**Fake Scarcity Mixtape Draft #1: Tuesday picks 12 & 4PM EDT (1 Viewer)

[Northern Voice]

I feel like I draft the same songs in every one of these drafts.

This is why I sometimes impose my own additional restrictions on myself, you can only have PSSOM on so many mix tapes.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I feel like I draft the same songs in every one of these drafts.

Then don't!

Yep. As long as you like more than twenty songs, you should be able to find things you like to draft.

 

[Ilov80s]

Feel free to skip me when my turn comes. I'll catch up when I get on.

 

[Hov34]

Same here. If I'm not in the thread skip me.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Forgot our different levels of drafting hardcoredness, but still going to attempt to not draft a band more than once in these drafts (starting from the last couple of course). If my notes are accurate, I always seem to miss out drafting my favorite band, so I will correct that now. No idea how this will fit into a mix, but this is first song of theirs that really hooked me. I remember sitting in a friend's dorm room listening to the song over and over...

Pick (1) song performed by a group including two or more members of a nuclear family (brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers). Scarcity twist: group comes off the board when selected.

1.3 Radiohead -- Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Three selections on the first day of a music draft must set a new record low for the FFA. Let's hope we can pick up the pace, otherwise we'll finish this in early August.

 

[Eephus]

Three selections on the first day of a music draft must set a new record low for the FFA. Let's hope we can pick up the pace, otherwise we'll finish this in early August.

Relax nerds. All quality picks.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Three selections on the first day of a music draft must set a new record low for the FFA. Let's hope we can pick up the pace, otherwise we'll finish this in early August.

Relax nerds. All quality picks.

Love the picks, not the pace.

 

[Eephus]

Three selections on the first day of a music draft must set a new record low for the FFA. Let's hope we can pick up the pace, otherwise we'll finish this in early August.

Relax nerds. All quality picks.

Love the picks, not the pace.

I'm still 17 picks away

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I'll pencil that pick in for Saturday

 

[KarmaPolice]

 

[simey]

 

[El Floppo]

I feel like I draft the same songs in every one of these drafts.

Then don't!

Yep. As long as you like more than twenty songs, you should be able to find things you like to draft.

 

[Steve Tasker]

I'm still waiting for Doug B right?

 

[Doug B]

I can be skipped ... hard for me to pin down one song now. Still mulling.

 

[Doug B]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

 

[simey]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

I don't know if it will matter, but that is one of my favorite TH songs.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

I don't know if it will matter, but that is one of my favorite TH songs.

Great song

 

[Steve Tasker]

1.05 - Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

(song with numbers in the title - 2)

 

[El Floppo]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

ok... great band song etc... but they met and formed at RISD. not in NY.

 

[timschochet]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

 

[simey]

1.05 - Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

(song with numbers in the title - 2)

Taking Arcade Fire means they can't be used again, right? Also does taking ll mean that the word couple can't be used for the # in title category now?

 

[El Floppo]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

 

[zamboni]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

ok... great band song etc... but they met and formed at RISD. not in NY.

That was my thought too, but wiki says they formed in NYC. Not sure what the real deal is.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Just the #2.

 

[simey]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

Arcade Fire has brothers in it, but I think they are off the board now since they were chosen in a # title song.

 

[zamboni]

From wiki:

David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth were alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. There Byrne and Frantz formed a band called "The Artistics" in 1974.[7] Weymouth was Frantz's girlfriend and often provided transportation for the band. The Artistics dissolved within a year, and the three moved to New York, eventually sharing a communal loft.[8] Unable to find a bass player in New York City, Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums.[9] They played their first gig as "Talking Heads" opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 20, 1975.[2]

 

[Doug B]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

ok... great band song etc... but they met and formed at RISD. not in NY.

Thought that originally, too. But the band at RISD was not the Talking Heads. Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison were not in David Byrne and Chris Frantz' college band. Which wasn't called "Talking Heads" anyway.

 

[El Floppo]

Wonder if closing out a big state will matter here:

"Wild Wild Life", Talking Heads (U.S. State - New York)

ok... great band song etc... but they met and formed at RISD. not in NY.

Thought that originally, too. But the band at RISD was not the Talking Heads. Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison were not in David Byrne and Chris Frantz' college band. Which wasn't called "Talking Heads" anyway.

hmmm- learn something new every draft. I stand corrected.

