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Default Best Year Tournament - Group Stage Round 1

Remember, you're voting just for the set of four albums and four singles, not for everything that came out in the year.

Group A
1966 - DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
Quote:
Albums
Revolver - the Beatles
Pet Sounds - the Beach Boys
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan (even though I'm not particularly a Dylan fan)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Singles
We Can Work It Out - Beatles
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Wild Thing – The Troggs
Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra
vs. 1994 - Mondo Bungle
Quote:
Albums
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Singles
Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. ( Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))
Nirvana - About A Girl ( MTV Unplugged in New York )
Blur - Girls & Boys (Parklife)
Beastie Boys - Get It Together ( Ill Communication)
2002 - Norg advances over 2010 - James (forfeit)

Group B
1979 - Janszoon
Quote:
Albums
Joy Division—Unknown Pleasures
Michael Jackson—Off the Wall
The Clash—London Calling
Throbbing Gristle—20 Jazz Funk Greats

Singles
Bauhaus—"Bela Lugosi's Dead" (Side B: "Boys")
Chic—"Good Times" (Side B: "A Wam Summer Night")
The Dead Kennedys—"California Über Alles" (Side B: "Man With the Dogs")
The Charlie Daniels Band—"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (Side B: "Rainbow Ride")
vs. 1981 - Frownland
Quote:
Albums
This Heat - Deceit
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Black Flag - Damaged
Public Image Limited - The Flowers of Romance

Singles
Gang of Four - What We All Want
Rush - YYZ
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, & Paco De Lucia - Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
2007 - JennyOndioline
Quote:
Albums
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Jay-Z - American Gangster

Singles
Chromeo - "Fancy Footwork"
Justice - "D.A.N.C.E. / Phantom"
Tegan and Sara - "Back in Your Head"
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"
vs. 2012 - Ki
Quote:
Albums
Lamb of God - Resolution
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Anathema - Weather Systems
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

Singles/Songs
Sigur Ros - Dauðalogn
Rush - The Anarchist
Miss May I - At Heart
Circa Survive - Birth of the Economic Hit Man
Group C
1967 - Pet_Sounds advances over 1973 - Rexx Shredd (forfeit)

1977 - YorkeDaddy
Quote:
Albums
David Bowie - Low
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Marvin Gaye - Live at the London Palladium

Singles
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
vs. 1983 - KNONE
Quote:
Albums
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Yes ‎– 90125
Talking Heads ‎– Speaking In Tongues
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

Singles
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
David Bowie - China Girl
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized 1983
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Group D
1971 - Neapolitan
Quote:
Albums
Hunky Dory by David Bowie
The Stylistic by The Stylistics
Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
The Yes Album by Yes

Singles
I Don't Know How To Love Him by Yvonne Elliman
Just My Imagination by The Temptations
Walk Away by James Gangtations
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get by The Dramatics
vs. 1993 - Goofle
Quote:
Albums
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Electric Hellfire Club - Burn, Baby, Burn!
The Auteurs - New Wave
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Singles
Bjork - Venus as a Boy
Catherine Wheel - Crank
Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
1997 - Josef K/Ninetales
Quote:
Albums
Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

Singles
Radiohead - Let Down / Karma Police
Bjork - Bachelorette
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Massive Attack - Risingson
vs. 2006 - Charlemagne
Quote:
Albums
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls In America
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You - Believes In Patterns

Singles
The Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
The Decemberists - Oh Valencia!
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