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I can host a synctube listenthrough on Thursday evening. I think the one for the Pop Forum contest is on Wednesday. With BJSC starting soon, I think it would be best to do it this week.

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    I think Space Art will do well. They got a good reaction at the listenthrough.

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    Saint Etienne again I did wonder if someone might send that one. No one found a Pet Shop Boys song fitting the theme though!

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    I can host a synctube listenthrough on Thursday evening. I think the one for the Pop Forum contest is on Wednesday. With BJSC starting soon, I think it would be best to do it this week.

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Biscuit by Portishead was a pointless answer in the jackpot round of Pointless just now. The subject was Bristol Trip Hop which has been one of the four options for, I think, more than a year now. The finalists have always rejected it every time it came up. The man did really well, coming up with three pointless answers for tracks on the Massive Attack collection or tracks from any of the three Portishead albums they listed. His other two answers were Butterfly Caught and Five Man Army.

Voted, I liked 11 songs quite a lot so only one I had to miss out. Fun to discover a very famous solo artist in an earlier guise within one of the acts here, and the original version of a song sampled by a Eurodance act in another.

4 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Fun to discover a very famous solo artist in an earlier guise within one of the acts here

Which one is this? thinking I was Googling some of the artists as they came up during the listenthrough but I think I missed this one.

2 hours ago, Brer said:

Which one is this? thinking I was Googling some of the artists as they came up during the listenthrough but I think I missed this one.

Damien Rice was the singer in Juniper.

Oh yes I actually did see that (and even posted about it on SyncTube) but completely blanked on it when going back through the list to try and remember haha. Soup brain x

Just did my first listen through!

Where the pop at?!!!

Competitions on the 20th century subforum are my favorite, and even though I don’t play to win, I wish the voting period is shorter. :( But I understand if it’s aligned with other competitions, I just don’t see the need for a 14 day voting period. Plus, I’ll then have to wait another three months for the next competition for this century. 😅

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8 hours ago, Nine And ¾ said:

Competitions on the 20th century subforum are my favorite, and even though I don’t play to win, I wish the voting period is shorter. :( But I understand if it’s aligned with other competitions, I just don’t see the need for a 14 day voting period. Plus, I’ll then have to wait another three months for the next competition for this century. 😅

It is a curious quirk that BJSC with the sheer volume of participants has 6/7 day voting windows but the other forum competitions with far fewer entries to get to know have much longer windows. I suspect it's partly a nod to Unknown Pleasures, which was the OG non BJSC competition, and had a much longer voting window as a lot of the people who enter like to listen three or four times to everything before submitting their votes. But then again, BJSC has to be more of a rapid pace to get through 10 contests a year.

The longer voting period works well for me. It gives me time to have a couple of listens, feel horribly overwhelmed by the whole thing, move to something else and then come back to it a week later and feel more on top of it.

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