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March 26, 2007
Elite Eight: Ok Computer versus Bossanova
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LOU REED BRACKET
1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
Overall Ranking: 1
[Pitchfork Rank 1]
Key songs: Paranoid Android, No Surprises
Year: 1997
Defeated 16. Rage Against the Machine S/T 4-0 Round One
Defeated 9. Mogwai - Young Team 33-1.
Defeated 5. Beck - Odelay 16-4
NCAA Team: Florida (1 seed)
Returning champ (read: Pitchfork champ) is one of the most recent picks might be more ingrained in one's mind than say, Nevermind. Prevailing favorite. Still people question whether they might have the stamina to repeat.
VS
3. Pixies – Bossanova
Overall Ranking: 9
[PF 28]
Key songs: Velouria, Allison
Year: 1990
Defeated 14 seed Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children 4-0
Defeated 6 seed Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One 22-12
Defeated 10 seed Sonic Youth- Goo
NCAA team: Georgetown (2 seed)
The best team to come out of a historic conference (Big East, rock) in awhile (at the time of the Surfer Rosa), but it's not the best team they've ever fielded.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at March 26, 2007 01:02 PM
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I love Bossanova's hasty version of surf rock, but c'mon... OK Computer is a landmark album that influenced me to make many a beligerant claim of it being, "the greatest album of your lifetime!" This, in spite, or perhaps beacuse, of its lonely, wintery representation.
Posted by: Randall Monty at March 26, 2007 02:51 PM
I've been a bit hard on Bossanova in these comments, even though I totally love it, but it's not the Pixies best and we are coming down to the wire here.
While I take the opinion that Kid A is actually a finer achievement, and the pinnacle of the band's career to date, rating OKC as one of the top four records of the decade is totally reasonable. True, even.
Posted by: Jeff K at March 26, 2007 03:30 PM
