January 3Jan 3 I sent Nick Cave by the way - my PM in full: I actually considered that 'Broken Heart' would have been ideal for the Britpop contest after that had started, but somehow didn't consider it this time - great choice Chez, it's absolutely the standout on the Spiritualized album. Thank you for the silvers from Severin (a points swap as it happens) and Scene, plus Rollo, Dandy, Mangø and Bjork for the other points so far. Stunning choice of song. It actually resonated with me properly when I heard it as part of the About Time soundtrack :heart:
January 3Jan 3 Author awardinary is up next and he's behind 90's eurodance act Real McCoy - One More Time. He first confirmed The Corrs but eventually they were vetoed. After we have seven. and his entry Denki Groove - Shangri-La. 19. awardinary 12 Sonic Dream - Love 10 Davinia - Sempre di più 8 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 7 Jam & Spoon - El Baile 6 Curve - Chinese Burn 5 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) 4 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 3 Placebo - Bruise Pristine 2 Denki Groove - Shangri-La 1 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past 20. seven. 12 Ween - Ocean Man 10 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream 8 Gene - Speak To Me Someone 7 Supercar - Lucky 6 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 5 Depeche Mode - Home 4 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell 3 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past 2 Monolake - Arte 1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms Depeche Mode are still maintaining the lead, with Tin Tin Out being the bridesmaid again. Ween enters Top 3 for the first time!!! Scoreboard: 85 Depeche Mode - Home -AH Gold 73 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 69 Ween - Ocean Man 64 Curve - Chinese Burn -Severin 64 Delerium - Remembrance -Dandy* 59 Jam & Spoon - El Baile -*Ben* 53 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell -Popchartfreak 51 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream -Bjork 51 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms -jimwatts 46 Spiritualized - Broken Heart -Chez Wombat 46 North & South - Tarantino's New Star -Mangø 43 Gene - Speak To Me Someone -Dobbo 43 Davinia - Sempre di più -gooddelta 43 Denki Groove - Shangri-La -seven. 37 Monolake - Arte 37 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 37 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) -Addy! 37 Supergrass - Cheapskate -Scene 33 Sonic Dream - Love -Cody Buckley 33 Placebo - Bruise Pristine -Jester 32 Real McCoy – One More Time -awardinary 27 Imani Coppola - I'm A Tree -Ansel 25 Supercar - Lucky 25 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 21 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past -King Rollo 17 Party Animals - We Like To Party 8 No. 3 - No. 3 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love -Herbs
January 3Jan 3 Stunning choice of song. It actually resonated with me properly when I heard it as part of the About Time soundtrack :heart: That's lovely to hear :wub: It's absolutely one of my favourite songs of the 90s and was the obvious choice for me when the theme was confirmed. I was then a little in two minds about changing it (as I felt it could be dismissed after a couple of listens as a rather straightforward ballad) in favour of another track from the same The Boatman's Call album, 'People Ain't No Good', which I understand was also used in a film - one of the Shrek movies, but that's quite a bit darker and probably best taken in as part of the whole album.
January 3Jan 3 That's lovely to hear :wub: It's absolutely one of my favourite songs of the 90s and was the obvious choice for me when the theme was confirmed. I was then a little in two minds about changing it (as I felt it could be dismissed after a couple of listens as a rather straightforward ballad) in favour of another track from the same The Boatman's Call album, 'People Ain't No Good', which I understand was also used in a film - one of the Shrek movies, but that's quite a bit darker and probably best taken in as part of the whole album. I look forward to hearing that album - I’m soon to do a deep dive of Nick Caves back catalogue. The darker the better!
January 3Jan 3 I also tried to send a song by Grace but this was suggested as a veto too because it was sent to another contest somewhere.
