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Posted by: SevenSeize 31st October 2016, 10:58 PM

BONJOUR MY FELLOW INDIE FOLK

So we're going up against the Pop/R&B/Dance/Eurovision forums in the very first edition of the 'Genre Forum Song Contest', our aim being to show off the best music the Indie/Alt/Rock Forum has to offer!

Make to sure to check out http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=195056 which will give you all the details needed to make the contest a success

Here's a list of things to keep in mind
• You may post up to five nominations in this thread. The songs with the most nominations will go towards our national final where four songs will be chosen to compete against the other forums.
• The theme for this contest is Signature Sounds, so think about what will really represent the artists in mind and the genres of indie/alternative/rock music.
• You may not nominate any song that has been a UK Top 40 hit or has finished top 10 in Eurovision or by an artist with their own forum. Any songs nominated can still be vetoed by the moderators.
• Also try to avoid songs that have previously been hits in the BuzzJack Song Contest. A list of all previous entries can be found http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=104463.
• You have until 23:59 07/11/16 to nominate.

Hopefully we can end up with a nice mix of sub-genres (e.g. Indie/Alt Pop/Rock/Psychedelic/Metal/Folk, or generally anything that fits under the 'Alternative' umbrella), and a strong batch of songs!

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Nominations So Far
Against The Current - Runaway
Against The Current - Running With The Wild Things (x2)
All American Rejects - Move Along (x2)
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Animal Collective - FloriDada (x2)
ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
Apocalyptica - Battery
Arcade Fire - Afterlife
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play
Banks - This Is What It Feels Like
Bastille - Bad Blood
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
Blossoms - Charlemagne
Cabbage - Kevin
Chris Cohen - In A Fable
CHVRCHES - Gun
CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace
CHVRCHES - Science/Visions
Crystal Castles - Celestica
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Delphic - Counterpoint
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
Everything Everything - My Kz, Ur Bf
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Foals - Inhaler
Foster The People - Helena Beat
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
George Ezra - Cassy O'
George Ezra - Listen To The Man
Green Day - Oh Love
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood (x2)
Grimes & Blood Diamonds - Go
Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
Halsey - Colors (x2)
Halsey - New Americana
Hozier - Jackie & Wilson
iamamiwhoami - goods
Jake Bugg - Me & You
Jamie T - Spider's Web
Joy Division - Transmission
Kasabian - Take Aim
Kate Nash - 3AM
King Creosote - Wake Up To This
Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem (x2)
M83 - Steve McQueen
Marina And The Diamonds - Blue
Marina And The Diamonds - Fear & Loathing
Marina And The Diamonds - I'm A Ruin
Marina And The Diamonds - Teen Idle
Melanie Martinez - Soap
Muse - Undisclosed Desires (x2)
NAO - Bad Blood
Nickelback - When We Stand Together
Nightwish - Nemo
Oasis - Champagne Supernova (x2)
Panda Bear - Boys Latin
Panic! At The Disco - That Green Gentleman
Panic! At The Disco - The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
Panic! At The Disco - Victorious
Paramore - Ain't It Fun
Paramore - Brighter (x2)
Paramore - CrushCrushCrush
Paramore - That's What You Get (x2)
The Pictish Trail - Far Gone (Don't Leave)
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
PVRIS - Mirrors
PVRIS - You And I
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Rammstein - Engel
Rammstein - Sonne
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth Of July
The Summer Set - Boomerang
System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. (x2)
System Of A Down - Shimmy
Teleman - Dusseldorf
Tenacious D - Tribute
Trust - Capitol
twenty one pilots - Car Radio (x2)
twenty one pilots - Holding On To You (x2)
twenty one pilots - Migraine
Twin Atlantic - Yes, I Was Drunk
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Within Temptation feat. Xzibit - And We Run (x2)
Wolf Alice - Giant Peach
You Me At Six - Fresh Start Fever

