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Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Division 3:

2 Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983, #1387)
def 15 They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants 7-3
def 10 Madonna - Madonna 10-3
vs
11 They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990, UR)
def 6 Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever 6-4
def 3 The Replacements - Tim 10-4

The only album left to fall off the AM 3000, which pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the tournament, seeks to avenge it's fallen brother.

Division 7:

1 The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004, #1913)
def 16 The Decemberists - Her Majesty 9-5
def 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell 9-6
vs
4 Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005, #866)
def 13 Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day 6-3
def 5 Spoon - Gimme Fiction 6-5

A number one seed against a board favorite. It should be a close vote.

Division 2:

2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (1973, #760)
def 15 Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube de Esquina 6-4
def 10 Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick 7-4
vs
3 Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (1977, #2278)
def 14 Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony 7-3
def 6 Neil Young - Zuma 6-3

Early Springsteen album versus Beach Boys solo album.

Division 6:

1 Beck - Sea Change (2002, #657)
def 16 Low - Things We Lost In The Fire 10-2
def 9 Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2 6-5
vs
4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (2002, #1260)
def 13 O Brother, Where Art Thou 6-3
def 5 Beck - Midnite Vultures 10-2

Beck tries to keep his last album left in the tournament.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

3: They Might Be Giants - Flood
7: The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
2: (pass due to having never heard D. Wilson album)
6: Beck - Sea Change

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Division 3 : They might be Giants - Flood
Division 7 : Gorillaz - Demon Days
Division 6 : Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

I would probably prefer Dennis Wilson so Springsteen but have not listened to it yet.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (quite close, they're both among my 280ish favorites, albeit near the end of the list)
Beck - Sea Change

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Speaking in Tongues
Demon Days
Pacific Ocean Blue
Sea Change

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Speaking in Tongues
Demon Days
Pacific Ocean Blue
Sea Change

None of these are close except for Sea Change and One Beat.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983, #1387)
The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004, 0
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (1977, #2278)
Beck - Sea Change (2002, #657)

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Beck - Sea Change

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

2 Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983, #1387)

I really like the song Particle Man, but TMBG in general kind of irritate me.

Division 7:

1 The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004,

I like them both, but Demon Days didn't really stick with me.

Division 2:

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

Easy vote for me, though I'd probably rather be voting for Clube de Esquina here.

Division 6:

4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (2002, #1260)

#84 all time vs #108 of all time. Why do my two favorite of the week have to be against each other?!

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Div. 3: Speaking in Tongues. Pretty much anything by the Talking Heads beats anything by They Might Be Giants in my book.

Div. 7: Thunder, Lightning, Strike. Wow, this was an extremely close one, basically a coin flip.

Div. 2: Abstain

Div. 3: One Beat. Another very close matchup. I looked at my best albums of the '00s list and the rankings were 18-32

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Have to get a vote in here

They Might Be Giants beats Talking Heads any day, and especially today, as I've been listening to that album a couple of times already, and I'm about to do so once more. Their self-titled album was even better, though. :)

I also vote for Dennis Wilson. At first I didn't like it very much. It was ok, but nothing more, so I voted for Cohen. But now I'd vote otherwise, and definitely in this match.

In the other two matches, I let the fans decide.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983, #1387)
Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005, #866)
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (1977, #2278)
Beck - Sea Change (2002, #657)

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

They Might Be Giants - Flood

The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Beck - Sea Change

Haven't heard the Boss album.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Talking Heads

Go Team

Dennis Wilson

Beck

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Division 3:
2 Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983, #1387)

Division 7:
4 Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005, #866)

Division 2:
2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (1973, #760)

Division 6:
1 Beck - Sea Change (2002, #657)

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

Speaking in Tongues
Thunder Lightning Strike
Pacific Ocean Blue
One Beat -Sea Change could be the best produced album ever, but One Beat still wins.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

One more day to vote.

Two of the matchups are probably already won, but two are separated by two votes or less and could easily go either way.

Re: Best Moderately Acclaimed Album: Round 3, Week 3

K, so...

2 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues 12 def
11 They Might Be Giants - Flood 4

1 The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike 8 def
4 Gorillaz - Demon Days 7

I really thought Demon Days would win this. But still, no number one seeds have lost except for Magical Mystery Tour the first week.

3 Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue 7 def
2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle 5

Probably the biggest upset of the third round so far.

1 Beck - Sea Change 10 def
4 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat 5

Beck stays alive.