#125 Best Album of 2000 Tournament: Week #14 Wrap-Up
Hey folks!
First off: congratulations, everyone, we have completed Round 1! Give yourself a round of applause, and enjoy this moment. And then get ready, because Round 2 starts on Monday. Round 2 is half as long as Round 1 (and Round 3 is half as long as Round 2, etc.), so the rest of this is going to happen very quickly.
Today, you’ll find the usual previous week wrap up and next week’s schedule, as well as a look at some Round 1 stats, plus the debut of the Best Album of 2000 Prediction Bracket Top 20. Hope you enjoy it!
ROUND 1 STATS
Here are some of the more notable occurrences from Round 1. If you’d like to see the full set of data for Round 1, you can find the spreadsheet here.
Most Number of Votes for an Album: #2 PJ Harvey, STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA (105).
Least Number of Votes for an Album: #127 Moloko, THINGS TO MAKE AND DO (8).
Match with Most Votes: #4 Radiohead, KID A over #125 The Fall, THE UNUTTERABLE, 99-34-1 (134 total votes).
Match with Least Votes: Tie, both with 77 total votes - #46 Sade, LOVERS ROCK over #83 Q and Not U, NO KILL BEEP BEEP, 48-29, and #38 Warren Zevon, LIFE'LL KILL YA over #91 The Handsome Family, IN THE AIR, 47-29-1.
Most Votes and Lost: #116 Nina Nastasia, DOGS (60), defeated by #13 Belle & Sebastian, FOLD YOUR HANDS CHILD, YOU WALK LIKE A PEASANT (63)
Least Votes and Won: #55 Jill Scott, WHO IS JILL SCOTT? WORDS AND SOUNDS VOL. 1 (46) over #74 Electric Wizard, DOPETHRONE (45).
Biggest Winning Margin: #2 PJ Harvey, STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA (105) over #127 Moloko, THINGS TO MAKE AND DO (8), a difference of 97 votes.
Smallest Winning Margin: Tie, both by 1 vote - #55 Jill Scott, WHO IS JILL SCOTT? WORDS AND SOUNDS VOL. 1 (46) over #74 Electric Wizard, DOPETHRONE (45) and #93 Lou Reed, ECSTASY (60) over #36 Eminem, THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP (59).
Biggest Upset Based on Seeding: #111 Juana Molina, SEGUNDO over #18 Air, ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE FOR THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, 52-49-1.
Most Abstentions: Three ties, all with 3 abstentions - #88 Goldfrapp, FELT MOUNTAIN over #41 Doves, LOST SOULS, 60-49-3; #61 The Jayhawks, SMILE over #68 Sonic Youth, NYC GHOSTS & FLOWERS, 58-55-3; and #62 Björk, SELMASONGS: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK 'DANCER IN THE DARK’ over #67 Britney Spears, OOPS!….. I DID IT AGAIN, 65-44-3.
THE BEST ALBUM OF 2000 PREDICTION BRACKET TOP 20 COUNTDOWN
In case you didn’t already know, after the brackets have been determined but before the tournament actually starts, voters can fill out prediction brackets. The winner gets to pick an album to automatically enter into the next tournament, and there are usually other winners named as well. Once Round 1 is over, I like to publish the current standings as a Top 20 chart. Each week, in the Weekly Wrap-Up newsletter, I’ll update the chart, and continue to do so until the end of the tournament (which is usually around 14-16 weeks from now). Here’s our first week standings:
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
On Monday, #75 Asian Dub Foundation, COMMUNITY MUSIC defeated #54 Common, LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, 47-32. (79 total votes, +15)
On Tuesday, #22 Queens of the Stone Age, RATED R defeated #107 Calexico, HOT RAIL, 54-36. (90 total votes, +18)
On Wednesday, #43 Elastica, THE MENACE defeated #86 A Perfect Circle, MER DE NOMS, 52-43. (95 total votes, +9)
NEXT WEEK’S MATCHES
Monday, November 25th: #1 OutKast, STANKONIA vs. #64 Mary Timony, MOUNTAINS.
Tuesday, November 26th: #33 Death Cab for Cutie, WE HAVE THE FACTS AND WE’RE VOTING YES vs. #97 Quasimoto, THE UNSEEN.
Wednesday, November 27th: #16 Grandaddy, THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP vs. #86 The Sea & Cake, OUI.
Thursday, November 28th: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S., plus #17 Various Artists, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?: MUSIC FROM A FILM BY JOEL & ETHAN COEN vs. #81 Kylie Minogue, LIGHT YEARS.
Friday, November 29th: #8 The White Stripes, DE STIJL vs. #57 Smog, DONGS OF SEVOTION.
If you haven’t heard these 10 albums, well uh technically you should’ve by now. But if not, now would be a good time. See you next week!
Kent