Episode 20: Greatest Rock Albums NCAA Tournament (80s Second Round)
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Episode 20 continues our NCAA Tournament styled brackets to determine the greatest rock album of all time. This episode focuses on the second round of the 1980s. Matchups for this episode: (1) Pixies "Doolittle" vs. (8) Guns n\' Roses "Appetite For Destruction" (3) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead" vs. (6) The Cure "Disintegration" (4) Talking Heads "Remain In Light" vs. (5) The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses" (7) U2 "The Joshua Tree" vs. (15) Iron Maiden "The Number Of The Beast" Notes/corrections for this episode: Regarding GNR, "The Spaghetti Incident" came out in 1993, and "Chinese Democracy" came out in 2008, not 2007. The Smiths and Joy Division were both from Manchester, England. The Breeders song that was bigger than any Pixies song (at least in the U.S.) was "Cannonball."
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