LAST TALKING HEADS

Okay, I gotsta work, so real quick we've got Double Fantasy vs. Pump (the porn title bracket) in the next round. Will the Talking Heads go 4-0 in the first round?

The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths) vs. Candy Apple Grey (Husker Du) - Game 7
Little Creatures (Talking Heads) vs. Empty Glass (Pete Townshend) - Game 8

Only 5 first round brackets left!

THE LAST BEATLE

The Replacements destroyed Camper Van to give us Tim vs.....I have no idea as the other match ended in a tie. So, I'm gonna give that match 1 more day for a winner. Someone who hasn't, please vote on that match!
Here's the new bracket to go with it.

Double Fantasy (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) vs. Playing With Fire (Spacemen 3) - Game 29
Pump (Aerosmith) vs. My War (Black Flag) - Game 30

Former Beatles are now 0-3. Can Lennon salvage one, or are the Fab 5 ousted in the 80's? This is Aerosmith's first of 2 albums to match up. Will they start out big? And who, dammit, who will win between Kate Bush and Prince? Answers, please.

THE LAST PRINCE IN THE FIRST

I know a few people who will be disappointed in both of these results as The Police and Joe Jackson move on to bring us Synchronicity vs. Blaze Of Glory in the second. We now close out the Prince albums competing in the first round. He's 3-0 right now...can he go undefeated? We also have The Replacements here, who and 0-2. Can they win any?

Tim (The Replacements) vs. Key Lime Pie (Camper Van Beethoven) - Game 61
Hounds Of Love (Kate Bush) vs. Around The World In A Day (Prince) - Game 62

DOWN TO 7...

Two blow-outs as Bowie and Chapman advance to give us Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) vs. Tracy Chapman. And now, a moment of silence for Def Leppard who went 0-2 in the tourney.....no sugar poured on them today. This is the last of our first round brackets I associate with summer, so let's do this one since summer is clearly now over.

Synchronicity (The Police) vs. Tales Of The New West (Beat Farmers) - Game 53
Blaze Of Glory (Joe Jackson) vs. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (David Byrne/Brian Eno) - Game 54

It's late and I'm weary, so streams will come another day unless any of you wish to put them up to stump for your preferred album.

LOW TIDE

In our lowest voter turn-out yet, Cowboy Junkies and AC/DC took 1 vote wins to give us Trinity Sessions vs. Back In Black in the second. 8 more to go in the first. It's time for Bowie.

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (David Bowie) vs. Isn't Anything (My Bloody Valentine) - Game 47
Hysteria (Def Leppard) vs. Tracy Chapman (Tracy Chapman) - Game 48

If we continue to have all the votes in within the first 2 days of a bracket, I may speed this up a bit. For now, we'll keep it at a few days.

In Single Digits

Talking Heads and Metallica won out in some low-tallied contests serving up Stop Making Sense vs. And Justice For All in the next. Only 9 more first round brackets to go! Since we're in single digits, let's do one where every album is that band's only entry.

Underwater Moonlight (The Soft Boys) vs. Trinity Sessions (Cowboy Junkies) - Game 27
Back In Black (AC/DC) vs. The Blasters (The Blasters) - Game 28

That first one's a tough one for me. All right, I'll try to have streams up by tomorrow night. You can post them, or fave songs from the albums, if you wish (hint hint). This one ends Monday evening.

The Preview

2 blow-outs this time as we'll see Pretty Hate Machine vs. Uprising in the second round. Now let's move back up to the top of the tourney as we'll have our first of 3 face-offs (possibly more) between Talking Heads and R.E.M.

Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads) vs. Reckoning (R.E.M.) - Game 1
And Justice For All (Metallica) vs. Operation: Mindcrime (Queensryche) - Game 2

Both R.E.M. and Talking Heads are 2-0. Who will be the first to lose a match? Will Metallica continue it's losing ways? Stay tuned....

Before the Summer Fades...

Two blow-outs, pretty much, as PE slayed Slayer and Elvis Costello eased Easy E right out of the tourney. Hip hop loses it's first match and Elvis Costello goes undefeated in the first round, giving us It Takes A Nation of Millions...vs. Blood And Chocolate in the second round.

Here in the mitten it feels like maybe, possibly fall may be creeping in (YAY!) so we better get our Marley on before the summer ends.

Pretty Hate Machine (Nine Inch Nails) vs. Too Low For Zero (Elton John) - Game 49
Uprising (Bob Marley & The Wailers) vs. Dare (The Human League) - Game 50

HIP HOP VS.....

We had a blow-out with the Pixies and a one vote race with Leonard Cohen getting the extra one to give us I'm Your Man vs. Doolittle in the next. Let's see if hip hop can win both of these next matches to go 7-0 in the tourney thus far....

It Takes A Nation Of Millions... (Public Enemy) vs. South Of Heaven (Slayer) - Game 41
Blood And Chocolate (Elvis Costello) vs. Eazy Duz It (Eazy E) - Game 42

Can hip hop continue undefeated? Will Elvis Costello go 2-0? Will metal ever win? Answers in the form of votes, please. 

Some we haven't heard...

Duran Duran just destroyed the piano man and Squeeze did just that to Ms. Jackson (if you're nasty) to give us Rio vs. East Side Story in the second round. Now let's do some albums by 4 artists/bands I don't think we've come across yet...

Ocean Rain (Echo And The Bunnymen) vs. I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen) - Game 15
Doolittle (The Pixies) vs. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Dead Kennedys) - Game 16

We are over half way done with the first round! For those of you who are new, it moves a lot quicker in the next rounds. Still some big albums to decide on. So, go! Listen! Vote!