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The day I was born, Michael Jackson's Thriller album was at the top of the Billboard 200. I've been trying my best to live up to that expectation ever since.

Living The Dream Music Tournament: Round of 128, Division I

Stories of Divsion I: Well, first off, story of why I’m still posting- Nos is swamped (apparently being a lawyer is a lot of work) so one more day until he’s back in the author’s seat. In the meantime, I … Continue reading

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Round of 128: Division G Results

Still alive! After Division F’s “Streets” loss and in the face of elimination, U2 puts together a respectable “With or Without You” performance and knocks The Shins and “New Slang” out of the tournament, 136.85-112.15. Bono and the boys move … Continue reading

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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Round of 128, Division H

Stories of Division H: And his name was Marshall Mathers. Much like Superstition’s 8 seed in Division B, ever since we went to division seedings Lose Yourself hasn’t been acting like it knows it’s an 11 seed. After posting a … Continue reading

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Round of 128: Division F Results

Take a load off, Fanny! Also, did you guys know that the Nazareth that they are singing about is where the C.F. Martin Guitar company is based. I just stumbled upon this ridiculously thorough interpretation of all of the lyrics … Continue reading

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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Round of 128, Division G

Division G stories: If this tournament was happening in some theoretical Rock & Roll Heaven concert hall that still-alive contenders got a day pass to visit, I could totally see Jimi Hendrix standing up in the Green Room as the … Continue reading

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Round of 128, Division E Results

All four of the match-ups in Division E ran very, very close- however, in the end all four top seeds held off their formidable competitors (very formidable, as no song won their match by more than 8 points.) High score … Continue reading

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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Round of 128, Division F

Stories of Division F: Man, that is a cool f***ing picture over there. Two of the members of rock and roll’s Council of Elders are represented in three of the four Round of 128 match-ups today. The question here is … Continue reading

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Round of 128, Division D Results

OK. Ready for the official post? Here we go. We broke our voting record, first of all- between the posts on the website and e-mails to the LTDdotorg@gmail address, we had 22 separate voters. Which is really good because as … Continue reading

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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Round of 128, Division E

Stories of Division E: A few rounds ago we had a double dose of Bob Dylan- this time around, we’re hopping across the pond to Liverpool for our second division in which an artist has two songs still alive (there … Continue reading

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Round of 128, Division C Results

Wow- new voters everywhere, welcome! Big shout-outs to Brigitte, Caroline, Kim O, ktracz, and nate heller- musical democracy in action! Also welcome back to some old familiar handles back in the mix: MarkB, AdamS, Lindsay, etc. We’ve gone ahead and … Continue reading

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