Posted by: HΞDA FROM HΞLL 31st October 2016, 11:04 PM

YASSSSS

Okay, I'm firing straight in here

Paramore - Brighter
PVRIS - Mirrors
twenty one pilots - Holding Onto You
Against The Current - Running With The Wild Things
Halsey - Colours

Posted by: UltraBasicWitch 31st October 2016, 11:04 PM

Courtney Barnett- Pedestrien At Best
Marina & The Diamonds- I'm A Ruin
Wolf Alice- Giant Peach
Lana Del Rey- National Anthem
Grimes- Flesh Without Blood

Posted by: Cody Krueger 1st November 2016, 12:05 AM

Halsey - "New Americana"
Panic! At The Disco - "Victorious"
Empire Of The Sun - "Walking On A Dream"
Foster The People - "Helena Beat"
CHVRCHES - "Gun"

Posted by: Cucumberella 1st November 2016, 12:21 AM

ANOHNI 'Drone Bomb Me'
Arcade Fire 'Afterlife'
Blood Diamonds & Grimes 'Go'
Crystal Castles 'Celestica'
M83 'Steve McQueen'

Posted by: Addy Boo! 1st November 2016, 02:52 AM

Rammstein - Engel
Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
Apocalyptica - Battery

Posted by: Izzy Dead People 1st November 2016, 05:34 PM

Hmm, there's so many I want to bring in.

I won't finalise the my noms yet, I want to be strategic here and indie will be the forum I'll be rooting for victory most I think...
Arcade Fire I want but idk if Afterlife is the right song to do it with. I do think it's a brilliant song and I could go with it but there's so many others they have too. I suppose it's pretty signature for them. Grimes would be good, I think Flesh Without Blood is a good choice on that front. Possibly. Considering iamamwhoami too, with goods or play. One of those could be my indie-alt-pop nom.

Against The Current is a very good idea for a rock band that will get some traction from the pop fans, although a Paramore song would also be good. And then there's all the bands like Muse or Kasabian that we could source something from. I'll probably have two rock nominations in the end. probably one indie-rock and one pop-punk.

I'm sorta keen for only one or two of Indie's final list to be stuff like Lana/Marina/CHVRCHES that is arguably pop-leaning (and yes, Against The Current falls under that as well). It'd probably be a good path to success, and Gun especially is another good shout, but I think this forum has the widest selection of all of the forums and I think submitting a list that would be very narrow is doing us a disservice, and not being particularly indie. I'll probably pick something from this however as CHVRCHES are too good to pass up.

I'll definitely have to think of a metal nomination because that's a very good way to diversify. I've already nominated a Nightwish song in Eurovision so I might hold off there, Addy's noms are rather tempting in that regard, but I'm thinking leaning towards Within Temptation with something like Angels or What Have You Done. Or And We Run even. Actually I like the idea of And We Run. Which is because it has an Xzibit verse while still being very WT. And while I'm on the idea of rap-rock, there's the likes of Linkin Park I could delve into. Although I can't see that being as popular an idea as Within Temptation.

(will actually nom soon, thought I might put out some thoughts first)

Posted by: Addy K!ng 1st November 2016, 05:40 PM

Yes Iz, more guitar and heavy nom's than indie!!!

Posted by: Chez Wombat 1st November 2016, 07:25 PM

I think Sprawl II would be quite a good one for Arcade Fire, as it's something of a fan favourite and has a similar sound to the kind of female fronted electro indie songs that do well on the board as a whole.

If I think of any more, I'll add them in!

Posted by: Sonia Fowler 1st November 2016, 08:38 PM

My Noms

George Ezra - Cassy O'
twenty one pilots - Car Radio
Paramore - CrushCrushCrush
Lana Del Ray - Brooklyn Baby
You Me At Six - Fresh Start Fever

Posted by: Cameron 1st November 2016, 08:49 PM

PVRIS - Mirrors
Marina and the Diamonds - Blue
NAO - Bad Blood

Posted by: Mack 1st November 2016, 09:03 PM

Vampire Weekend- A-Punk
Black Keys- Lonely Boy
Nickelback- When We Stand Together

