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Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND ONE
I Am Not Amused:
WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE TOURNAMENT
To begin, let me say thank you everyone for participating. Before I reveal the tournament matchups, let me explain the nomination process. Transparency in government, yay! So, you all nominated albums. Every single album that was nominated by two or more people made it, which made for 127 albums. The 128th album, per request of the Vice President, the QC board's very own scarred, was Marissa Nadler's Songs III: Bird on the Water. Seeding was determined by the amount of votes recieved and, in the case of ties in nominations, myself and scarred poured over the list and made agreements on which albums should recieve which seeds. Once that was finished, I randomly chose matchups for all the albums according to their seeding. What you see before you is the result!
I'd be very surprised if everyone has heard every single one of the albums up for voting. With that in mind, I decided to make it so we could, if we wanted to. If you click on any album's name, it will take you to either a page on lala.com that allows you to stream the album in its entirety or, if Lala doesn't have the album, then it will link to another site (usually amazon.com) that allows you to stream 30 second samples of each song on the album. So if you want to compare, or if you're just interested to hear something you haven't before, click away! (Full disclosure: Lala requires you to create an account to use its services. It is completley free, but some peole feel uncomfortable about that stuff.) (Also note that there is no streaming version of the Jon Brion version of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine.)
Please, make sure to vote in every match as it will make counting votes much easier. Skipping a match will either result in whoever is counting up the votes filling in an answer for you, or your votes not being counted.
Brackets are listed in tournament-style order.
Voting starts IMMEDIATELY and ends on Monday, September 7th, at 11:59 PM CENTRAL TIME.
Thanks a bunch!
-Prez
BRACKET ONE
1 Radiohead - Kid A 16 Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water
8 Silkworm - Italian Platinum 9 Sigur Rós - Takk...
5 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math 12 The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
4 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 13 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
6 ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes 11 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 14 The Books - The Lemon of Pink
7 Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster... 10 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2 Fugazi - The Argument 15 Owen - At Home With Owen
BRACKET EIGHT
1 Low - Things We Lost in the Fire 16 Make Believe - Of Course
8 MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
5 Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another 12 Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On the Bad One
4 Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine 13 At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
6 Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People 11 Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
3 Mastodon - Leviathan 14 Battles - Mirrored
7 Agalloch - The Mantle 10 Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
2 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism 15 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
BRACKET FIVE
1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 16 Clutch - Blast Tyrant
8 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia 9 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
5 The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas 12 Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
4 Daft Punk - Alive 2007 13 Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
6 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days 11 Cat Power - You Are Free
3 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place 14 MONO - You Are There
7 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 10 Animal Collective - Feels
2 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People 15 Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth
BRACKET FOUR
1 Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas 16 You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time
8 The New Year - The New Year 9 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
5 Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain 12 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4 Mastodon - Crack the Skye 13 Boris - Akuma No Uta
6 The Postal Service - Give Up 11 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
3 Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights 14 Starfucker - Starfucker
7 Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair 10 The Knife - Silent Shout
2 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 15 Converge - Jane Doe
I Am Not Amused:
BRACKET SIX
1 Daft Punk - Discovery 16 Q + Not U - No Kill Beep Beep
8 Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods 9 The Decemberists - Castaways & Cutouts
5 Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 12 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
4 The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree 13 Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
6 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam 11 Opeth - Damnation
3 Isis - Panopticon 14 Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
7 The Avalanches - Since I Left You 10 Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals 15 OM - Variations on a Theme
BRACKET THREE
1 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 16 Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
8 Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees 9 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
5 Stars - Set Yourself on Fire 12 M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
4 Panda Bear - Person Pitch 13 Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
6 Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 11 The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
3 Botch - We Are the Romans 14 Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
7 Gorillaz - Demon Days 10 M83 - Saturdays = Youth
2 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica 15 Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
BRACKET SEVEN
1 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 16 Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin
8 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare 9 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
5 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 12 Fionna Apple - Extraordinary Machine [Jon Brion Version]
4 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum 13 The MicrophonesThe Glow, Pt. 2
6 Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. 11 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3 The Strokes - Is This It? 14 Beaulah - Yoko
7 Soulwax - Nite Versions 10 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
2 Sigur Rós - Ágćtis Byrjun 15 Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
BRACKET TWO
1 Arcade Fire - Funeral 16 The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
8 Justice - Cross 9 Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise!
5 The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? 12 Portishead - Third
4 Radiohead - In Rainbows 13 Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
6 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 11 The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
3 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary 14 The Aquabats - Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures
7 Mogwai - Mr. Beast 10 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2 Owls - Owls 15 Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
I'd like to give a big shout out to scarred for helping me with seeding and E. Spaceman for helping me procure images and to both of them for being on the Council with me.
LETS VOTE!
I Am Not Amused:
BRACKET ONE
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - Takk
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Fugazi - The Argument
BRACKET EIGHT
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innnocence
Battles - Mirrored
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
BRACKET FIVE
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Cat Power - You Are Free
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
BRACKET FOUR
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
The Postal Service - Give Up
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
BRACKET SIX
Daft Punk - Discovery
The Decemberists - Castaways & Cutouts
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Opeth - Damnation
voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
BRACKET THREE
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
BRACKET SEVEN
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Strokes - Is This It?
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
BRACKET TWO
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
JD:
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT LIVING IN CANADA SUCKS SOMETIMES
(I guess I'll have to go find links that work for me)
Or wait for people to mediafire stuff, either way
JediBendu:
Before I start voting let me just say that I'm slightly confused because Sleater-Kinney's "One Beat" was nominated twice and I think "The Woods" was only nominated once (by myself, maybe?)
Anyway fucking shit why are Future of the Left and Sleater-Kinney up against each other in the first round? Already a hard decision.
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