March Madness 2021: Finals! Voting ends 8PM 4/13

[stip]

Welcome to March Madness 2021, our first year of Gigaton eligibility and featuring a total of 39 songs making their March Madness debut!

We are going to run the tournament with no bye rounds, which means we need 256 Songs. You can read about how the songs were chosen below:

Spoiler: show

• There are 141 songs on the studio albums (if you count Master/Slave and Hummus).
• There are 31 songs on Lost Dogs.
• There are 56 original songs in the B-side/compilation album/substantial demo (with vocals and lyrics)/studio covers/live originals/one offs, and studio X-mas songs (the songs chosen may feel somewhat arbitrary. You’ll just have to make your peace with that…) category.
That leaves us with 28 more songs to get to 256. So this year we are including
• Hunger Strike (which features all 5 members of Pearl Jam)
• Into the Wild (11 songs)
• Ukulele Songs (12 songs if you don’t double count Can’t Keep and Sleeping By Myself and cut the interstitials Hey Fahkah and Waving Palms)
• Against the 70s (because it’s awesome)
• Felicity’s Surprise (because I’d hear about it if this wasn’t on the list and some of these other songs were)
• Better Days (since it feels like one of the more ‘significant’ Eddie solo songs)
• Matter of Time (since this is the most recent studio song from Eddie)
Which gets us to the magic 256 number. There could have easily been other songs chosen

-Rounds will last about 24 hours. Matches will generally go up around 8pm.

-Please vote in the poll in each individual open thread. The bracket is for tracking purposes.

-You are voting for whatever version of the song you want (live, studio, demo, alternate take. You can vote for Release. You can vote for Rodlease. Whatever plays in your head when you think of the song)

-Ties will lead to matches staying open one hour at a time. We will close out all other matches (so other matches cannot tie themselves up during overtime). Overtime hours may end up cutting into the time for the next days matches

-Voting Begins Tuesday, 3/9/21 at 8 PM EST. May the best song win!

-You can follow the bracket here


Prior Winners:
2020 - No Tournament
2019 - Go
2018 - Go
2017 - Last Exit
2016 - Hail, Hail
2015 - Do The Evolution
2014 - Insignificance
2013 - No Tournament
2012 - Tremor Christ
2011 - No Tournament
2010 - In My Tree
2009 - Black
2008 - Immortality
2007 - Corduroy
2006 - Black
2005 - I Got Shit
2004 - Immortality

[stip]

Your Contestants!

Full List of Songs:

Ten
Once
Even Flow
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Oceans
Porch
Garden
Deep
Release
Master/Slave

Vs
Go
Animal
Daughter
Glorified G
Dissident
WMA
Blood
Rearviewmirror
Rats
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In a SmallTown
Leash
Indifference

Vitalogy
Last Exit
Spin the Black Circle
Not For YouTremor Christ
Nothingman
Whipping
Pry To
Corduroy
Bugs
Satan's Bed
Betterman
Aye Davanita
Immortality
Stupid Mop

No Code
Sometimes
Hail Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind
I'm Open
Around the Bend

Yield
Brain of J
Faithful
No Way
Given to Fly
Wishlist
Pilate
Do the Evolution
Red Dot
MFC
Lowlight
In Hiding
Push Me/Pull Me
All Those Yesterdays
Hummus

Binaural
Breakerfall
God's Dice
Evacuation
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Thin Air
Insignificance
Of the Girl
Grievance
Rival
Sleight of Hand
Soon Forget
Parting Ways

Riot Act
Can't Keep
Save You
Love Boat Captain
Crodpuster
Ghost
I Am Mine
Thumbing My Way
You Are
Get Right
Green Disease
Help Help
Bu$hleaguer
1/2Full
Arc
All or None

S/T
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker in the Sand
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job

Backspacer
Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known
Supersonic
Speed of Sound
Force of Nature
The End

Lightning Bolt
Getaway
Mind Your Manners
My Father's Son
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Infallible
Pendulum
Swallowed Whole
Let the Records Play
Sleeping By Myself
Yellow Moon
Future Days

Gigaton
Who Ever Said
Superblood Wolfmoon
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Quick Escape
Alright
7 O’clock
Never Destination
Take the Long Way
Buckle Up
Comes then Goes
Retrograde
River Cross

Lost Dogs
All Night
Sad
Down
Hitchhiker
Don’t Gimmie No Lip
Alone
In the Moonlight
Education
Black Red Yellow
You
Leavin' Here
Gremmie Out of Control
Whale Song
Undone
Hold On
Yellow Ledbetter
Fatal
Otherside
Hard to Imagine
Footsteps
Wash
Dead Man
Strangest Tribe
Drifting
Let Me Sleep
Last KissSweet Lew
Dirty Frank
Brother
Bee Girl
4/20/2002

