Best Decade Tournament - 90s - Numbers wins!

[Lament]

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

[ABNorman]

As my "Stip pick", I was seriously considering:

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John Williams - Jurassic Park Theme (Easily the best score ever written)



Weird Al - Amish Paradise



Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm



MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

[Sgt. Crackpot]

[Lament]

Future drafts should be eleven rounds and require a "stip pick."

[ABNorman]

Also, everybody can let me know if your YouTube playlist is wrong - don't have the energy to go back and check them all until the tournament actually begins and I need them to know what the hell I'm voting for.

[Birds in Hell]

I'm pretty surprised they got shut out. I would've expected Burn along with something from Wish to get picked.

Want would have been an awesome pick too, now that I think about it.

Top 10 Cure songs from the 90s!

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Big Hand
Jupiter Crash
Apart
Burn
Never Enough
High
Gone!
Open
Numb

[Heathen]

A sneak peek of my original selection:

[stip]

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

[Heathen]

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.

[LetMeSleep]

Estelle or Wasteland would be good too.

[stip]

Future drafts should be eleven rounds and require a "stip pick."

I just couldn't make space (which is fine, because in the 90s rock music was SERIOUS BUSINESS) , but I would have gone with one of these two:

[stip]

Estelle or Wasteland would be good too.

they're better songs (Estelle is my favorite) but they're not necessarily songs that will grab on the first listen

[stip]

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.

[Heathen]

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 contemplated him but had no room left.

[stip]

also I should have brackets up around 9ish after the girls are at daycare .

[Heathen]

I can dig this

Karate made some great music.

Good stuff. I've actually been looking some bands in that vein lately, since I discovered The Lapse/The Van Pelt (my last 2 picks, check them out if you're unfamiliar with them). I'll be downloading some of their stuff for sure.

[Birds in Hell]

I can dig this

Karate made some great music.

Good stuff. I've actually been looking some bands in that vein lately, since I discovered The Lapse/The Van Pelt (my last 2 picks, check them out if you're unfamiliar with them). I'll be downloading some of their stuff for sure.

I really liked that Lapse song, I'll check out The Van Pelt in a minute.

[PryTo]

Obviously, I went in a different direction with this tournament. I knew the alt-rock stuff would be well covered (it was) and I wanted to give some attention to rap, which experienced a revolution and creative explosion in the 1990s comparable to what was happening with alt-rock/grunge/metal/etc. There were some great rap picks by other teams though and I was glad to see artists like Nas, Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre and Snoop, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Ghostface, Outkast, the Fugees, and others get some love. I hated omitting Public Enemy because they were one of the most important rap bands of the 1990s and Fear of a Black Planet is my favorite album by them. But otherwise, going with an all-rap team took some of the pressure off. None of the picks on my list were taken by others and there was plenty of good stuff to choose from. Rap (especially gangsta rap) is sometimes discounted as a musical art form, but once you scratch the surface, there's some real artistry taking place. I realize I'll be knocked out in round one, but I hope some of you learned a thing or two from my long-winded write ups and maybe discovered something of interest.

The only real debate I had was what to do about country music, which also experienced a burst of creativity and innovation in the 1990s that was, in some ways, bigger than what happened in any other genre. I considered going with a half rap/half country team, but I felt like it would do justice to neither side. But Garth Brooks was the best selling artist of the 1990s and is absolutely one of the great musicians/songwriters/performers of our generation. I'd say he's the biggest omission from us as a collective, although I know many of you will scoff at that. (He's really good if you get past the biggest hits, and he's one of the best live performers I've ever seen.) Also, Dixie Chicks would be somewhere near the very top of my list of great 1990s artists. They're not only fantastic songwriters and performers, they are super serious musicians who can hold their own with anyone. Alan Jackson is another country artist who did freaking amazing work in the 1990s.

It'll be interesting to see how the voting goes. There are some ridiculously strong teams.

No crazy tenth pick from Stip! WTF???

DCT, you know we were just giving you s**t yesterday, right?

[bada]

Arrested Development - Tennessee
LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl
Tribe - Scenario
Dre & Snoop - 187 On A Uncover Cop
Fresh Prince - Summertime
Ice Cube - Good Day
20 different brit pop songs....

[stip]

No crazy tenth pick from Stip! WTF???

I had no sense of humor about music in the 90s, so it seemed appropriate.


Although I would have liked to find space for king missile