Category Archives: Music

Music Tournament Round of 256: Division M, Day 1

After an unusually wild couple of days, the storm calmed tonight. #1 Under Pressure (Queen/David Bowie) manhandled #16 Jeremy (Pearl Jam),  109-76. #4 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) dummied Super Freak (Rick James), 101-81. #5 Welcome to the Jungle … Continue reading

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Music Tournament Round of 256: Division N, Day 1

With bands like AC/DC, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, Division N is probably the hardest rocking division in the Round of 256.  Get amped up for the work week with these tunes. Listen at Grooveshark (except Bullet With Butterfly Wings) and … Continue reading

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Music Tournament Round of 256: Division M, Day 2

Sorry for the late post, folks, was catching up with an old friend. Happy to take the reins back from Guillermo to close out the Round of 256.  After today we’ve got Divisions N, O and P.  Listen to these … Continue reading

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Music Tournament: Division M, Day 1

Division M kicks off with two different contender songs featuring collaborations: the more obvious Under Pressure, but perhaps the less obvious California Stars as well. That, combined with some stalwart classics, have me nodding my head already. Grooveshark link is … Continue reading

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Music Tournament: Division L, Day 1 Results

It’s really hard to prepare a draft of the post for these match-up results when as of 4:45 pm Saturday, two match-ups are separated by under 2 points and one by just over 3 points. So I’m just going to … Continue reading

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LTDMT 256: Division L, Day 2

Lotta storylines for these match-ups. Will upstart play-in survivor Fiona Apple be able to floss with the King of Soul and his San Francisco lament? (clearly what she is wondering about in this picture) Will Van the Man survive to make … Continue reading

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LTDMT 256: Division K, Day 2 Results

Two upsets this round. And the high score goes to an unexpected contender that, along with Jacob, reminds us that Marconi was a radio dude that has a statue on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. 6 seed Jefferson Starship’s (Starship? Jefferson … Continue reading

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LTDMT Round of 256: Division L, Day 1

I find every single one of these four match-ups extremely compelling…even the 1-16 seed. These are gonna take some attempted temporal flexibility from all of us- three of these are from completely different decades. But to balance it out, one … Continue reading

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LTDMT 256 Division K, Day 1 Results

Not. To. Be. Denied. Standing with one foot on their surfboards, and suffering an extremely polarized round of voting from everyone involved (on a binary basis, 7 for, 6 against, one tie,) the Beach Boys emerge from the Pacific triumphant … Continue reading

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LTDMT Round of 256: Division K, Day 2

Anyone remember the hype about Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” music video starring Macaulay Culkin? And how they played the entire uncensored version after the 1992 Super Bowl, where MJ turns into a panther at the end, and then just randomly … Continue reading

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