Phish - Julius
vs
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

I wasn't really a fan of the Stardust song.

OutKast - Funky Ride
vs
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Outkast song was a little annoying, really.

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre (incorrectly listed as "The Sweat Descends")
vs
Opeth - Isolation Years

No comment needed.

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
vs
Santana - Revelations

Fuck Santana.

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
vs
The Band-Acadian Driftwood

Johnny Cash was the badass.

The National - Friend of Mine
vs
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

votes for Isolation Years, Revelations, God's Gonna Cut You Down, and Giant Steps

OutKast - Funky Ride
Joy Division - Shadowplay

The National - Friend of Mine
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

The National song is good. Giant Steps blew me away.

I'll probably vote for the other match-ups later.

Phish - Julius http
vs
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

OutKast - Funky Ride
vs
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre (incorrectly listed as "The Sweat Descends")
vs
Opeth - Isolation Years

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
vs
Santana - Revelations

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
vs
The Band-Acadian Driftwood

The National - Friend of Mine
vs
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
I like how most of my jazz noms went through, but none of my electronic

Phish - Julius
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

OutKast - Funky Ride
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre
Opeth - Isolation Years

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Santana - Revelations

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
The Band-Acadian Driftwood

The National - Friend of Mine
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Phish - Julius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M745Gkdlrg4
vs
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YCoSF-voHY

OutKast - Funky Ride http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceIsgO366oQ
vs
Joy Division - Shadowplay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juD4ayBbHdY

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre (incorrectly listed as "The Sweat Descends") http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Hold+ ... enre/d3jtz
vs
Opeth - Isolation Years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8S55bLP-pE

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnELWjsCsA
vs
Santana - Revelations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1TpJ6tOQM

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7aS07dAN0
vs
The Band-Acadian Driftwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7KW4K-00E

The National - Friend of Mine http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Friend+of+Mine/2xdcfZ
vs
John Coltrane - Giant Steps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

OutKast - Funky Ride vs Joy Division - Shadowplay
Love both.

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre vs Opeth - Isolation Years

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down vs The Band-Acadian Driftwood

The National - Friend of Mine vs John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Love both.

OutKast - Funky Ride
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre
Opeth - Isolation Years

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Santana - Revelations

The National - Friend of Mine
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Really you slag Radiohead and the Rolling Stones all the time but you like Soundgarden? Not that liking an group gives someone a right to look down on other peoples taste but at least with the Beatles you weren't living in a house made out of safety glass.

[quote="George"]Phish - Julius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M745Gkdlrg4
vs
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YCoSF-voHY

OutKast - Funky Ride
vs
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Don't like voting against Outkast and they have multiple other tracks that would win this matchup but Shadowplay is Joy Division's best and it clearly wins here.

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre (incorrectly listed as "The Sweat Descends")
vs
Opeth - Isolation Years

A top 100 track for me now and a wonderful piece of music that this tournament led me to rediscover as I had kind of forgotten about it. The other track had no chance.

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnELWjsCsA
vs
Santana - Revelations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1TpJ6tOQM

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
vs
The Band-Acadian Driftwood

This Johnny Cash song hits like an absolute gut punch. So simple musically and yet so damn effective. It beat Bastard and, while it still isn't better, this is the only one of the matchups where a song of mine lost that I can legitimately say I have no beef with anyone picking it because it definitely has tons of merit.

Meanwhile the Band are nice but not even in the same league.

The National - Friend of Mine
vs
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Giant Steps is by no means Coltrane's best but Friend of Mine isn't one of the National's best either and weak the National loses to weak Coltrane. That's just the rule.

Bit of a stretch to call Giant Steps "weak".

actually i kind of agree... for me it is at the same time one of the most legendary solos in jazz history and yet overrated as far as coltrane's catalogue goes since he has many compositions and solos at least as good (and even much better), though i'll admit a bias in favor of ballads - dear lord, naima, after the rain - but his are so beautiful they're just to die for

I agree with George. It is weak by his own lofty standards.

Phish - Julius
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

OutKast - Funky Ride
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre
Opeth - Isolation Years

Both great new songs to me, but metal needs to be repped.

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Santana - Revelations

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
The Band - Acadian Driftwood

The National - Friend of Mine
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Maybe so, but in absolute terms it's still excellent. A perfect way to kick off arguably his most consistently brilliant album.