RM March Madness 2025: Hail Hail wins!

[stip]

i was wondering where the responses were!

[stip]

its fun dropping those other albums into the mix

[96583UP]

thank god this is back

i am very excite

thank you for facilitating

having once managed a Lenny Smarch Madness

I can appreciate the amount of work that goes into an initiative like this

[Higgs]

Thanks stip. The Board needs this now more than ever. I guess dime had his own all encompassing March Madness this year already. This one can be for the rest of us.

[Anders]

This is the RM highlight in March for sure.

[Anders]

its fun dropping those other albums into the mix

[Farmer John]

Thanks stip. The Board needs this now more than ever. I guess dime had his own all encompassing March Madness this year already. This one can be for the rest of us.

Let's get nuts!

[Anders]

Thanks stip. The Board needs this now more than ever. I guess dime had his own all encompassing March Madness this year already. This one can be for the rest of us.

Let's get nuts!

[stip]

Closing out the round since none of these are close and I need to head back out.

1-1 Porch over All Night 37-4
1-2. Yellow Moon over Rose of Jericho 29-11
1-3. Leatherman over Gone 28-14
1-4. Force of Nature over Sirens 26-15
1-5. Deep over What Happened Yesterday 38-3
1-6. Breath over Running 38-3
1-7. Black over Parting Ways 25-19
1-8. Wake Up over I don't Know Anything 28-2

[stip]

Bracket 1 part 2 is up

[ABNorman]

Back from holiday, and find out that MM is running? It's like I'm back on holiday already!

[epilogue]

[stip]

okay, closing out the round

[stip]

1-9: Comes Than Goes over Don’t Believe in X-mas (34-4)
1-10: Life Wasted over Olympic Platinum (35-3)
1-11: All Those Yesterdays over Crazy Mary (27-12)
1-12 You over Four Walled world (22-14)
1-13 Hard to Imagine over Thumbing My Way (33-6)
1-14:Big Wave over Can’t Deny Me (33-7)
1-15:Jeremy over Someday at Xmas (34-4)
1-16: Long Gone Day over Wooden Jesus (21-12)

[stip]

Next round is up. open for 24 hoursish

[Anders]

With Temple Of The Dog, Mad Season and Mirrorball included, I'm just missing some Brad in this tournament.

[Anders]

Originally I had Into the Wild and Ukulele Songs in the mix instead of Mirror Ball and Mad Season but I figured people would prefer this.

Good choice. Pearl Jam is a fantastic band, and it's not only because of Ed. Into The Wild is excellent though.

[stip]

some of it is undoubtedly my preference but some of it is familiarity. just about everyone knows Into the Wild. is that true of Brad, 3 fish, etc? also harder to figure out where to draw the line. so much side material

[Anders]

I think the two 90s albums from Brad are on another level compared to Three Fish, Rockfords or even Wellwater Conspiracy, any of the pre-ToTD/pre-Pearl Jam material (apart from Chloe Dancer / Crown Of Thorns), or any of the later stuff. I also think TOTD, Mad Season, Into The Wild and Earthling, are all top quality.

[Anders]

some of it is undoubtedly my preference but some of it is familiarity. just about everyone knows Into the Wild. is that true of Brad, 3 fish, etc? also harder to figure out where to draw the line. so much side material

Since we're mostly a grown up group here, I would also think most people know Into The Wild and the albums you included, but so far the votes seem very heavily tilted in Pearl Jam's favor.