Welcome everyone to Last Song Standing. I'm Cole Kushna.

And I'm Charles Holmes. And in this four season of Last Song Standing, Cole and I are debating

our way through some of the best albums of the past 25 years in order to crown the greatest

album of the 21st century so far,

a.k.a. The last album skater. Last episode, extremely contentious.

Would you say more contentious than Blueprint versus Lemonade?

Well, it would have been, but we copped out. It was our first ever stalemate. I had Radiohead's

Kid A. You had Defunk Discovery.

Both phenomenal albums. However, we do have a tiebreaker for today unless you are ready to do the

right thing and just concede that Radiohead, Kid A, is the right album. I will just say we have a surprise

later. And if it goes the way I'm expecting it to go, I'm going to have a very, very long

monologue about the problem with music criticism and rock centrality to music criticism at the cost

of other genres that I would argue are more important to the story of the 21st century.

Sound very defensive. Already.

I'll just put it to you this way.

You didn't go to the streets.

That's all I'll say.

Border dance.

Right.

Let's not belaborate,

but I'm feeling pretty good about the season.

I mean, Discovery Kid A, they're both winners.

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