Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
You could do an entirely Northwest bracket.
Not sure about the bracketing or if the Decemberists deserve two slots.
If they do, it's got to be Castaways and Picaresque. Her Majesty's solid, but also solidly third-place.
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.)
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a whole website called "The Shins Will Change Your Life" devoted to rock critic overreaches and bloviation. Painful, yet amusing.
And don't believe the hype re JK Toole -- he was apparently a lot more depressive than the standard romantic myth of his life would have you believe even before the book didn't find a publisher. (It's considered a great document of the woefully understudied NO dialect as well, by the way.)