SCORES & UPCOMING GAMES



CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL SCORE: (2) JEFF BUCKLEY 168, (7) Tracy Chapman 159 .......... FINAL FOUR FINAL SCORES: (7) TRACY CHAPMAN 154, (1) Joy Division 90 ..... (2) JEFF BUCKLEY 137, (1) The Cure 89 .......... ELITE EIGHT FINAL SCORES: (1) JOY DIVISION 74, (14) Low 60 ..... (7) TRACY CHAPMAN 85, (1) Elliott Smith 69 ..... THE CURE 65, (2) Radiohead 58 ..... (2) JEFF BUCKLEY 74, (1) Neutral Milk Hotel 44 ..... FINAL SWEET SIXTEEN SCORES: (1) JOY DIVISION 75, (5) PJ Harvey & Nick Cave 24 ..... (14) LOW 73, (2) Concrete Blonde (64) ..... (1) ELLIOTT SMITH 78, (4) Gary Jules 44 ..... (7) TRACY CHAPMAN 74, (6) Kate Bush 53 ..... (1) NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL 54, (13) The Church 49 ..... (2) JEFF BUCKLEY 73, (3) Sinead O’Connor 35 ..... (1) THE CURE 109, (3) Tori Amos 86 ..... (2) RADIOHEAD 76, (6) This Mortal Coil 50 ..... (1) JOY DIVISION 96, (9) Mazzy Star 91 ..... (2) CONCRETE BLONDE 76, (7) Bob Mould 28 ..... (14) LOW 60, (6) Crowded House 51 ..... (5) PJ HARVEY & NICK CAVE 65, (4) Alphaville 38 ..... (1) ELLIOTT SMITH 113, (8) Replacements 88 ..... (6) KATE BUSH 87, (3) Nirvana 64 ..... (7) TRACY CHAPMAN 99, (2) The Eels 62 ..... (3) GARY JULES 103, (12) Morrissey 63 ..... (6) Kate Bush 72, (3) Nirvana 53 ..... (3) SINEAD O'CONNOR 66, (11) Ride 27 ..... (13) THE CHURCH 106, (5) James 44 ..... (2) JEFF BUCKLEY 95, (10) Smashing Pumpkins 40 ..... (1) NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL 80, (9) New Order 56 ..... (2) RADIOHEAD 102, (7) Nine Inch Nails 99 ..... (6) THIS MORTAL COIL 61, (3) Indigo Girls 60 ..... (4) TORI AMOS 89, (5) Swans 40 ..... (1) CURE 82, (8) Tom Waits 68 ............... FINAL 1ST ROUND SCORES: (5) PJ HARVEY & NICK CAVE 93, (12) Midnight Oil 38 ..... (7) BOB MOULD 63, (10) Peter Murphy 47 ..... (1) JOY DIVISION 117, (16) Erasure 19 ..... (6) CROWDED HOUSE 98, (11) Leonard Cohen 54 ..... (7) TRACY CHAPMAN 199, (10) The Smiths 162 ..... (5) MORRISSEY 115, (12) Morphine 83 ..... (3) NIRVANA 137, (14) Slowdive 102 ..... (8) THE REPLACEMENTS 128, (9) Dream Academy 82 ..... (13) THE CHURCH 262, (4) Magnetic Fields 193 ..... (10) SMASHING PUMPKINS 165, (7) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 155 ..... (9) NEW ORDER 160, (8) Sarah McLachlan 78 ..... (1) JEFF BUCKLEY 204, (16) Bjork 92 ..... (4) TORI AMOS 78, (13) Echo & the Bunnymen 22 ..... (8) TOM WAITS 72, (9) The Pretenders 22 ..... (6) THIS MORTAL COIL 51, (11) Yaz 31 ..... (3) INDIGO GIRLS 71, (14) Pavement 26 ..... (9) MAZZY STAR 132, (8) REM 46 ..... (2) CONCRETE BLONDE 88, (15) Psychedelic Furs 34 ..... (4) ALPHAVILLE 71, (13) Dead Can Dance 36 ..... (14) LOW 120, (3) U2 65 ..... (1) ELLIOTT SMITH 63, (16) 10,000 Maniacs 24 ..... (2) EELS 50, (15) Counting Crows 46 ..... (4) GARY JULES 62, (13) Depeche Mode 19 ..... (6) KATE BUSH 59, (11) Sisters of Mercy 20 ..... (1) NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL 42, (16) Violent Femmes 12 ..... (11) RIDE 25 (6) Peter Gabriel 24 ..... (3) SINEAD O'CONNOR 37, (14) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 17, ..... (5) JAMES 24, (12) Red House Painters 23 ..... (7) NINE INCH NAILS 46, (10) Wilco 31, (5) SWANS 31, (12) Pet Shop Boys 18 ..... (1) THE CURE 50, (16) Gear Daddies 10 ..... (2) RADIOHEAD 40, (15) Liz Phair 35


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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Your First Sweet Sixteen Scores & Analysis

Both of the Sweet Sixteen games finishing this morning lacked the drama of some of our better recent matchups, with the higher seed going on to win by solid margins.

