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Ooh thanks so much Jeff for sending Mall Grab, really liked the song of course but it also reminded me of a really old Mall Grab potential I had *.*

 

TY for the points RFC!

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RabbitFurCoat there explaining his deep and meaningful relationship with ‘Silhouettes'.

 

:lol:

 

I'm surprised it's so high, as it took me a while to properly get into it. I was going to send their song 'Uncomfortably Numb' to BJSC earlier this year, but it featured Hayley Williams and the Paramore forum was created at the same time so assumed it'd be vetoed.

Gah. The top 2 would both make excellent winners!

 

RFC at least giving 1 point to Mall Grab to make my prediction not look entirely unfounded. x

I was really expecting Mall Grab to be RFC for some reason! (Thought it would have fit in well with the likes of DJ Koze, Cousn and salute). In before he actually didn't like it at all.

 

Mall Grab and HVOB were the only two acts I'd ever heard anything by so not a bad guess.

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23 IZZY ◼ 9mm Parabellum Bullet ‘ハートに火をつけて (Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete)'

 

 

Why ‘ハートに火をつけて (Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete)'?

I found 9mm Parabellum Bullet a couple of months ago and was instantly struck by this song because of those intense and catchy riffs, some of the best I've ever heard in any J-rock. I was listening to it a lot on bullet trains in Japan and it was a really incredible experience. I was going to enter it somewhere, and after faffing around a bit with stuff I wasn't feeling for UP, I got inspired by blacksquare's suggestion to 'just send something you love' (paraphrasing), and I was certainly loving this to incredible levels over the past month. It's certainly not something I expect to do well but if it does I'll be chuffed.

 

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20 Toundra ‘Magreb'

15 Fiona Walden ‘Shoot Me Down'

12 乌龟tortoise 'Sun Quan the Emperor (Guzheng & Drum Version)’

10 Black Country, New Road ‘Sunglasses (Edit)’

08 JeanGa & George 'Compromise'

07 Snapped Ankles ‘Tailpipe’

06 Hana Vu ‘At the Party’

05 Flunk ‘Queen of the Underground’

04 Sophia Bel 'Time'

03 Luttrell ‘Windowscene'

02 Thylacine ‘Versailles'

01 Jake Shimabukuro ‘The Greatest Day'

Scoreboard

01 158 Liar ‘Benzolovers' RHODA CAMEL

02 157 HVOB ‘Panama' FRANKLUCK

03 143 Fiona Walden ‘Shoot Me Down' ADDY K!NG

04 119 Thylacine ‘Versailles' BRÉ

05 116 American Football ‘Silhouettes' RABBITFURCOAT

06 106 Luttrell ‘Windowscene'

07 103 JeanGa & George 'Compromise' DOBBO

08 102 Mall Grab ‘Liverpool Street In the Rain' BRIDGECOW

09 101 乌龟tortoise 'Sun Quan the Emperor (Guzheng & Drum Version)’ POPCHARTFREAK

10 94 Toundra ‘Magreb' COI

11 89 Uppermost 'Given By Nature' CODY BURNETT

12 88 SASSY 009 ‘Are You Leaving' MATTIAS

13 80 9mm Parabellum Bullet ‘ハートに火をつけて (Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete)' IZZY

14 78 Deja Blu 'Lake Song' JADE

15 77 Snapped Ankles ‘Tailpipe’ SEVENSEIZE

16 67 Prosumer & Murat Tepeli ‘Go Silla' PETEFROMLEEDS

17 62 Flunk ‘Queen Of The Underground’ KING ROLLO

18 60 Sophia Bel ‘Time’ BLACKSQUARE

19 58 Hana Vu ‘At the Party’ HARRYEZRA

20 54 Black Country, New Road ‘Sunglasses (Edit)’ WHOODYSSEY

21 53 Jake Shimabukuro ‘The Greatest Day' RISER

22 48 Faye Webster ‘She Won't Go Away' THEJÜPREME

23 47 Elísabet ‘Heart Beats' QWEEN

24 45 Robots in Disguise ‘DIY’

25 34 Sarathy Korwar ‘Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)’ DANDY*

OMG THANK YOU IZ!!

