Well, this will please Monty, and maybe it's empirically liked by the least number of people (as a function of the fact that its been out of print for nearly a decade and nobody's heard it), but man there were way worse albums in the field. That's why these "everybody vote" things never tell us much more than what's the most popular...

Not to be a complete douchbag, I will now be a complete douchbag: didn't I call this at the beginning?

before we go into full on war, the "worst album" Unrest is not the least empirically like (i can find that out for you - i.e. which received the fewest first-round votes), it's just a funny way of thinking about the worst team in the tournament. It's not science and it's not irrefutable.

I just think its rather dubious and arbitrary logic, that in this instance happens to validate a point you once made.

one - i did not make any point about Unrest being the worst album in the field. My money is that probably being Tori Amos.

two - it's not dubious - as it pertains to the concept of which album in the competition fared worse. It failed to beat the album that lost to the album that lost to the album...

It's just a fun way to look at it.

And it would be a fallacy to say "everyone voted" - certainly we didn't get enough votes to make this representative of America.

Well, in this instance, I was actually referring to the point that Randy once made. Your comment hadn't popped up yet when I wrote mine. We don't have to draw this out any further, really.