 

[zamboni]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

Arcade Fire has brothers in it, but I think they are off the board now since they were chosen in a # title song.

My understanding is that Arcade Fire can still be used in the family category.

 

[Doug B]

Taking Arcade Fire means they can't be used again, right? Also does taking ll mean that the word couple can't be used for the # in title category now?

Yeah, just how is the scarcity thing being enforced? Only within the category, or draftwide? I missed a lot of the pre-draft discussion, and was taking the second post at face value.

 

[El Floppo]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

Arcade Fire has brothers in it, but I think they are off the board now since they were chosen in a # title song.

wait- so once a band is taken in ANY cat, they're off the board?

 

[El Floppo]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

Arcade Fire has brothers in it, but I think they are off the board now since they were chosen in a # title song.

My understanding is that Arcade Fire can still be used in the family category.

that was my understanding too

 

[Hov34]

1.06 The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" (band with family members)

Will link later. As soon as I saw this category I knew I wanted a Kinks' song. But so many great ones to choose from. This has always been one of my very favorites.

the family cat is going to be interesting for me- I don't really pay attention to band members in groups and know Im going to be surprised pretty consistently by bands that share family (as I am with the Kinks).

Arcade Fire has brothers in it, but I think they are off the board now since they were chosen in a # title song.

wait- so once a band is taken in ANY cat, they're off the board?

I thought it was just in that category it was off the board.

 

[zamboni]

Eeph will have to rule on it - in the interim, let's shy away from further Arcade Fire picks.

 

[Northern Voice]

I think they're only technically off the board in the category they're selected in, but a lot of people like to go more hardcore and once a band is taken they won't select them again in ANY category.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I'm pretty sure only the #2 is off the board, not the band, for that or any other category at this point.

 

[simey]

I'm pretty sure only the #2 is off the board, not the band, for that or any other category at this point.

can the word couple still be used?

 

[El Floppo]

I'm pretty sure only the #2 is off the board, not the band, for that or any other category at this point.

wait... so I can't take 2 Legit 2 Quit?

 

[El Floppo]

I'm pretty sure only the #2 is off the board, not the band, for that or any other category at this point.

can the word couple still be used?

I don't see couple as a number. numerical expression, yeah- but not a number.

 

[KarmaPolice]

i thought it was : the #2 is off the board, and Arcade Fire is off the board for this category.

 

[simey]

Eeph will have to rule on it - in the interim, let's shy away from further Arcade Fire picks.

Ok. I thought when Eephus said "Scarcity twist: group comes off the board when selected" that meant they were completely gone off the board in any category. Sorry for spotlighting Arcade Fire as an example.

 

[Eephus]

Of course artists picked in one category are still eligible in others. This is a nerd draft, not a masochist draft.

If you want to be hardcore though go for it, just don't expect everybody else to jump in your mosh pit.

 

[Eephus]

 

[simey]

I'm pretty sure only the #2 is off the board, not the band, for that or any other category at this point.

can the word couple still be used?

I don't see couple as a number. numerical expression, yeah- but not a number.

Ok. Thanks. I had a couple drinks this morning, can anyone tell? J/K

 

[El Floppo]

ok- so I can take 2 Legit 2 Quit

 

[Doug B]

wait- so once a band is taken in ANY cat, they're off the board?

If you're asking me ... this would make the draft A LOT more interesting.

Maybe any given act can be limited to two or three selections draftwide.

 

[Eephus]

1 . 6 --- timschochet

1 . 7 --- Mr Ected

1 . 8 --- sn0mm1s

1 . 9 --- The Dreaded Marco

1 . 10 --- GrOOvus

1 . 11 --- Mister CIA

1 . 12 --- simey

 

[KarmaPolice]

wait- so once a band is taken in ANY cat, they're off the board?

If you're asking me ... this would make the draft A LOT more interesting.

Maybe any given act can be limited to two or three selections draftwide.

As eephus said, i think a lot drafters self impose this level of draft integrity, but i would rather have people draft stuff they love than make everyone have to dig super deep for songs.

 

[Eephus]

1.05 - Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

(song with numbers in the title - 2)

Taking Arcade Fire means they can't be used again, right? Also does taking ll mean that the word couple can't be used for the # in title category now?

i thought it was : the #2 is off the board, and Arcade Fire is off the board for this category.

ok- so I can take 2 Legit 2 Quit

Not in the numbers category but it's still eligible in the "videos with Chris Mullin" category