Category Archives: Music Tournament

Music Tournament Championship

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Janos Marton

Welcome to the most exciting 24 hours in music. The moment we’ve all been waiting for. King vs. Queen Classic pre-Beatles Americana vs. coke-fueled, post-disco 80s Two songs have that have defeated eight songs from a variety of genres over … Continue reading →

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Living The Dream Podcast #2

Posted on April 29, 2011 by g-mo

Podcast2 is here. Take a listen as Janos and Guillermo discuss the Final Four Results, the roads that Under Pressure and Stand By Me have taken, and give details about the Finals parties as well as how the Final votes … Continue reading →

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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Final Four Results

Posted on April 28, 2011 by g-mo
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Living The Dream Music Tournament: Semi-Finals

Posted on April 26, 2011 by g-mo

Votes due Thursday, April 28th at 8:00 PM EST: Just looking at the way that title came off my fingers gives me anticipatory shivers. LTDMT: Semi-Finals. No division, no Day 1, no need for modifier or anything beyond what it … Continue reading →

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Living The Dream Music Tournament Podcast #1

Posted on April 26, 2011 by g-mo

This whole thing is really a forced experiment in how quickly Nos and I learn how to use technology (for example, we only figured out how to make blogs have a “continue reading” link about 3 weeks ago.) But exciting … Continue reading →

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Quarter-Finals Results: Right Side of the Bracket

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Janos Marton

“They say the music’s all a blur…You can’t understand a word…But honey if you did, you’ll really blow your lid…Baby, that is rock and roll!” -The Coasters That song, “Rock and Roll”, is actually pretty un-rocking by any post-1965 standard, … Continue reading →

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Quarter-Finals Results: Left Side of the Bracket

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Janos Marton

Coming into the quarter-finals, we’d already eliminated 272 artists since the Round of 512 began in early December.  The one artist that simply would not go down is Queen, who send two of their songs to a dramatic all-Queen Final … Continue reading →

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Quarter-Finals: Right Side of the Bracket

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Janos Marton

These four tunes are classic, classy, and the four highest seeds from this side of the bracket.  Listen at Grooveshark here, and vote by commenting below or emailing LTDdotorg@gmail.com before 8pm on Monday.  Enjoy the rest of this fine weekend.

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Quarter Finals: Left Side of the Bracket

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Janos Marton

Guillermo and I are beyond excited that we’ve all made it this far.  Of the eight remaining contenders, five or six have a real shot at this thing.  Back in January, an impressive win meant little for a song’s fortunes, as the title … Continue reading →

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Elite Eight Fun With Numbers!

Posted on April 22, 2011 by g-mo

Alright! More graphs and statistics! To kick us off, now that we only have eight songs, I thought it might be a little cleaner to redo the graph and show everyone what’s going on, do some trends, do some voter … Continue reading →

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