Allow me the first salvo. This is nearly impossible. Grace is such a haunting album; rare. Wu-Tang is, as Jeff previously said, as complete an album as there is in hip-hop. We will never see the likes of these two artists again for different reasons.

Wu-Tang never did anything better than this. Buckley, essentially, never did more than this.

I go with Wu-Tang because this is not a contest for pathos. This is a contest about music, and Wu-Tang's style was so fresh, so unique. Buckley's emotion was rare; the singer/songwriter style has been done.

The fact that Jeff Buckley managed to pull out a tie with The Fucking Wu-Tang Clan speaks more about the ethnical, social and economical make-up of this contest's voting populous than it does about the particular aesthetic and artistic qualities of either of the albums.

Grace is a very good album with a couple of great songs, 36 Chambers is on the shortlist for greatet hip-hop album of all time; how is this match-up even debatable? Objectively, Wu-Tang is the far better album. Unfortunately, it may fall victim to voters' primary criterion being, "Which album did my girlfriend and I listen to in 10th grade".

Wu. Buckley was a prissy diva, and he doomed us to untold numbers of over emoted Leonard Cohen covers.

Jeff Buckley wrote some nice songs, and he sang them real pretty.

The Wu Tang Clan, and their 36 Chambers album were hip hop pioneers. They're seminal. Think the Beatles, but with longer rap-sheets.

There should be no contest.

Sir Randall Monty of West Wareham, MA said it all. Though this is a slightly intriguing matchup on paper, it doesn't really play well in the game. The WU starters can breeze through victory without breaking a sweat, and they STILL have the deepest bench in the tourny.

By the way, the "intriguing matchup on paper" is only in a notebook belonging to a hyper-sensitive, horn rimmed glasses wearing man-boy living in his parents basement popping anti-anxiety pills at the site of anything remotely aggressive.