 

Loved your entry too, was pretty confident 9mm Parabellum Bullet would be you as well!

Iz comes through with the 'obviously Iz' entry just when we least suspect it. (Maybe). Really liked this one though, the last thing I expected from a Japanese entry was for it to sound like something straight out of a Frank CD Swap!

 

Poor brave 'Bol'.

Poor brave 'Bol'.

THIS.

 

It's like the only voters were vidcapper and common sense :(

 

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24 JONNY ◼ Robots in Disguise 'DIY'

 

 

Why 'DIY'?

I picked 'DIY' by Robots in Disguise because it's been one of my favourite songs since I really started listening to music that I had gone out and explored myself through the internet, magazines etc. rather than what was played on TV/radio. I love the message the song conveys and the harmonies within. It is long but doesn't overstay its welcome.

 

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There was one clear winner for me which did not change from my first listen to the last; I will say that many of the songs impressed me much more on subsequent listens, especially 'Shoot Me Down', 'Tailpipe' (which was slightly reminiscent of some of the The Kills' earlier stuff) and 'She Won't Go Away' (a cross between Radlands-era MJs and Jenny Lewis, but a little less inspiring).

 

That being said, only my number one pick would be an artist I would seek to listen to again, and I can say that I only genuinely liked my top five tracks. The others were just the best of the rest.

 

20 Black Country, New Road ‘Sunglasses (Edit)’

15 Snapped Ankles ‘Tailpipe’

12 Faye Webster ‘She Won't Go Away'

10 Fiona Walden ‘Shoot Me Down'

08 American Football ‘Silhouettes'

07 Sarathy Korwar ‘Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)’

06 Hana Vu ‘At the Party’

05 乌龟tortoise 'Sun Quan the Emperor (Guzheng & Drum Version)’

04 Thylacine ‘Versailles'

03 Deja Blu 'Lake Song'

02 Flunk ‘Queen of the Underground’

01 Elísabet ‘Heart Beats'

 

Well, at least Jonny liked five songs.

 

We only have one more entry to reveal, and a winner...

 

Scoreboard

01 158 Liar ‘Benzolovers' RHODA CAMEL

02 157 HVOB ‘Panama' FRANKLUCK

03 153 Fiona Walden ‘Shoot Me Down' ADDY K!NG

04 124 American Football ‘Silhouettes' RABBITFURCOAT

05 123 Thylacine ‘Versailles' BRÉ

06 106 Luttrell ‘Windowscene'

07 106 乌龟tortoise 'Sun Quan the Emperor (Guzheng & Drum Version)’ POPCHARTFREAK

08 103 JeanGa & George 'Compromise' DOBBO

09 102 Mall Grab ‘Liverpool Street In the Rain' BRIDGECOW

10 94 Toundra ‘Magreb' COI

11 92 Snapped Ankles ‘Tailpipe’ SEVENSEIZE

12 89 Uppermost 'Given By Nature' CODY BURNETT

13 88 SASSY 009 ‘Are You Leaving' MATTIAS

14 81 Deja Blu 'Lake Song' JADE

15 80 9mm Parabellum Bullet ‘ハートに火をつけて (Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete)' IZZY

16 74 Black Country, New Road ‘Sunglasses (Edit)’ WHOODYSSEY

17 67 Prosumer & Murat Tepeli ‘Go Silla' PETEFROMLEEDS

18 64 Hana Vu ‘At the Party’ HARRYEZRA

19 64 Flunk ‘Queen Of The Underground’

20 60 Sophia Bel ‘Time’ BLACKSQUARE

21 60 Faye Webster ‘She Won't Go Away' THEJÜPREME

22 53 Jake Shimabukuro ‘The Greatest Day' RISER

23 48 Elísabet ‘Heart Beats' QWEEN

24 45 Robots in Disguise ‘DIY’ JONNY

25 41 Sarathy Korwar ‘Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)’ DANDY*

Edited by blacksquare

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