Hey there and miaow indeed! It's been a little while but the time is finally upon us to commence with the twenty seventh round of Unknown Pleasures here in the indie forum.

If you haven't taken part before then the idea is pretty simple, it's a song contest designed to introduce us all to new music so we all submit an entry that we think will be a good discovery for everyone else. I'll then start another thread where the entries are revealed, we all listen to them and then essentially rank our favourites in a set of votes. The votes are then added up by me and I'll reveal the results so we can see who and what has won. As well as the artists and bands being comparatively obscure, we also don't know who sent what as I won't reveal that until the results thread.

If you would like to take part then please send me a PM (dandy*) with the following four details:

Artist:
Track:
Audio link: (can be youtube, soundcloud, anything else you like really...)
MP3 link: (please do submit these if you can, I know lots of people don't these days but I would like to make the accompanying album this time around for people to download and listen to - alas I can't send the playlist to y'all on teal vinyl, as much as I would like to!)

Feel free to also include a picture of a cat in the PM if you so fancy.

There are a few little rules to adhere to but nothing major...

one // The artist or band must not have reached the top 75 of the UK singles chart, nor the top 40 of the UK albums chart

two // The song can't be featured on the current UK release schedule

three // The song can't have been submitted to any previous song contest on Buzzjack, the links for the archives are Unknown Pleasures, Nuggets, BJSC, Club Bizarre

four // the contest isn't really genre specific, although it is housed in the indie forum for a reason as it is primarily encouraged to send the types of acts that you would start a topic on within this forum. Which most definitely isn't to say it has to be guitar based, indeed the posters in this forum tend to be open to pretty much anything!

five // if we get the same act confirmed then I'll allow the first person who submitted it to continue

six // have fun and be creative with your entries! I'll try my hardest not to be too strict, we tend not to want to stifle anything in this contest but if you do send something that the mods think is against the spirit of the contest then we may veto the track - you will of course be very welcome to submit an alternate track though



Deadline wise, I'm intending on leaving confirmations up for a week so you have until 23:59 next Sunday 28th October to submit something by PM to me.
Fingers crossed that's enough time for you all to submit something, I'm looking forward to seeing what gems you have discovered!

Any questions, feel free to shout up in the thread and I'll do my best to answer them! ^_^

List of unknown pleasurers to date:

dandy*
mattias
lewistgreen
jüpiter
bridgecow
cucumberella
dobbo
travis
cody
chez wombat
king rollo
harry
whoodyssey
bré
pete
lindsey
rabbitfurcoat
iz
nocheluna
coi
frankluck
addy
jade
dan
blacksquare
brettbutler
leonardo
west
dalek
cal
riser
oliver
dexton
seven
uhsting
rush
jacob
jake
popchartfreak

Looking foward to entering mine!

Fabulous. Will have to get an entry in for this, don't believe I've taken part in an Unknown Pleasures for a while, although I did do the last Nuggets.

About time this is back! I think I've got something solid for this.

 

(and more dandy graphics to look forward to *.)

After sitting out the last edition in terms of having an entry and just being an outside voter, I am in with an entry this time! This track has been a great re-discovery for me. <3

Ooh yes, it's been a while for me!

Looking forward to this. I have a few options...

 

Obsessed with the branding!

time to empty my BJSC potentials folder lmao

Confirmed something! Heard it a few weeks ago and thought it'd fit right into UP! (I think :kink:)

confirmed

 

moan the cats x

Cats

 

Currently have no idea what to send to this, been a while since I last properly searched for new song contest entries! Will have to get looking again ~

I have never taken part in this contest before but I feel like now's the right time.

Confirmed something that's been sitting in my potentials for BJSC for a while now. Not fully sure it's the right fit for this contest, but I figured it was worth a shot~

Looking foward to entering mine!

 

Not sure I've received your PM? (just saying as it seems like you know what you're sending?)

Not sure I've received your PM? (just saying as it seems like you know what you're sending?)

I haven't sent it yet, I'm having second thoughts. :P

 

I'm sure I'll decide soon.

Ah that's okay then! Just didn't want you to accidentally have missed out ^_^

Had a think and what I want to send is discounted on the basis of a 27 year old #51 hit - urgh!

Edited October 22, 20186 yr by RabbitFurCoat

I'm intrigued...

I was looking at what I'd listened to most over the last couple of years and thought I'd check Slowdive's history as their album last year was one of my favourites and knew they weren't particularly big when around first time - I'd never heard of them until last year anyway! It was more out of hope than expectation, but I was actually looking at their chart positions for EPs instead of albums and turns out they'd already had a top 40 album and last years comeback charted at #16

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowdive_discography

Ah okay, intriguing! I've never heard their 90s material, I got their album last year but nothing before it... I may investigate further!