-= Frank Black Forum =-
-= Frank Black Forum =-
Home | Profile | Register | Active Topics | Members | Search | FAQ
Username:
Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?

 All Forums
 Frank Black Chat
 General Frank Black Chat
 Can We Do Album Survivor?
 New Topic  Reply to Topic
 Printer Friendly
Previous Page | Next Page
Author Previous Topic Topic Next Topic
Page: of 28

pot
> Teenager of the Year <

Iceland
3909 Posts

Posted - 03/22/2019 :  12:20:16  Show Profile  Visit pot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The Purple Tape
Go to Top of Page

stuczuba
= Cult of Ray =

471 Posts

Posted - 03/22/2019 :  21:05:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by pot

The Purple Tape



Voting to save?

Which round can I play my Last Splash wildcard?
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/24/2019 :  00:41:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Early returns:

Pistolero - 1

Golem - 1

The Purple Tape - 1
Go to Top of Page

Brank_Flack
= Cult of Ray =

Canada
908 Posts

Posted - 03/24/2019 :  05:27:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pistolero
Go to Top of Page

stuczuba
= Cult of Ray =

471 Posts

Posted - 03/25/2019 :  03:03:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Golem
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/25/2019 :  05:25:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Show Me Your Tears
Go to Top of Page

The Maharal
= Cult of Ray =

959 Posts

Posted - 03/25/2019 :  09:37:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pistolero
Go to Top of Page

Fitzy
- FB Fan -

Portugal
86 Posts

Posted - 03/25/2019 :  14:57:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pistolero
Go to Top of Page

Active Duck
~ Abstract Brain ~

United Kingdom
410 Posts

Posted - 03/26/2019 :  02:49:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is the first round where I'm finding it hard to justify voting anything off.

No way I can get on board with voting for Pistolero. I love that record. It would be interesting to do an album artwork survivor... Pistolero and FB & the Catholics Self-Titled have to be two of the worst looking albums of all time.

I'm going to go for SVN Fingers. Mainly because I've listened to it less than anything else left on the list. Going to listen to it now though so I may be back to change my mind later.
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/26/2019 :  02:58:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Super Tuesday polling numbers:

Pistolero - 4

Golem - 2

SVN Fingers - 1

Show Me Your Tears - 1

The Purple Tape - 1

Agree with Active Duck about how good Pistolero is but how bad the album artwork is.

I was actually thinking about how awesome every FBF album is from Come On Pilgrim through TOTY... and then Cult of Ray comes along, and even though I LOVE that album, the cover artwork maybe is a hint that things are not going to be quite as awesome anymore.
Go to Top of Page

johnnyribcage
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1291 Posts

Posted - 03/26/2019 :  10:32:34  Show Profile  Visit johnnyribcage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well, I guess I’m going to go with SVN again. Might as well be consistent. I’m trying to have some integrity and not have everyone else’s vote be a factor in my own voting. It doesn’t help that I’ve never watched the TV show Survivor, and I think that’s the inspiration for the framework here. From here on out I may change my vote to try to save something, but I’ll avoid that if I can.


I had a bad reaction to your public hobby writings.
Go to Top of Page

pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <

United Kingdom
2564 Posts

Posted - 03/27/2019 :  04:10:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I usually have an album in mind but if there's something I particularly want to save that has a few votes already then I can be persuaded otherwise to try and save it.

It is getting tougher each round though, because my favourite albums change pretty regularly. I'll vote out SVN FNGRS this week to make it 4-3 at time of posting and close the gap on Pistolero a little.
Go to Top of Page

pot
> Teenager of the Year <

Iceland
3909 Posts

Posted - 03/27/2019 :  05:53:06  Show Profile  Visit pot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Serious vote for Pistolero to open the gap and save SVN for another week
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/27/2019 :  07:37:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Midweek numbers:

Pistolero - 5

SVN Fingers - 3

Golem - 2

Show Me Your Tears - 1
Go to Top of Page

moonruler
- FB Fan -

USA
195 Posts

Posted - 03/27/2019 :  13:04:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
svn fngrs

Surprised at how painful it has been to follow along with this.
My faves dropping left and right.

Random vote out of nowhere. I think there is a need to start album appreciation threads, because this is killing me.

________________
“make…some…room”
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/28/2019 :  00:41:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Scoring update:

Pistolero - 5

SVN Fingers - 4

Golem - 2

Show Me Your Tears - 1

Good idea moonruler re: album appreciation thread. I'd be glad to join in with that.
Go to Top of Page

danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
2787 Posts

Posted - 03/28/2019 :  20:25:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
SVN Fingers
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  00:48:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is certainly going to be known as a black letter day for many at the forum as we have a tie vote for the first time in our survivor series and have to say goodbye to two very fine albums at once.

