(2) Tumble - 09/20/2025 vs. (3) Everything Must Go - 02/13/2025

Canyon Dan you a legend -- thanks for sharing your story

It's strange voting in a matchup like this, where I personally don't feel like either of these are Final Four worthy, vs. the feeling of the previous Dripfield vs. FITS vote where I personally feel both are worthy. Brackets, yo. I went Tumble, but yes I do 2nd guess it. I expect AIN to crush either of these next round anyway.

This Tumble is just gorgeous! The EMG is good but the Tumble has the magic!

The further we get along the more angered and finger pointing happens in these threads eh?

Came into this liking the EMG more but on a side by side listen I'm digging Tumble as a more powerful jam.

What's been really interesting to me is learning how people go about voting. For me, I listen to the jams side by side and vote which I think is better to my taste, as I feel that's kinda the purpose of a head to head bracket style matchup. One v one baby! It's clear I might be in a minority seeing comments of folks voting for the jam they had higher in their personal cumulative rankings, folks voting against a jam because the theme has been played elsewhere or some other jam in the thread does the same thing but better.

Not saying there is a right or wrong way to do it (if I went with my rankings from a month ago I'd be voting for EMG), but I do feel a one v one listen feels the cleanest or most true to the competition style to me, especially as we get deeper into the bracket. It's been interesting to watch unfold!

I’m really happy to see Tumble ahead here. It warms my heart.

I like both of these jams, but to my ears this EMG is the superior jam and it's a shame to see it go out here. There's an energy and momentum to this EMG jam and I've grown to love it more and more the more I've listened to it this year. This Tumble jam is good but I don't find it as exciting.

Seems like people have a hard time when something from the Feb run doesn’t advance. Assuming this holds there will still be 3 jams from Feb in the elite 8. Unfortunate I guess that the two best are going up against each other in the next round but that’s the bracket madness baby!

EMG EMG EMG

EMG is making a last-minute push!! Let’s keep it going!!

Hate to see this EMG fall to an opponent like this

Woke up hoping to see some sanity in the votes….yet here we are - pure tomfoolery that 6/29 AIN or 9/20 Tumble will be in the final four over either 2/13 EMG and 2/10 Pancakes - gonna be interesting to see how this all ultimately shakes out.

For those as dismayed as me on how this quadrant of the bracket played out - give 10/25/24 Tumble a listen today. One of my all time favorite goose jams (not a long one ~13/14 mins, but a f*ckin powerhouse) and it's a great show in general (the day Phil Lesh died) with some nice Dead covers in the second set / encore in ode to Phil!

Go listen again and push this EMG through . I promise it's better and if you don't believe me go ask Captain Incredible.

Disclaimer. Distracted tonight. One kid Urgent Care another a surprise project due tomorrow.

Still going strong for the music. Call me a music snob but Tumble is not there. Back half got me upset with a basic bliss then last 5 felt like add on disjointed jam for the sake of jamness.

Voted Everything Must Go, still not impressed but it was a unified cohesion jam. Little dark at parts, love that. Then if you listen to the crowd at the end of the song you can hear the crowd whistles madly and screaming “that shit was crazy”!!

Miss hearing the crowd, good old tapers days.

Love this Tumble but I’m really tired of it always coming down to Madhuvan, Dripfield, Thatch, Tumble. So I voted for EMG, which I also love.

We need more stories like Canyon Dan's.. has by far the most thumbs up on this thread for a reason

EMG for me. While not as good as the MKE EMG (which is my JOTY), I love its propulsive energy.

EMG was good (#20 for me), but this Tumble was great (#4). Also congrats to Canyon Dan -- excellent story.

Please don’t hold Ryan’s love of EMG against it. It’s the better jam, and significantly so.

Went Tumble here, Ricks tone/effect for most of the jam and outro on this EMG isn’t my favorite. Did the Mann Tumble ruin all future bliss Tumble’s? Maybe. But this one deserves the W here.

Listened to both of these today while storm skiing the Bird! The skiing was epic and I fondly remember listening to this EMG last winter, but I gotta say that this tumble takes the cake. The ski test is the ultimate test.

