March Sadness 90s Edition
@marchxness.bsky.social
The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament is Sad Songs of the 90s. Lottery for tourney spots in July 25.
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
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March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist
March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist If yr name is drawn, we'll send you an email (and put it on the bsky). You've got 24 hours to get back to us with your pick (we're askin...
docs.google.com
So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."
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Beachwood Sparks - Gentle Samurai 2024 USA
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Beachwood Sparks - Gentle Samurai 2024 USA
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
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"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
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"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..."
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..."
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."
"The love you had for these bands was so tender and so loyal."
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."
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September 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
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YES LORD IT IS NOW
IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
YES LORD IT IS NOW
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I love @splitlippress.com! I love @marchxness.bsky.social! I really, really love them smushed together!! 🎶👩🎤
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I love @splitlippress.com! I love @marchxness.bsky.social! I really, really love them smushed together!! 🎶👩🎤
amazing!
Happy pub day to Taylor Swift: Album by Album!! This was such a fun project with the best co-authors. I hope y’all enjoy ✨🫶 bookshop.org/p/books/tayl...
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
amazing!
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Amid everything else, preorders for the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music are open!
Includes possibly the only thing I will ever try to write about music, from the 2023 80s fadness bracket, on Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight!
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Includes possibly the only thing I will ever try to write about music, from the 2023 80s fadness bracket, on Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight!
www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...
Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology
For the first time in print, Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, spans Xness history with 40 essays representing nearly a decade of mus...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Amid everything else, preorders for the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music are open!
Includes possibly the only thing I will ever try to write about music, from the 2023 80s fadness bracket, on Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight!
www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...
Includes possibly the only thing I will ever try to write about music, from the 2023 80s fadness bracket, on Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight!
www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...
"The love you had for these bands was so tender and so loyal."
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"The love you had for these bands was so tender and so loyal."
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)
August 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)
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This was... like... a country-sized dagger straight to the heart. Sheesh!
Picking 35th, @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social selects Patty Loveless's You Don't Even Know Who I Am (1993):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrJ...
Patty Loveless - You Don't Even Know Who I Am
YouTube video by PattyLovelessVEVO
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July 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This was... like... a country-sized dagger straight to the heart. Sheesh!
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This Ani DiFranco song might be the saddest song I've ever heard.
Posting a couple more updates for y'all:
With the 13th pick @ponytailup.bsky.social selects The Wallflowers' "One Headlight" (1996)
Picking 18th, @susannadonato.bsky.social takes Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time" (1994)
With the 13th pick @ponytailup.bsky.social selects The Wallflowers' "One Headlight" (1996)
Picking 18th, @susannadonato.bsky.social takes Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time" (1994)
July 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This Ani DiFranco song might be the saddest song I've ever heard.
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One like, one horror thought.
July 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One like, one horror thought.
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Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (2/2)
Red House Painters?
Springsteen?
Sundays?
The Verve Pipe?
Lucinda Williams?
Just saying there are some absolute BANGERS on there just waiting to have an extracurricular essay written about them. Pitch us!
Red House Painters?
Springsteen?
Sundays?
The Verve Pipe?
Lucinda Williams?
Just saying there are some absolute BANGERS on there just waiting to have an extracurricular essay written about them. Pitch us!
July 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (2/2)
Red House Painters?
Springsteen?
Sundays?
The Verve Pipe?
Lucinda Williams?
Just saying there are some absolute BANGERS on there just waiting to have an extracurricular essay written about them. Pitch us!
Red House Painters?
Springsteen?
Sundays?
The Verve Pipe?
Lucinda Williams?
Just saying there are some absolute BANGERS on there just waiting to have an extracurricular essay written about them. Pitch us!
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That's the field. Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (1/2):
Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked
Alice in Chains??
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart???
Garth Brooks?
The Cure?
Live's "Lightning Crashes"?
Magnetic Fields?
Pearl Jam??
Radiohead??
Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked
Alice in Chains??
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart???
Garth Brooks?
The Cure?
Live's "Lightning Crashes"?
Magnetic Fields?
Pearl Jam??
Radiohead??
So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist
March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist If yr name is drawn, we'll send you an email (and put it on the bsky). You've got 24 hours to get back to us with your pick (we're askin...
docs.google.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
That's the field. Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (1/2):
Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked
Alice in Chains??
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart???
Garth Brooks?
The Cure?
Live's "Lightning Crashes"?
Magnetic Fields?
Pearl Jam??
Radiohead??
Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked
Alice in Chains??
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart???
Garth Brooks?
The Cure?
Live's "Lightning Crashes"?
Magnetic Fields?
Pearl Jam??
Radiohead??
Here it is, our last pick for 2026's March Sadness: with the very last spot Danielle Deulen selects Sade's "No Ordinary Love" (1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcW...
Sade - No Ordinary Love - Official - 1992
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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July 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Here it is, our last pick for 2026's March Sadness: with the very last spot Danielle Deulen selects Sade's "No Ordinary Love" (1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcW...
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I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.
90s Sadness Spotify Playlist up y'all
July 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.
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next March I'll be writing about my mom's early 90s crush, Sammy Kershaw, and about garage sale culture; the yard sale as public marker of having sorrowful life changes seen & recognized by your community; the costs of making that transactional; idk my divorce probably. We're gonna go deep.
With the 56 pick (corrected) @camelliagrass.bsky.social selects Sammy Kershaw, Yard Sale (1991): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1C...
Sammy Kershaw - Yard Sale
YouTube video by SammyKershawVEVO
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July 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
next March I'll be writing about my mom's early 90s crush, Sammy Kershaw, and about garage sale culture; the yard sale as public marker of having sorrowful life changes seen & recognized by your community; the costs of making that transactional; idk my divorce probably. We're gonna go deep.
90s Sadness Spotify Playlist up y'all
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
90s Sadness Spotify Playlist up y'all
Here's the full March Sadness 90s Edition youtube playlist pending our last selection: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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July 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's the full March Sadness 90s Edition youtube playlist pending our last selection: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...