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May 29, 2007
Pixies bracket: Fake Plastic Trees (2) v Let Down (3)
"Fake Plastic Trees"
The Bends
(2)
Sporting Equivalent - 1915 Boston Red Sox: Just like I (sometimes) long for the days when Radiohead made straight-forward, guitar oriented rock, I long had to look to the past to find Boston baseball greatness. That Sox teams won three World Series titles in four years, but it was in '15 when the starting rotation (Ruth, Foster, Shore, Wood and Leonard) combined to go 86-36 with a 2.00 ERA. Nearly flawless, just like this track, albeit now just a distant history.
VS
"Let Down"
OK Computer
(3)
Sporting Equivalent - Fans of the '06-'07 Dallas Mavericks: If basketball fans in D-Town knew a damn thing about the sport, they'd probably be more bit more depressed than they are now. But Dallas is a Cowboys town, so the depression will never reach suicidal proportions. So Mark Cuban is free to try keepin' up with the Joneses from San Antonio, a mirror of a team that is much more polished (like "No Surprises").
Listen to the songs after the jump
Posted by Randall Monty at May 29, 2007 09:14 AM
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Have I mentioned that "Let Down" contains the worst non-Pablo lyrics of any Radiohead song?
Posted by: Randall Monty at May 29, 2007 10:22 PM
