#318 Best Album of 1989 Tournament: Week #14 Wrap-Up
Hey folks!
First complete week of Round 2 is over! Again, everything went pretty much as expected. We had one upset, if you can call at #97 seed defeating a #96 seed an upset. (We can, it is, and we do.)
Below are the usual columns, The Best Album of 1989 Prediction Bracket Top 20, Last Week’s Results, and Next Week’s Matches. Tomorrow, look for a special edition of the newsletter as I present my 16 favorite albums of 2001 for your consideration for the upcoming Best Album of 2001 tournament. Spoiler: nothing too surprising if you know my tastes and what was “in” in 2001. There will be more special 2001 editions of the newsletter in the weeks to come, so stay tuned.
THE BEST ALBUM OF 1989 PREDICTION BRACKET TOP 20
Here’s Week #2 of the Best Album of 1989 Prediction Bracket, and not a whole lot of change. Breathe! Breathe! Breathe! Breathe, You Bracket! stays at #1 for a second week, while CORNY and Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Picks each move up one to #2 and #3 respectively. The biggest movers are Prognostication Street and Deep Dark Truthful Bracket, each moving up 5 notches this week. And we have two debuts, style. class. love technique. and 6 Feet High and Drivin' N' Cryin’. Welcome! The biggest droppers this week are PRETTY much HATE tin MACHINE and How many times will this bracket get a flat?, both falling five places to tie at #17. And gaining two bracket debuts means we lose… three from last week. (Don’t ask how that works.) Say goodbye, for now, to Tin Roof, Bracket (last week #16), 5-Piece Chicken Dinner (last week #16) and ice cream slipping into a crack (last week #9). Hope to see you again! You have plenty of time to claw your way back onto the chart.
Oh, and the final column in the chart is the highest position that bracket has achieved so far, and if it’s blue, that means it attained a new high this week.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
On Monday, #97 The D.O.C., NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER defeated #96 Screaming Trees, BUZZ FACTORY, 66-51-1. (118 total votes, +15)
On Tuesday, #16 Galaxie 500, ON FIRE defeated #49 808 State, 90, 108-51-1. (160 total votes, +57)
On Wednesday, #17 Faith No More, THE REAL THING defeated #48 "Weird Al" Yankovic, UHF - ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK AND OTHER STUFF, 117-46-1. (164 total votes, +71)
On Thursday, #8 N.W.A, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON defeated #72 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, QUEEN ELVIS, 95-38. (133 total votes, +57)
On Friday, #25 Prince, BATMAN defeated #40 Chris Isaak, HEART SHAPED WORLD, 79-63-2. (144 votes, +16)
NEXT WEEK’S MATCHES
Monday, September 1st: #9 Tom Petty, FULL MOON FEVER vs. #56 The Vaselines, DUM-DUM.
Tuesday, September 2nd: #24 The Replacements, DON’T TELL A SOUL vs. #41 Mekons, THE MEKONS ROCK N' ROLL.
Wednesday, September 3rd: #4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION vs. #68 Soul II Soul, CLUB CLASSICS VOL. ONE a.k.a. KEEP ON MOVIN'.
Thursday, September 4th: #29 XTC, ORANGES AND LEMONS vs. #36 The Cult, SONIC TEMPLE.
Friday, September 5th: #13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814 vs. #77 Wire, IT'S BEGINNING TO AND BACK AGAIN.
Thanks for reading! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Are you ready for back to school? I sure as hell am not!
Kent