Okay kids, 128 albums deep, our tournament is ready. First, here's how it works. For this first round (which will take quite some time...like a month at least), every 3 days I'll have a new 2-match bracket to vote on. The polls will be to your right at the edge of the screen. Voting is completely anonymous, we can only see how many of us have voted so far...that's it. This leaves you free to vote for those guilty pleasures over the critically acclaimed albums, if you so desire, without getting trolled mercilessly by your fellow voters. SO, if you wanna vote Human League over Bob Marley, you do it, dammit! As I've said in the past with this, you're not voting for the most socially relevant album (unless you want to), you're voting for the album you prefer RIGHT NOW. You choose your own guidelines/decisions for voting.
Stumping is encouraged on our FB page. If you wanna make a case for a particular album to woo voters, do it. Lets respect peoples' album choices though, peeps. Talk up your album, don't talk down other voters. Well, a little, but, you know...don't be a douche. Nobody likes a douche. Also, you WILL have album that lose. It will happen. Relax, breathe easy, it's just a fun game. It's nothing personal. Bitches.
The tourney seeds were decided by me drawing albums names out of a pot. For realz, y'all, that's how I did it. If artists/groups had 2 or more albums, I tried to make it so that it was impossible for the same band to appear twice in our final 4. All albums that were listed on 2 or more lists face albums that were on only 1 list in the first round.
I think that's it for the 'splaining. I will do my best to have links to albums streaming on our FB page at least for the first couple rounds. If you have questions/problems, the FB page is the place to let me know. Basically, the blog is for tourney viewing and voting, the FB page is for all other communication. We will quicken the 3-day voting period at some point, but if a match is mathematically impossible to change (over half our group votes for 1 album), I will end matches early. Check the FB page for new blog posts which will always contain new polls from here on, or follow this blog for notifications. Here's a list of artists/groups that feature more than 1 album in our tourney. The link to the entire tournament grid is near the top of this page in grey lettering just under the title. Click on it to view it all. First ballot will be coming shortly. Let me know if there are questions, please LISTEN TO THE ALBUMS, DON'T VOTE MISINFORMED, and have fun!
Prince and Talking Heads - 4 albums
Metallica, R.E.M., The Replacements - 3 albums
The Pixies, Beastie Boys, Tom Waits, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Police, U2,
Bruce Springsteen, Janet Jackson (yup, more than Michael), Aerosmith, Elvis Costello and Queen -2 albums
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