Division 2:

2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
#760, 1973, def 15 Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina
vs
10 Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
#2740, 1977, def 7 Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

There's an obvious favorite in this matchup, but power pop is a pretty popular style here, so you never know.

Division 4:

1 Elliot Smith - Either/Or
#473, 1997, def 16 Aimee Mann - Whatever
vs
9 Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
#1691, 1996, def 8 Johnny Cash - Unchained

An even more obvious favorite in this one. Either/Or is one of the four albums in the draw to be pushed over #500 in the update, and factored highly in the AMF 200.

Division 6:

4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
#1260, 2002, def 13 O Brother Where Art Thou
vs
5 Beck - Midnite Vultures
#831, 1999, def 12 Elliot Smith - XO

Sleater-Kinney puts their entire life in this game on the line this week, and Beck vies to go 6-0 through to the third round.

Division 8:
3 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
#1503, 2006, def 14 Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
vs
11 Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Relevations
Unranked, 2005, def 6 Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

Belle and Sebastian vies to improve to 5-0 against an album knocked off the AM 3000 in the last update.

Vote stays open for a week, closes Tuesday at midnight board time.

10 Cheap Trick - s/t

1 Elliott Smith - Either/Or

5 Beck - Midnite Vultures

3 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle”

Early Springsteen was awesome, and he even managed to release a second album better than the first (and even a third better than the second!), a feature that you rarely fnd in today’s bands.


ELLIOTT SMITH “Either/Or”

Yes, BillAdama, Elliott is improving his acclaim lately, and justified so, maybe he’s the ultimate grower.


SLEATER-KINNEY “One Beat”

So if Sleater-Kinney are putting their entire life this week and I juste voted out on the previous pairing, let’s help them (although Beck’s album is brilliant).


BELLE AND SEBASTIAN “The Life Pursuit”

A minor B&S album is still good enough.

10 Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick

1 Elliot Smith - Either/Or

4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

11 Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Relevations

My votes are easy this week except for S-K/Beck

Bruce Springsteen

Elliot Smith

Sleater-Kinney
#86 all time vs #113 all time. I had to listen to them both just to make sure of my vote. But these are my favorite two being voted on this week.

Belle and Sebastian

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Division 2:
2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

Division 4:
1 Elliot Smith - Either/Or

Division 6:
5 Beck - Midnite Vultures

Division 8:
3 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Division 2:
10 Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick

Division 4:
1 Elliot Smith - Either/Or

Division 6:
4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

Division 8:
3 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

Elliot Smith - Either/Or

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Cheap Trick - s/t
Elliott Smith - Either/Or (favourite album ever blablabla)
Sleater Kinney - One Beat (tough call)

One more day to vote.

It's not a very close week. In fact, there's one possible shutout. Only one of the matchups is close, and it's separated by a single vote.

Following suit with Matt Schroeder, the next vote will be open two weeks instead of one.

Wow, the week of agreement!

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

Elliot Smith - Either/Or

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Indeed a tough choice. I like Sleater-Kinney a lot, but I had not heard "One Beat" until yesterday. It's certainly good, but I don't think I will ever love it like I do "The Woods". The Beck album is much more well-known to my ears, and a good album too. In the end it comes down to that I think it's more fun with a S-K in the game.

I don't think I will vote in Division 8. The Eels album is just too damn long to get a grip on.

The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Call the Doctor (no shut out here)
One Beat

I haven't heard the Eels record, so I dont feel comfortable voting, although I hate to see Belle and Sebastien take such a commanding win. Maybe next round.

Votes for Elliott Smith and Belle & Sebastian. Blank on the other two.

And the results.

Division 2:

2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle 7 def
10 Cheap Trick - s/t 4

Bruuuuuce moves on to meet Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue.

Division 4:

1 Elliot Smith - Either/Or 11 def
9 Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor 1

One of the favorites of the tournament barely misses the shutout and easily moves on.

Division 6:

4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat 9 def
5 Beck - Midnite Vultures 2

Beck takes his first defeat of the tournament, leaving Belle & Sebastian as the only act with three albums in. Sleater-Kinney moves on to meet another Beck album, Sea Change.

Division 8:

3 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 8 def
11 Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations 1

Belle and Sebastian improves to 5-0.