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April 30, 2007

True Seeding Waits

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For an explanation of our Radiohead tournament, click here.

Last Wednesday night, the esteemed Randall Monty and I got together, via IM, to seed the Radiohead tournament. Friday we announced seeds 1-4 (click here). Today, you will get 5 - 8.

Since we believe in transparency, I have included the IM transcript of our seeding selections for the first 16 teams, after the jump. Feel free to poke huge holes in our obvious biases. There can be no tournament without seeding controversies! On Tuesday, we will reveal 9-12.

FIVE
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Morning Bell
National Anthem

SIX
Electioneering
Exit Music (For a Film)
How Can You Be Sure?
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box

SEVEN
Black Star
Sulk
True Love Waits
Airbag

EIGHT
My Iron Lung
Bullet Proof ( Wish I Were)
I Might Be Wrong
Myxomatosis


For those of you counting at home, of the top eight seeds, one is from Pablo Honey , ten are from the Bends , eight are from OK Computer , five are from Kid A, three are from Amnesiac, three are from Hail to the Thief songs, and two are from B-sides/soundtracks/etc.

me: now - for five, six; let's go back to submitting eight
Randall: you start the 5's
oh ok
me: no - we'll do that for fives
9:29 PM then six, seven, we'll do the eights
Randall: ok
you start
9:30 PM me: Street Spirit
9:31 PM Randall: homesick alien
9:34 PM me: Morning Bell
Randall: Just
me: three seed
just is, that is
Randall: sorry, didnt' delete it
9:35 PM national anthem
me: ok - let's go back to our eight suggestiosn
Randall: is that already there?
me: nope
Randall: ok
eight, here i go
9:38 PM me: let me know when you're ready
9:39 PM Randall: Black star, bullet proof, Electioneering, Exit music, How can you be sure, packt like sardines, true love waits, where you end and i begin
9:40 PM me: AirbagElectioneeringExit Music (For A Film)How Can You Be SureLike Spinning PlatesPackt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin BoxSulkThe Trickster
Randall: that give us, what, 4?
me: so - Electioneering; Exit Music; How Can You Be Sure and Pakt
yes
9:41 PM Randall: my remainders: black star, bullet proof, true love, where you end and i begin
yours: airbag, plates, sulk, trickster
9:42 PM pick one of yours and one of mine
me: no - let's switch it up - eliminate one of the others
till we have two left -you first
Randall: how do you mean?
me: what you don't want to be the higher seed
the worst of the group
as it were
Randall: of the reamining 8?
9:43 PM me: yeah - presumably of mine.
Randall: trickster
gone
me: bullet proof
gone
Randall: plates
9:44 PM me: where you end
Randall: sulk
me: too many
Randall: sorry
me: we have our four seven seeds
9:45 PM black star
sulk
airbag
true love
Randall: sounds good
me: and I guess the remaining four become eight seeds?
Randall: how 'bout eight more? that way we can keep something we really dislike from being seeded too high (read: trickster)
9:46 PM so those four go back into the pool
me: fair enough
9:50 PM i'm ready when you are
Randall: bends, bullet proff, lucky, motion picture soundtrack, my iron lung, Myxomatosis, stop whispering, where you end and i begin
me: AirbagMy Iron LungThe TricksterA ReminderI Might Be WrongGo To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)FogLife In A Glass House
Randall: airbag already made it
9:51 PM me: Like Spinning
So - My Iron Lung is the only agreed
Randall: the plot thickens
9:52 PM me: seven and seven for three spots
9:53 PM Randall: how do you want to do it now?
me: i guess we
Randall: we each pick one for sure
me: ok
you first
9:54 PM Randall: bullet proof
9:55 PM me: I Might Be Wrong
Randall: ok... for number four, we each pick one of hte other person's, and then we'll decide who'll give ground on their own
9:56 PM me: i'm willing to go full out for Mxy
i don't care what I have
I agree with you

Posted by Keith O'Brien at April 30, 2007 06:29 AM

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