Band Madness 2007
Even those of you who couldn't name a Superbowl winner from the last decade or pick Neal Cotts out of a lineup have to be aware of the other hype-filled clusterfuck going on right now: the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, aka March Madness. There's not a lot of music crossover, except to say that CBS finally ditched their greybeard intro/outro music for the likes of Fall Out Boy and Jay-Z. Oh, and they put Oral Roberts University in the tiny scoreboard as "O-Rob" instead of "Oral", and later as "ORU" (via ESPN). We're guessing it's probably because Prince's silhouette at the Superbowl generated eighty billion identical crank letters and at least one that said "Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY." Who cares about Oral Roberts? Well, if it weren't for their namesake preaching about his vision of a mutant savior, MC 900 Ft. Jesus would still be Mark Griffin. There's your music angle.
Anyway, Band Madness is back and it's way more sort of fun. They went through the trouble of seeding bands and breaking them into different brackets. You can blow through the easy ones (Talking Heads vs. Live), enjoy the puzzling ones (James Taylor vs. Aesop Rock?), and agonize over things like Bloc Party vs. Rufus Wainwright (Rufus is winning). The Meat Puppets are currently beating Fall Out Boy, but if their message board finds out, it's over for the brothers Kirkwood.
Posted at 5:05 PM
The seeding committee for this needs to rethink their decisions. There is no way Willie Nelson and TV on the Radio should be facing each other in the first round. Based on the popularity of TV on the Radio over the last year, they deserve to be no lower than a three seed. Similarly, Willie Nelson is a legend meaning that he deserves a high seed as well. Thus, they should both be facing easy opponents in the first round. This is the type of matchup that shouldn't be seen until the Sweet Sixteen of the Elite Eight.
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Fantastic Neal Cotts reference. Made my day.
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TJ, the bands and artists are matched up randomly. basically all of the bands were chosen and thrown into brackets. There is no rhyme nor reason for the way things worked out, and half the fun is that legends are paired up with brand new "hot" artists. A la Pulp vs. Gnarls Barkley
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Sounds like someone was reading bill simmmons' running diary yesterday?
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kevin, that's probably why it links to bill simmons' running diary.
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My favorite is Southern Illinois University - abbreviated on the score board So Ill.
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