A song for August

Round 6 nomination

Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West]

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Round 6

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
2. Jo-El Sonnier - Tear-Stained Letter
3. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey I Love You
4. Twin Tribes - Shadows
5. Rainbow - Stargazer
6. Eminem - Book of Rhymes
7. Morphine - Buena
8. Body Count - KKK Bitch
9. Amorphis - My Kantele
10. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
11. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
12. Tom Waits - Tango Till They're Sore
13. Tate McRae - You Broke Me First

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Round 7

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown

1. Twin Tribes - Shadows
2. Morphine - Buena
3. Body Count - KKK Bitch
4. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
5. Rainbow - Stargazer
6. Amorphis - My Kantele
7. Tom Waits - Tango Till They're Sore
8. Jo-El Sonnier - Tear-Stained Letter
9. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
10. Tate McRae - you broke me first
11. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey I Love You
12. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
13. Eminem - Book of Rhymes

My R7 nom:
Alabama Shakes - This Feeling

Continuing with the micro theme using the soundtrack from seasons of Big Little Lies for a few picks here and there, I offer the Alabama Shakes. This is a live version of the song. A tough one at that, but they nail it live. Well, she nails it. The vocals that is. Nice subtle soul. Really nice dynamics in the last third. Subtle stuff, but that's hard to sing, IMO.

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made it.
this feels right.

Once again everyone has voted so here comes the happy/sad/wtf bit...

1st - Rainbow - Stargazer (123 pts)

2nd - Twin Tribes - Shadows (112 pts)
3rd - Morphine - Buena (110 pts)
4th - Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival (105 pts)
5th - Kanye West - Flashing Lights (97 pts)
6th - Body Count - KKK Bitch (95 pts)
7th - Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug (94 pts)
8th - Amorphis - My Kantele (92 pts)
9th - Tom Waits - Tango Till They're Sore (81 pts)
10th - Jo-El Sonnier - Tear-Stained Letter (72 pts)
11th - Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey I Love You (71 pts)
12th - Tate McRae - you broke me first (68 pts)
13th - Eminem - Book of Rhymes (63 pts)

Grats to pahaK on not only getting his first tune through to the final but also finally making it at least a three-way affair

Round seven up in less than an hour...

Hey Chyp, I deleted my nom for the next round - gonna take a break.

No worries Swanny, welcome back whenever you want.

Oh my god. The sky is falling. Apologies for bringing on the apocalypse

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Swan takes a break and pahaK is presumably recovering from shock.....

For someone who has heard his fair share of Dio, I was surprised I hadn't heard of Rainbow, at least consciously (maybe I did heard some of it and thought it was Dio ) But anyway, it was a pretty good song. Congrats, @pahaK

1. Pusha T - Santeria
2. Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno - Cumbia Sobre El Mar
3. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
4. Lights - Toes
5. Alabama Shakes - This Feeling
6. Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West]
7. Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
8. Men at Work - Overkill
9. Billy Ocean - Suddenly
10. Lola Marsh - She's a Rainbow
11. Sail Away - Randy Newman

My R8 nom:
Graveyard - Please Don't

Congrats, pahaK!

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Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West] - Before the last round, this was the only Kanye song I was sure I really liked. But let's be honest, it's not a Kanye song and neither is he the reason I like it.

Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue - Another classic and it's going to do well today with this round.

Billy Ocean - Suddenly - Classic. Not heard this in a good while.

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown - It's a great chorus, but I don't really care for this version. Still, this has been a bad round for me, so it'll do better than it should.

Alabama Shakes - This Feeling - That's a nice mellow vibe.


Lola Marsh - She's a Rainbow - I don't know how I feel about this atm.

Men at Work - Overkill - Decent song.

Lights - Toes - Nice but nothing really there.

Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno - Cumbia Sobre El Mar - I was done after 2:30 and saw it had another 4 minutes to go. I prayed there were some lyrics or something coming.... They did and it helped a little.

Pusha T - Santeria - I couldn't go with this at all.

Sail Away - Randy Newman - Not for me.

1. Sail Away - Randy Newman

I usually don't elaborate on my thoughts for the songs here as I'm not a particularly good music critic, but since my nom is doing bad right now, I figured I'd defend it a bit. Essentially, Sail Away is a deceptively simple, disturbing satire of slavery. Randy Newman plays a slave auctioneer trying to convince black people to go to America to work as slaves. Though the lyrics seem sweet and friendly at first glance, they're actually rather condescending and stereotypical of African culture the closer you read them ("Won't have to run through the jungle", "Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake", "You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree"). Also, the chorus "Sail away, sail away We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay" is a reference to how many slaves were brought on slave ships to a major slave auction gallery that was located in Charleston, South Carolina. The serene instrumentals and Newman's gentle voice all mask the disturbing elements of this song or, thematically, hide the true nature of what America will really be like from African people.

2. Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno - Cumbia Sobre El Mar
3. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
4. Billy Ocean - Suddenly
5. Lights - Toes
6. Alabama Shakes - This Feeling
7. Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
8. Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West]
9. Lola Marsh - She's a Rainbow
10. Men at Work - Overkill
11. Pusha T - Santeria

Round 8 nom:

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

1. Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West]
- For maybe the first time in my life, I'm going to say the reason I like a song is will.i.am. Also shoutout to Kanye for busting out the goofy-ass slang, which actually fits the song.
2. Pusha T - Santeria
- The summer of 2018 was exciting for a little while.
3. Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
4. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
5. Sail Away - Randy Newman
- @SpelingError's explanation of the song bumped it up a few points for me
6. Lola Marsh - She's a Rainbow
7. Men at Work - Overkill
8. Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno - Cumbia Sobre El Mar
- Not bad, but at over six minutes, it was a little much. If it was on in the background at a restaurant or something, I'd be cool with it.
9. Alabama Shakes - This Feeling
10. Billy Ocean - Suddenly
11. Lights - Toes

Led Zeppelin - Ramble On

Yay!

Congratulations @pahaK!

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