Posted December 9, 2024Dec 9 2023 THREAD Did it last year, and we’re doing it again with the last contest of the year concluded (spin-offs not withstanding)! How did this year fare for you?
December 9, 2024Dec 9 Err where do I start. 1 entry out of 9 qualified - that one entry scraped into the final (18th place) but then grew in the final to a 15th place finish. Otherwise I have been the UK/Germany of BJSC! On the flip side, has been great to be a part of it & I've discovered some great new songs through it. Defo part of the pop bloc! Qualifiers: 1/9 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 0 Top 10s: 0 Top 20s: 1 Favourite entry of my own: The Vaccines - Hometown of Jupiter (the one that qualified) Least favourite entry of my own: Husk - Born Again (love them all but this is the one I'd be more likely to skip) Favourite discovery: Maude Latour - Cursed Romantics Edited December 10, 2024Dec 10 by Herbs
December 9, 2024Dec 9 Great, but then we fell at the final hurdle after qualifying all year before that oops. But otherwise a very solid run of results in the top ten to midtable in the final, apart from one other outlier (1990 by Valtos and Elephant Sessions which was bottom ten in the final by a whisker). Overall very consistent though, with three top 10 hits including a top five, and I felt it was a varied set of entries, from different genres, languages, and all ten should be in my top 40 of the year chart, so I'm happy with it. I also sent my longest entry ever, in Gebroken Spiegels by Sophie Straat that I absolutely love for all its dramatic twists and turns, and the story behind the song, even if it didn't light up the scoreboard. There's nothing I sent that I regret at all, even the DNQ (it's No.1 in my current chart still, I maintain that it's a fantastic track that just didn't find the right audience, it was nice to send a very different sounding song with traditional Turkish instruments).
December 9, 2024Dec 9 Using last year's format (which I didn't use at the the time but oh well); Qualifiers: 8/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 1 Top 10s: 1 Top 20s: 4 Favourite entry of my own: High Pulp feat. MonoNeon – Never In My Short Sweet Life Least favourite entry of my own: Magic Affair – Energy Of Light Favourite discovery: Fat Dog – King Of The Slugs 2024 matches my best year in terms of qualifying entries, having also achieved 8 qualifiers in 2022. I reached a new peak this year by achieving my first podium position ever in BJSC 167, finishing in third place. Half of my qualifying entries in 2024 reached the Top 20 which is a decent result, and I note they all have dance and electronic elements to them which may be a sign of which way to go in the future. BJSC 170, the final contest of 2024, marked Zanmatony's 50th participation in BJSC and we celebrated our anniversary by sending something from our roots and this was thankfully a qualifying entry.
December 9, 2024Dec 9 Very happy with my year! I think I’ve managed to hold onto a Top 10 spot in the EOY chart :cheer: Qualifiers: 10/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 1 Top 10s: 2 Top 20s: 6 My own fave entry: Freemasons - Believer (feat. Wynter Gordon) My own least fave entry: Am Tae & MAROO - SWIM Fave discovery: Mona Yim - Baby Dragon Also managed a couple of successful spin-off entries as well placing 3rd with Kate Gengo - Tell Me in the Collaborations spin-off, and winning my first ever contest on the forum with ULTRA SUNN - Night Is Mine in the Halloween spin-off! Hopefully the momentum continues into 2025 :wub:
December 9, 2024Dec 9 Why not eh Qualifiers: 9/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 0 Top 10s: rub it in shall we... 0 Top 20s: 4 My own fave entry: I was going to say this would be a tough one, until I remembered it's a very easy one: INXS - Don't Change My own least fave entry: now this is a tough one... Vintage Culture - Find A Way has probably aged the least well for me Fave discovery: akiaura, LONOWN, STM - Sleepwalker. Early days for Kalte Liebe though!
December 10, 2024Dec 10 qs: 5/10 wins: 0 top 5s/10s: 0 top 20s: 1 favourite of my entries: laurel halo - carcass least favourite: eunuchs - magic death sea nemesis (be lying if i said i remember how this one goes tbh) couldn’t pick just one favourite discovery, but 5 stand out to me as the best of the year: deena abdelwahed - insanyti hakushi hasegawa - boy’s texture kim gordon - bye bye (a song i didn’t even vote for 🗿) moglii & moonlit brooks - mother earth vegyn & lauren auder - halo flip
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Author Qualifiers: 9/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 1 Top 10s: 2 Top 20s: 4 My own fave entry: emlyn - The Devil Called My own least fave entry: Crimson Sun - Neon Lights (I think the semi result has kinda gaslit me into thinking it sucks and I shouldn’t have sent it but I wouldn’t lie if I said this was my rock bottom :lol:) I think my ranking goes: emlyn > CHROMEBODIES > No Mana > Baby Jane > Zorza > safesp8ce > LEXXE > Ditonellapiaga > Maggie Lindemann > Crimson Sun Fave discovery: a lot of my top scorers I had already heard of before the contest so they weren’t surprises to me but a lot of discoveries were giving them a run for their money! If I had to pick from a few… - DIAMANTÉ - 1987 - Evian Christ/bladee - Yxguden - it’s murph/Nonô/Jimmy James - Supersonic - ascendant vierge/TDJ - Illusion - Fyex/DJ Samir - Eternal Rave - Nova May - Mr Bus Driver - Kai Bosch - Everything Is Beautiful (There’s crack in these Cadelicia entries I swear) A good year when we look at how everyone did as a whole but an extremely weak one for Cor Lupus standards. It just kinda seemed like we were in recovery mode after 164 and never got out of that phase. I mean I didn’t think I’d be demolishing Unknown Pleasures & Club Bizarre and fading into obscurity here considering my basic ass tastes 😵💫 lowkey I think I'm gonna be the only person who thought they flopped this year That said.. THE SECOND HALF. I don’t think my entries have been this strong since 2019. Maybe I’ll take the Club Bizarre route and send songs for the art and not the charts? Glad to have finished strong but overall I feel like I could have done much better.
