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I figured that and am relieved

If I may ask, the numbers we originally asked for are the actual seeds of the albums?

It reminds me that I went to school with a kid who pronounces crayons “crowns”

I’ll do more if you need more

I know exactly how that smells inside. It’s as identifiable as small electronics smell

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Yes, no one will bring up Wilco in the 2002 tournament <looks around>

Consider me volunteering

Contrarians and librarians

No you just staked your claim about the release date timing even though you don’t care about the album at all

No that’s just Velcro sounds

Plenty of people could have refrained from nominating out of obstinance <looks around> or ignorance but seeded once they saw it was included.

I’d wager it has one of the biggest positive jumps between nomination position and final seed

Why my writing partner does here best, of all these essays I’ve perused, is understand the assignment of why is this song sad? There’s no objective way to do this - artist bios and histories, song origins, comparative literature - because sadness isn’t objective.

So, VOTE FOR HER!

Great shirt. So-so album

Metal and Prog though I routinely need to filter metal out of charts because of the high bias

I’m a sucker for Die On This Hill

Until a year ago, Prince

The latter question, the closest is probably Sonic Youth. I’m sure I have - I had a couple of their albums - but I don’t recall doing so.

I hated this stuff at the time.

Nope!

It’s critically acclaimed and was nominated for 7 Grammys!

You didn’t know it was a 2 hour double album when you bought it?

Yet it sold 5M copies in the US, so why bother?

I sampled every album today en route to my seeing votes and of that ilk (electronic in general) I voted for Aphex Twin, Four Tet, Tipsy, and Zero 7. The last one there probably because my defenses were down by the end.

Downtempo is a euphemism for boring

Yeah there’s a lot of that. Also, I generally don’t like how rap sounds in 2001

Biggest constant listening to the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 field for seeding is how every dude (DUDE) sounds annoying as hell

I’ve always liked Electrical Storm!

I’d guess riding the tails of Radiohead at the time

I live for doing this type of thing but who the hell thinks so highly of this Muse album?