Moderately Acclaimed 3 (MA3) Round 1.16

[Brad]

Posting a little early today as I will be out for the next couple hours.

Round 1.16
Vote for your favorite album in each matchup.
Remember, anyone can vote as long as they've heard both albums!
Deadline = June 25th 10am EST
Last week of the first round!

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One vs. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun vs. Tom Waits - Alice
3. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better vs. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
4. Thomas Newman - American Beauty vs. The Verlaines - Bird Dog

Also, still a tie fron Round 1.14:
Swell - 41 vs. Sonic Youth- NYC Ghosts & Flowers ***NEXT VOTE WINS!***

Shake Your Hips!

[Stephan]

The final and, for me, weakest week of the first round. Bird Dog is strong and American Beauty is a good soundtrack but the rest is all below 8.0 for me. The Boredoms album is certainly better than the one we had a few weeks ago, but it's still kinda boring.

1. The Verlaines - Bird Dog
2. Thomas Newman - American Beauty
3. Tom Waits - Alice
4. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
5. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
6. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
7. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most wanted
8. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

[Greg]

1. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
2. Tom Waits - Alice
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
4. The Verlaines - Bird Dog

[Jirin]

16/1

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah (#214 AT)
Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted 8/10

Better album goes to Erykah, but the 'Best mispelling of America'
trophy goes to Ice Cube. Icecube's meter sounds pretty similar to
Public Enemy's.

16/2

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun 8/10
Tom Waits - Alice 6/10

Alice is the only Tom Waits album I've heard that I'm not all that fond of.

16/3

The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better 6/10
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny 5/10

I'm so used to hearing this kind of metal with more virtuosic guitar
playing. Without it it's just some guy screaming about
apocalypse-related things over a bassline even I could play.

16/4

Thomas Newman - American Beauty 8/10
The Verlaines - Bird Dog 8/10

Biggest surprise of the week, since I'm not usually into movie scores.

[Brad]

the 'Best mispelling of America'
trophy goes to Ice Cube.

Best part is - the winner faces "Miss America" in the next round.

[Henrik]

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
4. Thomas Newman - American Beauty

[Brad]

My picks:
1. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted over Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
Simply much more entertained by "Amerikka's", though this is the best Badu I've heard.
2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun over Tom Waits - Alice
Close, but a case of "which one would I reach for first?"
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny over The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Hoped for more from the Priest ; this one hits me as slightly comical... still, gets the narrow victory over D.O.C. (favorite = "Tyrant").
4. The Verlaines - Bird Dog over Thomas Newman - American Beauty
"Bird Dog" is my favorite album.

Thanks!

[Honorio]

4 easy decisions for me this week:
1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
2. Tom Waits - Alice
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
4. Thomas Newman - American Beauty

[Brad]

Bout 24 hours left and some close matches!

[antonius]

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
Always had a "difficult" relationship with this CD. Parts of it are excellent. Others are "difficult"

Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Tom Waits - Alice
No rockers on this one. Takes time to appreciate all the slow songs

3. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Almost old school hip hop, produced by Dr. Dre

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

4. pass
Thomas Newman - American Beauty
The Verlaines - Bird Dog

[Kingoftonga]

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One vs. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

Despite that terrible song where Ice Cube threatens to punch a pregnant woman in the stomach, I still find this album to be solid early nineties hip hop.

2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun vs. Tom Waits - Alice

Alice accentuates the elements I've never really liked about Tom Waits without providing the elements that I do like. Vision Creation Newsun is weird, but in a good way. I'm excited to listen to it again and try and unpack it.

[Nassim]

2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

As I said, the problem with Super AE was that the annoying part was in the beginning, here the last 2 tracks are fairly annoying, but you've already been through 45 minutes of a rewarding trip through the craziest tribal psychotrop music you could imagine. I'm not a big fan of Tom Waits anyway, though each of his album has its enjoyable moments and his artistic sense and personal imagery force respect.

[Brad]

Only 9 voters this week:
antonius
Brad
Greg
Henrik
Honorio
Jirin
KingofTonga
Nassim
Stephan

Results:
1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One over Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted 5-3
2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun vs. Tom Waits - Alice ***TIE 4-4*** Next Vote Wins
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny over The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better 5-2
4. Thomas Newman - American Beauty vs. The Verlaines - Bird Dog ***TIE 3-3*** Next Vote Wins

So, outstanding "sudden death" ties:
Round 1.15 The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop vs. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
Round 1.16 Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun vs. Tom Waits - Alice
Round 1.16 Thomas Newman - American Beauty vs. The Verlaines - Bird Dog
In each case, NEXT VOTE WINS!!!

Round 2.1 up soon!

[Romain]

So, outstanding "sudden death" ties:
Round 1.15 The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop vs. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
Round 1.16 Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun vs. Tom Waits - Alice
Round 1.16 Thomas Newman - American Beauty vs. The Verlaines - Bird Dog

Tom Waits and The Verlaines for me, without doubt.

[Brad]

Thanks Romain - that leaves
The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop vs. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
match as the sole remaining first round matchup.

[Nassim]

I had 9 albums in the game and only one went to round 2... did anyone fare worse ?

[Henrik]

Link to the results again:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=417952&tclass=Best%20Moderately%20Acclaimed%20Album%20%233

I think 10 of the albums were nominations from me and of those only one didn't make it to the next round. Last week it was an unbelievable 9-0 for me! But finally one album got beaten in a tiebraker (American Beauty).

Consequently my predictions have been pretty good too (second place). Keep up the good voting, everyone!

[Brad]

4 of my 8 made it through.

[Jirin]

I believe I am 5-5, but I don't 100% remember which nominations are mine.

I'm actually below 500 in predict it, BUT my final four all won resoundingly, so I'm still in this.

[Kingoftonga]

Thanks Romain - that leaves
The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop vs. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
match as the sole remaining first round matchup.

If this is still open, I'll vote for John Fahey to break the tie. He's still a little structureless for my tastes, but I prefer his unity of style to the schizophrenic Our Favourite Shop.

[Brad]

Still open, and Fahey it is! Thanks King!