Posted by: ʟɪɴᴅsᴇ 1st November 2016, 09:31 PM

I'm already contemplating changing my nominations

Chvrches is a very good shout, as is Halsey and Marina, thinking about Melanie Martinez too but then my nominations will be pretty similar. I think we defo need some proper pop-punk in the mix too like Iz said, there's so many though I'll need to have a think, maybe something from The All American Rejects, Good Charlotte, Blink 182 I might change my PVRIS nomination to Mirrors too as it was between that, You and I and My House idk

God, who came up with these rules??? Limiting us to only five

Posted by: Cameron 1st November 2016, 09:35 PM

adding Halsey - Colors and CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace

Posted by: The-BrightPlaces 1st November 2016, 11:11 PM

most of mine are probably going to be pop-punk as that's my favourite genre i'm waiting a little while before I put up my nominations though because it's hard to choose just 5

Posted by: SevenSeize 2nd November 2016, 01:01 AM

Throwing in three nominations just now, will think of two others soon:

David Bowie - Blackstar - if you're looking for a standout moment, this song is it!!
Animal Collective - FloriDada - if we get some psychedelic in our final 4 (and i hope we do ), something as poppy and fun as this wouldn't be a bad option i think
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth Of July - purely a pipe dream but i just wanted to get in some folk/singer-songwriter nominations! very understated but stunningly emotional, i urge anyone to at least check it out

Posted by: Liаm 2nd November 2016, 01:14 AM

Twenty One Pilots - Car Radio
Twenty One Pilots - Holding On To You
Marina & The Diamonds - Fear & Loathing
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
Melanie Martinez - Soap

Posted by: richie 2nd November 2016, 10:11 AM

The rules don't seem to specify that it has to be up to date tracks, does it? In that case, these are all eligible.

My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Pulp - Lipgloss
Joy Division - Transmission

and one from this year

King Creosote - Wake Up to This

Posted by: Cody Slayberry 2nd November 2016, 06:01 PM

QUOTE(richie @ Nov 2 2016, 03:11 AM)

Posted by: richie 3rd November 2016, 08:17 AM

Cool, then hopefully a song from 1979 is ok!

Posted by: Dobbo 3rd November 2016, 08:51 AM

Green Day - Oh Love
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Panic! At The Disco - That Green Gentleman
System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B.
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know

Posted by: awardinary 3rd November 2016, 09:11 AM

Blossoms – Charlemagne
Delphic – Counterpoint
Alter Bridge – Blackbird
System Of A Down – Shimmy
Tenacious D – Tribute

Posted by: Oliver 3rd November 2016, 10:38 AM

Panda Bear - Boy's Latin
Paramore - That's What You Get
Panic! at the Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa
CHVRCHES - Science/Visions
Rammstein - Sonne

Posted by: Oliver 3rd November 2016, 10:43 AM

Didn't "New Americana" and "Pedestrian at Best" both come top 10 in BJSC?

Posted by: SevenSeize 3rd November 2016, 12:29 PM

QUOTE(Oliver @ Nov 3 2016, 10:43 AM)

Didn't "New Americana" and "Pedestrian at Best" both come top 10 in BJSC?

Posted by: Iz~ 3rd November 2016, 01:26 PM

Basically what we're doing is that at the end of the nominations round, done this early so as to not inconvenience people by properly voting for something and then seeing it get vetoed, we'll look over the lists from all forums and veto out nominations that we know have proved themselves in other forum competitions several times (indicating that most of the forum knows them well) or are otherwise really well-known tracks on here. I think because it's dull more than anything else, I love Pedestrian At Best but I feel it has been used and slayed a lot in recent Buzzjack rankings and competitions.

The restrictions of top 40 and Eurovision top 10 was to get rid of most of these, we didn't say 'no BJSC songs' because it's not UP or anything like that and there have been many thousands of songs entered there over the years, many of which have been forgotten by the forum at large, but things like BJSC top 10 hits that have been talked about a lot, like those two examples are the sort of thing we'd probably stop getting in. This goes for all forums, btw (although in a way indie should be one of the more inspired forums). It's not meant to be restrictive, it'd be just to get rid of Buzzjack's biggest cult classics that have had numerous chances in competitions like this.

