NMB/1B - I'm Shipping Up to Boston vs. O Fortuna - Metal-R.US

About2Crash

Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston*

vs.

Carl Orff - O Fortuna

Voting will end Saturday

*Amok has sent me a PM wanting me to switch his song. If anybody wants to change their song, PM me and I will start the battle thread over by the end of today.

N00bs

O Fortuna for me.

Dane

O Fortuna for me as well.

Acid_Burn_420

Damn..this is actually the hardest NMB vote so far....O Fortuna is just epic as fuck, but the Dropkick Murphys is some of the most fun, catchiest punk rock I've heard, and they have some great drinking tunes....think I'll go with the underdog...I'm Shippin up to Boston it is.

Amok

I would have gone for track 2 off of Carmina Burana. It's tighter, has 3 movements and is energetic. O Fortuna has been played to death in commercials and movie trailers. It's, unfortunately, lost its magic for me. For shame. But I still recognize its greatness. However, Dropkick Murphys it is.

Hamish

So is that first song meant to be kind of Irish or something.

O Fortuna. Almost didn't vote for it for the same reason as Amok.

Finite Anarchy

Both are great and that makes this the hardest non-metal battle for me yet. But I'm with Amok. O'Fortuna has been played the hell out. Dropkick Murphys

About2Crash

I love O fortuna, but Amok is right. It is now just public domain music for trailers in movies.

Dropkick Murphys because of The Departed.

Wigg

I'm Shipping Up To Boston because The Departed and it's better.

Also, O Fortuna is epic (except for the big gay flourish at the end), so too is The Omen theme:

Eye_Am

Dropkick Murphys.
(My copy of Warriors Code gets a spin here and there)

Marsallah

Quote:

Originally Posted by About2Crash

I love O fortuna, but Amok is right. It is now just public domain music for trailers in movies.

Yup. Can't stand it. I used to like it when bands used parts of Carmina Burana as an introduction to their live shows, but it's cliche nowadays.

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Originally Posted by About2Crash

Dropkick Murphys because of The Departed.

Don't remind me of this crappy movie - one of biggest disappointments for me after all the stir its release caused. Fucken waste of time.

Dropkick Murphys get my vote, although this has got to be one of their weaker songs. I mean, take any track from Sing Loud, Sing Proud and it owns this one.

Pelican

O' Fortuna
it has been over done but i like it more than people who pretend to be irish

Amok

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pelican

it has been over done but i like it more than people who pretend to be irish

I hate that as well. They have this pseudo tough crap they like to show off as if all the Boston buttholes are made of brick. The pussies.

Sigurd

Carl Orff - O Fortuna

Yes, it has been overdone but I don't watch television so I never see those commercials in which it is obsessively overused (while I do agree that this seriously harms it's credibility as a classical piece). I don't dislike Beethoven's Vth just because it has been played so much, it is still a brilliant piece of music. By the way, that Dropkick Murphys song was actually really good, I'm surprised since most of the time punk makes me want to kill things . . . mostly people who listen to punk.

Merrick

I havent voted for one of these in awhile, but I choose....

Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston

I've heard the other one a million times.

About2Crash

8-5

I'm Shipping Up to Boston

Voting Ends tonight

Eye_Am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sigurd

Carl Orff - O Fortuna

Yes, it has been overdone but I don't watch television so I never see those commercials in which it is obsessively overused (while I do agree that this seriously harms it's credibility as a classical piece). I don't dislike Beethoven's Vth just because it has been played so much, it is still a brilliant piece of music. By the way, that Dropkick Murphys song was actually really good, I'm surprised since most of the time punk makes me want to kill things . . . mostly people who listen to punk.

Well, they are different in the punk world. There is a Celtic Punk thing in America that isn't well known. They mix the Scottish/Irish folk with punk and it is surprisingly good at times. A lot of punks can't stand it, but that's because they are idiots.
Quote from Johnny Lydon, A.K.A. Johnny Rotten:
"You know what killed punk rock? Punk rockers."

They conformed to a dress code and ONLY certain bands... Punk rock was never about dressing a certain way or listening to only certain bands with a certain sound.

About2Crash

Well, The Sex Pistols were pretty much another boy band owned by Warner Bros. so if anything, The Sex Pistols simultaneously created and destroyed punk.

Eye_Am

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Originally Posted by About2Crash

Well, The Sex Pistols were pretty much another boy band owned by Warner Bros. so if anything, The Sex Pistols simultaneously created and destroyed punk.

You need to watch a movie called "The Filth and the Fury."

They were'nt owned by anyone. 2 different times they got payed and never released an album because the different record companies couldn't deal with who they were.

EMI?

About2Crash

I also never cared for their music either outside of Anarchy in the UK, but that's just me

Dane Voidness MRU Donor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: At play in the fields of the lord Posts: 5,820 Images: 7 Horns up: 240 Horns up 254 times in 196 posts	O Fortuna for me as well.
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Acid_Burn_420 Dope Smokin' Metal Geek Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Niagara Falls, Canada Posts: 294 Horns up: 93 Horns up 39 times in 31 posts	Damn..this is actually the hardest NMB vote so far....O Fortuna is just epic as fuck, but the Dropkick Murphys is some of the most fun, catchiest punk rock I've heard, and they have some great drinking tunes....think I'll go with the underdog...I'm Shippin up to Boston it is.

Amok They All Look At Me Funny Moderator MRU Donor Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Olympia, WA. Posts: 10,016 Images: 4 Horns up: 283 Horns up 606 times in 458 posts	I would have gone for track 2 off of Carmina Burana. It's tighter, has 3 movements and is energetic. O Fortuna has been played to death in commercials and movie trailers. It's, unfortunately, lost its magic for me. For shame. But I still recognize its greatness. However, Dropkick Murphys it is.
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Hamish From The World MRU Donor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 5,840 Images: 22 Horns up: 226 Horns up 267 times in 174 posts	So is that first song meant to be kind of Irish or something. O Fortuna. Almost didn't vote for it for the same reason as Amok.
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Finite Anarchy Being Awesome Since 1985 MRU Donor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NYC/Madrid Posts: 2,992 Images: 27 Horns up: 65 Horns up 189 times in 125 posts	Both are great and that makes this the hardest non-metal battle for me yet. But I'm with Amok. O'Fortuna has been played the hell out. Dropkick Murphys
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Wigg I am really really great. Moderator MRU Donor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 5,570 Images: 14 Horns up: 283 Horns up 424 times in 306 posts	I'm Shipping Up To Boston because The Departed and it's better. Also, O Fortuna is epic (except for the big gay flourish at the end), so too is The Omen theme:
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Pelican Tea Snob Moderator MRU Donor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England, not Britain Posts: 5,459 Images: 49 Horns up: 365 Horns up 293 times in 214 posts	O' Fortuna it has been over done but i like it more than people who pretend to be irish
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