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Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.

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Hayden - Sep 16, 2005 4:36:42 pm PDT #522 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Anyone interested in doing a Best Of The Half-Decade So Far Deathmatch?

I'd nominate:

  • Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
  • Brian Wilson - SMiLE
  • New Pornographers - Electric Version
  • The Wrens - The Meadowlands
  • Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  • Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
  • Richard Davies - Barbarians (which nobody loves like I do, so there's that)
  • Spoon - Girls Can Tell
  • Yo La Tengo - ...and then nothing turned itself inside-out
  • Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
  • Deerhoof - Milk Man
  • Decemberists - Her Majesty
  • Decemberists - Picaresque
  • Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
  • Mastodon - Leviathan
  • Wire - Read and Burn 01 and 02
  • Calexico - Feast of Wire
  • Arcade Fire - Funeral
  • Madvillain - Madvillainy
  • M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts

If you're interested, let me know what your recommendations would be. I'll set up the brackets.

dw - Sep 16, 2005 7:17:19 pm PDT #523 of 10003
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You could do an entirely Northwest bracket.

  • New Pornographers - Electric Version
  • Decemberists - Her Majesty
  • Decemberists - Picaresque
  • Neko Case - Blacklisted
  • Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
  • Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
  • Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
  • Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia

Not sure about the bracketing or if the Decemberists deserve two slots.

Mr. Broom - Sep 16, 2005 9:08:32 pm PDT #524 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

If they do, it's got to be Castaways and Picaresque. Her Majesty's solid, but also solidly third-place.

Kate P. - Sep 17, 2005 12:18:18 am PDT #525 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Electric Version over Mass Romantic ?? I must respectfully disagree. (Haven't listened to Twin Cinema enough yet to offer a strong opinion vs. the other two, but so far I reeeeaaaallllly like it.)

dw - Sep 17, 2005 9:33:21 am PDT #526 of 10003
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Electric Version over Mass Romantic ?? I must respectfully disagree. (Haven't listened to Twin Cinema enough yet to offer a strong opinion vs. the other two, but so far I reeeeaaaallllly like it.)

So, do they get two albums? Twin Cinema will more than likely be in my Top 5 for the year, so it should probably go, too.

How many albums in the brackets? 64? If so, should we limit them to 2/artist?

Hayden - Sep 17, 2005 7:58:09 pm PDT #527 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I'd say 8 or 16 in the bracket. And I stand strongly by Her Majesty or Picaresque over Castaways & Cutouts AND by Electric Version over Mass Romantic, but y'know, that's kinda the point of the match.

So, how about 2 Decemberists & 2 New Pornographers?

dw - Sep 17, 2005 8:46:28 pm PDT #528 of 10003
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16 is a really small number, especially if 1/4 of the slots are going to two bands.

Pool play could work, but then we're overthinking and overworking. Why not just a Decemberists qualifying bracket?

1. Castaways vs. The Tain
2. Her Majesty vs. Picaresque

3. Winner of 1 and 2 -> #1 seed in main event

Like I said, just with the Northwest you could come up with an eight-team bracket.

dw - Sep 17, 2005 9:59:28 pm PDT #529 of 10003
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Someone has gone through and transcribed playlists from old 120 Minutes episodes from 1986 to 1995: [link]

I'm looking at the '88-'91 lists, back when I watched it, not terribly religiously, but I had friends who taped it and watched it later. It was our lifeline to the non-hair-metal music in high school.

Then it hit me that the 88-89 shows are as old now as I was when I watched them.

Sue - Sep 18, 2005 4:41:32 am PDT #530 of 10003
hip deep in pie

You know, I realized that most of my best of the half decade are local.

Also, I'd totally choose Mass Romantic over Electric Version.

DavidS - Sep 18, 2005 8:49:10 am PDT #531 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Elijah Wood's iTunes Playlist:

One Blood (Single) - Terence Jay
Even Now We Are Preparing to Love You - Puny Human
King - Fireball Ministry
Summer's Gone - Aberfeldy
If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & The Family Stone
Throw Me Away - James Chance
Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four
Mr. Sellack - The Roches
Tom Cat (Electric Mud) - Muddy Waters
When You Were Mine - Prince
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Fearless - Pink Floyd
Alberto Balsalm - Aphex Twin
Space Oddity - The Langley Schools Music Project
But Not for Me - Chet Baker
Baro Foro - Gogol Bordello

He says the Sly song is his favorite.

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