October 3, 20222 yr Author 24. Harve Twist Of Fate was from the soundtrack to the 1983 film 'Two Of A Kind' which reunited Olivia with John Travolta. It was a top 5 single in the US. 6tPlMyvzAL8 12 15. Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix) 10 20. C C Catch - 'Cause You're Young (Maxi Version) 8 11. Toni Basil - Over My Head 7 22. Camouflage - The Great Commandment 6 17. Alexander Robotnick featuring Martine Michellod - Problèmes d'Amour 5 8. Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles) 4 21. A-Ha - Scoundrel Days 3 24. Papa Dance - Nasz Disneyland (Remix) 2 19. Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro 1 3. Kano - Can't Hold Back (Your Loving)
October 3, 20222 yr Yes Congrats Jade on yet another spin off win. Gosh. A very deserving win and as mentioned by others very inspired winner too so that's also a big positive.
October 3, 20222 yr Another 12!! I really had no idea what I had in my hands :drama: thanks so much Harve 🥰
October 3, 20222 yr Author 25. ClaudiaKinkleman Camouflage are a German group formed in 1983 and still going today. The Great Commandment reached number 1 on the US Dance Chart in 1988. k6s1-caKRtQ Hello! So so sorry for the late votes, I guess I got distracted by the Buzzjack Song Contest and was adamant the deadline was this evening! Here are my votes: 12 POINTS: Olivia Newton-John - Twist of Fate 10 POINTS: Alphaville - Forever Young 08 POINTS: A-Ha - Scoundrel Days 07 POINTS: Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro 06 POINTS: Depeche Mode - Strangelove 05 POINTS: Vicious Pink - Cccan’t You See (French Extended Mix) 04 POINTS: Soft Cell - Memorabilia 03 POINTS: Naked Lunch - La Femme 02 POINTS: Book Of Love - Boy 01 POINTS: Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles)
October 3, 20222 yr Author The final scoreboard: 1. 155 Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix).......Jade 2. 101 Depeche Mode - Strangelove.......Bjork 3. 96 Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro.......Popchartfreak (15 votes) 4. 96 John Foxx - Underpass.......dandy* (12 votes) 5. 91 Camouflage - The Great Commandment.......ClaudiaKinkleman 6. 82 Charlie - Spacer Woman.......AH Gold 7. 76 A-Ha - Scoundrel Days.......Jester 8. 73 A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran.......fiesta 9. 67 Hashim - Al-Naafyish (The Soul).......awardinary 10. 65 C C Catch - 'Cause You're Young (Maxi Version).......Addy! 11. 63 Alphaville - Forever Young.......jimwatts 12. 56 Soft Cell - Memorabilia.......JulianT 13. 49 Olivia Newton-John - Twist Of Fate.......Harve 14. 48 Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles).......Chez Wombat (11 votes) 15. 48 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Telegraph.......Roba! (10 votes) 16. 41 Secret Service - Flash In The Night.......Colm 17. 35 Book Of Love - Boy.......RabbitFurCoat 18. 34 Toni Basil - Over My Head.......HappiestSadGirl 19. 32 Psyche - Misery.......Dobbo 20. 31 Papa Dance - Nasz Disneyland (Remix).......gooddelta 21. 29 Kano - Can't Hold Back (Your Loving).......Daan 22. 28 Alexander Robotnick featuring Martine Michellod - Problèmes d'Amour.......Ansel 23. 26 Mamman Sani - Five Hundred Miles.......Bumblebrë 24. 19 Naked Lunch - La Femme.......Suedehead 25. 9 Thomas Dolby - Windpower.......King Rollo Vicious Pink finish with a winning margin of 54 points. In second place are Depeche Mode with the same number of points as the number of shows that they performed on their Music For The Masses Tour which is why the live album from that tour is called 101. The Pet Shop Boys and John Foxx have to be separated by a tie-break for 3rd place while Camouflage fill the final top 5 position.
October 3, 20222 yr What a decisive win! I thought PSB would but happy my 12 pointer did. A nice mix of the well known artists with unfamiliar songs and inspired songs and artists in the top ten there. I can't say I'm surprised with my result, it's quite something to miss the bottom five in the end after only scraping four votes together, I'm glad they were mostly high points so the people that enjoyed it really did <3
October 3, 20222 yr Many thanks for getting this underway quickly and hosting Rollo, I really did make more discoveries than I expected so participating in this was a very worthy exercise.