December 10, 2024Dec 10 oh yes that reminds me illusion is also one of my top discoveries of the year alongside baby dragon!
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Average, or maybe slightly above! I had two milestones in getting to host for the first time and celebrating my 100th contest. 8/10 of my entries qualified which is almost definitely a record for me. The downside, only one of those made the top 20 and the rest had mid- to bottom-table finishes, so I'm not expecting a new peak on the EOY, but we'll see. I don't feel it was my most inspired year for entries, with a few exceptions. I'll be contemplating some changes for 2025. On the other hand, the discoveries from other countries are as great as ever.
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Probably our best year on the whole but I am a bit gutted to be ending the year with our worst placing but at least my qualification streak remains intact :lol: BJSC161 [28TH] FLETCHER - Eras of Us BJSC162 [21ST] The Veronica's - Here To Dance BJSC163 [31ST] Towa Bird - B.I.L.L.S BJSC164 [18TH] Jane Bell - MOTHER ATE BJSC165 [33RD] Honey Revenge - Airhead BJSC166 [6TH] Nova May - MR BUS DRIVER BJSC167[1ST] Nicolina - Situations BJSC168 [3RD] Chrissy Costanza - If Looks Could Kill BJSC169 [21ST] Caroline Kingsbury - Take My Phone Away BJSC170 [36TH] Chrissy Chlapecka - My Only Dream Is To Be Loved Qualifiers: 10/10 Wins: 1 Top 5s: 2 Top 10s: 3 Top 20s: 4 Favourite entry of my own: Chrissy Costanza - If Looks Could Kill Least favourite entry of my own: Towa Bird - B.I.L.L.S Favourite discovery: Catty - Healing Out of Spite
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Qualifiers: 10/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 3 Top 10s: 5 Top 20s: 8 Favourite entry of my own: Tinlicker (feat. Brian Molko) - Nowhere To Go Least favourite entry of my own: Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (Soulwax Version) Favourite discovery: Fat Dog – King Of The Slugs
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Great, but then we fell at the final hurdle after qualifying all year before that oops. But otherwise a very solid run of results in the top ten to midtable in the final, apart from one other outlier (1990 by Valtos and Elephant Sessions which was bottom ten in the final by a whisker). Overall very consistent though, with three top 10 hits including a top five, and I felt it was a varied set of entries, from different genres, languages, and all ten should be in my top 40 of the year chart, so I'm happy with it. I also sent my longest entry ever, in Gebroken Spiegels by Sophie Straat that I absolutely love for all its dramatic twists and turns, and the story behind the song, even if it didn't light up the scoreboard. There's nothing I sent that I regret at all, even the DNQ (it's No.1 in my current chart still, I maintain that it's a fantastic track that just didn't find the right audience, it was nice to send a very different sounding song with traditional Turkish instruments). To add to this: Qualifiers: 9/10 Wins: 0 Top 5s: 1 Top 10s: 3 Top 20s: 4 (with another 4 landing 21st to 25th in the final) My own fave entry: Sophie Straat & Metropole Orkest - Gebroken Spiegels (By a mile - very proud of this, one of the most inspired and musically diverse songs I've ever found - for me this definitely sounds way more impactful than 24th but I guess it was just marmite [and 13 minutes in Dutch]) My own least fave entry: I think all 10 entries are in my top 30 of the year for the first time ever, I really loved them all this year. But very narrowly Higher by Victor Le Masne - it's still annoying that it's not on Spotify Fave discovery: My favourite entries of the year were METTE - BET (Hendinia) and Seconds To Midnight (11:59) by Cassie Henderson (Sandénia), but I knew both of these already and thought about sending the latter. So my favourite true discoveries were: Adrianne Lenker - Ruined (Danæviia) Anna Lunoe - Deep Blue Sea (Dobago) ascendant vierge & TDJ - Illusion (Neliönoir) Bingo Players & Pure Shores - Summer Dreaming (Kluminican Republic) Chloé Caillet & SG Lewis - B Somebody (Kluminican Republic) Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic (Pestolia) Fat Dog - King Of The Slugs (Sovarasma) Goldie Boutilier - Cowboy Gangster Politician (Jupiterdonia) Justice - Incognito (Abeltesfayeton) Punctual - Shark Teeth (Kluminican Republic) The River Indigo - Riptide (East Rukahavian) TSHA - Green (Cadelicia) Vegyn - Halo Flip (feat. Lauren Auder) (Aeroche) 162 and 166 seem to have been my favourite contests, for discoveries. Shark Teeth was a crazy DNQ, such a banger that sounds like a top ten in the final. Special mention to Séyetana's Collaboration entry happiness of marionette by Dai, which is my overall favourite discovery of the year from a BJSC related contest. Edited December 10, 2024Dec 10 by gooddelta
