Nice to see Celtic Woman and Ask Embla in here already, two of my best I agree! I seem to remember you really liking 'I'm Not Your Hero' as well so hopefully that'll make a nice New Lexico hat trick.

 

I'm Not Your Hero is at #136, I did indeed really like it... but I can confirm there are more New Lexico entries hiding in the top 100.

Well that's what you get for reading such an important thread on a phone!

I take it 'Monody' will miss out here due to your rules then - glad I've got four songs in the longlist though.

I take it 'Monody' will miss out here due to your rules then - glad I've got four songs in the longlist though.

 

Actually Monody was one of two in the top 100 where it was tough to decide but I fell down on the side of letting it through - mainly because it did so well, seeing other people love it so much really helped in this case. I think if it wasn't entered I'd have never considered it superior to Windfall, which, spoilers, I now do.

 

The rules are a bit nebulous really (so it's almost like I made it up, which I kind of did, I wanted some middle ground between 'only discoveries' and 'everything allowed' as it isn't that simple for me) but it's kind a of case-by-case 'if I'd never entered the contest at all would I still be loving this track today?' thought that goes through my mind. And for many tracks that I would have known I decide that I probably wouldn't have played them as much without the added meaning - meaning is an important part of music for me and something as simple as one person or a number of people showing they love it through this contest is why I come back so much to these tracks. Like, there's one track near the top which comes very close to breaking that but I decided I wouldn't have focused on it as much were it not for the contest.

 

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Umiiruka's debut entry makes a splash at #90, it's a cool motion-filled pop song that contrasts two voices quite splendidly, followed by several other criminal DNQs including Danaelanda's ultimate shaky bop Seve, Terra Avium's haunting The Home We Made, Greenfroze's ultimate catchy bop Lipstick, making Orange Caramel one of a few acts to a get a double in this top 100, and Texas which on a whim being entered by Rob after he got vetoed became ALMOST his best entry through a powerful and addictive indie chorus. Hendinia and Greenfroze have two more successful entries though, the trashy and glorious PC music turn from GFOTY contrasted against the sweet journey that 1000 Ships tells, that being one of the first winners I hugely stanned. One of the more recent of those kind is just above it as Meg Myers' Sorry, a pop-rock stomper.

 

Banks' Fall Over might be the highest final entry that I didn't give any points to originally, something I really regret now, as it later inspired one of my own entries as Bassically has those same lovely held vocals. And finally, one of the best Finnish language entries to grace the contest, and one of the first I can remember, Rontvia being the trailblazers as always, Maailman Toisella Puolen was a great introduction to Haloo Helsinki! and I've been following them ever since.

 

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34 . 77 - Stellar - Vibrato

 

The last of my 2011 entries disappears (to Ryan's eternal displeasure) as Cady Groves falls out, I love it for the early punch it injected my entries with and that's why it's stayed quite a while longer than the other three - aptly for one of my entries, the nightcore version is now far more popular than the original song (thank you NightcoreReality, 37 mil vs 1.2 mil). Eluveitie is out already, as the first of my top 10s to go, I did hold off on it for ages because I wasn't sure on it but thankfully it worked out, that sounds like a regret, it isn't, it's just not AS good as some of my other rock entries.

 

Then there's the trio from 75-77. Vibrato was lovely and a great pop song but probably deserved about what it got, I was so surprised to qualify with it so it gave me that rare experience. Sabotage is one of my few subtler entries so I really love it for that and JAY Z I'd probably consider one of my most inspired choices ever, like Vibrato it also gave me a surprise qualifier and I continue to love it for that as well as its catchiness and hard-hitting lyrics, it shouldn't be this far down, but well, what's ahead of it is so good, I'm going to have to work on finding commentary for my top 30 that isn't 'omgbflklblk so amazing like'.

Tonight Alive and Tei Shi! :wub:

Oh I presumed I had no more to come - completely forgot about you loving 'WVFFLIFE' :wub: Good choice as your fave, my second favourite entry that I've sent <3

Oh I'm sure you will eventually get an anime qualifier. It just won't be that one. x

 

Ooh yes at Deaf Club! :wub: Still one of my proudest qualifiers, hooray for it making an appearance here. Big yes for Lars Vaular('s good entry), Ryuichi Sakamoto and BLVCK CEILING making the top 100 too. Although big NO at Orange Caramel. Ew.

 

Yess for Tez Cadey and of course Crywolf, two very unjust DNQs there. GFOTY, Meg Myers and BANKS also rly good. Big NO at Orange Caramel again. Ew. [2] (although 'Lipstick' wasn't quite as bad as 'Catallena' IIRC)

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76 . Zechonia - 70 - Arctic Lake - How Long Can You Stare

 

Two of Daehun's sellout non-K-pop successes turned out to also be incredibly amazing songs 2080-Luvulla around. The latter's also my highest Finnish language song, BJSC needs more of that. Next To You was a great pop rock bop and another awesome one of those came from nowhere with Cor Lupus' third entry, still their masterpiece, a complete anthem of a song. Yehesi's best entry came from the genius that turned out to be TheFatRat, whose incredibly boppy beats keep me interested all the way through. Debutant with Yehesi, Varake's entering of an old European hit that had passed the UK by was very appreciated as The Magic Key is super cute. Robert DeLong's glorious return to the contest gave me an addictive pop song that stuck with me a lot better than the (admittedly iconic) Global Concepts. Arctic Lake was a 12 of mine that finished last in the final as no one else recognised its brilliance - it was also Zechonia's last finalist and it's a beautiful soundgasm of building electronica. Another 12 of mine that finished quite low, Menagerie was one of Nickodonia's most recent entries in the contest and it's a bit of a twee wonder. Vaporous is probably one of the oldest songs in this but the production still holds up and it sounds absolutely haunting as it should to encourage repeat plays. And Pyrrhic was overshadowed by Sa Sa Samoa in the same contest (fact fans: Julianna Barwick was part of Korallreven so is probably the only artist to ever appear twice in the same contest) but I find the almost choral calls tinged with sadness overwhelmingly beautiful.

 

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29 . 80 - Eir Aoi - Ignite

 

Yeah, this is getting serious - and following a fiver full of my qualifiers it's a fiver full of my non-qualifiers. Antti was a weird departure for a BJSC entry, a hearty deep-voiced Finnish Meatloaf but despite all those potential drawbacks he came one position and a few points off qualifying, denied by Jayrusalem because Ruostunut Ankkuri is so compelling in its beauty. I changed to it from the less inspired new Within Temptation single with Tarja and I don't regret that one bit as it's a great entry to have in my lineup. Ignite, I think is the anime/Japanese pop song that's come closest to qualifying for me, because I identified you can enjoy it without the context. Of course I love it far more because of the context so that aided it here. And I've gotten into more Eir Aoi lately, her debut Memoria is perhaps even better than Ignite. Team Me are a fantastic Norwegian band and while I think maybe now I should have entered

which is just as good is not better at building, The All Time High is better than its counterpart at feeling elated and happy, and that's enough for me to put it high.

 

Then there's the two heavy rock ones. I have the most viewed video for Seven on my channel *.* It's also a complete rock bop from a young Finnish hard rock band that showed huge promise with Lost and followed it up with something even better in Seven. And Drop Dead Cynical is the other time I've self-recycled, and I only did that because I was so uncharacteristically hyped and in love with Drop Dead Cynical, I didn't care one bit that I was going to DNQ, and this would give me 3 in a row, the only time I've been out of the final that long, because it's that good.

BJSC Rank:

 

61 . Florina - 67 - Vanic & Machineheart - Circles

62 . Syndare - 57 - Belanger - Take Me Home

69 . Lake Thermwoods - 47 - Maria Mena - Habits (feat. Mads Langer)

 

Belanger, the winner of LVII, is the only song from that contest to have made my top 200, and it's the only contest with merely one appearance although about 10 other contests have fallen first. FAUL's Changes, my 12 in that one, was ineligible for this which probably aided that being the case. But Take Me Home is a marvellous winner, with lovely pulsating synths throughout. Some other pulsating synths, somewhat more silly, are present in OMFG's Ice Cream, an unusual entry for Altyr but one I'm very glad John plucked up the courage to enter, OMFG is a wonderful artist - with EVERYTHING (but especially Ice Cream, it got a great advantage by being the chosen one). Atonement once entered this contest under the name of Lake Thermwoods and he had a couple of brilliant entries, Habits being one of them, a slow, tear-jerking ballad duet that only Maria Mena (and the guy she's doing it with) can pull off. N DNTN's highest entry is Broken Flowers, both versions of which are still beautiful (although the original moreso, I can't find it on Youtube anymore) and BJSC-adjacent for me with its otherworldly production - while Florina's highest entry (and making machineheart another act with two entries here) is their big CHVRCHES-like success, Circles, which I gave 12 originally, nearly causing it to win, although I can't say I'd do that now...

