entries by the trio between 1938-1951, an average of more than eight per year.
http://youtu.be/r3ntMHk_QiM
http://youtu.be/c1hv32rOXfQ
http://youtu.be/bCY09s-c41A
I have him too but here is another timely reminder that he is a jerk.
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=73589
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=73589