December 10, 2024Dec 10 2024 results: 161 ● Seycara Orchestral - If You Were Mine (19th | 166 pts) 162 ● Margaritas Podridas - Púrpura (DNQ) 163 ● Vígundr - Loddfáfnir (DNQ) 164 ● Sadness - I want to be with you (2nd | 258 pts) 165 ● Twin Tribes - Monolith (4th | 279 pts) 166 ● Them Are Us Too - Floor (7th | 218 pts) 167 ● Soltera & Santiago Salazar - Got No Reason To Forgive (29th | 146 pts) 168 ● TEMMIS - ICE 579 (2nd | 247 pts) 169 ● moonvampire - cigarette burns (DNQ) 170 ● Madeline Goldstein - 1996 Expectations (12th | 194 pts) So it's been a mixed year with 4 top 10s and 3 DNQs (get a girl who can do both etc.) but overall I'm happy with how it played out, two top 3s especially!
December 10, 2024Dec 10 I think it’s been a fairly normal/average year for Rd‘Á. Consistent but not spectacular. So generally I’m pleased with that. The one exception of course was our surprise victory earlier in the year. That does elevate this year into a highly successful one and I’m still so pleased that we were able to stand in the winners circle again. Still a little shocked but that’s the joy of BJSC you never quite know what will resonate that month and so you stick to your guns, send things you love and maybe you’ll get a month where everyone agrees with you
December 10, 2024Dec 10 161 - Deathbrain - Stargazing With You [8th] 162 - Akini Jing - Call Me Shadow [6th] 163 - MISSIO - Aztec Death Whistle [DNQ] 164 - Seven Spires - Almosttown [DNQ] 165 - Descartes A Kant - After Destruction [30th] 166 - Visions Of Atlantis - Tonight I'm Alive [26th] 167 - IRyS - Carbonated Love [14th] 168 - Pixel Grip - Stamina [32nd] 169 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Babys In A Thundercloud [18th] 170 - Phantom Siita - Zoku Zoku [DNQ] therefore: Qualifiers: 7/10 Top 10s: 2 Top 20s: 4 My own favourite entry: Not one hugely above the others this year, it's really tough between Deathbrain, Akini Jing, Visions of Atlantis, IRyS and GY!BE, but I think I have to give it to 'Tonight I'm Alive' for being such a joyful whirlwind of a song. My own least favourite entry: Probably 'After Destruction', either that or 'Stamina', both great but not ones I feel I'll return to too often (might be the lack of righteous fury that goes along with a NQ; all 3 of my NQs rank 6th-8th among my own entries this year, 'Aztec Death Whistle' being the best of the 3). Favourite Discovery: Beast In Black - Power Of The Beast - I did know a few BiB songs but they weren't a must check for me so this was a huge surprise, fantastic track all around. Overall a slightly above average year for me, helped tremendously by Deathbrain landing me my first top 10 for a few years, and then Akini Jing unexpectedly setting me off on a mini hot streak the month after - excellent start to the year. Less successful in the latter half but I managed a good qualification run that hopefully I can replicate next year and 'Carbonated Love' did especially well compared to my expectations for it. Plus I did my first hefty contribution to #longsongbloc and post-rock bloc with GY!BE and that's great to have a new niche explored.
December 10, 2024Dec 10 So it's been a mixed year with 4 top 10s and 3 DNQs (get a girl who can do both etc.) :hi:
December 10, 2024Dec 10 :hi: :lol: I'm the two 2nd places and several DNQs to your two 1st places and several DNQs this year *_*
December 10, 2024Dec 10 Qualifiers: 7/10 (same as 2023) Wins: 0 (same as 2023) Top 5s: 1 (none in 2023) Top 10s: 2 (1 in 2023) Top 20s: 4 (same as 2023) Favourite entry of my own: Krampf - I Know A Place Least favourite entry of my own: Lost Sky, ANGELPLAYA & Chris Linton - Unbreakable Favourite discovery: Machinedrum - Gunshotta So pretty similar to last year just with higher highs! Getting my first medal since the last contest of 2019 was a big one and nice that my personal fave entry got top 20. And there's not a single entry of mine I'd "leave on the shelf" either from this year, I still really enjoy Unbreakable. On the flipside I wouldn't call it a vintage year for me for discoveries, even looking back at all my 18 pointers I can barely recall how any of them go. There's been very little I've kept listening to after their respective contests.
Create an account or sign in to comment