Purity Ring - Shries vs. Tallest Man on Earth - Wild Hunt

VS.

Votes due by, oh say, Saturday, midnight.

Beirut - Rip Tide vs. Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

vs.

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories vs. Deerhunter - Halcyon digest

 vs

Votes due by noon on Monday.

Farrah - Farrah vs. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications

 VS. 

Go! 

    Vs. 

So, there you go.  Deadline for votes is noon on Wednesday.

The final list

First things first, a big congrats to Eric S. on the arrival of Audrey Elise.  I assume she'll live her first few months listening to a lot of the crap we all submitted here (see below).  As usual, Sarah has the most picks on the lists because her tastes seem to jive with everyone else's, so you can read that as a) she is completely in tune with the Zeitgeist, or b) she's been mooching off of the rest of our collections.  

In order to establish the order of the list, I used an occult formula that you'll just have to trust me on, but everyone should have at least their top three or four choices included.  The top fifteen picks were chosen by more than one person (either album or band).  Other than that, it's a real hodge podge, and by that I mean a really interesting collection of albums that I'm looking forward to see battling it out to the death.

I'll soon post the first match-up, and you can leave your vote in the comment sections.  Feel free to write as little or as much as you want.  The earlier you get your vote in, the more of a chance you will have to persuade others.

1.       Washed Out- Within and without (1)                                          

2.       PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (1)                                          

3.       Matthew E. White - Big Inner (1)                                                                    

4.       Phospherescent – Muchaco (1)                                                  

5.       Purity Ring – Shrines (2)                                                                              

6.       Nick Cave – Push the Sky Away (2)                                                          

7.       Sloan - The Double Cross (2)                                                       

8.      Bon Iver – Bon Iver (2)                                                                  

9.       Cat Power – Sun (3)                                                                                            

10.   Fleet Foxes-helplessness blues (3)                                                          

11.    Fionna Apple – The Idler Wheel (3)                                                                                        

12.    The Walkmen – Lisbon (3)                                                                          

13.    Low – C’mon (4)                                                                                               

14.    Halcyon Digest -- Deer Hunter (4)                                                           

15.    Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Film Music (4)                      

16.    Alice Clark – Alice Clark (4)                                                                                         

17.    The Luyas – Animator (5)                                                                            

18.   Real Estate – Days (5)                                                                   

19.    Ben and Bruno – 100 Grim Reapers (5)

20.   Beruit – The Rip Tide (5)

21.    Reconstruction Site – the Weakerthans (6)

22.   Nilsson Sings Newman - Harry Nilsson (6)

23.   Waxahatchee-Cerulean Salt (6)

24.   The National - Trouble Will Find Me (6)

25.   Cold Specks - I Predict a Graceful Explosion (7)

26.   Constantines – Constantines (7)

27.   Jean Grae – Jeanius (7)

28.   The Ex & Brass Unbound – Enormous Door (7)

29.   Immanu El - In Passage (8)        

30.   The Horrors – Skying (8)              

31.    Farrah – Farrah (8)

32.   The Head and the Heart -  the head and the heart (8)

33.   Viva La Woman -- Cibo Matto (9)             

34.   Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (9)

35.   Megafaun – Megafuan (9)

36.    Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – Naturally (9)

37.   Swearin – What a Dump (10)

38.   Icona Pop – Iconic EP (10)

39.   City Center – Redeemer                (10)

40.   Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (10)

41.    August & Everything After - Counting Crows (11)

42.   Disintegration -- The Cure (11)  

43.   Chemical Brothers – Further (11)

44.   Gossamer – Passion Pit (11)

45.   Vampire Weekend-Modern Vampires of the City (12)

46.   Four Tet - There is Love in You (12)

47.   Dr. John - In the Right Place (12)

48.   Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (12)

49.   Joey Bada$$ - 1999 (13)

50.   Congos – Heart of the Congos (13)

51.    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (13)

52.   The Taking - Duff McKagan's Loaded (13)

53.   The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy (14)

54.   Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li (14)

55.   Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light (14)

56.   Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (14)

57.   Wake Up Child -- the Soil and the Sun (15)

58.   The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (15)

59.   Waterboys - This is the Sea(15)

60.   Fitz and the Tantrums - Pickin' up the Pieces (15)

61.    Titus Andronicus "The Monitor" (16)

62.   Daniel Higgs – Say God (16)

63.   Twin Shadow – Confess (16)

64.   Des Ark – Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker (16)