February - A Song Tournament For Music Lovers

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That elusive hide-and-seek cow is at it again
Yikes. Been checking the site all weekend and only just realized my mobile isn't actually logged in here!?
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That elusive hide-and-seek cow is at it again
  1. Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Hard Times
  2. Björk - Army of Me
  3. Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
  4. Aretha Franklin - Bridge over Troubled Water
  5. Drive-By Truckers - Godd*mn Lonely Love
  6. Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger
  7. Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin
  8. Skott - Wolf
  9. The Zombies - She's Not There
  10. Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky



1) Bjork - Army of Me
2) Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons Can't Take My Eyes Off You
3) Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Hard Times
4) Aretha Franklin - Bridge over Troubled Water
5) Drive-By Truckers - Godd*mn Lonely Love
6) Skott - Wolf
7) The Zombies - She's Not There
8) Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin
9) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
10) Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger



No bad songs.



A little late but time for the results and anyone not having already voted certainly had long enough ......

1st - Aretha Franklin - Bridge over Troubled Water (66 pts)



2nd - Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Hard Times (65 pts)
3rd - Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (64 pts)
4th - Björk - Army of Me (60 pts)
5th - The Zombies - She's Not There (57 pts)
6th - Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (52 pts)
6th - Skott - Wolf (52 pts)
8th - Drive-By Truckers - Godd*mn Lonely Love (47 pts)
9th - Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (44 pts)
10th - Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger (43 pts)

Congrats to all those with songs in the Final and well done to jiraffejustin on taking down the win

Warmest thanks as always to all those that took part, both new and old - I hope it proved an enjoyable experience even if it was slightly curtailed.



And just in case anyone does take over the reins and wants to retain the same format of not allowing previous round winners to be nominated again here\s the up-to-date list of such songs:

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 - Bridge over Troubled Water (WINNER - FEBRUARY 2023)
Aretha Franklin - Think
Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im spiegel
Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Hard Times
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
Björk - Army of Me
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
Drive-By Truckers - Godd*mn Lonely Love
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
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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)
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
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 - Eyes of a Stranger
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
Skott - Wolf
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 - She's Not There
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



That elusive hide-and-seek cow is at it again
Eggcellent organization and details, Chyppers. As always. thank you again for your time and patience through all these games.


Now, i must sleep for another hour or so.





You can't make a rainbow without a little rain.
A little late but time for the results and anyone not having already voted certainly had long enough ......

1st - Aretha Franklin - Bridge over Troubled Water (66 pts)



2nd - Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Hard Times (65 pts)
3rd - Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (64 pts)
4th - Björk - Army of Me (60 pts)
5th - The Zombies - She's Not There (57 pts)
6th - Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (52 pts)
6th - Skott - Wolf (52 pts)
8th - Drive-By Truckers - Godd*mn Lonely Love (47 pts)
9th - Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (44 pts)
10th - Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger (43 pts)

Congrats to all those with songs in the Final and well done to jiraffejustin on taking down the win

Warmest thanks as always to all those that took part, both new and old - I hope it proved an enjoyable experience even if it was slightly curtailed.

Congratulations @jiraffejustin!





Thank You @Chypmunk for another great song tournament!

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