And of course if you're pretty sure a nomination of yours will get vetoed in this way, feel free to change it.

Posted by: Jacob Alan 3rd November 2016, 11:39 PM

It's so hard to decide because there's so much but I'll try a few:

Against The Current - Runaway
Twenty One Pilots - Holding Onto You (if I can just reinforce songs already nominated)
Paramore - Brighter
Muse - Undisclosed Desires
Kasabian - Take Aim

Posted by: richie 4th November 2016, 01:21 PM

Righto, I have a feeling my well known old songs will get vetoed so please change my noms to:

King Creosote - Wake Up To This
Teleman - Dusseldorf
Cabbage - Kevin
Chris Cohen - In a Fable
The Pictish Trail - Far Gone (Don't Leave)

Posted by: DalekTurret32 6th November 2016, 11:29 AM

I'll try a few:

Foals - Inhaler
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Joy Division - Transmission
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
David Bowie - Suffragette City

Posted by: The-BrightPlaces 6th November 2016, 04:30 PM

Twenty-One Pilots - Migraine
The Summer Set - Boomerang
Jamie T - Spider's Web
Twin Atlantic - Yes, I was Drunk
The All-American Rejects - Move Along

Posted by: Iz~ 6th November 2016, 04:59 PM

System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B
Against The Current - Running With The Wild Things
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Muse - Undisclosed Desires
Within Temptation - And We Run (feat. Xzibit)

mostly reinforcing some excellent shouts to help sort out these nominations, but got a couple of new ones to fill my quotas.

Posted by: UltraBasicWitch 6th November 2016, 05:00 PM

Will replace Courtney then and will give Muse- Undisclosed Desires a second nomination!

Posted by: Iz~ 6th November 2016, 05:03 PM

Oh three for Muse! Well if you don't mind Sam I'll change my nom of that to... Animal Collective's FloriDada, give that the nod to get in.

Posted by: Regina 6th November 2016, 05:44 PM

Within Temptation feat. Xzibit - And We Run
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
Nightwish - Nemo

Posted by: ʟɪɴᴅsᴇ 6th November 2016, 09:17 PM

I think I'm gonna change my Paramore nom to Brighter and my PVRIS one to Mirrors as I do adore both of those songs and they'd have been my next choice, plus it gives them a second vote

Posted by: Riser 7th November 2016, 02:05 AM

All American Rejects - Move Along
Bastille - Bad Blood
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Paramore - Ain't It Fun
Paramore - That's What You Get

Posted by: 152chris 7th November 2016, 10:27 PM

for me songs that have defined this forum:

iamamiwhoami 'goods'
sufjan stevens 'chicago'
banks 'this is what it feels like'
trust 'capitol'
autre ne veut 'play by play'

also luh 'kerou's lament' and lcd soundsystem dance yrself clean if someone wants to nom them for me lol

off the top of my headddd

Posted by: JosephStyles 7th November 2016, 11:30 PM

George Ezra - Listen to the Man
Hozier - Jackie & Wilson
Jake Bugg - Me & You
Kate Nash - 3AM
Marina and the Diamonds - Teen Idle

Posted by: Bré 7th November 2016, 11:45 PM

Everything Everything - My Kz, Ur BF

can't think of anything else

Posted by: SevenSeize 7th November 2016, 11:55 PM

QUOTE(SevenSeize @ Nov 2 2016, 01:01 AM)

Throwing in three nominations just now, will think of two others soon:

David Bowie - Blackstar - if you're looking for a standout moment, this song is it!!
Animal Collective - FloriDada - if we get some psychedelic in our final 4 (and i hope we do ), something as poppy and fun as this wouldn't be a bad option i think
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth Of July - purely a pipe dream but i just wanted to get in some folk/singer-songwriter nominations! very understated but stunningly emotional, i urge anyone to at least check it out