Best Decade Tournament - 90s - Numbers wins!

[stip]

Round 1a

1. Brett vs. Stip
2. Iholdthepain vs. Theplatypus
3. Heathen vs. Abnorman
4. Kaius vs. Kneetunes
5. Theodore Bundy vs. Birds in Hell


1. Brett vs. Stip

Brett
1. Tortoise - "Djed"
2. Boredoms - "Super Going
3. Slint - Nosferatu Man
4. Talk Talk - After The Flood
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy, Part 2
6. Sigur Rós - Ný batterí.
7. Mogwai - Summer
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya
9. My Bloody Valentine - Soon
10. The Sea and Cake - The Argument

Stip
1. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
2. U2 - The Fly
3. Fiona Apple - Criminal
4. Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
5. Tool - Sober
6. Screaming Trees - All I Know
7. Hole - Violet
8. Tom Waits - Hold On
9. R.E.M. - Find the River
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA


2. Iholdhtepain vs. Theplatypus

Iholdthepain
1. R.E.M. - Country Feedback
2. JiBe - Five Year
3. Tripping Daisy - Prick
4. Temple of the Dog - Times of Trouble
5. Tool - Third Eye
6. Pink Floyd - High Hopes
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Starla
8. Pop Poppins - Silence
9. Toadies - Away
10. Pearl Jam - Angel

Theplatypus
1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
2. Mazzy Star - Into Dust
3. Ride - Dreams Burn Down
4. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
5. Slowdive - Alison
6. The Sundays - Wild Horses
7. The Field Mice - If You Need Someone
8. Elliot Smith - Between the Bars
9. Belly - Broken
10. Blueboy - Imipramine

3. Heathen vs. Abnorman

Heathen
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings
2. Neil Young - I'm The Ocean
3. Built to Spill - Carry the Zero
4. Swans - Helpless Child
5. Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
6. Bark Psychosis - Eyes & Smiles
7. Ulver - Hymne V: Wolf and the Moon
8. Leonard Cohen - The Future
9. The Lapse - Hide Your Daughters
10. The Van Pelt - The Good, The Bad & The Blind

Abnorman
1. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
2. Beck - Loser
3. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
4. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
6. Counting Crows - Long December
7. Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Feat. PJ Harvey) - Henry Lee
9. Presidents of the USA - Peaches
10. Springbok Nude Girls - Blue Eyes

4. Kaius vs. Kneetunes

Kaius
1. Blind Melon - Change
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
4. Tool - Stinkfist
5. PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
6. John Butler - Ocean
7. Tupac - Changes
8. NIN - Hurt
9. Queens of the Stone Age - Avon
10. Cranberries - Zombie

Knee Tunes
1. Pearl Jam - Black
2. Live - I Alone
3. Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother
4. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick
6. Metallica - Whiskey In A Jar
7. Sinead O'Conner - Nothing Compares 2 U
8. Alanis Morisette - You Learn
9. Howlin' Maggie - Alcohol
10. Blues Traveller- Hook

5. Theodore Bundy vs. Birds In Hell

Theodore Bundy
1. Pearl Jam - Alive
2. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
3. Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
4. Indigo Girls - Galileo
5. Paula Cole - I Don't Want To Wait
6. Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
7. Salt N Peppa w/ En Bogue - Watta Man
8. Be*witched - C'est La Vie
9. L7 - Pretend We're Dead
10. Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

Birds in Hell
1. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
2. Nirvana - Dive
3. The Breeders - Safari
4. Swervedriver - Last Train to Satansville
5 Lilys - Can't Make Your Life Better
6. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Safeway Cart
7. The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather
8. Unwound - Corpse Pose
9. Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
10. Mojave 3 - Love Songs on the Radio

[stip]

thanks to abnorman's heroic youtubeing I'm gonna try and listen to these playlists before I vote

[Heathen]

All easy matchups.

1. Brett vs. Stip
Brett has my favorite team after mine, one where I like almost everything (don't care for NMH or MBV). Stip's team is, well, stip's.

2. Iholdthepain vs. Theplatypus
I'm indifferent to most of the stuff that makes up Jorge's team but it sure beats the likes of Tool, Trippy Day or Temple of the Dog.

3. Heathen vs. Abnorman
RIP me. I didn't expect to make it through round 1 anyway but this is going to be a bloodbath.

4. Kaius vs. Kneetunes
Another vote for the lesser of two evils.

5. Theodore Bundy vs. Birds in Hell
This is similar in many ways to the THIP/platypus matchup, except I prefer Spenno's team to Jorge's.

