Welcome to our Record Of The Year Showdown season! With listeners' help, we're going to find out which Grammy-winner for ROTY is the best of the 64 winners to date...or maybe just the least baffling and unconscionable. How are we doing this? It's sort of a bracket; we'll explain up top, and then we'll talk about cobwebby rocking chairs, how anyone managed to get laid during the Eisenhower presidency, rewarding artists who don't "take the pot," and songs we can't get all the way through. Grab a triple espresso for all those instrumentals: it's an all-new season of MASTAS!

Our intro is Andrew Byrne, and our outro is Weird Al Yankovic. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• Episode 145: Bobby Darin, "Mack The Knife"
• Mark's interrogation of A Summer Place for Tomato Nation
• Episode 98: Two "Moon River"s
• Episode 62: "Ode To Billie Joe" and "Harper Valley PTA"
• Episode 6: Jesus Christ Superstar, "I Don't Know How To Love Him"
• Episode 220A: "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Ranked