(1) The Cure's "Pictures of You" took down (3) Tori Amos's "Silent All These Years" 109-86

and

(2) Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" ended the run of dark horse (6) This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" 76-50

Neither result is surprising, since both winners seemed to us early favorites (hence their seeds), but we followed "Song to the Siren"'s run to the Sweet 16 with anticipation, and will mourn their loss. It's worth noting here that "Song to the Siren" wasn't even in the bracket until the very last minute, at which point official Committee Advisor Chris Cokinos suggested them to us. (We had "You and Your Sister," which "Song to the Siren" beat handily in the play-in.) So it was a good run, This Mortal Coil, especially for a song unfamiliar to many of our voters coming into March Sadness. We thank you, Brian Blanchfield, for helping to contextualize that song for the crowd. We also wave goodbye to Tori Amos, who leaves us in spite of an outstanding and impassioned essay by Alison Stine.

So: this leaves us with a weekend to relax and take a break and watch some basketball, if you prefer, or listen to sad songs that didn't make the bracket, as we prefer. If you don't want to go without, start with: Dinosaur Jr's "Feel the Pain," Cowboy Junkies' "Blue Moon Revisited," The Lemonheads' "It's a Shame About Ray," quite a bit of the Trashcan Sinatras, Codeine's version of "Atmosphere," Shawn Colvin's "Shotgun Down the Avalanche," Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy," The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy's "Angels," Emmylou Harris's "Red Dirt Girl," and Duran Duran's "Ordinary World," all of which lost play-in games or were got bumped

We'll see you Monday morning for the next two Sweet 16 matchups, featuring (1) Neutral Milk Hotel (repped by Lawrence Lenhart) vs surprising Australians (13) The Church, as repped by Juan Diaz. And (3) Sinead O'Connor (repped by Laura Owen) brings the drama vs (2) Jeff Buckley, as repped by Elena Passarello. See you on the court.

3 comments:

  1. So, after I couldn't shut up on Radiohead matchup about how hard it is to for a song to be sad if I haven't been listening to a song for years, I thought of an exception for me. Songs: Ohia is a band I missed until I had to review a tribute EP following Jason Molina's death. Perhaps because I was immersing myself in the songs and their covers -- and listening actively -- for a week in order to write something, I now have a relationship with them. It's also true that I just listen to music differently in the post Spotify era where something basically has to get me right away or I will go back listening to the National or whatever. All of that really works against slowly developing music or songs that grow and fester, all of which probably discriminates against sad songs more than it does manic songs or boy it feels good not to be dead songs. In any case, though the saddest Songs: Ohia song is probably "Farewell Transmission" and outside of our time frame, here's "being in love," one of the only songs from the era that I didn't listen to in the era that now moves me greatly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0iQtoKJUY

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  2. Though I've heard of them and Molina before, I can't say I've ever heard any of their songs. The one you directed us to is pretty good, though, and I'll add it to our missed connections list. Good suggestion. (Though you're right that "Farewell..." is outside of our timeframe, I'll check that out too.)

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  3. This weekend, without Sadness matches to listen to, I fell back down the Molina rabbit hole. The trouble with trying to get into his work retrospectively is that every album contains songs that are much less awesome than his best stuff (or at least songs that aren't good introductions to his body of work). The best thing I've seen as an introduction is a spotify playlist called "Best of Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co." that is about 45 songs long and well curated. Because you have so much time to fall down rabbit holes.

    Still, it's interesting to me that I forgot all about a musician who, in a different universe, made six or seven songs at least that would high seeds here. I mean, (from "Just be Simple"): "you'll never hear me talk about / one day getting out / why put a new address / on the same old loneliness."

    My point isn't that the omission of Molina is snub. One can't snub something one hasn't heard. It's just evidence that many artists making sad music are largely, as a condition of their own sadness, inherently off the radar, even a radar as sophisticated as the one guiding this tournament. Which is sad (and maybe evidence that the folks voting here ought to crowd source a follow up NIT? while I'm in the business of giving you a ton more work?).

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