Love both of these jams and they were both high on my list. The bliss section in this tumble is gorgeous and one of my favorite segments of the year. But, It is really the only part of this tumble that I find to be special. I am going everything must go here. This is an amazing jam that should have been better seed. I love this type of goose playing, it makes you feel some type of way. Rick at 18:18 🔥🔥🔥

My favorite thing about this EMG is Rick’s playing. He’s playing with a soaring confidence that doesn’t overpower the rest of the band, who are all equally matching his intensity and power. His riffs are supercharged and mesmerizing, and he’s playing with a passion and explosiveness that I haven’t heard since Fox Arrow. This is probably my favorite moment from Rick all year.

This Tumble I look at as a more relaxed reprise of Mann Tumble. They take the theme and play it in a much more nostalgic and reflective way. I’ve found a deeper appreciation to this jam as the bracket has moved forward, and have started to really enjoy the development of the Mann Tumble theme. Ultimately, I give the edge to EMG as it is more creative and exciting.

Cotter is an absolute animal throughout this Tumble, best one of the year. This bliss peak was a magical moment in chicago. and then the fun short chaos jam back into tumble sold this one for me. GR EMG was probably my early JOTY but attendance bias will take me tumbling

Tumble by more than a nose. It's grand and majestic and memorable if just sub-elite

EMG is a little more unique, but it's nothing special. There are a good 10-ish jams I like better

Wheat/Chaff time. Elite means Elite

Came to Play/Matt Ross/lol bluesky

Just remembered this EMG beat fiddlers factory in the last round & im mad again

Tumble starts out real strong, but the bliss part fizzles for me. EMG is okay. Neither of these are particularly special for me. I'll go with anti-attendance bias and vote for the jam I wasn't at, which from the comments seems to be the underdog- so another reason to vote for the EMG. It doesn't ever fizzle to me.
I'll immediately be voting AIN over either of these next round.

Giving the nod to Tumble, their best of the year, and my #4 JOTY. Such a high-energy jam throughout! Even the calm middle washes over you in the best way, which in itself is energizing!

After a couple more listens in the past 24 hours I decided to against my gut and vote Tumble by the smallest of margins

A couple of weeks ago I ran a half marathon and both these tracks were on my playlist. Clearly love them both. While this Tumble is filled with joyous energy, this EMG is just more interesting each time I listen while equally infectiously energizing. Vote EMG!

Hope the voting changes on this quickly - this 2/13 EMG is a powerhouse. This is a good Tumble no doubt, but if you sat back and listened to these two again today, I find it hard to believe that the majority of people wouldn't vote for this EMG. I got my own personal reasons for loving it, but the 2/8 EMG shouldn't factor into not voting for this EMG, because it's just as great in its own respective way. Big hill to climb here for it, but hopefully the voting tightens up, and 2/13 EMG rightfully makes its way into the Elite 8!

@6ROM7 - same exact deal as you directly below! haha

Takes break from meeting to check mid-morning results. Hangs head. Sighs.

toughest vote so far, wowza!

tumble does everything well until the tension section loses it for me. Slow heavenly section is so rich with the feels then get down city but the cacaphony really makes it hard to vote for it here but it doesnt last long.

emg took what they stepped into in mke (me standing with my arms crossed shaking my head) and turned it into gold - cant get that wonky riff out of my head. the song proper is among my least favorite goose tunes but this version is almost as good as the 8 minute one from cabo

bottom line, i feel better listening to the tumble so there goes the vote

Voting my personal chalk

Had this EMG at a 2-seed (#8 overall) and this Tumble as a 3-seed (#12 overall)

So, reversed from how this was crowd-seeded

Furthermore, the more I listen to these the more the EMG grows on me and the more I think this Tumble loses some of its luster

Final note: Love the little Peanuts vamp section in this EMG jam

I hate when two jams I really, really love are up against each other. I like this EMG even more than Milwaukee which makes it the best EMG ever in my wildly subjective opinion. If it weren’t for the Mann Tumble last year, in this guy’s opinion, this would be the best Tumble ever. I know some tastemakers decry that it’s too similar to the Mann Tumble. I can hear it in parts, but it’s not a carbon copy, it adds different elements and textures and frankly that doesn’t bother me as much as them because it sounds fucking amazing when it hits my ear holes! I had the 2nd best tumble ahead of the best EMG on my bracket and I’m sticking with it. But I definitely won’t be too upset if EMG takes it.

Tumble is solid start to finish. EMG jam is really good. Such different types of jams it’s a hard to compare. I’ll have to revisit both before I vote.

Goose rules! Who cares!?!?!?

Just kidding, I love this shit.

