Same as was done in previous tournaments of this type.....
Join in and drop out as you please
No set number of nominations, nominate on the fly
Max song duration: 10 minutes
No individual matches means no random or host 'fixing' the matches
Only one nomination per person per 'round'
Only those with songs nominated in any 'round' are eligible to vote in that particular 'round'; except the 'Final' where all those that have previously nominated a song in the month may vote should they wish
Every couple of days will be a new 'round' where any and all newly nominated songs are up against each other. As soon as voting starts for one 'round' nominations will be accepted for the next 'round'.
Players vote by ranking all the songs in that 'round' from 1 (their favourite) to n (their least favourite). Songs will be awarded points based on their positional ranking in each vote (number of points will depend on the number of songs contesting the 'round' - if 10 songs #1 song would get 10 points, #10 song would get 1 point).
The winning song from each 'round' (or songs in the case of a tie) goes through to the 'Final' at the end of the month.
Songs that made it to previous 'finals' are ineligible -
list here
13th Chime - Cats Of Toulouse
Actors - Slaves
Alanis Morissette - Not the Doctor
Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong
Alice in Chains - Would?
Annie - Anthonio (Berlin Breakdown Version)
Antonio Bazzini - La ronde des lutins
Aretha Franklin - Think
Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im spiegel
Backxwash - Burn to Ashes (feat. Michael Go)
Band-Maid - Manners
Band-Maid - Onset
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
BB King - The Thrill is Gone
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, Movement 1
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song
Bic Runga - Sway
Bill Withers - Use Me (WINNER - SEPT 2019)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Billy Preston - Will it Go Round in Circles
Birdy - Surrender
Black Mountain - Defector
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
Black Sabbath - War Pigs (WINNER - JULY 2020)
Blondie - Call Me
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Brother Dege - Too Old to Die Young
Budgie - Breadfan
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Carlos Paredes - Verdes Anos (WINNER - MAY 2021)
Caro Emerald - Stuck
Cerrone - Supernature
Champaign - How 'Bout Us
Charlie Marie - El Paso
Colorama - Baby Don't Go
Colter Wall - Caroline
Courtney Marie Andrews - Table for One
Cream - White Room
Dan Seals - They Rage On
David Bowie - As The World Falls Down
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie - Life On Mars? (WINNER - JAN 2021)
Devil Doll - Faith In Love
Dexy's Midnight Runners - I Couldn't Help If I Tried
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits - Walk Of Life
Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Sonata in D minor, II. Allegro
DMX - X Gon Give It To Ya
Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
Don Williams - I'll Never Be In Love Again
Don Williams - My Heart To You
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Dorothy - Raise Hell
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard
Dust - Walk In The Soft Rain
Dusty Springfield - Spooky (WINNER - OCTOBER 2020)
Echobelly - Pantyhose And Roses
Elle King - Good Thing Gone
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning
Ethel Cain - Crush (WINNER - FEBRUARY 2022)
Factice Factory - Ignite
Freddie King - Dust My Broom
Garbage & Screaming Females - Because The Night
George Michael - Kissing a Fool
Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Grimes - Oblivion
Guns N' Roses - Live And Let Die
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City (WINNER - MARCH 2019)
Guns N' Roses - Think About You
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
Gutter Twins - Front Street
Heart - Barracuda (WINNER - APRIL 2020)
Hellbound Glory - 'Merica (The Good Ole U.S.A.)
