#32 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #14: The For Carnation or Modest Mouse?
Hey folks! The thirteenth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED...
#31 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #13: Enon or Amon Tobin?
Hey folks! The twelfth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: The For Carnation, THE FOR CARNATION The For Carnation, THE...
#30 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #12: Crooked Fingers or The For Carnation?
Hey folks! The eleventh match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Modest Mouse, BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING Modest...
#29 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #11: Super Furry Animals or Modest Mouse?
Hey folks! Hope everyone has a great weekend! We have one more week of matches, then a week from today will be the final! Later that week, there’ll be a...
#28 Yesterday’s Winner and Next Week’s Schedule
Hey folks! The tenth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: The Apples in Stereo, THE DISCOVERY OF A WORLD INSIDE THE MOONE...
#27 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #10: Lemon Jelly or The Apples in Stereo?
Hey folks! The ninth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED...
#26 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #9: Papa Roach or Amon Tobin?
Hey folks! The eighth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: The For Carnation, THE FOR CARNATION The For Carnation, THE...
#25 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #8: The For Carnation or Phoenix?
Hey folks! The seventh match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Crooked Fingers, CROOKED FINGERS Crooked Fingers, CROOKED...
#24 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #7: Crooked Fingers or 16 Horsepower?
Hey folks! The sixth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Modest Mouse, BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING Spotify:...
#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...
#22 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #5: Super Furry Animals or Limp Bizkit?
Hey folks! The fourth match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: The Apples in Stereo, THE DISCOVERY OF A WORLD INSIDE THE...
#21 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #4: Slum Village or The Apples in Stereo?
Hey folks! 71 is the vote count. The third match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Lemon Jelly, LEMONJELLY.KY Lemon Jelly,...
#20 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Match #3: Lemon Jelly or Weakling?
Hey folks! 67 is the vote total for today. The second match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Enon, BELIEVO! Enon, BELEIVO!...
#19 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament continues! Vote now: Enon or The Distillers?
Hey folks! The first match of the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off has concluded and the winner is: Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED SUPERMODIFED defeated Pearl Jam’s...
#18 The Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament Begins! Vote now: Pearl Jam or Amon Tobin?
Hey folks! Pearl Jam, BINAURAL vs Amon Tobin, SUPERMODIFIED Yes, the Best Album of 2000 Run-Off Tournament is here! You should be familiar with the details...
#17 Seeds for the Run-Off Tournament! Tournament starts Monday! Plus a NEW contest! Exclamation Point!
Hey folks! In case you haven’t read the last couple newsletters, here’s the 411: this Monday, May 27th, we will begin a run-off tournament for one of the...
#16 REMINDER: The Run-Off Tournament is coming May 27th!
Hey folks! This is just a reminder that we are having a run-off tournament to place one, possibly two, albums in the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament....
#15 UPDATE! New album added to the tournament + upcoming run-off tournament
Hey folks! The Best Album of 2000 Tournament is finally, to my mind, leaving the station and picking up speed. We have two updates today that push this thing...
#14 Try Out Another Polling Option! Plus New Albums Added to the Tournament!
Hey folks! It was radio silence in April, but we’re back with new information about the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament. First, three more albums have...
#13 Here are the first 121 albums in the Best Album of 2000 tournament!
Hey folks! This last Tuesday, March 26th, I revealed the first 121 albums entered into the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament on Bluesky. It took about...
#12 REMINDER: meet the first albums entered in the Best Album of 2000 tournament!
Hey folks! Just a reminder: TOMORROW, at 5pm CST, I’ll be revealing the first 121 albums entered into the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament on the Best...
#11 Find out which 121 albums are in the Best Album of 2000 tournament!
Hey folks! The nomination ballots to determine the first slate of entries into the upcoming Best Album of 2000 tournament have been counted. One thousand and...
#10 Remember the Best Album Brackets? Those were cool.
Hey folks! My apologies for my radio silence these last couple weeks. I caught some kind of virus that I don’t think was Covid that just made me not want to...
#9 The First Poll: The Results!
Hey folks! Assuming you aren’t just joining in, last week I dropped the very first Best Album Brackets newsletter poll! Buttondown has a “survey” feature,...
#8 The First Best Album Brackets Newsletter Poll! Please vote!
Hey folks! Ready to look at surveys a.k.a. polls here on Buttondown? So, if I did everything right, at the bottom you will see a survey that states, “Should...
#7 The Extremely 7th Issue of the Best Album Brackets Newsletter
Hey folks! Two topics today, then a quick look at some 2000 releases. Topic One: The Nominations! Let’s go to the Google Nomination form and see how many...
#6 The Very 6th Issue of the Best Album Brackets Newsletter
Hello folks, and welcome to another issue of the Best Album Brackets newsletter! There’s actually not that much to report his week. If you somehow missed the...
#5 Nominations for the Best Album of 2000 Tournament Are Now Open!
This is going to be a short one today, as all you need to know is in the subject line: nominations for the up and coming Best Album of 2000 tournament are...
#4 The Top 16 Seeds of 2000, Four Ways (repost from Substack)
The Top 16 Seeds of 2000, Four Ways Everything in its right place? I love “Now That’s What I Call” jokes, be warned. As long time Best Album Bracket Buddies...
#3 Sail. (repost from Substack)
Sail. This is how I show my love. Blame it on my ADHD, baby. Exciting and new!(ish) We have officially left the docks of Twitter and have entered the open...
#2 A Brief History of the Best Album Brackets (repost from Substack)
While we’re all getting used to the idea of the Best Album Brackets moving from Twitter to Substack Buttondown, temporarily (?), and getting updates via...
#1 Welcome to the Best Album Brackets! (repost from Substack)
The Great Challonge Control Panel. All hail benevolent Challonge and its glorious new regime! (Hey 2024 folks! This is a repost of the first entry in the...