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“Shit human” for my taste in REM albums

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putnam39.bsky.social
Was listening to the Best Album of 2001 earlier
Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
putnam39.bsky.social
Half a boring album vs a whole boring album. So I voted Pixies
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Picking them to lose to NIN finally did not injure me in this case!
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d
So: there’s a clickbox when setting up the tournaments on Challonge for adding a third place match. I have somehow neglected this, I think, several times in a row, despite knowing I need to do it. I apologize to everyone for whom a 3rd place Cure showing would’ve helped them.
renamj.bsky.social Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social · 1d
Also, is it just me or is the third place match not showing up in Challonge? Or am I just not seeing it? Wouldn't predicting DISINTEGRATION to win third place account for the total score?
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Bummer it wasn’t by more
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d
DISINTEGRATION defeats PAUL’S BOUTIQUE, 156-133-2.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Pretty nice - and correct - little ass kicking here by The Cure
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Told you all I wasn’t crazy for keeping and buying CDs
CDs unprecedented growth
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
A vote so bad it prompted the creation of a log file, how to really listen, an alternate 90s music reality, what a pop hook is, youth bowling, hometown pride, a mortifying wedding reception, cocaine bathrooms, mall music, masturbating Tarzan, and bedroom voyeurs

This is RANGE
nanette.bsky.social nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d
it is the PENULTIMATE match of @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social ‘89! It took us almost six months to get here! we have compiled a list of our favorite posts from this tournament, AND I drew (poorly) every Venn diagram that we mentioned during the tournament
Best Album of 1989: Third-Place Clips Show
N: We have arrived at the PENULTIMATE match of Best Album of 1989: the third place battle between the Cure and whoever loses today’s match. Since we won’t know who won the second semifinal prior to…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
My personal #13 album vs #55. Awesome!
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 2d
TOMORROW! Witness the battle of champions as #3 seed, De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING takes on #1 seed, Pixies, DOOLITTLE to determine once and for all The Best Album of 1989! Vote here when the match begins at 11am CST!
On a brown background is a monotone photo of a small monkey. The monkey has a halo and is surrounded by three numbers: 5,6 and 7. The picture of the monkey has a green outline of a box around it, and within that box are green lines that make a bunch of connected shapes: squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, stars, trapezoids. etc. Black and white photos of three young Black men, arranged in a circle as if you are on the ground and they are looking down at you from above. The background is very bright yellow. There are hand drawn flower shapes in blue and orange arranged around them.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
How this ends won’t affect this really. I went through and ranked every album by performance:

Top overachievers:

The DOC
Screaming Trees
Michael Penn
EPMD
3rd Bass
Wire

Worst underachievers:

Throwing Muses
Elvis Costello
10,000 Maniacs
Lyle Lovett
The Sugarcubes
Laurie Anderson
nanette.bsky.social nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 3d
greetings @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social friends! we are almost at the end of the 1989 tournament and I am writing to you from my new home on I Am Not Being a Contrarian Asshole Island regarding the Beastie Boys and De La Soul! also I cave to peer pressure and deliver a list of my top albums of 1989
Best Album of 1989 (Semifinal): (2) Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique vs. (3) De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
Previous posts: R1: Beastie Boys, in which Jon gets kicked out of a bar and Nanette eats birthday cake R2: Beastie Boys, in which Jon denies Bob Dylan a second time (but ended up not really) and Na…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Beastie fans going to get a rude awakening today
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Mine was seeing “Friday I’m In Love” on MTV then I got Staring at the Sea on CD and my favorite tracks were “Let’s Go To Bed,” “Jumping Someone Else’s Train,” and “In Between Days”
nanette.bsky.social nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 4d
my intro to the cure? 14 year old me making out with my 17 year old boyfriend while the top played

yes, the top was my intro to the cure
pyperkub.bsky.social Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 4d
My intro to the Cure was Standing on a Beach. Most radio didn't play then early, you really had to find them, but a soon as you heard the opening track Killing an Arab, you knew this was something different and special.
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Now you @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social folks should feel bad for what happened 2 rounds ago….
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Beltran will make it and, statistically, he should, but he’s boring and I’ve never been totally sold on Jones so I voted only for Utley, who very well may have been the best player in baseball (the NL anyway) for 3-5 years in the mid/late 00s

Never had a gold glove and should’ve gotten a half dozen
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Fugazi fucked my bracket up, so screw them
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
My 3rd grader’s teacher had a discussion about ICE with them today - 19,000 students in the county were absent yesterday - and informed them that any officer would have to go through her to get to any student and I couldn’t be happier or prouder of his school and teacher
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Serendipitous timing for this post today
aquariumdrunkard.com Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 8d
Transmissions :: Kate Pierson (The B-52s)

aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/19/t...

Kate Pierson joins us to discuss the band’s history, Yoko Ono, her time with Julee Cruise, and much more.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Some heavy Beastie Boys denialism happening today
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
I think we’re truly seeing here the gap between the top four seeds and the rest of the field
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
I’ve never gotten over the line on Andruw Jones. Do his voters feel like Jim Edmonds should be in? Strikingly similar trading off some OPS vs fielding all else equal
notmrtibbs.com Ryan Thibodaux @notmrtibbs.com · 8d
Our first news this year of a voter reaching the end of their voting eligibility comes with an appeal to current voters. From Twitter/X:
Carroll Rogers Walton on X: "My 10 years of voting in the Hall of Fame is up this year & I’ve lost the privilege to keep voting for Andruw Jones. I implore voters please pick up my slack & put him in. I can’t imagine anyone has or will play a better center field. Ever. That alone is enuf and there’s 434 HRs."
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Not a difficult decision for me picking against my bracket again
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Wish I’d thought of this for the post but thinking about suburban white kids gobbling up gangsta rap reminded me of student reactions to the Af-Amer student festival at OSU

www.thelantern.com/1999/05/heri...

These same white kids are the ones pulling this bs

www.thelantern.com/2021/04/from...
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
Voted against my bracket champion
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
You know what millennials/gen z problem is? They don’t have pop stars that sound like Taylor Dayne
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
putnam39.bsky.social
I won’t claim perfection - at least on any objective basis - but these are my favorite albums from the year I turned 16. The death knell of Britpop
1997 albums: Charlatans - Tellin Stories Blur - Blur Oasis - Be Here Now The Verve - Urban Hymns Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We’re Floating in Space
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
putnam39.bsky.social
As far as baseball goes, I think MLB shouldn’t be able to punish players involved in gambling until they scrub all their affiliations with sports betting

But you literally have broadcast networks owned by gambling companies inundating you with betting odds all fucking game
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · 12d
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM