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Howdy folks. Welcome to the eighth edition of Unknown Pleasures on this here board known as Buzzjack. For those that have played before, get yourself in gear and get sending me those tracks. If you’re new to this then please do join in with the fun and games, all you have to do is find a track that you think will be a discovery for many of Buzzjack’s residents and then send me the name of your choice of entry together with an MP3 of the track (HQ preferably as the better quality tracks tend to perform better) and also a link to the track on either YouTube, Soundcloud or another provider of your choice. If you still have any questions then you are welcome to PM me or ask for advice in the thread. As with any competition, there are the rules to keep us all suitable in check and here they are:

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01 There is no rule with regard to genre or length.
02 The artist or band of your choice must not have reached the top 40 singles chart in the UK.
03 The artist or band of your choice must not have reached the top 20 albums chart in the UK.

04 The song must not be on the current UK release schedule.
05 To enter the competition you must send an MP3 by PM and also include a link to the song on (preferably) YouTube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud.
06 The MP3 must be either 256 or 320kbps please, 128, 64, 32, 16 or 8kbps would do shockingly poorly so there’s really no need to bother with them.
07 You must not choose a song that has been previously entered (full list below).

08 Songs from the same artist will not be allowed to participate in the contest simultaneously. Also, songs by acts who featured in the last contest will not be accepted. If two people choose the same act, the one who submitted their entry first will be allowed to enter the act.
09 You must not reveal or even hint at which song you have sent. Part of the fun is not knowing who sent what so please do stick to this one.

10 I reserve the right to refuse an entry if I feel it does not fit within the spirit of the competition.

If your entry does fall outside of the rules for any reason, I will get back to you with enough time to allow you to change it before the deadline. Talking of deadlines, I’m planning on beginning the voting thread at this time next week so entries to me no later than midday on Sunday 22nd January please.


Here’s the list of songs that have been previously entered:

