ARR March Madness XETRA v. WRKN

# 4 seed XETRA is a station licensed to Tijuana, Mexico, but with studios in San Diego. Mexican stations have call letters that start with X, hence "Heard it on the X". This station is better known as 91x, one of the longest, most sucessful alt rock stations in the nation. #13 seed WRKN is relatively new -- serving the New Orleans area. As always songs picked from their playlists go head to head, best of 10.

Let's see how this one plays out.

91x leads off with CREEP- RADIOHEAD. RKN counters with DIAMOND EYES -- NOT DEFTONES yes the lame one with (Boom Sha Laka hi li hi lili hi lo) or something like that in the title. 91x goes out to an early lead with a laugher.

Not looking good for the remaining Louisiana station. Let's see how it plays out, with 91 x on the left.

HELP IS ON THE WAY -- RISE AGAINST VS. RIPTIDE -- SICK PUPPIES A closer call, but 91x wins again
DON'R STAND SO CLOSE TO ME -- POLICE VS. EVERLONG -- FOO FIGHTERS. One of the better Police songs and gets points for reaching back to the late 70's, but we're talking about Everlong, a work of sheer genius. Nobedy writes melodies of the complexity and beauty of Dave Grohl, no one outside of classical music anyway -- and this is his best. WRKN averts a shutout.
BREAKING THE HABIT -- LINKIN PARK VS. THIS IS WAR -- 30 SECONDS TO MARS I'm not a huge fan, but Linkin Park has its virtutes, while 30 Seconds to Mars has none. 91-x leads 3-1
BABY WE'VE GOT A DANCE -- BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS VS. FAR FROM HOME -- FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Not familiar with that song, and usually I would check it out, but the worst Wailers song I ever heard was a lot better than the best Five Finger Death Punch song. 4-1 91x.
WE USED TO WAIT -- ARCADE FIRE vs. BREAK -- 3 DAYS GRACE This is getting ridiculous. 5-1 91x.
EX-GIRLFRIEND -- NO DOUBT VS. LAY ME DOWN -- DIRTY HEADS. Still can't get that Dirty Heads song out of my head from last summer 5-2 91x.
H- TOOL VS. SELF ESTEEM -- OFFSPING. Tough choice, but I'll give the edge to Tool.