All About Him Song Tournament

• The ALL ABOUT HIM SONG TOURNAMENT will succeed the ALL ABOUT HER TOURNAMENT
• NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED AS OF NOVEMBER 29
• There are 5 total players competing, with a total of 80 songs
• The song that gets the best of 5 votes (i.e. 3 votes or more), or the most votes within the span of ONE DAY (whichever comes first) wins the match in each round, and moves on to the next round
  

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My noms:

1-Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough
1-Go West - King of Wishful Thinking
1-Genesis - No Son of Mine
1-Salt 'N Pepa & En Vogue - Whatta Man
1-John Lennon - Jealous Guy
1-Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
1-Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
1-Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
1-TLC - No Scrubs
1-Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory
1-Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only
1-Duran Duran - Wild Boys
1-Kid Rock - Cowboy
1-Janet Jackson - Nasty
1-Sade - Smooth Operator
1-R. Kelly - The World's Greatest

Haha this will be harder for me but I'll work on my noms tomorrow.

Yeah, I knew a male version could happen, but figured it would be harder for people.

Janis Joplin-Me and Bobby McGee

Lynyrd Skyryd-The Ballad of Curtis Loew

Everclear-Father of Mine

The Grateful Dead-Casey Jones

Jim Croce-You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Boz Scaggs-Lido Shuffle

Sublime-Date Rape

The Eagles-New Kid in Town

Linda Ronstadt-You're No Good

Heart-Magic Man




That's 10

Sexy, post your noms

Post 10 noms for now. I'm sure we'll end up having around the same number of players in the ALL ABOUT HER tourney, and might even end up with additional noms

Yep, I'll join. I'll need a bit of time to do my nominations, but I should have more than enough time, it would seem.

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I'm in, but I'll need a few days to figure out my noms. (I assume we have some time because the other tournament just started.)

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Yes, we have plenty of time!

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like a Lady
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Walk Like a Man
The Ad Libs - The Boy from New York City
The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Village People - Macho Man
Herman's Hermits - I'm Henry VIII, I Am
The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)
Ray Conniff Singers - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride

Now, that is a GOOD one!

I've played it before (shhh, don't tell Cricket). It didn't win. But I like it.

What the hell, let's make it a minimum of 12 noms. I don't think a lot of people will join this. We'll add more noms when the time comes.

Added a Christmas tune.

I am trying to decide if I should add songs with both a man and woman singer in them, or if we should also have an "All About Lovers" tourney. Opinions!?!

Before I decide on my noms, I have a question for those of you who usually vote against my noms, (and sadly, that's most of you ).

Some people (mostly Cricket, I think), have complained about the same songs being nominated over and over again. But outside of the type of music that most of you seem to hate, I pretty much only know the most common songs, that you have all heard thousands of times.

Would you prefer that I continue to nominate songs that you probably haven't heard before, but you'll probably hate, or should I try to find songs that you might like, but you've heard them way too many times, especially in these tournaments?

BTW, this question is for all future tournaments, not just for this one. (Also, I reserve the right to nominate whatever I like, even if it goes against your answers here, but I'd like to know your opinions before making my own decision.)

Well, I'll give an opinion, even though I do vote for a lot of your songs, and even though you didn't answer my question up above. mmhhhmmmm!!!

You should vote on songs that you love. Vote for songs that mean something to you. I'm choosing for myself. I suppose some people might try to go for super popular songs, in the hope that they win, but as far as I'm concerned, this should be about songs that mean the most to us personally.

I always nominate (I assume that you meant nominate, not vote), songs that I love. I don't really care if my songs don't win, or even if they get voted out early. I just hate the idea that I might have to vote against my own noms, just because I chose songs that I don't love. If I vote against my own nom, it's because someone else also nominated a song that I love.

My concern is that if people hate my songs, they might be enjoying the song tournaments less because of my noms. So I just want to make sure that I'm not hurting other people's enjoyment of the tournaments by nominating songs that most people hate.


I didn't answer your question because I thought it was for Mojo because he's running these "Songs about Her" and "Songs about Him" tournaments.

IMO, it doesn't matter if the song is sung by a woman or a man. What matters is who is the subject of the song. If the song is about the man, then IMO it's a good nomination for the "Songs about Him" tournament, but if the song is more about the couple and/or their relationship, then it should be held for a different tournament where it's more appropriate.

However, keep in mind that I nominated songs that are specifically about a woman in the current song tournament, and most of my noms are already out, so you might want to find someone better to get advice from about this subject.

Ooops, yep, I meant nominate.

That's a very good reason why you shouldn't nominate songs you don't care for. Who wants to vote against a bunch of their own songs?!? Also, don't worry at all about what others think of your songs. No one should come into these things expecting to like and/or love every last song. I doubt, or at least hope no one does.


No, asking you is perfectly fine, because that's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe I'll even run it. If there's enough songs out there, that is. I just kept running into songs that had a man and a woman singing together. They were singing about their love for each other, etc . . . I almost did this in the woman's tourney, but decided against it, and now I'm seeing numerous more songs like that. I dunno about that tourney, but I will do what I did the last tourney, and make sure it's only about the one person.

Thanks!