October 3, 20222 yr Hey it’s not for me! Jade might not want one anyway. :P But if I were to select something that described best song contest ever in a retro forum it would be a jukebox! Here you go Jade… Well done on another win in 2022, I knew it sounded big and had to be a strong contender and I applaud your inspired decision! :clap:
October 3, 20222 yr Thank you for the final boost of points, Callum <3 happy that I managed to sneak your song into my votes also! I am absolutely over the moon by the performance of this entry! I did hope it would catch on, even in all of its 7 minute extended glory (I mean that could only ever be the way in a Rollo-hosted contest!), but never did I think it would be to this extent. All of the 12s have been quite the sight. I'm really having a banner year for side contests with wins in Worldvision VI, Pride III, Club Bizarre and now the inaugural edition of The Best Song Contest In The World.....Ever *.* thanks so much for all of the support for Vicious Pink, so thrilled to have unearthed that gem from the archives. And oh yes, powers that be, please feel free to create a widget for this contest as an early Christmas present, if you would like :kink: :wub: :wub: :wub: what a first edition, thank you Rollo for your top hosting skills and I was so pleased by the quality of the contest. Really good results too - Vicious Pink aside, my bronze medal Depeche Mode finished 2nd and my gold (Hashim) and silver (Charlie) both achieved top 10 positions too, yay!
October 3, 20222 yr Pleased to just about be on the left hand side in my first ever Buzzjack song contest! Many congratulations Jade - yours really stood out from the field and it was well deserved. And thanks so much Rollo for organising - was absolutely brilliantly done! More about one of the first ever acid house tracks here: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/v7dmdd/...er-ecstasy-song Edited October 3, 20222 yr by Ghoul Jules
October 3, 20222 yr 15th is still not as bad as it could be. Shame 'Underpass' slipped to 4th after battling with Jade on 12's but you can't deny Depeche and PSB their popularity in these things. I did predict 'Le Femme' to be last so that coming 2nd to last was almost spot on. Aw at the host coming last. Didn't mind the song at all personally. Thanks for hosting this Rollo and be interested to see another 80's one in the future ^_^ Edited October 3, 20222 yr by Roba!
October 3, 20222 yr Well I'll definitely take 14th after flopping for so long! Thanks to all who voted for this iconic piece, FOR SHAME though for disrespecting one of the best...OK, OK I'll shut up now x I enjoyed most of that top 10, the PSB/Depeche Mode ones just missed my votes and very pleased to see all of my top 3 make it in. Problemes D'Amour still robbed though x Thanks for hosting Rollo, a great first edition of this, very much here for this becoming a regular/semi-regular thing B-)
October 3, 20222 yr Author It was great to see that more than half of the entrants were following the results live. Thanks for all the comments. I really enjoyed hosting this. What a great winning song by Vicious Pink. A shame about poor Thomas Dolby. Other songs by him would have done a bit better maybe but Windpower is my favourite.
October 3, 20222 yr Congratulations Jade! :cheer: Delighted to see Vicious Pink win and Camouflage make the top 5, by far my two favourite discoveries in this contest, with Depeche Mode, John Foxx and PSB (who just missed out on my vote) completing 2-4! I'm happy with top half for Alphaville, all things considered - hopefully at least more people will have heard their original now. Thank you Rollo for hosting this contest and the mods for supporting it, I hope there will be another one soon!
October 3, 20222 yr 5th seems to be my lucky placement for any song contest in which I do well! Thank you for your votes everyone, and thank you for the contest Rollo :cheer:
October 3, 20222 yr very impressive lead for Jade, I don't imagine the English radio edit version would have done quite so well. could've potentially scored a couple more points off me with a few more listens, as it did grow on listen #2 and again just now, but it clearly didn't need those. Underpass was easily the best discovery of the lot here, so glad that did well too. Five Hundred Miles is really lovely too, shame my 10 points ended up being over a third of its total. Sad that Kano ended up bottom five too though I weren't expecting to end up in the top half anyway.
October 3, 20222 yr 22nd out of 25 is not ideal but the quality was so ridiculously high that I can't really complain there! I've already said but this has been my favourite contest edition across the entire forum, perfect choice of theme and an incredible set of entries. Thank you to the few fans of Problèmes d'Amour, I think it's a great little Italo disco number and I'd definitely recommend trawling through the various different versions on Spotify (I've counted 11 or 12 different edits/mixes, oh the fun of retro songs). Congrats Jade on the win, great to see a more obscure track take the top spot! Despite some of the big names here, I came into this knowing only two songs (I Ran and Forever Young), both of which I love and consider huge 80s classics so it's nice that some other songs have had their chance to shine. Thanks to Rollo for hosting such a great contest, looking forward to this contest becoming a tradition - I've already got a potential for next time :lol:
October 3, 20222 yr It was great to see that more than half of the entrants were following the results live. Thanks for all the comments. I really enjoyed hosting this. I went straight to the pub after work but only ended up staying a couple of hours, glad I did now :kink: Here you go Jade… that looks very nifty *.* (thanks again everyone :heart:)
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