Cheered for Morocco and France and listened to Lou Reed while grilling today on 4th of July

I’m just shaken at the notion that Bob may lose. And it’s a bummer because Basement Jaxx is one of my favorite new to me albums

Had a little breakthrough with The Microphones this time. But in the end, fuck this Microphones album

20 years minimum

Just don’t get what’s so great about Discovery. Maybe you had to be there. We Love Life needed to decide better whether to be a concept or a straight Britpop album, but I’ll take its two half baked halves

Sparklehorse is eh. The Coup is better than that

A bummer to dump one of these but Let It Come Down is possibly the best album in the field

You know, Drukqs is more a track dump than a proper album

Announcement for the new Dino Jr album says this: “In strict rock- write terms, you might call the approach "post-core power balladeering."” That’s not a way to get me to listen to it.

Beatles can’t just let us have 1996 can they?

This Ted Leo album will always beat a mishmash for me

Missed the boat passing on Leave and New Test Leper

Running errands but #PPP96 noms: Brainiac - “Vincent Come On Down” Afghan Whigs - “Going To Town” Charlatans - “Two of Us” Tool - “Stinkfist”

Ted Leo Spiritualized TBD Hmm Pulp? Spoon

More on board with Gillian Welch this time but still not as much as Kristin Hersh. A futile vote for the upset

Listening to the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social albums for tomorrow diverted me over to this for the first time in too long. What a song. What a performance. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1P...

They wore thin last time but this time Cake just annoyed me the whole way through. Fortunately(?) Ben Folds defied odds and, aside from a couple late clunkers, really enjoyed

I like both! Take note anyone who may think I’m some sort of masochistic participant here. I may actually like Low better but I think Roots is a better album to advance and remain in the tournament.

New Julia Holter. Always reliably excellent.

Abstain. J/k, Aesop Rock was boring again and “Family Affair” at least isn’t so Mary J it is

Listening to the album right now and boy do I stand by this rec. I think this album is looked at as light weight and maybe it is, but it has wonderful, unfettered songs. Wilco at their easiest “You and I” for instance, I’d usually think something like it as slight, but it’s totally charming

Abstain

If I’m bound to choose this bracket setup, it’s Steely Dan v Pink Floyd and that’s a push I think on Apple Music, Doobies have the most “essential” albums - a hilarious SIX!

Wilco and The National not dad rock after all

I’m voting for Wilco everyday

Latest Discogs haul

Assuming Josie wins 60/40 (as expected by seeding), I sorted all albums by their actual vote % and here are the albums under and over seeded by +\- 20 spots

This said, my two younger ones ended up playing rec baseball for the town over from us and it was great. But the below happens more and more it seems the more serious you get. Not a coincidence either that black representation in MLB has dropped from nearly 20% in the 70s-80s to around 6% today.

What a bummer of a final match for round 1. Josie has some fun songs. BSS doesn’t…the most background music of all the background music albums in the field. Voted Josie

All these stories about baseball teams rejecting Pride night…sorry to say but my kid tried out for a select baseball league and it was overrun by big pickup trucks, dads with goatees and wraparound sunglasses, and joyless 10 year olds with mullets and crucifixes around their necks.

Sad13 - 1331 a mixtape of 13 ~1 min-long songs, out 7/10 via Exploding In Sound recorded & produced by me at home the first 3 tracks are out today, plus a self-directed video for “Watermelon Manicure” www.sad13.horse/1331

Aware of its acclaim and accolades, it just can’t do SoD. Detroit Cobras I liked better than Dirtbombs

A 1995 Grateful Dead tour T-shirt that I did not buy on tour but instead bought at Meijer.

Lovage was sufficiently off-kilter. But I had my fill before its time was up. Wish Unwound let loose more but feels like there’s more to it to justify it moving on

Put on a live Wilco album in celebration

Bob Dylan on being 80+

Heresy perhaps but Missy Elliott was no better than “just fine” to me…too 2001 sounding, a sound I don’t want to hear anymore Ruby, though, was excellent and I voted for it

Never watched hockey really before. Picked a good year to casually do so

Hell yeah Knicks!

Knicks conjuring my anti-Jordan, John Starks love fandom of theirs from the mid 90s

Pretty funny quote from a stadium vendor during the first season of the Mets existence (from the book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by AM Gittlitz)

Inquiring minds may want to know how much Tool underperformed and the answer is they underperformed slightly less than Spoon underperformed and a good amount less than the three mentioned below.

Glad I texted my brother at 9:48ET

Later, wimps

A nice, soppy tribute to my wife, this morning. I’ve loved her for nearly 30 years now and I really believe that she’s capable of doing great things. Have a read and support working class artists. It’s hard out there, but we’ll make it. Give it a share, too. 👍 www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products

Mon - TBD! Tue - Both, see below Wed - Cobras, better than Dirtbombs Thu - Neither, advance both Tue

I like this. For me in 2001, it would be Dismemberment Plan - Change Life Without Buildings and Basement Jaxx as runners up

Both excellent albums that deserve to stay. Lateralus is top 10

Anyone wanna vote Dirtbombs and contribute to a triple digit seed upset?

Both are clunkers to me. The former because it’s impenetrable. The latter because it’s superfluous, but it at least shows signs of life