Best Year Tournament - Group Stage Round 1

Josef K · 02-08-2015, 09:11 AM

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

Vote here.

Josef K · 02-08-2015, 04:34 PM

I forgot to mention that this will close at about 11 AM tomorrow, 24 hours after it was posted. I won't accept responses timestamped later than 11:11. I'm saving my own vote to break any ties.

Ninetales · 02-08-2015, 04:39 PM

only a day? what if we haven't heard some of these albums..

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 02-08-2015, 04:53 PM

Some of these I didn't really know who to vote for.

**Janszoon** · 02-08-2015, 05:00 PM

Why is it a four-way match in two of the groups and a two-way match in the other two?

**Frownland** · 02-08-2015, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Why is it a four-way match in two of the groups and a two-way match in the other two?

The ones with four are two separate matches.

**Janszoon** · 02-08-2015, 05:29 PM

Ok, why do some groups have one match and some groups have two?

**Frownland** · 02-08-2015, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Ok, why do some groups have one match and some groups have two?

They all have two, some of them are already decided because of forfeit. There were two matches where people didn't send their stuff in or forfeited (idk Josef K's process) that counts as a forfeit so their matches are conceded to the person they were supposed to go up against.

**Janszoon** · 02-08-2015, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

They all have two, some of them are already decided because of forfeit. There were two matches where people didn't send their stuff in or forfeited (idk Josef K's process) that counts as a forfeit so their matches are conceded to the person they were supposed to go up against.

Ah-ha!

Josef K · 02-08-2015, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales

only a day? what if we haven't heard some of these albums..

I'll make it two, but I think if I let it take too long interest could peter out.

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