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 5, 2016

First Round Matchup: GEAR DADDIES at THE CURE

(1) The Cure, "Pictures of You"

The Cure’s “Pictures of You” is a one seed for a reason, the Cure having the reputation for being among the gloomiest (and also yet the happiest, if you know the variety of their work: Robert Smith is a surprisingly lovely pop songwriter too—if not here) of the era. Another committee could have picked one of another dozen of their songs, and they’d still be a one-seed. But then the bigger the star, the harder they fall. “Pictures of You” is the Cure at their saddest, most beautiful, and most glorious, willing to contain so much beauty in an epic of a broken love lost song. How wonderfully sad it can be to swept up in memory and regret and loss. Vegas odds have the Cure as favorites in the tournament, and for good reason, but this is the first time we'll see them on the floor:


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(16) Gear Daddies, "Don't Look at Me"

Unless you’re from the Upper Midwest, this might be your first introduction to the Gear Daddies, a small but potent club who hail from a land where people generally prefer to hide their emotions under parkas and layers of flannel. That’s what sixteen seeds are for, though, to get their postage stamp of land on the map. As the saying goes, they're happy just to be nominated. But fuck that. The Gear Daddies aren't happy just to be playing into March. They're not in fact happy at all. Judging from this song, they're probably drunk and behaving badly and way apologetic later. While the committee originally read this song as just regrets over a drunken night, probably with some embarrassing sex, and damn did that resonate with us, having some of those beaded up on the décolletage  of our pasts, the lyrics take us further, toward an attempt at suicide or maybe even worse: "So don't look at me / This was the act of a desperate man. / It was total self-hate that / Put that blade in my hand." That's not the plot of the song, though, which focuses on the hangover of embarrassment, regret, and paralytic guilt: "Now I'm crying all night / And I'm crying all day / I'm trying to remember what it felt like / Not to feel this way." Will the Minnesota crowd buoy up their chances? Let's find out:




WHICH IS SADDEST? WHICH SHOULD ADVANCE? VOTE BY 3/6 at 9am
Which song's sadder?
Don't Look at Me
Pictures of You
polling

4 comments:

  1. I associate The Cure with the hottest guy in my high school, who taped himself singing covers of their songs and then gave them to girls he was trying to get with (and it worked). He was so hot that it negated whatever pleasant whiff of adolescent despair I got from The Cure. Gear Daddies sounds like it might run over the end credits of a pretty solid B movie that you catch a little too late at night after too many bourbons--and that's a good thing.

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  2. Oh man it's too bad you don't have copies of those tapes (said everyone about all tapes ever: wtf happened to all our tapes?)

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    1. Dude, I've got more tapes that I know what to do with.

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  3. Also, I'm surprised this one was as close as it was (not)... Pictures of You has to be a #1 seed.

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