A terrible Janet album. The alt album cover is better than it even. Shocking vote for Jimmy Eat World who features one of my least favorite songs ever on this album

Thought I’d vote Alison Krauss but listening again, it’s an average album at best. Stereolab gets mushy in the middle but I enjoyed it more

7 seed is surprising based purely on the album. I was appalled at how rote Clearlake was so it was an easy Gorillaz vote

Looking forward to indie dude meltdown on Thursday

A real clunker of a matchup. I couldn’t care less who wins. A thud of an ending to a good and interesting week of matchups

Malkmus is really close to being my favorite of the field. Not a weak track and a practically perfect balance of that chipper zany indie that can wear thin for me leavened by darker, stranger stuff

Aaliyah a top 10 underperforming seed thus far. Wouldn’t have pegged that.

Don’t get at all what anyone hears in Fennesz. Four Tet by default really but I liked a few of the tracks.

Aaliyah surely is too long at over an hour but I still can’t figure out where. Hope Sandoval is a bore though, I do know that for sure.

All princess superstar’s tracks are hot. But not all silver Jews’ are

On cassingle….played everyday summer 1992 to and from swimming lessons in my mom’s car

Came around to Change in a big way. AOI is a mess in a bad way.

Oh my god Jacobin was right stereogum.com/2498320/char...

Checked the streaming charts…

I haven’t had as visceral of a rejection of an album in a style that is reasonably in my lane (i.e. not hip hop or metal) since The Smithereens in 1989 when I heard Pete Yorn

Like the 100+ folks who voted NWA through multiple rounds of 1989 (myself included), I can separate artist from music and…25 years on, this Strokes album is a bore… And, if Ryan Adams is so bad musically for you, thoughts and prayers tomorrow when Pete Yawn enters the room

I think I like Hot Shots II more overall and said I was going to for it but I’ve changed my mind this morning on my vote and giving it to Strummer’s warts and all album

Sorry, but unconvinced by both. I kept a couple Le Tigre songs so they got my vote

Elvis Costello on dueting with Bob Dylan: “As we came off the stage, he said, ‘You sing loud. We should do a record of Johnnie & Jack songs.’ I walked away with his manager and I said, ‘That's never going to happen, right?’” (from the new issue of Mojo)

So, are people making character judgments of others because of an online music poll vote? Because that’s weird if that’s the case

Just witnessed a youth league 300 game at this tournament

Yes. The only under 20% (if that’s the threshold)

I just don’t connect with Lucinda Williams beyond a couple tracks. I dug Superchunk except for a couple tracks.

@kentmbeeson.bsky.social is it just me (literally I don’t mean it snarky)or is challenge not updated since Bjork?

Fugazi still is pretty damn overbearing but not as much as an album twice as long where the schtick gets old twice as fast Killer fake album cover though

So, seeing this I did a calculation assuming 20% being the lowest vote share theoretically for the lowest seed and it would rise from there proportionally to where 64/65 would be a 50.01/49.99 outcome. Then I compared that theoretical expected vote share to actual….

I really can’t gauge how much vitriol there truly is for Weezer (awesome fake cover art). They somehow made a 29 min album feel long Melody AM started slow for me but was a very pleasant surprise

Years ago on a trip to SF, I took this photo of the clock at Haight Ashbury and it just so happened to be exactly noon. I was showing my kids the spot on street view and it just so happens to be 4:20pm (with the word FUCK on the back of the walk sign)

The gap here is such that it’s still possible to flush the steaming pile of Andrew WK

No US Dates…..

Didn't expect Dua Lipa to win best-ballot on the NYT songwriters list. Everyone else voting for 10, 20, 30 writers. Here's hers:

Andrew WK stupid as the stupid album yesterday. I concede it would be fine as a single track. Not a dozen over 40 min Actually, this Garbage album is great

In my research I have discovered that many of my top songs are either from video games or featured in Dude Perfect YouTube videos

To be clear, I’m joking. I don’t give a fuck what that thing says though I did a very nice pre recorded message from Charli XCX a couple years ago.

Tenacious D simply isn’t funny. And that’s really the goal of this type of thing, isn’t it? Sadly, the Air album also sucks, but it was less painful to sit through. Worst pairing so far

Listening to some of these @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 albums and discovering I totally missed George Strait’s 2001 album really shows how big of a ball was dropped

There’s some dumbass shit next week. And Fugazi. Not sure which annoys me more

@kentmbeeson.bsky.social a follow up to that reference of the President Andrew Johnson was born nearby marker I mentioned recently…. abc11.com/post/town-el...

Well, there went all the fun. Bjork because she doesn’t have a tantrum full of homophobic slurs

From the local pediatric urgent care newsletter. What fucking year is this?

Something funny in the discourse is yes, there is a superior Kylie album - the ONLY other dance pop album - in the field, yet there’s a lot of, well why this when we have Kylie about RML Yet lots of folks are fine with the umpteenth indie rock album up for vote….

Can confirm that I don’t think this would be cool

<whistles non-chalantly> @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social

Finally a can’t go wrong matchup. Voted Sophie because she was MY field pick. And it’s a pretty fucking enjoyable album

Obscene. What’s wrong with everyone?

AND @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 participant

Voted for Lou

Hey this is reasonably close and you can add your vote to vote down yet another dudes with guitars band if you’d like.