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Covers Tournament: Round of 128, Day 6

Voters, welcome to the working week- unless of course you happen to be a public servant like myself or a very devout observer of Italian/conquest-themed holidays, in which case you’re knee deep in a three day weekend. Today’s matchups, while … Continue reading

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Covers Tournament: Round of 128, Day 5 Results

Janos ditched the Internet for the weekend, so I’m filling in to give you the results of Day 5. We had some real nail-biters in this set. The big winner of the day, and showing potential to make it to … Continue reading

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Covers Tournament: Round of 128, day 3 results

Most of these match ups were not very close calls.  No super high average scores for this round, either – but we certainly hit some low lows.  We did have some strong negative reactions to some of these songs (I’m … Continue reading

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Covers Tournament: Round of 128, day 2 results

Well, apparently voters have finally found some songs they kind of like. This round included the first two entries in the tournament to average higher than 7. Amy Winehouse’s interpretation of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and Joey Ramone’s … Continue reading

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Covers Tournament: Play-in Round 2 Results

Well, I for one am going to declare my experiment of extending the voting deadline a success, because we had 4 votes come in between 5:00-8:00 PST, including my own (there is just no way I can listen to 30 … Continue reading

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Round of 128: Day 3

Alright, here I go. First post for LTD, and I am starting off strong by posting late! Sorry everyone. I hope the song choices cheer you right back up. We’ve got ourselves a hip hop battle, kids.  I’ll give you … Continue reading

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Covers Tournament: Round of 128, day 2- where oldies live

Somehow in the last ten years, the term “oldies” has come to include songs that came out when many of us were in elementary school. Guns and Roses, R.E.M., Michael Jackson- all of them get airplay on the oldies station. … Continue reading

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Fall Covers Tournament: Play-in Round Day 3

Janos jumped the gun on announcing the start of the Round of 128: we still have to narrow down 10 more songs to 5 in order to have our initial set. The Grooveshark link is here, except the Adele song … Continue reading

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Fall Covers Tournament: Play-In Round, Day 1

Votes are due on Sunday, October 2nd at 8 pm: Well, this has been quite the endeavor of categorizing songs and figuring out which should play logically in these first few rounds. I feel good about this first group of … Continue reading

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Thirty One Years Later

Before they released their first single, REM almost lost its name.  It turns out another new wave band was about to release its first single under the name REM, and the two bands duked it out in a “winner keeps … Continue reading

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