I’m not an EMG guy. I can’t listen to this song recreationally because it’s too emotional for me. Just not somewhere I can go day to day. I lump it in with my fear of my wife leaving me and taking my son away. It’s a real fear. A deep one. Anyway EMG takes me there and it fucks me up. That being said I prefer the other Feb version better.

This tumble fucks. It’s like if this was figure skating they did the thing they won with last year but added two more quad jumps with it. Sorry. For the figure skating ref. We’re hardcore in Olympics lately. I love bliss jams. But I also love how dark it goes at the end. When I heard it live it was my pick to the closest thing that could possibly knock off a Madhuvan from Feb.

Unless it’s that other EMG……

I've got these both ranked similarly, so I'm gonna let my Grand Rapids attendance bias tip the scales in favor of this Everything Must Go. Kinda like the Madhuvan similarities between the Milwaukee and Grand Rapids versions, I feel this EMG and the one from Wisconsin are cut from the same cloth. Both soaring, and beautiful... and both amongst the best versions that have ever been played.

As I've said in previous rounds about this Tumble, it's wonderful in it's simplicity. It doesn't go all Goontzy, it doesn't dive deep into a dark and eerie rabbit hole, and it's not like watching Rick play a game of Guitar Hero. It's just a really solid Tumble from a fairly big show that is going to have a lot of fans and a lot of emotional attachment to it.

This would be a much tougher vote for me if I wasn't front and center for this EMG.

This Tumble is the most complete jam of the year, top to bottom beauty not a second wasted 🔥

The EMG is very nice but I just love the Tumble. The world needs more bliss and this one is fantastic.

2/8 EMG is better than this one imo. Chicago Tumble gets the nod from me, it's incredible.

What a matchup! I have Tumble here, but this EMG is very good, and I really have nothing against it. My reasoning for Tumble is purely based on personal feelings that I will elaborate on below.

Last September, I had a special day. It was the day I got married to my wonderful wife in the beautiful Capitol Reef National Park. Early that morning, I decided to burn off some pre-wedding stress and anxiety by going for a run. I run a lot, and it’s one of my favorite ways to listen to Goose. I missed the Chicago show live, so this was an opportunity for me to catch up on and finish that show. I put on set 2 starting with Hungersite and left to go run. About 4 miles into my run, Tumble came up and transitioned from song to this churning, crunchy space, and then it blossomed into this beautiful bliss zone. All this aligned seemingly perfectly here as this bliss space hit right as the sun was rising over the red sandstone cliffs of Torrey, Utah, and my dopamine was hitting at its peak. My senses and thoughts aligned with the waves of melody and energy from the jam. It was in this moment that all my fears and anxiety washed away. I was overcome with emotion, knowing I was right where I was supposed to be, and it was going to be a great day. It was a great wedding day, and I have this jam to thank for it. I haven’t ever had a jam hit so deep for me before, and this jam will always hold a special place for me regardless of the outcome.

I believe this tumble is the best jam that goose has played with cotter. Still doesn’t rival 23 met echo, or 22 madhuvan, or 21 western. The band is still figuring it out in my opinion, but a jam like this tumble shows that cotter has that it takes

Going against my seeding for the first time, I think ultimately I just prefer the accomplished and gradual build of this tumble than I do either half of this EMG, which, while both are good, neither really wows to the level of the other jams from February

As much as attendance bias wants me to go Chicago Tumble, I prefer this GR EMG. I was only able to make nights 2 and 3 of the GR run and it took a bit for me to get around to fully listening to Night 1. I slept on this jam for too long because my focus was solely on the Milwaukee EMG (my JOTY) but this one ended up top 5 for me.

The section from about the 9-12 minute mark is some of the most beautiful-sounding stuff all year to me and a perfect example of the magic of February -- effortless lock-in, even when not technically remarkable. The abrupt downshift into the dark part of the jam shortly after is awesome and the furious second half falls only slightly behind what happened 5 days prior. And if you prefer it, I wouldn't even argue with you. The re-entry into the end of EMG is bonkers.

Chicago Tumble is great too and easily the highlight of this show. I was in the pit and there was definitely a "something just happened" air about things as this jam resolved. Similar to the barnburner Dripfield vs FITS, this is a total win-win matchup for me.

One thing is for sure: I'll be voting for the winner of this matchup over the AIN.

Super tough call.. these are so different its hard to compare and contrast them.. but somehow we will!