 

Unrelated to any of that, Persephonia has two entries here, the brilliantly crazy Japanese rap song Shakushain, the highlight of Persephonia 2015, although seeing them now being called Wednesday Campanella jars a bit, and my first semi 12 that failed in the real thing, The Wonder Villain's quirky and cute anthem about Gianfranco Zola, it's always been a fave of mine. Zechonia's Halestorm entry was my first introduction to this amazing band, and not the only artist that Zechonia would introduce to me, I Miss The Misery hasn't quite remained my favourite Halestorm song but it is up there in its lovely masochistic glory. And in more recent rock entries, What's 8 minute jazz-metal debut is one of the most unique songs I've ever encountered in BJSC and I wish I could have voted for it and also want Blake to provide more of this plsthx

 

Emerentia, my favourite Ramrynia entry and a wonderful earthy pop song, I have a very clear memory with, I was going to enter it but I knew Ryan was after it too, unfortunately on the night confirmations opened, I got stuck talking with friends in the uni canteen so when I got back I knew it had gone, so I promptly went to Scandipop to find something else...

 

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... And that something else was Pohjanmaan Tuulia, until a year ago, my least successful entry, and the closest I've ever come to coming last in the semi, finishing second-last - it's a slow lovely Finnish ballad which didn't deserve such apathy at all. Everyone has those entries. And just below it is the entry that inspired Shakushain the great Charisma.com who I entered as my first rap entry (and it's a down and dirty party bop) to a great and beautiful surprise when it got such a large amount of hype and got me an unprecedented third top 10 in a row.

The other three are three of my best female pop entries, not that there's a glass ceiling or anything but I can only identify 3 more in the top 20. Porcelain was a tipoff from Jacob so could have been an Aelandor top 10 had he joined earlier, the frontwoman of He Is We delivering some incredibly punchy pop lines. Only You is the sweetest sweetest little pop song, it was even worth recycling from Ramrynia to get to enter it, I got absolutely obsessed with it because of that. And Saint Saviour, the Saint Saviour I beat two other people to enter a less popular song of hers (with the coolest title, don't forget that). However the synths and slow, deliberate lyrical delivery on The Rain Falls On The Just are unmatched by anything I've heard SS do before or since so I'm glad I got to enter it, even if it did crash in flames.

 

Oh I'd actually forgotten that you ranked 'Shakushain' above 'Tide: The Paradox Effect' in your EOY and thought it had ended up just missing out! Hoorayy at that making an appearance too *.* Their new name has taken me a while to get used to haha. Oh and btw if I wasn't absolutely averse to self-recycling artists I would be very tempted right now to send them again with this

, or maybe just going back to 'Diablo'. Someone recycle them for me please!!! I know their original 36th place finish is so alluring. ('Iinadukeblue' actually kind of WAS an influence for 'Shakushain' btw, I think I originally came across them after seeing them being compared to Charisma.com on Reddit!)

 

Hooray for 'Zola' too, I think you're a much bigger fan of it than I am myself based on this :kink:

 

'Circles' (I accept the late acceptance that I was the correct winner. xx), 'Take Me Home', 'Broken Flowers', 'The Magic Key', 'Don't Wait Up' and 'Pyrrhic' are other highlights here :wub: I of course have to be a geek and point out there was one other case of an artist being in the same contest twice, although at the time they were credited on neither - Freemasons with both 'Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)' and their remix of Kylie Minogue's 'The One' in BJSC VII.

ooh I'd seen my numerous entries outside the top 100 (ty <3) and thought that would be it, but of course Belanger! forever my crowning glory I suspect.

 

sad to see 'Bassically' so low in the Seyetana rank - always did love that one. one of those ones I regretted not entering myself once someone else did. love Cady Groves too.

Oh I'd actually forgotten that you ranked 'Shakushain' above 'Tide: The Paradox Effect' in your EOY and thought it had ended up just missing out! Hoorayy at that making an appearance too *.* Their new name has taken me a while to get used to haha. Oh and btw if I wasn't absolutely averse to self-recycling artists I would be very tempted right now to send them again with this

, or maybe just going back to 'Diablo'. Someone recycle them for me please!!! I know their original 36th place finish is so alluring. ('Iinadukeblue' actually kind of WAS an influence for 'Shakushain' btw, I think I originally came across them after seeing them being compared to Charisma.com on Reddit!)

