The Real Deal

Now it begins.

Incidentally, I am not the only person who made a bracket on that website pitting albums against each other. Apparently its a popular thing to do. Who knew?

Anyway, we being our tournament, officially, in the New York Bracket (bottom left). The brackets, in clockwise order from New York, go New York, UK, Pacific Northwest, LA. The match-ups in the NY bracket are as follows:

The Beatles- Revolver (1)
vs
Shearwater- Palo Santo (16)

The Get Up Kids-Four Minute Mile (8)
vs
The Thermals- Fuckin' A (9)

Beck- Sea Change (4)
vs
The Violent Femmes- Add it Up (13)

Bear vs. Shark- Terrorhawk (6)
vs
Desaparecidos- Read Music/Speak Spanish (11)

The Mountain Goats- We Shall All Be Healed (3)
vs.
Sublime-Sublime (14)

Harvey Danger- Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? (7)
vs
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (10)

Elliott Smith-XO (2)
vs
Beck- Mutations (15)

First up: Revolver vs Palo Santo!