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

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The PMA are back from their alomst-2 week hiatus! I actually don’t know why it even went on such a long break — but whatever, it’s back with the second battle of the second round. Though, before We All Want Someone To Shout For and PMA duke it out, here’s a recap of what went on in R2xB1″

Nialler9 and The Culture of Me rocked hard with their playlists featuring Daft Punk’s brilliant “Voyager.” Both bloggers displayed some true electro-love with their playlists, but the voters decided to give the battle to Nialler 9 with 53% of the votes! That was close!

So Nialler9, along with Sheena Beaston, will continue to the finals. Today, WAWSTSF and PMA are here, both wanting that final, third spot. For this last battle of the second round, WAWSTSF and PMA used the Decemberists’ “Los Angeles, I’m Yours” to construct an indie’d out genius playlist.

Read on to see the playlists. We All Want Someone To Shout For vs Pretty Much Amazing


Oh but there’s a twist, I’m not telling you who’s playlist belongs to which blog. :)

PLAYLIST 1
1. The Decemberists – Los Angeles, I’m Yours
2. The New Pornographers – The Laws Have Changed
3. The Shins – The Past And Pending
4. Belle & Sebastian – Another Sunny Day
5. Wolf Parade – Shine A Light
6. Beirut – Postcards From Italy
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Over And Over Again (Lost And Found)
8. Animal Collective – Grass
9. The Decemberists – The Sporting Life
10. Death Cab For Cutie – Blacking Out The Friction
11. Okkervil River – Unless It’s Kicks
12. Spoon – I Summon You
13. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy
14. Elliott Smith – Bottle Up And Explode!
15. Sunset Rubdown – Stadiums And Shrines II
16. Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
17. The Walkmen – The Rat
18. Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes
19. Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
20. Beirut – Elephant Gun
21. The Unicorns – I Was Born (A Unicorn)
22. Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time
23. Wolf Parade – You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son
24. The New Pornographers – Use It
25. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3

PLAYLIST 2
1. The Decemberists – Los Angeles, I’m Yours
2. Animal Collective – Grass
3. Death Cab For Cutie – Blacking Out the Friction
4. Spoon – The Way We Get By
5. Bloc Party – This Modern Love
6. Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
7. Animal Collective – Fireworks
8. The Shins – Australia
9. TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
10. Arcade Fire – Headlights Like Diamonds
11. Belle & Sebastian – Expectations
12. Of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit
13. The Walkmen – In The New Year
14. She & Him – Why Do You Let Me Stay?
15. Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
16. Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation
17. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy
18. Los Campesinos – You! Me! Dancing!
19. Cat Power – New York
20. Vampire Weekend – Campus
21. Wolf Parade – Shine A Light
22. Elliot Smith – Somebody That I Used To Know
23. Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance
24. Feist – Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)
25. M83 – Graveyard Girl

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{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

Adam Offitzer February 3, 2009 at 8:32 pm

Headlights Look Like Diamonds, We Used To Vacation, Wolf Like Me, Campus, Australia…Playlist Two dominates.

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Jared February 3, 2009 at 10:52 pm

I vote second based on the fact its a tad more diverse

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Andy February 4, 2009 at 3:14 am

Playlist One takes it for The Decemberists – The Sporting Life

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Cecilia February 4, 2009 at 8:13 am

Playlist 2 all the way.
With Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party and The Walkmen, I’m pretty sure it’s WAWSTSF’s playlist.. I could be wrong though :)

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Nick February 4, 2009 at 8:14 am

PLAYLIST TWO by a long shot. It flows and has a greater mixture of ‘steez.’

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asdfbear February 4, 2009 at 10:13 am

where is hayatbayat.blogspot.com ???
why!!!

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Robin February 4, 2009 at 11:54 pm

playlist 2 because it actually has some UK stuff in there…

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Henry February 8, 2009 at 6:12 am

Playlist 1 simply for Elliot Smith…

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