January 3Jan 3 Author Brer and CowTzy are next. Brer sent Supercar - Lucky and CowTzy is behind the 90's hardstyle Party Animals - We Like To Party <3. 21. Brer 12 No. 3 - No. 3 10 Curve - Chinese Burn 8 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 7 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 6 Placebo - Bruise Pristine 5 Monolake - Arte 4 Delerium - Remembrance 3 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 2 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell 1 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 22. CowTzy 12 Supercar - Lucky 10 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 8 North & South - Tarantino's New Star 7 Jam & Spoon - El Baile 6 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 5 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) 4 Curve - Chinese Burn 3 Denki Groove - Shangri-La 2 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past 1 Sonic Dream - Love The scoreboard will be freezed for the next 6 voters, which 4 of them voted and 2 of them didn't. So please guess who is who behind entries that are left to be revealed. Jade, Dan, WhoOdyssey, !!!, fiesta and JulianT!!! Scoreboard: 85 Depeche Mode - Home -AH Gold 83 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 78 Curve - Chinese Burn -Severin 69 Ween - Ocean Man 68 Delerium - Remembrance -Dandy* 66 Jam & Spoon - El Baile -*Ben* 58 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms -jimwatts 55 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell -Popchartfreak 54 North & South - Tarantino's New Star -Mangø 51 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 51 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream -Bjork 47 Spiritualized - Broken Heart -Chez Wombat 46 Denki Groove - Shangri-La -seven. 43 Gene - Speak To Me Someone -Dobbo 43 Davinia - Sempre di più -gooddelta 42 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) -Addy! 42 Monolake - Arte 39 Placebo - Bruise Pristine -Jester 37 Supercar - Lucky -Brer 37 Supergrass - Cheapskate -Scene 34 Sonic Dream - Love -Cody Buckley 32 Real McCoy – One More Time -awardinary 28 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 27 Imani Coppola - I'm A Tree -Ansel 23 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past -King Rollo 20 No. 3 - No. 3 17 Party Animals - We Like To Party -CowTzy 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love -Herbs
January 3Jan 3 A bit predictable if Depeche Mode win really, but it is a good track and was 11th in my vote so only just missed (and was the one I alluded to getting plenty of votes elsewhere, as has been proven). Nice showing for Delerium, they had some very interesting Enigma style stuff. Pleasantly surprised with my result so far, a completely unknown Italian dance track is probably a bit of a hard sell against so many heavyweight artists and in a typically indie-leaning competition, so I expected to be at the bottom, but still wanted to share it anyway.
January 3Jan 3 Thanks seven for a point and Bré for several more! I'll guess Dan sent Tin Tin Out, Whoddy sent Ween, Julian sent Fluke, Jade sent Monolake, fiesta sent OCS and !!! sent No. 3?
January 3Jan 3 I was sure No.3 would be Brer but he has given it 12 points. My song by Prefab Sprout is struggling to make an impression.
January 3Jan 3 Broken Heart was another one from my 1001 Songs... book and is one of the most beautiful and melancholy discoveries from there, it's grown quite a following despite not charting so wasn't sure I could sneak it into a song contest here, but glad I managed it x thank you for the votes so far, especially the two 12s from Jim and Bjork <3 pleased to be top half so far. I did enjoy all that current top 3, though my own top 3 were a long way ahead of the rest of the pack here, two of them need to be doing better x
January 3Jan 3 Author I also tried to send a song by Grace but this was suggested as a veto too because it was sent to another contest somewhere. Yes, Grace - Hand In Hand was sent to Club Bizarre and finished #11th. And just to clarify, even though I never sent that to the mods (it was during back and forth PM's), I just wanted to made you aware of Grace situation and that other entries that were sent to other contests were vetoed and I wanted you to have something else as back up, just in case.
