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
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
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
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.
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