Into the Wild
Setting Forth
No Ceiling
Far Behind
Rise
Long Nights
Tuolumne
Hard Sun
Society
The Wolf
End of the Road
Guaranteed

Ukulele Songs
Without You
More Than You Know
Goodbye
Broken Heart
Satellite
Longing to Belong
You’re True
Light Today
Sleepless Nights
Once in a While
Tonight You Belong to Me
Dream a Little Dream

And the Rest...
Acoustic #1
Again Today
Against the 70s
Angel
Anything in Between
Around and Around
Be Like Wind
Better Days
Better Things
Breath
Can't Deny Me
Chinese
Cold Confessions
Crazy Mary
Cready Stomp
Devil Doll
Don't Believe in Xmas
Evil Little Goat
Falling Down
Felicity’s Surprise
Foldback
Get It Back
Golden State
Happy When I'm Crying
Harmony
Hunger Strike
Hunted Down
I Got Id
I Just Wanna Have Something to Do
It Ain't Like That
I’ve Got a Feeling
Jingle Bells
Just a Girl
Last Solider
Leatherman
Let It Ride
Long Road
Love Reign O'er Me
Man of the Hour
Matter of Time
Obey the Law of the Heart
Of the Earth
Ole
Olympic Platinum
Out of My Mind
Pendulumorphisis
Puzzles and Games
Rock around Barack
Santa Cruz
Santa God
Someday at Christmas
Sonic Reducer
State of Love and Trust
Sunburn
Thunderclap
Turning Mist
Untitled (I'm Still Here)
Wild Flowers
Wishing Well
10 Billion Years
2000 Mile Blues
Safe in the Car

[stip]

There is one glitch with the tournament. I inputted 256 songs but for some reason only 255 are seem to be showing. I have done this 4 times, and gone back and identified each song to see what was missing. I can't figure out what the issue is. So in the event we discover that a song is missing we will have a three song/two elimination match in the final round of whenever it is we realize a song is missing. If someone can figure it out before we start that would be great

[tragabigzanda]

DOTC rides the wave of newness all the way to a win. No contest.

[Got Some]

We’re you counting SBM twice as both on Ukelele
Songs and Lightning Bolt ??

[LetMeSleep]

Welcome back, Stip.

[E.H. Ruddock]

We’re you counting SBM twice as both on Ukelele
Songs and Lightning Bolt ??

Maybe that’s what’s causing his counting problem?

[stip]

We’re you counting SBM twice as both on Ukelele
Songs and Lightning Bolt ??

Maybe that’s what’s causing his counting problem?

nope - uke songs should just be 12 (it did sneak in there the first pass)

[Norris]

You have Brother listed twice. In Lost Dogs and with the rest.

[liebzz]

Looking forward to this!

[Strat]

tremor christ or go.

Good. Lets just get to the final round already!

[stip]

You have Brother listed twice. In Lost Dogs and with the rest.

shit, I do. Ill need to add another song back in. Any requests?

[Bammer]

You have Brother listed twice. In Lost Dogs and with the rest.

shit, I do. Ill need to add another song back in. Any requests?

Kamalar None

[Norris]

You have Brother listed twice. In Lost Dogs and with the rest.

shit, I do. Ill need to add another song back in. Any requests?

What was left out?

[wease]

I’ve never heard of Felicity’s Surprise

[Birds in Hell]

I’ve never heard of Felicity’s Surprise

Wellwater Conspiracy song with Ed on vocals:

[Birds in Hell]

What's the rationale for including Into the Wild and Ukulele Songs in this?

[Kevin Davis]

For the 256th song, I say include one of those rumored titles like "Cigarette Song" or "Navy Bean" -- I'd be interested in seeing how far a hypothetical, nonexistent Pearl Jam song could advance as a placeholder in a contest like this, and what qualities people would project on it when voting. I imagine some would refuse to vote for it on principle, but I could see others voting for it over any number of commonly disliked songs (i.e. much of Backspacer or Lightning Bolt) as a statement. Depending on matchups I could see it advancing at least two rounds.

Last edited by Kevin Davis on Mon March 08, 2021 2:12 am, edited 1 time in total.

[LetMeSleep]

What's the rationale for including Into the Wild and Ukulele Songs in this?

Stip likes Eddie Vedder tunes.

[Jaeti]

For the 256th song, I say include one of those rumored titles like "Cigarette Song" or "Navy Bean" -- I'd be interested in seeing how far a hypothetical, nonexistent Pearl Jam song could advance as a placeholder in a contest like this, and what qualities people would project on it when voting. I imagine some would refuse to vote for it on principle, but I could see others voting for it over any number of commonly disliked songs (i.e. much of Backspacer or Lightning Bolt) as a statement. Depending on matchups I could see it advancing at least two rounds.

Too true. Following this line of thinking, I'd've likely advanced Who Ever Said to the end of time without ever hearing a note.