Not a Dylan diehard but I quite liked this one. Maybe it's the production? He does sound like he's having fun here.
Wu-Tang is for the children and would vote for them over most of last week's albums but not here. Lmao at getting Flavor Flav in place of ODB.
LOL at this matchup and Nanette's LOVE AND THEFT artwork.
Whoa! 😯
Saw a headline today “AI adoption has been faster than personal computers or the internet” no shit, nobody was barging into my house unasked with a Gateway cow box in 1998 to install a computer I hadn’t asked for
Peter Hujar’s Day
I’m Not There
The Testament of Ann Lee
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Coal Miner’s Daughter
I nominated and seeded them! 🙋🏻♀️
I just meant that it’s another chilly Euro electro vs. Southern alt-country matchup lol.
And this seeding in 1989 DID have an upset (Wire!).
This match does make me wonder about Ladytron/My Morning Jacket now, I dunno about an actual upset but MMJ does have a devoted fanbase.
Office dog is not in people mood
This one in particular is really a matter of personal preferences I guess and I’m a much bigger fan of weird electro than alt-country so easy vote for me. (I nominated Tracy + The Plastics and Miss Kittin who didn’t get in. 😞)
Pic: The cover is broken into roughly four quadrants. The upper left reads OLD with an orange background, and the bottom right reads 97's with a yellow background. The lower left is a black and white photo of the band, four white guys, posing a bit goofily for the camera. In the upper right quadrant is a listing of all the songs on the album. The whole cover aesthetic has the feel of something released in the 60s. Second pic: A yellow circle, sun-like, with rays of yellow and red emanating from it just on the top 180 degrees. The other 180 degrees below it is blue. In the circle, written in black, is THE KNIFE. The "I" in knife has been replaced by a red silhouette of a knife.
The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #22
#52 Old 97s, SATELLITE RIDES
VS.
#77 The Knife, THE KNIFE
Go here to vote:
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I remember The Refreshments had a big hit with the theme song!
Color photo that is discolored with age of a shiny shorthaired black cat sitting in a low box. There’s a white pair of shoes next to it, making it appear as if the shoes probably were the original inhabitants of the box.
I am shoes now. Photo from my collection, 1976.
Haha hasn’t he at least pivoted to remakes like THE MUNSTERS now?
beyond just the general heinousness of the entire project, every michael picture i see looks completely unreal, just like pure ai prompt nonsense
Yo FLC just announced the largest American festival of restorations of 70s Korean movies in... history? This is major, you have to go. So many strange and beautiful films, a lot I haven't seen.
And happy birthday to Her Majesty Elaine May!
The Michael biopic ending with the release of Bad bc even these ghouls don’t want to try to depict him as innocent so they’re stopping before all the allegations started it just insane. What are we doing here.
Old 97’s is new to me, I should give it another spin eventually.
The second one is Rhett Miller in drag.
That Michael biopic is going to inspire the world’s worst Substack articles.
And for people who are new to the 🔪 their followup DEEP CUTS is even better imo.
Olof and Karin Dreijer of The Knife
Karin Dreijer of The Knife
Another match that comes down to a matter of tastes. Old 97’s is pleasant enough but voted for the weird synthpop of The Knife. And they had a great look!
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1989 also seemed to have a lot more Pac-Mans than 2001 (so far), even the bottom seeds are getting like 25-30% of the vote at minimum.
Photo of a grey tuxedo tabby cat lying on top of the back of a leather recliner. The cat is stretching its forelegs out in a Superman type pose.
Impeccable form. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
IIRC this seeding for 1989 was Janet Jackson/King’s X and I think that was much closer to ~80/20.