[dsb1218]

The list of songs that I had to give the "It's Not You, It's Me" speech to last night includes:

Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather
EMF - Unbelievable
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Arrested Development - Tennessee
RHCP - Give It Away
Letters to Cleo - Here and Now

[BigRedLedbetter]

Those are some sick matchups.

[stip]

The list of songs that I had to give the "It's Not You, It's Me" speech to last night includes:

Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather
EMF - Unbelievable
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Arrested Development - Tennessee
RHCP - Give It Away
Letters to Cleo - Here and Now

hey jealousy remains a guilty pleasure song of mine.

[Brett]

I thought about going big with my tenth song, but couldn't think of something that quite felt right. I was at a loss for a bit until The Sea and Cake came up on Pandora, and I realized that I had totally forgotten about them for this tournament. After that, going with "The Argument" as number 10 was pretty easy.

Anyway, here are some songs that I had considered for the tournament:

Something by Pearl Jam (In My Tree, RVM, or Not For You)

Radiohead - Talk Show Host


Primus - Jerry Was a Racecar Driver

Something by Dirty Three (Red, Deep Waters, or Authentic Celestial Music)




Vic Chesnutt - Bug or Onion Soup



Rachel's - An Evening of Long Goodbyes


The Geraldine Fibbers - Lilybelle


Cardiacs - Eat It Up Worms Hero or Dog-Like Sparky



Modest Mouse - Dramamine or Ohio



A bunch of video game music was also in contention, but I didn't know how it would go over. There were a bunch of songs composed by Dave Wise for the the Donkey Kong Country games that I considered, primarily "Stickerbrush Symphony." I had also thought about stuff from the soundtracks to Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, the 2-D Genesis-era Sonic games, etc.

[Heathen]

So the voting has been open long enough, no?

[bada]

Stip
Iholdthepain
Abnorman
Kaius
Birds in Hell

[dsb1218]

I thought there would be more REM songs taken.

[stip]

Brett, I think a video game song would have been brilliant. But historically those sorts of suggestions have not gone over well.

On the other hand, someone other than me making that pick would instantly up its credibility by at least 200%

[koopee27]

Stip
Iholdthepain
Abnorman
Kaius
Birds in Hell

this.

kp

[DeLima]

I'm pretty surprised no one took Laid by James.

it hurt not to take a james song, but if I was going to pick james i would have taken Ring the Bells or Just Like Fred Astaire

It killed me that there was nothing from Metallica's Black Album. I almost took The Unforgiven as my 10th.

I also would have liked to draft

Sponge - Plowed
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Bush - Machinehead
Live - White, Discussion
Liz Phair - Supernova
Beck - Sexx Laws
Dan Bern - either Jerusalem, Tiger Woods, or Chelsea Hotel

and obviously a ton of others, but those came closest to making it

I kept waiting for you to pick some Lanegan, not just ST.

I can't believe I was the only person who has him on my team. I'll need to make sure the people in the Lanegan thread show up to avenge him in the voting.

I almost took Julie Paradise. I'm taking some Lanegan next decade for sure.

[Brett]

Brett, I think a video game song would have been brilliant. But historically those sorts of suggestions have not gone over well.

On the other hand, someone other than me making that pick would instantly up its credibility by at least 200%

Ha, you're probably right . Seriously, though, I was strongly considering it. I grew up in the '90s, but didn't get into music until the very end of the decade. So for me, video game music was '90s music. Plus, a lot of it was on par with some of the best stuff being put out that decade anyway. If I had gone with any, it would have been the DKC one, as that's probably my favorite piece of game music.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Weird nobody drafted this.....

[i got bugs]

Stip pain Kaius Norman bundy

[i got bugs]

I can re - youtube tracks if need be..

Some near picks....

modest mouse - dramamine or talkin shit on a pretty sunset
Dmx - ruff riders anthem
2 pac - ambitions as a rida
Biggie - 10 crack commandments
Stp - still remains
Smashing pumpkins - muzzle
Mark Morrison - return of the mack
Montell Jordan - this is how we do it
Sublime - boss dj
Jamiriqui - virtual insanity

[PryTo]

Stip
Theplatypus
Abnorman
Kaius
Birds

[PryTo]

hey jealousy remains a guilty pleasure song of mine.

No need to feel guilty. It's a fantastic, well-written pop song. Love it.

[epilogue]

Goddamn Stip
Platy
Abnorman
Kaius
Speeno