 

Hooray for 'Zola' too, I think you're a much bigger fan of it than I am myself based on this :kink:

 

'Circles' (I accept the late acceptance that I was the correct winner. xx), 'Take Me Home', 'Broken Flowers', 'The Magic Key', 'Don't Wait Up' and 'Pyrrhic' are other highlights here :wub: I of course have to be a geek and point out there was one other case of an artist being in the same contest twice, although at the time they were credited on neither - Freemasons with both 'Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)' and their remix of Kylie Minogue's 'The One' in BJSC VII.

 

Haha that's why I said 'probably', I figured there was a good chance of something hiding that only you knew about. :kink:

 

That Wednesday Campanella song sounds fairly good actually if a lot more subtle than Shakushain.

 

ooh I'd seen my numerous entries outside the top 100 (ty of course Belanger! forever my crowning glory I suspect.

 

sad to see 'Bassically' so low in the Seyetana rank - always did love that one. one of those ones I regretted not entering myself once someone else did. love Cady Groves too.

 

Oh Bassically is still very beautiful for me, I basically had to wince every time I eliminated something that wasn't one of the bottom 5 so this whole rank is quite close together (because that's how I get with my entries). I like that it's something I don't normally enter so it's great to have in my repertoire.

 

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57 . Taahino - 80 - Courage My Love - Skin And Bone (L3 Remix)

 

Still the only winner I've given my maximum score to, although there are 5 more winners ahead of it, Hyperventilating is an amazing pop track with a stunning Finnish accent. Land Of DW's best, In This Together is cool and dark and addictive to the max, while Courage My Love is a recent Taahino entry that really stuck with me after the contest for the emotional singing of Mercedes (kind of like PVRIS in that respect) and the reminder of a band I thought had potential a while back. Two entries I had planned to enter, PVRIS and Smallpools, are here, and I've allowed them in because they were a huge part of the contests for me so gave me new ways to love them. Trees was my first exposure to twenty_one_pilots, as I think they were stylized at the time, and its status as my introduction to that wonderful band qualifies it here, it's still one of my favourites of theirs where I think in a world without BJSC it'd just be another album track on Vessel.

The Fog is a very awesome folky track that starts out fairly upbeat but then takes a rather DARK turn, so because of that dissonance and that it's just rather lovely to listen to it's stood out as my Fljótavík highlight. Espen's Nordpolen is one of the more wonderful top 10s we've had on Buzzjack, a Swedish dark synthpop whirlwind of a track. Terra Avium provided an M83 track I'd probably had never heard otherwise that offers an amazing buildup and eventual vault over the summit from the very beginning, so very filmy and lovely. And then of course the most iconic winner so far this year, Free Tibet just falls outside my top 50 with its 8 minute rollercoaster of strange and wonderful sounds.

 

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Séyetana Rank:

19 . 82 - Jeff Williams - Mirror Mirror (feat. Casey Lee Williams)

 

I need to slow down a bit here, so on to two ballads. Galaxy is very rooted in the emotions (along with the lyrics making a pleasant use of the 'space theme') and it now feels a very nostalgic track for me. It wouldn't sound out of place on 's album and it'd certainly be a highlight of that. Meanwhile, nearly up to the present day, Mirror Mirror is also a slow song, at the start at least, but that's where the similarities end, its beautiful piano sounds, crashes and ups and downs make it an essential for me in any Séyetan playlist. And of course it's also connected with a show I love (and has also got AMAZING since I sent this) so more reason to love it.

BJSC Rank:

49 . Daehun - 55 - Ayumi Hamasaki - Microphone

 

Starting with Reprobate Romance - a total emo-punk-metal anthem and one I wish I could have given a 12 to, a brave and iconic entry from the lost Launiça (also a prime example of why I ALWAYS listen to the other semi). Microphone was my main introduction to the best Japanese pop singer Ayumi, a huge multi-instrumented wall of sound. Cat And The Menagerie coming so soon as my 12 after the Menagerie lower down here got that word into my 'good song' books, it's an incredible indie-pop song with a perfect second verse pointing out disaster at all four points of the compass. Henry Saiz and Philter have similar otherwordly vocals and subtle bubbling instrumentals that lock them into my favourites, the latter already becoming my Greenfroze fave, as recent as it is.