77 Bombay Street ‘Up In The Sky’
A Place to Bury Strangers 'In Your Heart'
Active Child 'I'm in Your Church at Night'
Adam Tensta 'Like a Punk'
Aeroplane 'Without Lies (Featuring. Sky Ferreira)'
Air France ‘June Evenings’
Aloe Blacc 'I Need a Dollar'
Amidships ‘The One’
Anathema 'Dreaming Light'
Anika Moa 'Standing in the Fire'
Animal Collective 'Leaf House'
Apparat ‘Arcadia’
Asobi Seksu ‘Strawberries’
Aura Dione 'Something from Nothing'
Austra ‘The Choke’
The Auteurs 'Show Girl'
Autre Ne Veut 'Two Days of Rain'
AWOLNATION 'Sail'
Azure Ray ‘Larraine’
Bag Raiders 'Sunlight'
Band of Skulls 'Death By Diamonds and Pearls'
Bastille ‘Laura Palmer’
Bear McCreary 'Wander My Friends'
Bell XI 'Flame'
Bellowhead 'New York Girls'
Big Surr ‘Gone’
Birds of Tokyo 'Plans'
Blouse ‘Into Black’
Blue Hawaii 'Blue Gowns'
BSBTRGDCLUB 'Britney'
Burning Hearts ‘Night Animal’
Caitlin Rose 'Shotgun Wedding'
Caotico ‘Brains Out (Featuring. Tove Styrke)’
Capital Cities ‘Safe and Sound’
Cars are Crashing ‘Turning the Wind Against Us’
Cashier Number 9 '42 West Avenue'
Chapel Club 'O Maybe I'
Chequerboard 'Penny Black'
Chromatics 'Baby'
Chrome Sparks ‘Still Sleeping (Featuring. Steffaloo)’
The Church ‘The Unguarded Moment’
Cicada 'Love Don't Come Easy'
Class Actress ‘Weekend’
Colder 'To the Music'
Covenant ‘Monochrome’
The Creepshow 'Take My Hand'
Crocodiles 'Mirrors'
Crystal Fighters 'At Home'
David Holmes 'I Heard Wonders'
Diamond Rings 'Wait and See'
Dom ‘Living in America’
Dum Dum Girls ‘Coming Down’
Eivør Pálsdóttir 'Trøllabundin'
El Guincho 'Bombay'
Ellie and the Oscars ‘Dancing in the Rain’
Eva and the Heartmaker 'Signals'
Fatty Gets a Stylist ‘The Tiger Inside Will Eat the Child’
Fenech Soler 'Stop and Stare'
First Aid Kit 'Ghost Town'
Flyleaf 'I'm So Sick'
Foals 'Miami'
Foster The People 'Pumped Up Kicks'
Frida Sundemo 'Towers'
Frost 'The Magician'
Future Islands 'In the Fall'
Future Presidents 'Criminal'
Gallops 'Miami Spider'
Games 'Strawberry Skies (Featuring. Laurel Halo)'
Gang Gang Dance 'Egowar'
Gauntlet Hair 'I Was Thinking'
Ghost Society 'Under the Sun'
Girls 'Lust For Life'
Glasser 'Mirrorage'
Globus 'Diem Ex Dei'
Gobble Gobble 'Boring Horror'
The Good Natured 'Prisoner'
Grimes ‘Crystal Ball’
Grouplove 'Colours'
The Guilty Hands 'Gregory'
Handsome Furs ‘What About Us’
HEALTH 'USA Boys'
High Places 'Late Bloomer'
Hooray for Earth ‘No Love’
The Hundred in the Hands 'Pigeons'
Hurt 'House Carpenter'
Iamamiwhoami 'T'
Immortal Technique 'Dance with the Devil'
Iota 'A Better Place'
Islands ‘Rough Gem’
John Murphy 'Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)'
K.flay ‘Less Than Zero’
Karl X Johan ‘Flames’
Kent 'Den döda Vinkeln '
Kite ‘Stand Back’
Klaus Nomi 'Lightning Strikes'
Krause 'I Want a Pony'
Kurran and the Wolfnotes 'Your Four Limbs'
Lake Heartbeat 'Golden Chain'
LaKroix 'Autumn Leaf'
Lay Low 'By & By'
Lia Ices 'Daphne'
Magenta Skycode 'Open Air'
Magic Kids 'Hey Boy'
Martin Solveig 'Hello (Featuring. Dragonette)'
Matt and Kim ‘Ice Melts’
Maximum Balloon 'Groove Me'
MDNR 'I Go Away'
Mew 'Beach'
Miami Horror 'Moon Theory'
Midlake 'Roscoe'
Mikael Simpson ‘Lad Det Staa’
Mimicry 'The Storm'
Miriam Stockley 'Perfect Day'
Moi Caprice 'Wish You Were Her'
Momus 'The Hairsytle of the Devil'
Motion City Soundtrack 'Her Words Destroyed My Planet'
Mr Little Jeans 'Angel'
Mr Little Jeans 'Rescue Song (RAC Remix)'
Museum of Bellas Artas 'Who Do You Love'
Myléne Farmer 'Toi L'amour'
The Naked and Famous 'Young Blood'
Neo 'Serial Killer'
New Politics 'Yeah Yeah Yeah'
The New Pornographers 'Myraid Harbour'
Nicole Atkins 'Neptune City'
Not Squares 'Release the Bees'
Oh Land 'White Nights (Twin Shadow Remix)'
Other Lives ‘Tamer Animals’
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool 'Jackson's Last Stand'
Pale Fountains ‘Thank You’
Pallers 'The Kiss'
Pansy Division ‘Bill & Ted's Homosexual Adventure’
Paris Angels 'Perfume'
Peter Murphy 'All Night Long'
Peter Vronsky ‘Reprise’
Phantogram 'When I'm Small'
Philter ‘Revolver’
Pictureplane 'Goth Star'
The Prototypes 'Cascade'
Purity Ring ‘Belispeak’
Q Lazarus 'Goodbye, Horses'
Real Estate ‘Out of Tune’
The Reason 'We're So Beyond This (Featuring. Sara Quinn)'
Rebecca & Fiona 'Bullets'
Rebecca & Fiona ‘If She Was Away’
Republic of Loose 'The Steady Song'
Rollerskate Skinny 'Speed to My Side'
Rubik 'Laws Of Gravity'
Rustie ‘Ultra Thizz’
Saharan Gazelle Boy ‘Amy Needs a Vacation (with Sea Change)’
Saint Saviour ‘Red Sun’
School of Seven Bells ‘I L U’
Seekae 'Void'
SingerSen 'Drunk'
Sissel 'Lær Meg Å Kjenne'
The Skints 'Roanna's Song'
Skyline 'Miss Glass Half Full'
Slagsmålsklubben 'Sponsored By Destiny'
Sloan 'The Other Man'
Sonic Boom Six 'Bigger than Punk Rock'
Sonoio 'Not Worth Remembering'
St. Vincent 'Actor Out of Work'
Stars 'Fixed'
Strange Talk 'Climbing Walls'
Streetlight Manifesto 'A Better Place, a Better Time'
Stroke 9 'Washin' & Wonderin''
Summer Camp ‘Better Off Without You’
The Sweater Set ‘Needed’
Swing Kids 'Nonsense'
Syntax ‘Bliss’
Teenagers in Tokyo 'Peter Pan'
Teengirl Fantasy ‘Hoop Dreams’
Tegan and Sara ‘Walking With a Ghost’
Telegraphs 'I Don't Navigate By You'
Thalia 'Closer to You'
These New Puritans 'Attack Music'
Tonight ‘When Galaxies Form’
Turboweekend 'Trouble Is'
Twin Shadow ‘When We’re Dancing’
Two Wounded Birds 'Summer Dream'
Ultramariini 'Sydämet'
The Unthanks 'Here's the Tender Coming'
Urban Cone ‘Photograph’
Utada 'Devil Inside'
Valravn 'Kelling'
Veronica Falls 'Beachy Head'
Veto 'We are Not Your Friends'
Vindahl ‘The Question (Featuring. Jenny Wilson)’
Viola 'Fleeting World'
The Vision Bleak ‘A Shadow Arose’
Walk the Moon ‘Anna Sun’
Watersider ‘Constellation’
The Weeknd ‘Initiation’
When Saints Go Machine 'Fail Forever'
Who Knew 'Sharpen the Knife'
Wild Nothing 'Chinatown'
Wolf Gang 'The King and All of His Men'
The Wonder Villains 'Space Jam'
The Xcerts ‘Crisis in the Slow Lane’
YAS ‘Get it Right’
The Yellow Moon Band 'Chimney'
Young Galaxy 'Cover Your Tracks'


