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March Sadness 90s Edition

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The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament is Sad Songs of the 90s. Lottery for tourney spots in July 25. Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 26

So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October.

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March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist

March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist If yr name is drawn, we'll send you an email (and put it on the bsky). You've got 24 hours to get back to us with your pick (we're askin...

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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · Aug 2

Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)

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MishuPishu @mishupishu.bsky.social · Jul 31

This was... like... a country-sized dagger straight to the heart. Sheesh!

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 24

Picking 35th, @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social selects Patty Loveless's You Don't Even Know Who I Am (1993):

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Patty Loveless - You Don't Even Know Who I Am

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MishuPishu @mishupishu.bsky.social · Jul 31

This Ani DiFranco song might be the saddest song I've ever heard.

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 21

Posting a couple more updates for y'all:

With the 13th pick @ponytailup.bsky.social selects The Wallflowers' "One Headlight" (1996)

Picking 18th, @susannadonato.bsky.social takes Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time" (1994)

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Aug 1

yeah it is

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 30

this sounds exactly right. Saw her in Grand Rapids in 1994 and it was an amazing show. Super intimate. Got it differently.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · Jul 28

One like, one horror thought.

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 29

Reading your essay about it made us want to read Loop (or the novels more generally)!

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 29

good

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (2/2)

Red House Painters?
Springsteen?
Sundays?
The Verve Pipe?
Lucinda Williams?

Just saying there are some absolute BANGERS on there just waiting to have an extracurricular essay written about them. Pitch us!

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Jul 29

That's the field. Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (1/2):

Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked
Alice in Chains??
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart???
Garth Brooks?
The Cure?
Live's "Lightning Crashes"?
Magnetic Fields?
Pearl Jam??
Radiohead??

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 26

March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here it is, our last pick for 2026's March Sadness: with the very last spot Danielle Deulen selects Sade's "No Ordinary Love" (1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcW...

Sade - No Ordinary Love - Official - 1992

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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 28

90s Sadness Spotify Playlist up y'all

318830 @dparker326.bsky.social · Jul 28

open.spotify.com/playlist/5BG...

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Cammy! @camelliagrass.bsky.social · Jul 28

next March I'll be writing about my mom's early 90s crush, Sammy Kershaw, and about garage sale culture; the yard sale as public marker of having sorrowful life changes seen & recognized by your community; the costs of making that transactional; idk my divorce probably. We're gonna go deep.

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 28

With the 56 pick (corrected) @camelliagrass.bsky.social selects Sammy Kershaw, Yard Sale (1991): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1C...