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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 18h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93
#6 Nirvana, BLEACH
vs.
#59 Blake Babies, EARWIG

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93: Nirvana vs. Blake Babies

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, October 8th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 3 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 11h

a little girl in a wig is covering her face with her hand .

Alt: Shirley Temple wiping sweat from her brow in relief, captioned “Phew”

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Joe @boxy.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, no, Bleach is a better album than Steel Wheels.

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T.J. Gillespie @teajayg.bsky.social · 14h

The Beatles get too much credit. Their success is built on Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and etc., and if the Beatles had never existed teenagers would have gone crazy for Herman's Hermits and The Hollies or somebody. (just kidding, mostly)

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Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social · 14h

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T.J. Gillespie @teajayg.bsky.social · 14h

Pour one out for Butt Trumpet.

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M. Ryan @merpwashere.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for articulating my inchoate thoughts for me

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Kevin Alexander @kevinalexander.bsky.social · 15h

Thought for sure this would go full Pac Man right away, but Earwig’s making Bleach work for it.

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 18h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93
#6 Nirvana, BLEACH
vs.
#59 Blake Babies, EARWIG

forms.gle/x5MyByyTmvvo...

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93: Nirvana vs. Blake Babies

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, October 8th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 3 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly...

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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social · 15h

i knew the Boredoms would be #1. of course.

that Medicine album is fantastic, not weird.

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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social · 15h

Today's match up reminded me of the wildly inappropriate music press speculation/commentary on Juliana Hatfield being a virgin in the early 90s. Something I'd forgotten about until now (for the better - yuck music press!). She speaks to it here: magnetmagazine.com/2008/09/22/j...

Juliana Hatfield: Exclusive Excerpt From Her New Memoir - Magnet Magazine

Juliana Hatfield was an unwitting alt-rock gossip girl, emerging from the early-’90s Boston scene with the Blake Babies. But all anyone wanted to talk about was her fling with Lemonheads pin-up boy Ev...

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The One True Poster @onetrueposter.bsky.social · 15h

Nirvana is extremely important because they came out just in time to prevent Dream Theater from becoming the biggest band in America——guy who only listens to Dream Theater

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Steve Carlson @lcosgrove.bsky.social · 15h

LOL that I correctly predicted what #1 was gonna be

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Joe @boxy.bsky.social · 15h

Nirvana's first video, 1990, for the Sub Pop version of 'In Bloom':

Nirvana - In Bloom Sub Pop Version [Best Quality]

YouTube video by linkhoochoon3

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Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social · 16h

Also Spin did a list of the 40 weirdest "post-Nevermind" major label alternative albums in the wake of Nirvana. Lots of experimental stuff and Beavis and Butt-Head fare!

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Spooksica BOOlin Still Masks @olinj.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, Nirvana is important, but album to album? Earwig is superior.

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 18h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93
#6 Nirvana, BLEACH
vs.
#59 Blake Babies, EARWIG

forms.gle/x5MyByyTmvvo...

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #93: Nirvana vs. Blake Babies

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, October 8th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 3 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly...

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Putnam @putnam39.bsky.social · 16h

Ten hit number two eventually in 1992 months after release I’d say because Nevermind hit number one earlier. I won’t dispute their influences but Nevermind was the first mover of the commercialization of the genre (derogatory mostly) that The Pixies and Sonic Youth would never have achieved

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Joe @boxy.bsky.social · 16h

I agree, but Nirvana gets too much of the credit (through no fault of their own, Cobain clearly didn't want it). Their success is built on Sonic Youth and The Pixies and etc., and if Nirvana had never existed, 'Rolling Stone' and the RRHOF would tell a very similar story about Pearl Jam or somebody.

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 16h

BLEACH is one of my big 1989 faves, gets a LOVE rating, but here’s something for the haters:

The cover of Nirvana’s BLEACH album, which shows a negative image of the band rocking out, but one of the musicians’ faces has been replaced with that of Alfred E. Neuman. Also the title has been changed to BLECCH.

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Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social · 16h

Wow this is not the blowout that Bleach/Steel Wheelchair was.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 17h

yeah that’s the only benefit, getting to unleash my rage on it

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sharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 17h

It's fine; you already know it's good.

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Putnam @putnam39.bsky.social · 17h

BUT think of our round 3 idea if you did

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joe positive @joepositive.wtf · 17h

booooo

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T.J. Gillespie @teajayg.bsky.social · 17h

I think we can agree that even with "About a Girl," BLEACH is not the ninth best album of this year. Is EARWIG better? Today it is. Going with Juliana.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 17h

today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match is between Nirvana and Blake Babies, but I’m going off about business majors in polo shirts and boat shoes at college parties and the audience at Nirvana Unplugged and yet another very 1989 video. Plus a plot twist!

Best Album of 1989: (6) Nirvana – Bleach vs. (59) Blake Babies – Earwig

Previous posts:Nirvana, in which Jon shares a couple of cassingle purchases and Nanette talks legacy artists and oldies radioBlake Babies, in which Jon defies expectations and Nanette has multiple …

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