 

Trifoski aren't getting much attention here even if they richly deserve it but one highlight has to go to Picture This, while Sick Beat just missed my top 200, Picture This is a much better pop song and I'm only just now discovering more wonders from Kero Kero (hint: Break). Desbuanda's debut entry somehow hooked me as soon as I heard it, I melt everytime I heard 'somewhere out there, there's a place called home'. Ejecta meanwhile took a little longer but it's another of the indie-pop songs that stand hugely out of the crowd for me, because of its slow dark build to a bright chorus, in contrast to the track's nyctophobia. My favourite Ashton entry, Envole-Moi is incredibly catchy and makes perfect use of the two duettists as they play off each other in wispy French voices. And straight from Ashton's highest to Danaelanda's highest, Monody, like I said earlier, feels so euphoric when coupled with its success here, a tune that could easily be soundtracking a fantasy world somewhere.

 

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Possibly something else that could be a bit fantastical, Tanz Mit Mir is a recent highlight of mine that I'm so glad I plucked up the courage to send as it was received unexpectedly well and got me yet another shock top 10 :kink: - that's not that funny )

'Water To Ice' was the first entry of yours that I remember specifically stanning for <3 Nice to see it not being dumped out early like most of your other early entries.

 

Some brilliant songs lining up just outside the top 50 (minus M83, M83 will never be a thing), 2 of the best winners in Hilight Tribe and PVRIS and also much love for Nordpolen :wub: Not really feeling the 41-50 bunch as much apart from Henry Saiz (<3) and I suppose KKB (although 'Sick Beat' >>>).

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35 . Cumulonimbia - 63 - DyE - Fantasy

 

7even is a great start to the top 40, FSR Rontvia showing how perfectly they can pull off emotional build-tastic TEARJERKING modern trance music. Conquest wasn't my introduction to The Sound Of Arrows but somehow (I guess that perfect middle part) it really resonated with me as #00274E's first big success and has since become my favourite JakeWild entry and my favourite Sound Of Arrows track also. New Lexico's Gäa made up one half of a perfect top 2 from BJSC 69 and represents their Celtic peak for me, the chorus just lifts it above Tir Na Nog in those metrics. Early D'yermak'er was a very good time and my absolute favourite in that is the CHVRCHES-esque Pawws showing off some aurally wonderful electropop with Slow Love. Kishi Bashi last year got Singerpurear very close to the top, well deserved with this beautiful alt emotional number, although it narrowly has to come second to another in Singerpurear wonderfulness.

 

Close Enough is a synth anthem and as with many already, works its two vocalists in perfect contrast with each other, addictive stuff. Children Of The Sun, a recent 18, got there with some wonderful help from a Merethe/Thomas collab I wasn't aware of prior to Regina entering it - it's sounded absolutely fantastic over the last few months. Something similarly soundtrack-esque, Baba Yetu I was vaguely aware of from Civ 4, although because I played Beyond The Sword more it wasn't in my face everytime I started the game sadly - so its entry here was a brilliant reintroduction to it and I've had it on fairly regular rotation ever since. Zechonia see yet another entry with Ivy Quainoo's power pop beauty Wildfires. And while I knew of Fantasy's reputation as a video (having not watched it before the entry out of fear), I'd never listened to the music before Cumulonimbia entered the song and Fantasy became instead a fantastically beautiful song for me.

 

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16 . 86 - 3-nen E-gumi Utatan - Jiriki Hongan Revolution

 

Here we go, my two greatest failures, both well into my top 20 - absolutely no salt is coming with this commentary. At least I'm defiant that these are excellent songs and everyone else just missed something. Stamp!, even though I can't understand most of it, it's one of the happiest songs I've come across in the last couple of years and oh my gosh if those rock chords aren't the lushest thing you've ever heard - can I ask again what everyone else was smoking with this one?

For Jiriki Hongan Revolution, it's also already up there in my personal classics, as one of my favourite anime opening songs, and in this last 12 months a good deal of my new music has come from anime openings and endings - they do good Japanese pop for that stuff! There is some classic pop progression and joy, as well as cool different voices in this song, so even if the lyrics are a bit specific to Assassination Classroom they're still great if you look at translations ('we thought it was someone else's problem but...', 'we looked like we were nodded off, hidden knives in hand'). Everyone listen again, let it grow on you (I wasn't sure on it at first honestly which is partly why I saw the DNQ coming a mile off, but I wanted to enter it so went for it anyway), and give me a Rejects hit thx.

