Indie Rock Baseball
While listening to Interpol's Our Love to Admire with a friend of mine, we devised a way to turn album reviews into a fun little game. We appropriately titled the method 'Indie Rock Baseball.' Here's how it works:
* You start with two outs and no one on base.
* Each time you skip to the next track without finishing the one you were listening to, that's a strike.
* Each time you finish a song, that's a ball.
* Each time you actually *like* a song, that's a hit. Naturally. Or a single, if you prefer. This also resets the count (as would four balls). Now you would have a runner on. Another hit (or walk) would advance the runner, etc.
* There are multi-base hits for songs you really like. It does help open things up, but please use sparingly, as we don't want these things to end up being just another bunch of lopsided Yankee-Devil Ray games.
* A runner scores from 2nd on a hit. I guess this would also imply a runner on 1st would score on a double. Use your best judgment.
* Once a record reaches three strikes, it's OUT. Of your CD player (or preferred music player).
* Otherwise, you post the result (e.g. 1 run, 2 left on base).
For instance, Our Love to Admire, sporting ridiculous amounts of "empty church" reverb, struck out after four pitches. Of course, the 2nd song is titled “No ‘I’ in Threesome”, which probably should’ve gotten it tossed faster than Lou Pinella on a 100-degree day.
Quick, somebody give me a CD to review! Post your own album scores in the comments.
*UPDATE* - - Here is the first official Indie Rock Baseball match: The Cribs vs The Automatic Automatic
**UPDATE 2** - - IndieRockBaseball.Com is up and running!
Comments
[...] latest Indie Rock Baseball match up pits Rilo Kiley against The New Pornographers. Read the rules HERE. Play [...]
[...] latest Indie Rock Baseball match up pits Hopewell against The National. Read the rules HERE. Play [...]
[...] promised here’s the Indie Rock Baseball review of Bloc Party - A Weekend in the [...]
[...] Swizz Beatz's debut album has a song that samples...Coldplay's "X&Y." [gag] • Indie Rock Baseball [...]
[...] Shuller pointed me to this concept called Indie Rock Baseball. [...]
Damn, Dan, you ever heard of a little word called "please"? Yeesh. You're gonna have a HUGE strike zone.
[...] latest Indie Rock Baseball match up pits The Ponys against The Stalkers. Read the rules HERE. Play [...]
[...] It was a tough game, going into extra innings, but only one could emerge victorious. Click HERE for the [...]
I'm starting to feel bad using that record for an example. If only i had any idea people were going to read this, i'da done, i dunno, The Decemberists or something. Sorry, fellas! But, i'm posting a new one soon, featuring artists you might have actually heard of. Stay tuned.
Does a runner score from second on a single (like in real baseball) or does he have to make it all the way to third? Just a small clarification. Cool game.
I've been playing that they do. Also, multi-base hits (as you will see in today's post) open the game up a lot too. Lastly (this will be addressed tomorrow), "runners stranded" will here on in refer to tracks NOT PLAYED from a record. So, for instance, neither the Cribs nor Automatic stranded anyone; conversely, Interpol and that other band i reviewed stranded plenty. Glad you like it! We're still perfecting it as you can see.
"Each time you finish a song, that’s a ball." So true.
Upon second listen, it (interpol) would have been OUT on 3 pitches. I felt the umpire was kind of blind on that 2nd song and called it a WALK
I decided i’d better try this method out on a new record i actually like, so i gave the new LCD Soundsystem a spin. The result: 2 runs on 4 hits, with two men left on. Also, it occurred to me: a runner on 2nd should score on a hit. It only makes sense.
Awesome game. played it with Runaway Orange's The cutting room. 4 runs, and 2 left on base
Now for your perusing pleasure: IndieRockBaseball.com. New posts will also be simulcast here at the Lime Wire Music Blog, of course! Good game, everybody.
Review this album: Final Round - None of us Will Ever Leave A Legacy the whole thing is at www.purevolume.com/finalround
[...] latest Indie Rock Baseball match up pits Blaqk Audio against LCD Soundsystem. Read the rules HERE. Play [...]
[...] folks over at the LimeWire blog [via Idolator] have come up with a pretty brilliant way to kill time during a rain-delay; while [...]
That's so much better than normal baseball.