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The Better Album?
(#10) R.E.M. - Murmur 49%  49%  [ 28 ]
(#14) The Replacements - Let It Be 51%  51%  [ 29 ]
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The second round is finally over!!!

This is the Sweet 16 round of the tournament stage. Please vote for the album that you feel should move on to the quarterfinals.

To encourage as many votes as possible, the deadline to vote will be Friday at 1:00PM Eastern.
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I will actually ponder this further by playing the albums.

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I will actually ponder this further by playing the albums.


I might have to as well. Either way I'm going to feel like I'm cheating on the other.
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Murmur beats Let It Be but Tim would have beat Murmur.

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This one is probably the hardest choice for me yet.
If I went strictly on how much I enjoy the album TODAY, it would be Murmur, as I played the hell out of that 'Mats album back in college. Or, at least moreso than I did the REM record.

I think that Murmur has less filler than Let It Be. But then, it's the filler that gives Let it Be a lot of its personality.

Hell.
Based solely on how much I've loved it over the years, and with no objective criteria other than that.

Let It Be.

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Let it Be ina battle of heavyweights

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I actually don't like the way they changed the riff structure of this song.
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NEVER mess with the genius of Kiss

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I fucking hate the 80s. I'm voting Murmur for the Athens effect.

(Let It Be is a really, really terrible album guys)

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I fucking hate the 80s. I'm voting Murmur for the Athens effect.

(Let It Be is a really, really terrible album guys)


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NEVER mess with the genius of Kiss


haha


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rparis74 Wrote:
NEVER mess with the genius of Kiss


I endorse this statement regardless of whether sarcasm was intended :wink:
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not big on either, but much warmer to Let it Be

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Let It Be
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I actually don't like the way they changed the riff structure of this song.


:lol:

Somewhere Bob Stinson is cracking the fuck up.

The fact that that song made it onto this album just makes me like the Mats even more.
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Derris,

I like the idea of the song being on the album, and I'm ok with it not being all that faithful, but the way they re-wrote the riff just sucks compared to the original riff.

IMO they took an awesome original song and made a pretty shitty cover of it.
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Derris,

I like the idea of the song being on the album, and I'm ok with it not being all that faithful, but the way they re-wrote the riff just sucks compared to the original riff.

IMO they took an awesome original song and made a pretty shitty cover of it.


I mean, I get that you're the #1 solider in the Kiss army around here but it's shittiness is precisely why I like it and them.

I mean, they could've easily just put a drunken cover of "Takin Care of Business" on there. They're stupid, obnoxious, amatuerish at times, and at times the greatest ever.

The fact that they could hit you with "Androgynous", "I Will Dare", and a piss take "Black Diamond" all within 10 minutes made 'em awesome and ridiculous all at the same time.

In fact, this post may have made up my mind to vote 'Mats.
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Rick Derris Wrote:
Spade Kitty Wrote:
Derris,

I like the idea of the song being on the album, and I'm ok with it not being all that faithful, but the way they re-wrote the riff just sucks compared to the original riff.

IMO they took an awesome original song and made a pretty shitty cover of it.


I mean, I get that you're the #1 solider in the Kiss army around here but it's shittiness is precisely why I like it and them.

I mean, they could've easily just put a drunken cover of "Takin Care of Business" on there. They're stupid, obnoxious, amatuerish at times, and at times the greatest ever.

The fact that they could hit you with "Androgynous", "I Will Dare", and a piss take "Black Diamond" all within 10 minutes made 'em awesome and ridiculous all at the same time.

In fact, this post may have made up my mind to vote 'Mats.


I like this album quite a bit. I just don't like their version of that song, and it actually has very little to do with me being a KISS uber-fan. I just think they changed the melody for the worse. If they had taken any song and done the same thing, my criticism would be exactly the same. I don't really like it when artists fuck with the melody of a song in covers. There are exceptions I guess, but normally I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to this, which is just my own thing I guess.
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billy g Wrote:
Murmur beats Let It Be but Tim would have beat Murmur.
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Spade Kitty Wrote:
Rick Derris Wrote:
Spade Kitty Wrote:
Derris,

I like the idea of the song being on the album, and I'm ok with it not being all that faithful, but the way they re-wrote the riff just sucks compared to the original riff.

IMO they took an awesome original song and made a pretty shitty cover of it.


I mean, I get that you're the #1 solider in the Kiss army around here but it's shittiness is precisely why I like it and them.

I mean, they could've easily just put a drunken cover of "Takin Care of Business" on there. They're stupid, obnoxious, amatuerish at times, and at times the greatest ever.

The fact that they could hit you with "Androgynous", "I Will Dare", and a piss take "Black Diamond" all within 10 minutes made 'em awesome and ridiculous all at the same time.

In fact, this post may have made up my mind to vote 'Mats.


I like this album quite a bit. I just don't like their version of that song, and it actually has very little to do with me being a KISS uber-fan. I just think they changed the melody for the worse. If they had taken any song and done the same thing, my criticism would be exactly the same. I don't really like it when artists fuck with the melody of a song in covers. There are exceptions I guess, but normally I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to this, which is just my own thing I guess.


It probably would have been better if they had just covered "Strutter '78."

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Murmur wins this one
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Rick Derris Wrote:
In fact, this post may have made up my mind to vote 'Mats.


You convinced me. Also, I decided that I just like Let It Be better.

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