Board 8 > Rank the Tracks Week 78: The Ataris' So Long, Astoria (+RATM results)

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I would go with My War for this topic series tbh.

Slip It In is the REAL good stuff!

Yeah Black Flag is a very famous and influential band

This album was very ok but ultimately pretty forgettable unfortunately. Most songs kinda blended together

1. Eight of Nine
2. The Saddest Song
3. So Long, Astoria
4. All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know
5. Takeoffs and Landings
6. Looking Back on Tuesday
7. Unopened Letter to the World
8. The Boys of Summer
9. The Hero Dies in This One
10. Radio #2
11. The Saddest Song (Acoustic) [suddenly sounds much tackier like this imo]
12. My Reply
13. Summer '79
14. In This Diary
15. I Won't Spend Another Night Alone

1. The Boys of Summer - The Henley original is a favorite of mine, and this cover preserves enough of its appeal.
2. Takeoffs and Landings
3. The Saddest Song (Acoustic) - I can say what I want, but really, I prefer this version purely because its the closer.
4. My Reply
5. So Long, Astoria
6. The Saddest Song
7. In My Diary
8. Looking Back on Tuesday
9. I Wont Spend Another Night Alone
10. Radio #2
11. Summer 79
12. Eight of Nine
13. All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know
14. Unopened Letter
15. The Hero Dies in This One

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Also, before I forget again, perhaps the next two OPs could have links to the Rank the Albums topic (with reminders that there's no need to listen to the whole list), or maybe separate posts would work better?

The Black Flag reference isn't off putting to me, but it does make me question some things. Henry Rollins, a VERY prolific speaker has said that they made sure the Black Flag logo was very distinct and distinguishable... they made it to sell it, even for generations to come. But who says The Grateful Dead didn't do exactly that? So the question then is... is it actually disingenuous to slap either of those logos on a symbol of wealth and luxury when those logos were in fact meant to make make money. Who is the hypocrite here... the bands that "sold out" or the artists that would try to sell a song by name dropping those bands?

Capitalism. You have it or you don't. That's a fallacy... You know, because you have it. (>_>)

1. Boys of Summer
2. My Reply
3. In This Diary
4. So Long, Astoria
5. Takeoffs and Landings
6. All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know
7. The Hero Dies in This One
8. Radio #2
9. Looking Back on Today
10. I Wont Spend Another Night Alone
11. Summer 79
12. Unopened Letter to the World
13. Eight of Nine
14. The Saddest Song (Acoustic)
15. The Saddest Song

Updated list to add the acoustic version of The Saddest Song. Id say its better than the regular version but theyre still my least favorite tracks on the album. The acoustic version at least ups the emotional weight of the song a bit. Considering the subject matter, I thought the regular version was a little flat in the emotion department.

ChichiriMuyo posted...

The Black Flag reference isn't off putting to me, but it does make me question some things. Henry Rollins, a VERY prolific speaker has said that they made sure the Black Flag logo was very distinct and distinguishable... they made it to sell it, even for generations to come. But who says The Grateful Dead didn't do exactly that? So the question then is... is it actually disingenuous to slap either of those logos on a symbol of wealth and luxury when those logos were in fact meant to make make money. Who is the hypocrite here... the bands that "sold out" or the artists that would try to sell a song by name dropping those bands?

Capitalism. You have it or you don't. That's a fallacy... You know, because you have it. (>_>)

Hey, can you correct your track ranking? You left Looking Back on Today off.