Posted April 17Apr 17 Welcome to the voting stage for this lottery edition of The Best Song Contest In The World...Ever! A record breaking 33 of you have selected your ticket and submitted a song and we have an impressive range of 58 years here, I appreciate this was quite a bit harder to find something for than in many song contests so I'm really pleased to still see such a big number show up!Below are the yearly entries for your consideration, please listen to and rank the songs from your favourite to least favourite and send me (Chez Wombat) a PM listing your top 10 favourites using the Eurovision voting system:12 Points; (Your Favourite)10;08;07;06;05;04;03;02;01; Your 10th favouriteAs this is an anonymous contest, please do not reveal what your entry is or what year you have. This will be revealed in the Final Results show.Anyone can vote in this contest, even if you didn't submit an entry, however if you are taking part, not voting will incur a 33.3% deduction to your entry's final score.The entries are presented in chronological order in order for you to truly experience a musical journey through time, without further ado...01. The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941)02. Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960)03. Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love (1961)04. Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1962)05. Tina and Ike Turner - It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (1963)06. Tülay German - Burçak Tarlasi (1964)07. The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (1965)08. Four Jacks and a Jill - Master Jack (1968)09. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Onedin Line Theme (Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia) Theme (1971)10. Nilsson - Spaceman (1972)11. Marsha Hunt's 22 - (Oh, No! Not!) The Beast Day (1973)12. Supertramp - School (1974)13. Caravan - All The Way (1976)14. Ashra - Blackouts (1977)15. Buzzcocks - What Do I Get (1978)16. Goombay Dance Band - Sun Of Jamaica (1979)17. Miki Matsubara - Rainy Day Woman (1980)18. The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (1981)19. Tomoko Aran - Midnight Pretenders (1983)20. T-SQUARE - TRAVELERS (1984)21. XTC - Dear God (1987)22. Sarah McLachlan - Vox (1988)23. The Bangles - I'll Set You Free (1989)24. Innocence - Natural Thing (1990)25. Codeine – Cave-In (1991)26. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (1992)27. Moby - Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) (1993)28. POiSON GiRL FRiEND - Slave to the Computer (1994)29. Mark 'Oh - Tears Don't Lie (1995)30. Shakira - Dónde Estás Corazón (1996)31. The Starseeds - Parallel Life (1997)32. Hooverphonic - Eden (1998)33. The Lightning Seeds - Life's Too Short (1999)Absent: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1985, 1986You have 2 weeks to listen and vote, the deadline will be Monday 4th of May at 23:59, results will follow hopefully the day after but I am open to an extension if people need the Bank Holiday weekend, I'm aware we are clashing with BJSC so hopefully this allows everyone enough time in between xSee below for playlists and happy listening!
April 17Apr 17 Author Streaming Playlists:Spotify:Apple MusicApple Music - Web PlayerThe Best Song Contest In The World...Ever! Vol. 13: Retro...Playlist · 32 SongsUnavailable on both: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraYouTube Playlist:Voters:WoW73MangoDobboPaddington_JamesgooddeltaViper*Lee_J11DaTiltAH GoldPopchartfreakChez WombatJade
April 17Apr 17 Oh my, many names I recognise. I even see two city pop singers here.Edit: Kinda amusing that three years from the 1980's weren't received. Edited April 17Apr 17 by AllStarBySmashMouth
April 17Apr 17 Ooh some interesting picks here!I went through a big 'Telstar' (by The Tornados) fixation and immediately needed to learn all about Joe Meek's fascinating, primitive production techniques. I ended up eventually stumbling across the more commercially obscure 'I Hear a New World' and it blew my mind to hear something so futuristic for 1959/1960. Already can't wait to find out who picked that!'The Things That Dreams Are Made Of' immediately stands out as a hot favourite to me. It's of course from the Human League's classic DARE album but also has a bit of noughties appeal, as it was incorporated as part of Richard X's 'Finest Dreams' mash-up with Kelis too. Great tune.Looking forward to making some discoveries. Especially from POiSON GiRL FRiEND who hasn't put a foot wrong from what I know of her.
April 17Apr 17 Looking at some of the entries that have been accepted, maybe I should have gone for my first choice from my year
April 17Apr 17 30 minutes ago, danG said:these will all be discoveries for me!I will be moderately surprised if you don't recognise 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' when you hear it!I think I know the Buzzcocks song as well (or at least part of it, as I'm pretty sure it's been on an advert before) but the rest here aren't ringing a bell from the titles, some cool looking artist choices though. Great to see such strong turnout for this, the Lottery concept seems to be a bit of a hit in general as it made for a very busy BJSC spinoff as well.
April 17Apr 17 4 minutes ago, Bror said:will be moderately surprised if you don't recognise 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' when you hear it!nah never heard itthough it does sound very much like Christina Aguilera did when making Candyman
April 18Apr 18 Looking through the list, there's one song I know well, and at least one other that I've heard once as I've listened to the album it's on.
April 18Apr 18 well there’s a couple of recognisable samples if not songs I’m familiar withInnocence sampling Pink Floyd ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ and Mark Oh sampling ‘Soleado’ (better known for being used for the basis of ‘When a Child is Born’) quite randomly!
April 18Apr 18 I can host a synctube listenthrough on Monday 27th April. I thought it best to leave it to week 2 as there will be two BJSC semi-final listenthroughs this week.
April 18Apr 18 I know about 4 of those songs... and one of them is hands down one of my favourite songs of all time so I'm shocked and delighted in equal measures to see it appear here I'm so intrigued to find out who sent it as there's only a few people on this site whose tastes align closely with my own! It's an asbolutely gorgeous song and I really hope people get behind it but I don't think it will be to everyone's taste :/ Edited April 18Apr 18 by Mangø
April 18Apr 18 23 hours ago, danG said:nah never heard itthough it does sound very much like Christina Aguilera did when making CandymanI did find myself slipping into 'Candyman' when I was singing along to 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' in my head haha. (It is apparently an intentional homage if not a sample)
April 20Apr 20 There's 19 I don't know. That was unexpected.....!😮Someone's picked a UK flop global hit that my dad bought on Aussie LP 12 Big Hits of 1968, so I'm going all gooey and nostalgic for that one being here! ❤️
April 20Apr 20 I’ve had chance to listen through them all a few times now. There’s some I already knew, some I recognised on hearing and a lot that were excellent new discoveries, but all are great in their own ways.Thanks for the recommendations everyone and sorry if you don’t ultimately get my votes!
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