Holly Herndon - Eternal
Horse Party - Animal
Iamdoechii - Spooky Coochie
Ian Noe - Dead on the River (Rolling Down)
Ian Noe - Irene
In This Moment - As Above, So Below
India Ramey - Devil's Den
Interpol - Untitled
Jack White - Love Is Blindness
Jaime Wyatt - Misery and Gin
James Ingram - Just Once
Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Jinjer - Pisces
John Carpenter - Halloween Theme
Johnny Cash - Ain't no Grave
Johnny Mathis - 99 Miles From LA
Joseph Huber - Downtime
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Killing Joke - Follow the Leader
Leathers - Reckless
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills and Far Away
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On (WINNER - AUGUST 2021)
Lefty Frizzell - Saginaw Michigan
Legend - Midnight Champion
Louis Prima - Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me
Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight
Mekong - The Hills
Metallica - One
Metric - Waves (WINNER - NOVEMBER 2021)
Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder and Lead
Modern English - I Melt With You
Nat King Cole - A Blossom Fell
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Nena - 99 Luftballons (WINNER - APRIL 2020)
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Nikki & the Phantom Callers - Prodigal Daughter
Nina Simone · My Baby Just Cares for Me
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
Norma Tanega - You're Dead
Nothing But Thieves - Trip Switch
Nova Et Vetera - Leave Me Alone
Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Wanna Stop
Peppino Gagliardi - Che vuole questa musica stasera
Pink Floyd - Echoes (Part 1)
Player - Baby Come Back
Popol Vuh - Sing, For Song Drives Away the Wolves
Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Postmodern Jukebox and Haley Reinhart - Creep
Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell
Princess Chelsea - Monkey Eats Bananas
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Radiohead - Karma Police
Rainbow - Stargazer
Rattlesnake Milk - Dave Dudley
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Red Shahan - Men & Coyotes
Redbone - Come and Get your Love
Rodriguez - Hate Street Dialogue
Rose of the West - Roads
Rush - Limelight
Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming (WINNER - JUNE 2019)
Sam Cooke - Nothing Can Change This Love
Shirley Bassey - What I Did For Love
Sivert Hoyem - Silences
Somali Yacht Club - The Sun
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Still Corners - Black Lagoon
T2 - No More White Horses
Tanya Tucker - The Wheels of Laredo
Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - Cocaine Cat
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life
The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Czars - Little Pink House
The Flaming Lips - One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
The Highwomen - Highwomen
The Last Shadow Puppets - Aviation
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
The Platters - The Great Pretender
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
The Secret Sisters - He's Fine
The Shins - Simple Song (WINNER - JUNE 2022)
The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (WINNER - SEPTEMBER 2022)
The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster
The Wilder Blue - Palomino Gold
The Zombies - Time of the Season
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
Vandal Moon - Pretend to Die
Wailin Storms - Rattle
Ward Davis - Threads
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
Wisdom - War of Angels
Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come
Yazoo - Only You
Yola - Faraway Look
Nominations need to be freely available to all participants, YouTube is most commonly used but any freely available and legal source is acceptable. Sometimes YouTube videos can be geo-blocked so where necessary an alternative link for those who might need it may be required. You can check if/where any YouTube vid has been geo-blocked via this website (link kindly provided by Torgo).
Up early again so people can prep noms to play if interested. Assuming there's enough want to play (minimum reqd is 6 players) ROUND 1 will open for voting at 9 a.m. GMT on February 1st - nominations for that round accepted up to that point.
Well, unless my math ability has deteriorated by an embarrassing degree, I make it that we already have enough of us to ensure Round 1 can kick off on Wednesday morn. Starting to think I might just have put this thread up a tad tooooooo early though
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1. Zeal & Ardor - Götterdämmerung
2. Kno - They Told Me (ft. Deacon the Villain)
3. The Bolshoi - A Way
4. Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Pulp - Underwear
6. Tall Dwarfs - Crush
7. Ozzy & Lemmy - Hellraiser
8. Josh Turner - I Wouldn't Be a Man
9. DJ Robin & Schürze - Layla
10. Katatonia - Colossal Shade
1. Kno ft. Deacon The Villain - They Told Me
2. DJ Robin & Schürze - Layla
3. Aretha Franklin - Bridge over Troubled Water
4. Katatonia - Colossal Shade
5. Pulp - Underwear
6. Josh Turner - I Wouldn’t Be A Man
7. Ozzy Osbourne w/Lemmy - Hellraiser
8. The Bolshoi - A Way
9. Tall Dwarfs - Crush
10. Zeal & Ardor - Götterdämmerung