THE SO CALLED “ ALL-TIME
GREATEST ALBUMS” TOURNAMENT
Rolling Stone magazine compiled a list of the 500
Greatest Albums of All Time. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was ranked
first. Is this correct? I don’t know, let’s find out.
I’ve taken the top 66 albums on the list (excluding
compilations) and set up a head to head tournament --NCAA Basketball style. The
albums are seeded by their rank on Rolling Stone’s list, and are split into
four regionals. There is also a “play-in” round consisting of the last four
albums (63 to 66). Albums will advance based on votes received during a
matchup. Rolling Stone gets one vote - the equivalent of saying the top seed is
already ahead 1 to 0. I’ll be voting under my “joeseddit” moniker. joeseddit gets 1.5 votes. That’s not fair but
I have my reason: This site gets a fair amount of page views, but no one
comments as much as I’d hoped (except for Larry to whom I’m grateful for doing
so). So I figure I’ll be the only one voting in most cases. And if I disagree
with Rolling Stone’s ranking, many of these matchups will result in a tie. So
basically the half vote is a tie breaker.
If you’d like to place a vote, do so in the comment
section by mentioning both albums in a matchup and which album you’re voting
for. Votes will be confirmed as counted and recorded in the brackets by
joetopic. There’s no way I can verify, but I ask that you PLEASE don’t vote on
a matchup in which you haven’t heard both albums, no matter how unbeatable you
feel your favorite album is. joeseddit will do the same (There are several I
haven’t heard ; I plan to listen to some as the tournament progresses but I
won’t be able to get to all of them). Obviously you will be able to identify
joeseddit’s choice by the “half-vote” in the score, and will be able see that
joeseddit didn’t vote if there is no “half-vote”.
The rounds are scheduled to afford time for me and
anyone else who wants to play along to listen to some of the albums (I’ve
attached “full album” links some cases). The earlier rounds will have a longer
voting period because there are more albums to consider. joeseddit will break a
tie if such an instance should occur. Of course this can only happen in a
matchup that joeseddit didn’t vote on due not having heard both albums. So I’ll
need a bit of time to listen to the album (or albums) to break the tie.
FINAL FOUR
QUARTERFINALS
Voting July 13 and July 14
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1 Highway 61 Revisited 3.5
Sticky Fingers 2.5 Kind of Blue 2
CHAMPIONSHIP
Voting July 15 and July 16
Sticky Fingers 2.5 Highway 61 Revisited 3
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