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March 27, 2007
Album Insanity - Fear of a Black Planet versus My Bloody Valentine
IAN CURTIS BRACKET
1. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
Overall Ranking: 3
[PF 17]
Year: 1990
Defeat 16. Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle 4-0
Defeated 8. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole 28-5
Defeated 4. Belle and Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister 13-6
NCAA Team: Kansas (1 seed)
Best team from a great (at least, as the top, conference) was a trendy pick to go all of the way. Like Kansas' youth and poor foul shooting, PE's undeniable patrician and anti-Semitic tendencies are its Achilles' heels.
VS
2. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Overall Ranking: 6
[PF 2]
Year: 1991
Defeated 15. Silver Jews - American Water 4-0
Defeated 10. Lauryn Hill – Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20-13
Defeated 6. Elliott Smith – XO 12-7
NCAA Team - UCLA (2 seed)
Their brand of play is not for everyone (distorted noise rock; tenacious D, offensive O) - you could, depending on the matchup (and, in this case voting public) could have been bounced immediately or take it to Hotlanta.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at March 27, 2007 10:52 AM
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MBYV lucks out and gets (in my humblest) the weakest of the number one seeds.
Posted by: Randall Monty at March 27, 2007 02:57 PM
MBV. At this point, you have to go with the one that genuinely means more to you. I don't think that anyone really needs a thesis paper on how My Bloody Valentine is the closest anyone has (and may ever) get to 1:1 noise to beauty, but it's a cliche for a reason. Fills a niche that it'll probably never be pulled out of, though many, many people have tried.
Posted by: Jeff K at March 29, 2007 09:47 AM
