VU&NicoI haven't got TMR just yet despite several listens _________________ "Its so easy to laugh, its so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
The Velvet Underground & Nico defeat Trout Mask Replica 5-3!
This was a lot of fun and I would love to participate in another tournament of some sorts.
Winner:
Velvet Underground and Nico – The Velvet Underground
Runner-Up:
Trout Mask Replica – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Round 6:
Marquee Moon – Television
Parable of Arable Land – The Red Krayola
Round 5:
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
For Alto – Anthony Braxton
A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
Fun House – The Stooges
Round 4:
The Good Son – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Doors – The Doors
Spiritual Unity – Albert Ayler Trio
Geek the Girl – Lisa Germano
Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady – Charles Mingus
Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
Round 3:
Surfer Rosa – Pixies
Doolittle – Pixies
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Starsailor – Tim Buckley
Lorca – Tim Buckley
Forever Changes – Love
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – The Doors
Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
The Band – The Band
After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
Lullaby Land – Vampire Rodents
The Modern Dance – Pere Ubu
Unit Structures – Cecil Taylor
Not Available – The Residents
Raindogs – Tom Waits
Round 2:
Escalator Over the Hill – Carla Bley
Suicide – Suicide
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On
Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Appetite for Destruction – Guns ‘N’ Roses
Twin Infinitives – Royal Trux
Spiderland – Slint
Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix
Ten – Pearl Jam
Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman
Bee Thousand – Guided by Voices
Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
Remain in Light – Talking Heads
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
The Ramones – The Ramones
The Shape of Jazz to Come – Ornette Coleman
Round 1:
Purple Rain – Prince
Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
Nevermind – Nirvana
Inner Visions – Stevie Wonder
In Utero – Nirvana
Bringing it All Back Home – Bob Dylan
Blue – Joni Mitchell
Grace – Jeff Buckley
Darkness on the Edge of Town – Bruce Springsteen
Raw Power – The Stooges
American IV: The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash
The Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips
Is This It – The Strokes
Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
Harvest – Neil Young
Transformer – Lou Reed
Rocket to Russia – The Ramones
Murmur – R.E.M.
69 Love Songs – The Magnetic Fields
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkle
Kick Out the Jams – MC5
Music From Big Pink – The Band
Crazy Rhythms – The Feelies
#1 Record – Big Star
Graceland – Paul Simon
Let It Be – The Replacements
Improvise – Paul Bley
Funeral – Arcade Fire
Dub Housing – Pere Ubu
Y – The Pop Group
Automatic for the People – R.E.M.
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Fare Forward Voyagers – John Fahey
Yerself Is Steam – Mercury Rev
We’re Only in it for the Money – Frank Zappa
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
Call Me – Al Green
Today! – The Beach Boys
Saxophone Improvisations Series F - Anthony Braxton
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Younger Than Yesterday – The Byrds
Jazz Composers Orchestra - Michael Mantler
Horses – Patti Smith
The Ascension - Glenn Branca
Red Headed Stranger – Willie Nelson
Out to Lunch – Eric Dolphy
Should have made it further (ranked based on most deserving):
1. Yerself Is Steam – Mercury Rev (1991) [round 1]
2. The Ascension – Glenn Branca (1980) [round 1]
3. We’re Only in it for the Money – Frank Zappa (1968) [round 1]
4. Y – The Pop Group (1979) [round 1]
5. In Utero – Nirvana (1993) [round 1]
6. Twin Infinitives – Royal Trux [round 2]
7. The Modern Dance – Pere Ubu (1977) [round 3]
8. Lorca – Tim Buckley (1970) [round 3]
9. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady – Charles Mingus [round 4]
10. A Love Supreme – John Coltrane (1964) [round 5]
Your welcome and thanks to everyone for participating. _________________ "Its so easy to laugh, its so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
For the next tournament I propose we do the greatest albums of all time, or the greatest albums by decades. What do you peeps want the tournament to be and who is going to take part?
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