#23 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #6: Duster or Modest Mouse?
Hey folks!
First off, an apology. How this is supposed to work is that on Saturday, you would get a newsletter announcing the winner of Friday’s match, and then a schedule for the next week. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen due to being unusually busy this last weekend; fortunately, I don’t foresee it happening again.
Here is the schedule for the week of Monday, June 3 to Friday, June 7:
Date | Match |
|---|---|
Monday June 3 | Duster, CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT vs Modest Mouse, BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING |
Tuesday June 4 | Crooked Fingers, CROOKED FINGERS vs 16 Horsepower, SECRET SOUTH |
Wednesday June 5 | The For Carnation, THE FOR CARNATION vs Phoenix, UNITED |
Thursday June 6 | Papa Roach, INFEST vs Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED |
Friday June 7 | Lemon Jelly, LEMONJELLY.KY vs The Apples in Stereo, THE DISCOVERY OF A WORLD INSIDE THE MOONE |
The fifth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is:
Super Furry Animals, MWNG
MWNG defeated Limp Bizkit’s CHOCOLATE STARFISH AND THE HOT DOG FLAVORED WATER, 74-28. MWNG advances in the tournament and will be seen next up against Duster’s CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT or Modest Mouse’s BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING.
Speaking of which…
Time now for today’s match:
Duster, CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT vs Modest Mouse, BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING
Click the link below to go to the Google Forms to vote. (Google sign-in required.) Please, if possible, give both albums a listen before voting. If you don’t have time for the entire album, listen to the first 2-3 tracks of each.
The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #6: Duster vs. Modest Mouse
Welcome to the Match #6 of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament! Over the next few weeks, we will take 17 albums and choose one to enter into the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament. All of these albums missed being entered into the Best Album of 2000 Tournament by one vote. Matches will be held every Monday through Friday, with the final match scheduled for Monday, June 17th. Want to see the entire bracket? Go here: https://challonge.com/o7ze0ruy# Be sure to follow me on Bluesky (@be...
MATCH #6
Duster, CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6CYyrh3J08jXacgo9wHwsU?si=AZeDH7fzSk26BxK-GOJFvg
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzMvWqFtV0
Modest Mouse, BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fzFo9ypJRRla1N2IYOoQP?si=BWsrefEPQaCCvp_n2VMD5Q
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suJxY2ozFw
KENT’S KORNER
Upset that CHOCOLATE STARFISH was eliminated? Have no fear! We now have Modest Mouse up, and they’re the same band as Limp Bizkit. (In-joke! Best not ask.)
I will say this for CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT: after a single listen, I think I liked it better than previous Duster albums I’ve heard, and I could see it moving up to Like with more listens. Unfortunately, there is, to date, literally no album from 2000 that could beat BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING for me. Wish I had time to write up a real Designated Cheerleader for this; let me just say that as the first MM album I heard, it immediately made me a fan, and took me on a meaningful emotional journey, despite (or because?) it is a compilation of b-sides. Which I assume is what we want, at best, an album to do. If its status as a compilation precludes you from otherwise voting for it, you must vote your conscience. But I suggest to you that it should not matter.
CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT: Interesting/Like
BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING: Love
KENT SEZ: BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING.