#324 Best Album of 1989 Tournament: Week #15 Wrap-Up
Hey folks!
Things are getting wild over here at Best Album Brackets, or at least as wild as things can get. We had two upsets this week, as both #24 DON’T TELL A SOUL and #29 ORANGES AND LEMONS were felled by lower seeds (#41 and #36 respectively). The scuttlebutt I was getting around these albums was that support around them was soft, owing mostly (I think) to perceptions that these were not very good efforts from these artists and they only got their seeding due to name recognition. That said, both battles were hard-fought; ORANGES AND LEMONS only lost by 5 and DON’T TELL A SOUL only by two. (This is a good time to remind everyone of the Best Album Brackets policy regarding ties — ties go to the higher seed, so two more votes and DON’T TELL A SOUL would be one of the Best Albums of 1989.)
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. This week, I asked people to DM me one 2001 album they love and think is obscure. I’m going to feature every one that I can find links for. (That should be all of them, but we’ll see.) I hope you sample these albums; you just may find a new favorite you want to champion for the upcoming Best Album of 2001!
THE BEST ALBUM OF 1989 PREDICTION BRACKET TOP 20
Here’s Week #3 of the Best Album of 1989 Prediction Bracket, and we have a new #1. Congratulations to CORNY, which moves up two notches to take the top spot. Former #1 Breathe! Breathe! Breathe! Breathe, You Bracket! tumbles down to #3, and Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Picks moves up one space to #2. Our biggest mover in the countdown is Prognostication Street, which jumps up 8 big notches to #7. We have three new debuts. George Wendt Memorial Bracket and I’ll Believe in My Bracket (Or I'll Be Leavin' You Tonight) both come in at #18 and 5 Feet High and Guessing arrives at #20. Welcome! The bracket that fell the most this week was Partyman's Revenge, with a pretty modest 4 notch drop. And we lost three brackets this week: i Doolittle Deep Listening (last week #12), We Are The Brackets Gone Wild! (last week #13) and 6 Feet High and Drivin' N' Cryin’ (last week #20) all fell off. Hope to see you three again soon!
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
On Monday, #9 Tom Petty, FULL MOON FEVER defeated #56 The Vaselines, DUM-DUM, 88-62-2. (152 total votes, +26)
On Tuesday, #41 Mekons, THE MEKONS ROCK N’ ROLL defeated #24 The Replacements, DON’T TELL A SOUL, 81-79-1. (161 total votes, +2)
On Wednesday, #4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION defeated #68 Soul II Soul, CLUB CLASSICS VOL. ONE a.k.a. KEEP ON MOVIN', 146-45. (191 total votes, +101)
On Thursday, #36 The Cult, SONIC TEMPLE defeated #29 XTC, ORANGES AND LEMONS, 91-86. (177 total votes, +5)
On Friday, #13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814 defeated #77 Wire, IT'S BEGINNING TO AND BACK AGAIN, 98-60-1. (159 votes, +38)
NEXT WEEK’S MATCHES
Monday, September 8th: #20 Julee Cruise, FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT vs. #45 The Beautiful South, WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH.
Tuesday, September 9th: #5 Nine Inch Nails, PRETTY HATE MACHINE vs. #69 Love and Rockets, LOVE AND ROCKETS.
Wednesday, September 10th: #28 Yo La Tengo, PRESIDENT YO LA TENGO vs. #37 Tracy Chapman, CROSSROADS.
Thursday, September 11th: #12 New Order, TECHNIQUE vs. #53 Operation Ivy, ENERGY.
Friday, September 12th: #21 Lou Reed, NEW YORK vs. #44 Soundgarden, LOUDER THAN LOVE.
Thanks for voting, reading, and subscribing! Have a great weekend!
Kent