'7even' :wub: Now that's a trance song that should have won!! Other beauts there from Kishi Bashi / Christopher Tin / DyE / Thomas Bergersen / Ghost Beach <3

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25 . Sandeborg - 75 - Lo-Fi-Fnk - Nightclub Nirvana

 

2016-so-far drops out of the race with C.U.R.E and Capture & Release, both repping it for the B - C artist - song crowd. I mean, in every other way they couldn't be more different, C.U.R.E is a super-swaggy rap track that is reminiscent of Gorillaz in places but is more traditional hip-hop otherwise. It's incredibly catchy and has stuck with me ever since 83. And then there's Beautiful Bodies, a wonderful new band from whom the album highlight (a solid album anyway) was perfectly picked and it's been slaying my life a bit the last couple of months - Séyehino UP.

 

Taking it all the way back to the beginning, we reach the track that would have been #1 on this after my first contest. Alive was my first 12 and has remained a beautiful pop song even as I've began disowning my own entries from back then, it uses some now retro-sounding distortions to elevate the emotions bigger than they would have been otherwise. Kesh You and Reol would be both incredible standouts in any era so they're also welcome at these heights, the first reaction on listening to Riyzamin remains one of my favourite first reactions and it's well-deserving of New Lexico's best, while LUVORATORRRRY! is a strange beast but incredibly quirky and makes good use of both Japanese and incredible rhythm going throughout the track jumping between its different sections. Segueing into Prom Night which uses chiptune to sound strange and beautiful, it's my pick for best Trifoski entry and I wish I could give this song more than the one point I originally did because it's now easily deserving of a top spot (perhaps behind Shatter Me, although honestly as I tend to reserve 18s for discoveries now as a rule maybe even that wouldn't be safe if that contest was re-run).

 

I don't point Sandeborg as much as I'd like to with their continuous support of me so I was very pleased to be able to give some back in Nightclub Nirvana, also a highlight from last year, a synthpop masterpiece. Similarly, I don't always point Unovia but Courtney Barnett easily deserved an 18 with Pedestrian At Best being the song that made me finally take notice of her and her wonderful artsy-rock persona. Espen started off a fairly wonderful run of entries with Team Rockit's Aura, and this is their best, Scandinavian rap dissolving into the synth that's been building up throughout the track, I haven't come across another song quite like it and it's euphoric. And just missing the top 20, Lake Thermwoods' biggest hit and my first proper love of First Aid Kit, I considered that I might have moved the track beyond BJSC with so many listens but decided to keep it in because of the sad mournful lyrics that give a tiny bit of hope behind them - personifying the hit and keeping it within the contest's sphere for me.

 

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We're really getting into the big boys now. First up, the closest I've ever gotten to getting vetoed, Zhu, just before he blew up with a different song (I think Faded started making an impact on Australian iTunes during confirmation week). I'm glad I did it that way round as it means Paradise Awaits stays a discovery for people who might not have listened to it otherwise and it fits my Séyetan personality a bit more even if I do slightly prefer Faded. Well, it's quite unusual for me to be entering an electronic song but Paradise Awaits is brimming with attitude and cool beats and I'm glad I did it as it means if I ever go down that route again there's a base to compare it to.

Meanwhile, Years Away have remained completely underground, indeed the video for Starting Fires still has barely over 3000 views - probably most of them from BJSC. A lovely indie-pop ballad, it's remained one of my favourite early entries because of the crashing drums and wispy vocals, and it's just a rather lovely subtle song - I don't enter enough subtle songs.

Ooh wonderful to see 'C.U.R.E.' so high up in your 2016 to date faves then! <3 As I discussed with you on Skype already you also have my 2nd favourite entry of the year so far, let's see if that holds up for the rest of the year ~ #Séyephonia

 

'Aura' is an OTHERWORDLY EXPERIENCE, I always feel compelled to listen to it again whenever I see it mentioned. Would definitely figure quite high up in my favourites of all time now even though it was only my 8 pointer at the time. Yes for Courtney, Lo-Fi-Fnk and Kesh You too. Though the less said about 'Emmylou' the better of course :eyes:

 

'Paradise Awaits' :wub: I think I also do slightly prefer 'Faded' but it was lovely to discover him through BJSC, both absolutely incredible tracks.

Emmylou! :wub:

 

Don't know most of these but I'm recognising a few from the past few years, very interesting.

Assuming what I think is still to come, your top 2 entries of mine are my personal two favourites too! Not that's too surprising as I'm sure you agree that epic instrumentals are the BEST ofc. <3

 

Been loving a lot of this list, in particular Emmylou though :wub: I have a lot of personal memories attached to that and it's still such a heartbreaking yet at the same time uplifting song as you said, one of my favourite BJSC discoveries for sure (shush bre (M83 will always be a thing x))