This is it: five months of tournaments spanning six decades all to settle, conclusively and forever, which decade produced the best music.
Final
80s (Koopee) vs 60s (Bada)
Koopee27
1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
3. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
4. The Cure - A Forest
5. Beastie Boys - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream
7. Depeche mode - Personal Jesus
8. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
9. The Police - King Of Pain
10. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
vs
Bada
1. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. The Beatles - Something
3. The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
4. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
6. Cream - White Room
7. The Jim Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary
8. The Who - My Generation
9. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women ♯12 & 35
10. The Doors - The End
The bracket can be found here
Playlists can be found here
The Rosters
- Spoiler: show
- 60s
Bada
1. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. The Beatles - Something
3. The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
4. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
6. Cream - White Room
7. The Jim Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary
8. The Who - My Generation
9. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women ♯12 & 35
10. The Doors - The End
Durdencommatyler
1. The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun.
2. Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
3. Led Zeppelin - What is and What Should Never Be
4. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
5. The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year
6. The Mamas & The Papas - Creeque Ally
7. Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind
8. Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do
9. Stevie Wonder - I Was Made to Love Her
10. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
70s
Durdencommatyler
1. Big Star - September Gurls
2. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
3. David Bowie - Life on Mars?
4. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
5. Tom Waits - Tom Traubett's Blues
6. Stevie Wonder - Golden Lady
7. Led Zepplin - Since I've Been Lovin' You
8. The Beatles - Let It Be
9. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
10. Crosby, Still, Nash & Young – Helpless
DeLima
1. The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia
2. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
3. John Lennon -Working Class Hero
4. Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
5. The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
6. Black Sabbath - War Pigs
7. Neil Young - Dangerbird
8. Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood
9. Pink Floyd - Dogs
10. Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
80s
Koopee27
1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
3. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
4. The Cure - A Forest
5. Beastie Boys - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream
7. Depeche mode - Personal Jesus
8. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
9. The Police - King Of Pain
10. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Pryto
1. Michael Jackson - Human Nature
2. Nirvana - About A Girl
3. Beastie Boys B-Boy Bouillabaisse
4. The Stone Roses - Waterfall
5. Guns 'N Roses - It's So Easy
6. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
7. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
8. Prince - Starfish and Coffee
9. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. The Stray Cats -- Stray Cat Strut
90s
Bada
1. Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
2. Jane's Addiction - Three Days
3. Nirvana - Lithium
4. Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs
5. Soundgarden - 4th Of July
6. Alice In Chains - Rain When I Die
7. Pearl Jam - Go
8. Stone Temple Pilots - Silver Gun Superman
9. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
Numbers
1. The Breeders - Cannonball
2. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
3. Soundgarden- The Day I Tried To Live
4. Radiohead - Lucky
5. R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
6. Nirvana- Drain You
7. Pearl Jam - I Got Shit
8. The Fugees - Ready Or Not
9. Beck - New Pollution
10. Alanis Morisette - All I Really Want
2000s
LetMeSleep
1. At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
2. Bon Iver - For Emma
3. Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
4. The Knife - Heartbeats
5. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
6. Ryan Adams - Let It Ride
7. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
8. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
9. Midlake - Roscoe
10. Lambchop - Is A Woman
Mike
1. Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag
2. The National - Fake Empire
3. Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
4. Songs: Ohia - Hold On Magnolia
5. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out
6. The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus
7. Belle and Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo
8. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
9. okkervil river - So Come Back, I Am Waiting
10.Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
2010->
Stip
1. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
2. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
3. The Mynabirds - What We Gained in the Fire
4. Leonard Cohen - Come Healing
5. Feist - The Bad In Each Other
6. Mark Lanegan - Ode to Sad Disco
7. R.E.M. - We All Go Back To Where We Belong
8. Tom Waits - Tell Me
9. Cloud Cult - The Invocation (pt. 1): You'll Be Bright
10. Pearl Jam - Mind Your Manners
LetMeSleep
1. Bon Iver - Holocene
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - That's What Our Love Is
4. Four Tet - Angel Echoes
5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
6. Kurt Vile - Society Is My Friend
7. Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)
8. M83 - Midnight City
9. The Joy Formidable -- I Don't Want To See You Like This
10. Swans - No Words/No Thoughts
The Tournaments- Spoiler: show
- 60s Tournament
70s Tournament
80s Tournament
90s Tournament
00s Tournament
2010-> Tournament
Thank you to everyone who participated, voted, and helped keep things moving along. An extra special thanks to Abnorman for training, saying his prayers, eating his vitamins, and making the playlists.
let's see how this one goes.
