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November 13, 2025

#381 The Best Album of 1989, Round 4 Match #119: De La Soul vs. Neneh Cherry

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Hey folks!

First pic: Black and white photos of three young Black men, arranged in a circle as if you are on the ground and they are looking down at you from above. The background is very bright yellow. There are hand drawn flower shapes in blue and orange arranged around them. Second pic: A color photograph of a young Black woman with her hair pulled back, her arms crossed, and wearing loads of bracelets and a very large medallion. She has a very.. angry? disappointed? smug? look on her face. It's very intense, regardless. The background is blank white.

Today’s Best Album of 1989 match is:

#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING

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vs.

#19 Neneh Cherry, RAW LIKE SUSHI

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To vote, follow this link to the Google Form. You will need a Google login to vote. If you can’t or won’t have one, let me know ASAP (either through this newsletter, my email [kentmbeeson@hey.com] or on the Best Album Brackets Bluesky account) and I’ll see what I can do.

Click here to see the current results for the entire tournament, and click here to see the current results for the prediction bracket contest.

Yesterday, #10 The B-52's, COSMIC THING defeated #7 The Stone Roses, THE STONE ROSES, 180-158-3. THE STONE ROSES was ahead by about 9 votes very early this morning, and then at some point, around 7-7:30am CST, COSMIC THING jumped ahead by almost 15, and THE STONE ROSES could never catch up. I assume this is from someone RT-ing the match, but lots of people did, so who the influencer was is unknown to me.

Thanks for another wild match!

Kent

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