January 3Jan 3 Author Next up is danuary, who is behind the Tin Tin Out and it's really putting up a fight <3. After that we have Jade, who sent Monolake - Arte. 23. danuary 12 Delerium - Remembrance 10 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) 8 Denki Groove - Shangri-La 7 Curve - Chinese Burn 6 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 5 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 4 Davinia - Sempre di più 3 Placebo - Bruise Pristine 2 Depeche Mode - Home 1 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 24. Jade 12 Curve - Chinese Burn 10 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream 8 Delerium - Remembrance 7 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 6 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 5 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell 4 No. 3 - No. 3 3 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 2 Gene - Speak To Me Someone 1 Placebo - Bruise Pristine
January 3Jan 3 Author Ok it's time to reveal our two non-voters. WhoOdyssey and !!! Ween - Ocean Man was sent by WhoOdyssey and No.3 - No.3 was indeed by !!! jimwatts is correct :clap:
January 3Jan 3 Oh I'm happy to see Delirium has gone down well - and bagged a few people's top spot too which is always nice. Also very happy to see Curve doing so well, would be great if they could steal the win
January 3Jan 3 Author 25. fiesta 12 Curve - Chinese Burn 10 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) 8 Depeche Mode - Home 7 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream 6 Jam & Spoon - El Baile 5 Sonic Dream - Love 4 Davinia - Sempre di più 3 Supergrass - Cheapskate 2 Placebo - Bruise Pristine 1 Delerium - Remembrance 26. JulianT 12 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past 10 Gene - Speak To Me Someone 8 Curve - Chinese Burn 7 Denki Groove - Shangri-La 6 Delerium - Remembrance 5 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 4 Depeche Mode - Home 3 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 2 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream 1 Ween - Ocean Man Final Scoreboard: 117 Curve - Chinese Burn -Severin 99 Depeche Mode - Home -AH Gold 95 Delerium - Remembrance -Dandy* 89 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin -danuary 72 Jam & Spoon - El Baile -*Ben* 70 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream -Bjork 70 Ween - Ocean Man -WhoOdyssey 64 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) -JulianT 63 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms -jimwatts 62 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) -Addy! 61 Denki Groove - Shangri-La -seven. 60 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell -Popchartfreak 56 Spiritualized - Broken Heart -Chez Wombat 55 Gene - Speak To Me Someone -Dobbo 54 North & South - Tarantino's New Star -Mangø 51 Davinia - Sempre di più -gooddelta 45 Placebo - Bruise Pristine -Jester 42 Monolake - Arte -Jade 40 Supergrass - Cheapskate -Scene 39 Sonic Dream - Love -Cody Buckley 37 Supercar - Lucky -Brer 35 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past -King Rollo 32 Real McCoy – One More Time -awardinary 31 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away -fiesta 27 Imani Coppola - I'm A Tree -Ansel 24 No. 3 - No. 3 -!!! 17 Party Animals - We Like To Party -CowTzy 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love -Herbs Congrats to Severin for the win :cheer: The whole time Depeche Mode were leading and it was up to the last 4 votes who gave Curve the lead and a win. Congrats!!!
January 3Jan 3 Author After deductions: 1 Curve - Chinese Burn 117 -Severin 2 Depeche Mode - Home 99 -AH Gold 3 Delerium - Remembrance 95 -Dandy* 4 Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin 89 -danuary 5 Jam & Spoon - El Baile 72 -*Ben* 6 Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream 70 -Bjork 7 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 64 -JulianT 8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 63 -jimwatts 9 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up (Club 69 Future Mix) 62 -Addy! 10 Denki Groove - Shangri-La 61 -seven. 11 Eels - Your Lucky Day In Hell 60 -Popchartfreak 12 Spiritualized - Broken Heart 56 -Chez Wombat 13 Gene - Speak To Me Someone 55 -Dobbo 14 North & South - Tarantino's New Star 54 -Mangø 15 Davinia - Sempre di più 51 -gooddelta 16 Ween - Ocean Man 47 (46.9 after 33% deduction) -WhoOdyssey 17 Placebo - Bruise Pristine 45 -Jester 18 Monolake - Arte 42 -Jade 19 Supergrass - Cheapskate 40 -Scene 20 Sonic Dream - Love 39 -Cody Buckley 21 Supercar - Lucky 37 -Brer 22 Prefab Sprout - A Prisoner Of The Past 35 -King Rollo 23 Real McCoy – One More Time 32 -awardinary 24 Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 31 -fiesta 25 Imani Coppola - I'm A Tree 27 -Ansel 26 Party Animals - We Like To Party 17 -CowTzy 27 No. 3 - No. 3 16 (after 33% deduction) -!!! 28 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love 1 -Herbs Just realised, no tie's to break :o Edited January 3Jan 3 by Addy!
January 3Jan 3 YESSSS! A very well deserved winner, congratulations Severin ^_^ And, of course, many thanks to Addy for hosting - a great theme choice
January 3Jan 3 Well done Severin, i'm glad to see a well-known artist didn't win. It's a good track that wasn't far away from my votes. The 3-6 area is fantastic :wub: Although as said, I do like the Depeche Mode song too. Bang in the midtable is pretty good and better than I'd expected for such a strong year, thank you to the voters. Thanks for hosting Addy, I did enjoy listening to this in the period between Christmas and New Year.
January 3Jan 3 Congrats Severin, thrilled that my top pointer won! I've enjoyed all of the Curve songs that I've heard to date. I'll take top 20 for Monolake, thank you to everyone who pointed 'Arte', especially Dobbo for a full 12 points! Thank you Addy for a great hosting job :clap:
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