Favorite Song Tourney Matchup #29 The Future Soon vs. I Crush Everything
We are down to the final four of the first tier songs!
Selection is getting really difficult now I know. Folks might be inclined to not participate either because they can't decide or they like both songs and don't care which one wins.
Lets try, then, to imagine a scenario in which choosing might be important. I'm sure on a personal level we can thing of a dozen stranded with only one song situations, but as emassaries of JoCo I want to imagine something different.
One of my favorite stories of discovery for any band is that of The 5.6.7.8's. The story goes that Quentin Tarantino was in Japan and headed to the airport when he heard their music playing in a clothing store. He asked about it but didn't have time to go hunt it down at a music store so he bought it from the store clerk, then hurried of to catch his plane. Later he used his the band in the movie Kill Bill. But lets not make this discussion about that band, director or his movies.
In that vein though, imagine you have a run in with a busy director/artist of some sort, you think you have a pretty good chance of convincing him or her to use JoCo in their next project. The problem is they only have time to listen to one song and you for some reason only have these two songs available. Which do you choose and why?
So, on to the matchup.
Favorite Song Tourney Matchup #29 The Future Soon vs. I Crush Everything
Voting opens Wednesday.
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Calling this one for The Future Soon 29-9
Selection is getting really difficult now I know. Folks might be inclined to not participate either because they can't decide or they like both songs and don't care which one wins.
Lets try, then, to imagine a scenario in which choosing might be important. I'm sure on a personal level we can thing of a dozen stranded with only one song situations, but as emassaries of JoCo I want to imagine something different.
One of my favorite stories of discovery for any band is that of The 5.6.7.8's. The story goes that Quentin Tarantino was in Japan and headed to the airport when he heard their music playing in a clothing store. He asked about it but didn't have time to go hunt it down at a music store so he bought it from the store clerk, then hurried of to catch his plane. Later he used his the band in the movie Kill Bill. But lets not make this discussion about that band, director or his movies.
In that vein though, imagine you have a run in with a busy director/artist of some sort, you think you have a pretty good chance of convincing him or her to use JoCo in their next project. The problem is they only have time to listen to one song and you for some reason only have these two songs available. Which do you choose and why?
So, on to the matchup.
Favorite Song Tourney Matchup #29 The Future Soon vs. I Crush Everything
Voting opens Wednesday.
eta
Calling this one for The Future Soon 29-9
Comments
(As with Still Alive) I respond to it better on a purely emotional level.
TFS is really straightforward, telling a story from the beginning, giving all necessary information, while ICE is kind of more abstract, you wouldn't necessarily guess that it's a giant squid, and maybe you don't need to, but you'd probably be confused if you didn't know. So actually, this makes TFS a better song to play to a friend as an introduction to JoCo, but the fact that it's such a concrete story (even if only in a daydream) means that it's only going to be useful to a fairly narrow range of art projects. So for the big-shot I'd play ICE.
This doesn't help me decide which to vote for, though.
TFS has my full support (until it's up against "Skullcrusher Mountain," when I will abandon it as though I were a no-good dolphin).
Vote early!
Vote closes in 1 week.
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do not let my poor spelling sway your vote.
I'm happy with either song winning, though. They're both fantastic.
I voted ICE just to be different, and because I really like that song. But I really like both, of course.
ICE deserves more
I still haven't voted. Does it matter that much when you're 18 votes down?
I forgive and I let go.
Better than nothing, I guess. It all works out for the squid!
She'll look the same except her giant yellow eye.
She lost the real one in the giant squid wars...