Week 18 voting starts immediately

Gone

Paley and Francis
Let the People Speak
Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day
Snake Oil
Petit Fours
One More Road for the Hit
Abbabubba
Oddballs
NSE
Indie Cindy
Honeycomb
Christmass
Cult of Ray
B-Sides
Head Carrier
FMRM
Pistolero*
SVN Fingers*

Still surviving:

Come on Pilgrim
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle
Bossanova
Trompe Le Monde
Frank Black Self-Titled
TOTY
Frank Black and the Catholics Self-Titled
Dog in the Sand
Black Letter Days
Devil's Workshop
Show Me Your Tears
Bluefinger
Golem
Go to Top of Page

stuczuba
= Cult of Ray =

471 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  01:22:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Given up trying to exterminate Golem...

I'm going with Devil's Workshop, just cos it's not as good as BLD..
Go to Top of Page

Brank_Flack
= Cult of Ray =

Canada
908 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  02:52:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Frank Black and the Catholics

All My Ghosts and Dog Gone are among his best songs, Steak and Sabre is great, and the lyrical return to the Old Testament/antiquity is ceretainy welcome, but it and Pistolero are a bit too meat and potatoes for me, even if that was the intended aesthetic. I far prefer the Catholic's alt-country run. Plus, as has been pointed out already, the album artwork is truly terrible.

Edited by - Brank_Flack on 03/29/2019 12:32:42
Go to Top of Page

johnnyribcage
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1291 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  05:24:38  Show Profile  Visit johnnyribcage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well, interestingly stuczuba, I’m now at the point where I think it’s time for the Golem to shuffle off back to Prague. Good as It is, I don’t think it belongs above anything left on the list.

Go meet yourself back at the ghetto gates, Golem. You had a good run.


I had a bad reaction to your public hobby writings.

Edited by - johnnyribcage on 03/29/2019 05:26:46
Go to Top of Page

sdon
= Cult of Ray =

France
779 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  06:25:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
voting Golem

--
"Aristophanes! (gong sounds)"
"Fucking up my devotion!"
Go to Top of Page

The Maharal
= Cult of Ray =

959 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  09:45:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Frank Black and the Catholics
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/29/2019 :  21:38:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Early numbers:

Golem - 2

FB&C's - 2

DW - 1
Go to Top of Page

Active Duck
~ Abstract Brain ~

United Kingdom
410 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  01:43:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Devil's Workshop to even things up
Go to Top of Page

Sprite
* Dog in the Sand *

1221 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  11:15:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hmmm could be tempted to go for FB&C but I think I like it more than Golem,

Voting Golem
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  13:56:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The remaining albums are, for me, clustered together in two groups, A and B.

I could happily pick any from the B group to say goodbye to, and all three of the ones people voted for so far are B's.

I'm leaning toward Golem. Going to listen to it one more time this week, and a couple Catholic records, and then decide.
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  13:57:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Current update is

Golem - 3

FB&C's - 2

DW - 2
Go to Top of Page

Fitzy
- FB Fan -

Portugal
86 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  14:13:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Golem doesn't have Lyle Workman, but the songs are just too good. Voting FB&C.

FB&C is kind of uneven for me. For example, the lyrics to 'I need peace' are a bit awkward, but the song also has one of the most badass moments he's ever recorded with a band. That break. 2:42 in. "What the hell is that?!", every time.

Interesting that 'Show Me Your Tears' is quietly making its way, round after round. Snake-like, some would say. Wouldn't have guessed it.
Go to Top of Page

johnnyribcage
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1291 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  16:05:12  Show Profile  Visit johnnyribcage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Fitzy



Interesting that 'Show Me Your Tears' is quietly making its way, round after round. Snake-like, some would say. Wouldn't have guessed it.


I feel like it's trucking right along where it should be, for me anyway. It's time is coming, but not yet.


I had a bad reaction to your public hobby writings.
Go to Top of Page

danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
2787 Posts

Posted - 03/30/2019 :  16:14:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Devil's Workshop
Go to Top of Page

sdon
= Cult of Ray =

France
779 Posts

Posted - 03/31/2019 :  02:13:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hoping for a tie so we can be rid of those three :)

--
"Aristophanes! (gong sounds)"
"Fucking up my devotion!"
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 04/02/2019 :  07:04:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I'm voting Devil's Workshop

Score:

Devil's Workshop - 4

Golem - 3

FB&C's - 3
Go to Top of Page

pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <

United Kingdom
2564 Posts

Posted - 04/04/2019 :  06:56:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Devil's Workshop. Could be tempted to go for Golem but either way, I feel it would be too early in the process to lose FB&C's. All My Ghosts, The Man Who Was Too Loud...to me they're both absolute top tier Frank songs.

Plus Lyle Workman's guitar is on fire throughout the whole damn album and it's in alphabetical order because, fuck it, when the songs are so good it doesn't matter what order they're in!
Go to Top of Page

Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <

2952 Posts

Posted - 04/04/2019 :  07:43:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Tomorrow is the last day to vote, and one album appears to be pulling ahead.

Get your vote in if you haven't already.

Devil's Workshop - 5

Golem - 3

FB&C's - 3
Go to Top of Page
Page: of 28 Previous Topic Topic Next Topic  
Previous Page | Next Page
 New Topic  Reply to Topic
 Printer Friendly
Jump To:
-= Frank Black Forum =- © 2002-2020 Frank Black Fans, Inc. Go To Top Of Page
Snitz Forums 2000