Paranoid Android
OK Computer
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We have some ideas for our next tournament, but, I must ask, "Do you?" In the comments, please.
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OK Computer
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We have some ideas for our next tournament, but, I must ask, "Do you?" In the comments, please.
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OK Computer
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Approbations:
NME - Greatest Tracks from 1996-2006
#3
Rolling Stone list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
#256
Q Magazine greatest songs of all-time (Aug, 2006)
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Idioteque
Kid A
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Paranoid Android (1)
66% (27 votes) defeats Exit Music (For a Film) (6) 34% (14 votes)
Idioteque (2)
79% (33 votes) defeats Everything in its Right Place (1) 21% (9 votes)
Karma Police (1)
54% (22 votes) defeats Airbag (10) 46% (19 votes)
Final Four:
Karma Police versus Idioteque
Paranoid Android versus Fake Plastic Trees
We now know no one!
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Karma Police 50% (19 votes)
Airbag 50% (19 votes)
Fascinating!
]]>Notables
Lowest seeds remaining: Airbag (10)
Highest seeds ousted: Creep (1), High & Dry (2), 2+2=5 (2)
Album records
Pablo Honey: 0-6
Bends: 10-11 (1-1 in the third round) Remaining (1): Fake Plastic Trees
OK Computer: 20 - 6 (5-1 in the second round) Remaining (5): Karma Police, Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Exit Music (For a Film), Airbag
Kid A: 14-5 (2-3 in the second round) Remaining (2): Everything in its Right Place, Idioteque,
Amnesiac: 3-8
Hail to the Thief: 9-9 (0-3 in the third round)
B-sides 1-11 (Pearly* winning the play-in game)
More stats after the jump
]]> 1 seeds: 9-1Fun Wikipedia "fact": introduced the song to his bandmates and the members of R.E.M. on the R.E.M. Monster Tour. They were all gathered on 3 August 1995, in a dressing room in Oslo, Norway.
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Fake Plastic Trees
(2)
The Bends
Fun Wikipedia "fact": According to singer Thom Yorke, it is about Canary Wharf in London.
Fake Plastic Trees Wikipedia entry
Everything in its Right Place Wikipedia entry
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Idioteque
(2)
Kid A
Fun Wikipedia "fact": "Idioteque" contains two credited samples of experimental 1970s "computer music." The first is several seconds of Mild und Leise, a piece by Paul Lansky, forming the four chord progression repeated throughout the song.
Idioteque Wikipedia entry
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Airbag
(10)
OK Computer
Fun Wikipedia "fact": Ed O'Brien commented on the song's meaning, saying "It's about the wonderful, positive emotion you feel when you've just failed to have an accident; when you just miss someone and realise how close it was and stop the car and just feel this incredible elation. There's something joyous about it- life suddenly seems more precious."
Airbag Wikipedia entry
Paranoid Android Wikipedia entry
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Exit Music (From a Film)
(6)
OK Computer
Fun Wikipedia "fact": "Exit Music (For a Film)" is a song by Radiohead, written specifically for the ending credits of the 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Although included in neither of the two soundtrack albums at the request of Thom Yorke, the song appears on the band's highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997).
Exit Music (From a Film) Wikipedia entry
Listen to the songs after the jump
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Pink Floyd bracket
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Kraftwerk bracket
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Pink Floyd bracket
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It's called "US Placers" and its found here.
Did you know that the third round of our Radiohead tournament ends at 5pm today? It's so very true. If you haven't voted, you can do so below.
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Exit Music (For a Film)
OK Computer
(6)
Sporting equivalent: Cincinnati Bengals passing attack. If you've ever watched Carson Palmer connect with Chad Johnson, and T.J. Houshmandzadeh in slow motion; this is the song that plays in your head. Sheer aerial beauty.
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Sporting equivalent: 2006-2007 New England Patriots. It's well known that Bill Belichick is a coaching genius. Nowhere was this more apparent than when the Patriots played the Minnesota Vikings in 2006. The Vikings were (are?) a substandard team that just happened to do one thing well (stop the run). So what did Belichick do? He had Tom Brady pass and pass and pass to a 31-7 victory. That's what "Paranoid Android" does. It does what is necessary to win, and it does it well, no matter what structure it requires.
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Optimistic
Kid A
(4)
Sporting equivalent: Acie Law IV - Texas A&M point guard. All heart. Throughout the song, you don't think that much of it. But when it comes times to send it home, it won't let you. It wants to win too much.
Listen to the songs, after the jump
Sporting Equivalent - Chicago Bears: Fueled by a rhythm that is partly plodding and partly marching, these teams create an increasingly chaotic environment before pounding their opponents into submission.
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"Airbag"
OK Computer
(10)
Sporting Equivalent - Detroit Pistons: There are attempts at beauty, such as Thom Yorke’s rising vocal in the second verse, or Richard Hamilton rising for a jumper on the wing, but those are just segues into the grinding, industrial, wintry themes that are the trademarks of these teams.
Listen to the songs after the jump
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Sporting Equivalent - Muhammad Ali: Many have lined up to face these juggernauts, only to be laid to wayside. The pace is not surprising: slow and calculated until you are worn out. And "This is what you get when you mess with us" is about as close to outright braggadocio that Radiohead gets.
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"The National Anthem"
Kid A
(5)
Sporting Equivalent - 1975-1976 Red Army Ice Hockey Tour: Fans and opponents weren't quite sure what to make of these teams the first time they stepped on the ice. They were bigger, meaner, uglier and carried with them wave of disaster total disaster. The two best Russian clubs skated to a combined 5-2-1 record, but many NHL proponents remained defiantly unimpressed.
Hear the songs after the jump