Music Album playoffs - Round 1A

[VF21]

After lots of headaches on how to set this up, I decided on the easiest for me...straight brackets.

Original draft thread

Matchups will be as follows:

A. #1 v #16
B. #2 v #15
C. #3 v #14
D. #4 v #13
E. #5 v #12
F. #6 v #11
G. #7 v #10
H. #8 v #9

#1 -
Kingsgirl4
1.16 - Nevermind - Nirvana - 1991
2.01 - What's Going On - Marvin Gaye - 1971
3.16 - Core - Stone Temple Pilots - 1992
4.01 - Abbey Road - The Beatles - 1969
5.16 - Like A Virgin - Madonna - 1984
6.01 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John - 1973
7.16 - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins - 1995
8.01 - Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith - 1975
9.16 - Dookie - Green Day - 1994
10.01 - Teenage Dream - Katy Perry - 2010
11.16 - Hysteria - Def Leppard - 1987
12.01 - Imagine - John Lennon - 1971
13.16 - All Eyez on Me - 2Pac - 1996
14.01 - Follow The Leader - Korn - 1998
15.16 - Escape - Journey - 1981
16.01 - Sixteen Stone - Bush - 1994
17.16 - Dirt - Alice in Chains - 1992
18.01 - Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock - 1998
19.16 - Sports - Huey Lewis and the News - 1983
20.01 - Future Sex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake - 2006
21.16 - Ride the Lightning - Metallica - 1984
22.01 - That's the Way of the World - Earth, Wind and Fire - 1975
23.16 - One Night Only - Bee Gees - 1998
24.01 - So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear - 1997
25.16 - Reggatta de Blanc - The Police - 1979

vs.

#16 -
UK kings fan
1.03 - Thriller - Michael Jackson - 1982
2.14 - Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 1977
3.03 - (What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis - 1995
4.14 - Back to Black - Amy Winehouse - 2006
5.03 - Lungs - Florence and the Machine - 2009
6.14 - Hot Fuss - The Killers - 2004
7.03 - Automatic for the People - R.E.M. - 1992
8.14 - Hounds of Love - Kate Bush - 1985
9.03 - Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons - 2009
10.14 - A Night at the Opera - Queen - 1975
11.03 - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys - 2007
12.14 - American Idiot - Green Day - 2004
13.03 - Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G. - 1994
14.14 - Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro - 2009
15.03 - + - Ed Sheeran -2011
16.14 - Employment - Kaiser Chiefs - 2000
17.03 - All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 - 2000
18.14 - Passive Me, Aggressive You - The Naked and Famous - 2010
19.03 - Life for Rent - Dido - 2003
20.14 - forfeited
21.03 - forfeited
22.14 - forfeited
23.03 - forfeited
24.14 - forfeited
25.03 - forfeited

 

[Bricklayer]

Its really too bad UK dropped out. His list would be an upper echelon one for me had he kept on pace.

 

[NoBonus]

I agree, except for "Automatic For The People".... though it was commercially successful, this album sucked all of the coolness out of R.E.M.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Agreed with both of the above, though I still find Automatic For The People to be a largely listenable R.E.M. album. The last one, though.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Its really too bad UK dropped out. His list would be an upper echelon one for me had he kept on pace.

I had him as my Number One seed, based on the picks he made. Damn shame he quit.

 

[dukeswh]

This was close for me as well, but ultimately won over by Nevermind.


Why the hate on Automatic for the peopler? I love that album and was on my top ten list.

 

[NoBonus]

This was close for me as well, but ultimately won over by Nevermind.


Why the hate on Automatic for the peopler? I love that album and was on my top ten list.

As an R.E.M. fan pre-Automatic, it just ruined the whole thing... I couldn't listen to R.E.M. for years after that album.... so sappy, so preachy, so overplayed.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

As an R.E.M. fan pre-Automatic, it just ruined the whole thing... I couldn't listen to R.E.M. for years after that album.... so sappy, so preachy, so overplayed.

That's funny, because I'm completely the opposite. I find early R.E.M. - certainly anything pre-Document - basically unlistenable, and even for Document, Green, and Out of Time only the radio stuff has any appeal to me. Then came Automatic, which is just completely solid front to back. I'm not a huge fan of "Everybody Hurts" but there are at least 9 songs on there I like, which is 3x as many as any other R.E.M. album.

 

[NoBonus]

That's funny, because I'm completely the opposite. I find early R.E.M. - certainly anything pre-Document - basically unlistenable, and even for Document, Green, and Out of Time only the radio stuff has any appeal to me. Then came Automatic, which is just completely solid front to back. I'm not a huge fan of "Everybody Hurts" but there are at least 9 songs on there I like, which is 3x as many as any other R.E.M. album.

So we are like opposites on R.E.M.... you are yin, I am yang; you are white, I am black; you are wrong, I am right...

Very interesting...

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So we are like opposites on R.E.M.... you are yin, I am yang; you are white, I am black; you are wrong, I am right...

 

[VF21]

There are 24 hours left for people to vote in this round. The polls close Monday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. (PDT).

 

[VF21]

Congratulations to Kingsgirl4, who will be moving on to Round 2.