Round of 64: (28) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream vs. (37) Bruce Springsteen - Born2Run Bracket

Round one is here. 62 years of albums with 2 convenient ties. What album will come out on top?

NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU'VE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS. STOP DOING THIS SHIT.

For this matchup, we start with:

(28) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

vs.

(37) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Born to Run

 

again, probably my third or fourth favorite by one artist vs a top 20 (in this case top 10) album ever for me. an easy call.

 

It's Siamese Dream for me but I have to be in a mood for Springsteen. SP was just more formative for me, musically

 

Born to Run for me, Mellon Collie would take it though

 

There's no way Smashing Pumpkins takes this but they're both great albums so I'm not mad

 

Born to Run easy.

 

not a bruce guy and SD is one of my all timers, so SD

 

Siamese Dream

 

Well gee, I wonder which of these I will vote for…

 

the album with no riffs, im guessing

 

Even if Born to Run was just the “Jungleland” solo, it would still get my vote. Greatest album ever made. Siamese Dream is also great, I’ll pour one out for it later.

 

maybe the fourth best bruce

 

You're a psycho.

 

i mean, im in the minority, but it's hardly an uncommon thing to see someone have a handful of bruce albums above it in their personal rankings. you can see that in the bruce thread on this very site lol. let alone from every other musician ever.

but yes, im not surprised bruce will likely win against this album, which i like exponentially more. this album should have likely been seeded higher, if we're considering actual contenders. though, to be fair, this album almost didn't even make it winning only by one vote (27) with siamese dream winning by six (33) with nearly the same vote totals.

 

Yeah, I guess vote numbers are probably in inexact science for seeding, since some years had two or more clear contenders duking it out, while others were runaways. Both of these probably should have gotten less beloved albums as their first-round opponents, but what can you do?

 

This is extremely tough. Best pumpkins album vs one of the best Springsteen albums. Still think I gotta go Bruce

 

right, looking at the list, this personally isn't even the toughest vote for me, and it's only gonna get tougher in further rounds

 

Never been too big of a Springsteen fan personally, and Born to Run wouldnt be my fav record of his if I had to choose one and SD is the best SP record sooooo its SD for me. One of my favorite records to come out of the 90s too.

 

Toughest one on the board for me is probably Rubber Soul/Nebraska.

 

glow on/london calling and black parade/paranoid for me

 

I predict the Kanye/Phoebe thread being a wild time.

 

Black Parade will take it even if Paranoid should. But that's a discussion for another day!

 

right haha, it's an easy choice for me, but it's gonna be hilarious if the vote between the #2 seed and a tiebreaker is actually close

 

All pretty easy picks for the rest of this round

 

Yeah, I won’t have a problem there personally, but I think it could come down to the wire.