I think that just about covers everything you will need to participate, all that remains is to wish you all
the best of luck in the contest and to keep our collective fingers crossed that there is many a gem submitted.

D*

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Will definitely be entering. Really enjoyed the last one.

Liking the font :o

If that font was a pretty girl, I'd want to date it and bring her home to my parents.

 

In other news, I'll have my entry to you soon.

Sent!

I will be taking part this time!

Very pretty. I still need to choose a song!

I have sent you my entry Mr *! Very nice font.

I will be taking part this time!

Oh, you San Marinos of Unknown Pleasures...

Oh, you San Marinos of Unknown Pleasures...

 

I'm in a more indie 'mood' recently so figure that I'll be more open to it this time around. Hope I can come higher than bottom five this time around but then Night Animal DID at least manage to finish in the 'Best of 2011' countdown that Tony did so that was quite a consolation! I wasn't quite so useless when it was on CHC anyway, managing to win the final one :P

I will be entering most definitely, all looks very pretty!

I'm in a more indie 'mood' recently so figure that I'll be more open to it this time around. Hope I can come higher than bottom five this time around but then Night Animal DID at least manage to finish in the 'Best of 2011' countdown that Tony did so that was quite a consolation! I wasn't quite so useless when it was on CHC anyway, managing to win the final one :P

I think the existence of BJSC here means that the tracks are more distinctly split between the contests, the sound of Unknown Pleasures here is definitely more leftfield than it used to be back on ChC and the participants tend to be more that way inclined too. It depends who enters though, if you, Ghosthunter, Tom Kay and Hits enter then you may have a pop block akin to the indie block in BJSC! :D

 

 

Oh and thank you to all entrants so far.

YAY

 

I will send my entry early next week

I think the existence of BJSC here means that the tracks are more distinctly split between the contests, the sound of Unknown Pleasures here is definitely more leftfield than it used to be back on ChC and the participants tend to be more that way inclined too. It depends who enters though, if you, Ghosthunter, Tom Kay and Hits enter then you may have a pop block akin to the indie block in BJSC! :D

 

It might constitute a pop bloc of sorts here, but myself, Ghosty, Tom Kay and Hits are some of the LEAST poppy voters in BJSC, which highlights how big the divide is I agree.

Sent. It's an artist that I can think only a few people on here will be aware off (although I may be grossly underestimating.)

I have confirmed :)

As I've had a couple of people ask if it's okay, a link to bandcamp / soundcloud where I can download the song from is absolutely fine instead of a file sharing site.

I've submitted my entry into Unknown Pleasures VIII.

 

As for this whole "pop block" that's been mentioned, maybe from an Unknown Pleasures perspective my votes will tend to look more pop orientated compared to others. It's almost the opposite way round in BJSC as my votes tend to favour the more unique indie/pop entries rather than the typical run-of-the-mill pure pop entries.

I have confirmed

I had intended on joining in last time but forgot, I'll definitely make the effort this time!