Blog Wars: The Genius Playlist | Round 1, Battle 2

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Just incase you missed it: here is the first battle of The Genius Playlist Blog Wars. Refer to that post if you don’t know what’s going on.

On the first battle, Sheena Beaston and Pigeons & Planes went head to head and fought for your votes. The final verdict: Sheena Beaston takes a whopping 65% of the votes. Sorry Pigeons, but you’re out.

On today’s Blog War battle, we’re pinning up The Music Slut and We All Want Someone… together. Both participants had to create Genius Playlists starring Radiohead’s “Bodysnatchers.”  This time it’s going to be a tad bit more difficult to decide on who to vote for because iTunes’ Genius selected songs that appeared on both of the lists. It’s going to be interesting to see which few songs prevail and snag your vote.

The Music Slut and WAWSTSF duke it out with Radiohead and co. as their ammo. Vote or Die!

The Music Slut’s Genius Playlist!
1. Radiohead – Bodysnatchers
2. Interpol – PDA
3. Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
4. Thom Yorke – Black Swan
5. Modest Mouse – Dashboard
6. Bright Eyes – Four Winds
7. Blonde Redhead – 23
8. Radiohead – Karma Police
9. Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
10. Muse – Hysteria
11. Shout Out Louds – The Comeback
12. Interpol – Slow Hands
13. The Strokes – Reptilia
14. Spoon – The Underdog
15. Metric – Monster Hospital
16. The Shins – Caring is Creepy
17. Beck – Lost Cause
18. Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry
19. Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling To Place
20. Death Cab For Cutie – Cath…
21. Bloc Party – Helicopter
22. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3
23. The New Pornographers – Use It
24. Interpol – Heinrich Maneuver
25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Down Boy

We All Want Someone To Shout For’s Genius Playlist!
1. Radiohead – Bodysnatchers
2. Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles
3. Beck – Gamma Ray
4. Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
5. Queens Of The Stone Age – Sick, Sick, Sick
6. Weezer – The Good Life
7. The National – Mistaken For Strangers
8. Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
9. Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
10. Death Cab for Cutie – Cath…
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Down Boy
12. Radiohead – Faust Arp
13. Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation
14. TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
15. Beck – Timebomb
16. Modest Mouse – Missed The Boat
17. Interpol – PDA
18. Wilco – What Light
19. My Morning Jacket – Off The Record
20. Tokyo Police Club – Tessellate
21. The Raconteurs – Salute Your Solution
22. The Killers – Shadowplay
23. The Black Keys – Strange Times
24. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Tree’s
25. Spoon – Don’t You Evah

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Who did you vote for?

{ 12 comments… read them below or add one }

Adam Offitzer January 4, 2009 at 7:16 pm

We All Want Someone to Shout For, by a hair. So close.

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echi January 4, 2009 at 7:37 pm

mines better than both. We All Want Someone To Shout For barely wins with faust arp and shadowplay and well thought out twinkles.
Bodysnatchers Radiohead
Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs
Sick, Sick, Sick Queens of the Stone Age
Mistaken For Strangers The National
Mansard Roof Vampire Weekend
Wolf Like Me TV on the Radio
Use It The New Pornographers
Incinerate Sonic Youth
Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead
What Light Wilco
Sleeping Lessons The Shins
Conquest The White Stripes
Nausea Beck
No Cars Go The Arcade Fire
Amsterdam Peter Bjorn And John
O Valencia! The Decemberists
Old Enough The Raconteurs
Don’t You Evah Spoon
Strange Times The Black Keys
15 Step Radiohead
Well Thought Out Twinkles Silversun Pickups
Shadowplay The Killers
Bixby, Canyon Bridge Death Cab for Cutie
A-Punk Vampire Weekend
The Underdog Spoon

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lilerica521 January 4, 2009 at 7:51 pm

I love this idea of the blog wars with a Genius playlist! Amazing!!

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Kris January 5, 2009 at 4:46 am

Music Slut’s is so much better, sorry, my personal fave!

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ses January 5, 2009 at 8:18 am

where is the 8/1?
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Andy January 5, 2009 at 9:00 am

Music Slut has ‘Heavy Metal Drummer’. Case closed.

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Luis Tovar January 5, 2009 at 9:36 am

personally, timebomb decided it for me. i had totally forgotten about the song until WIll’s playlist reminded me of it.

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Anonymous January 5, 2009 at 5:49 pm

we all want!

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lady_wraith January 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm

Both have lots of Interpol so they’re pretty much equally fantastic =)

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jmillion January 6, 2009 at 5:31 pm

this is a great idea. It would help if you could display them side by side just to make it easier to compare them. love the pumpkins inclusion

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joe January 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm

this was very clos but i voted for music slut. wolf like me almost swayed the vote but i coudnt ignore bloc party, interpol, strokes, and every other band in the playlist

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Anonymous January 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Although I’m a musicslut fan, I must say We All Want Someone won this one!

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