Category Archives: Music

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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