Not jimwatts getting another 2nd. Please. 😨

Ah was doing so well for a long time but tbf it's fallen to where I expected the Bangles to be. Oh my at swapping 12 with Rich. A lovely sweet song that one is.

'TRAVELERS' I was going back and forth on to give my 12 too though so would be championing that to win from the top 3 but all are good!

Edit: thanks Mango and Herbs for the 12's too.

Voter 33: dhwe

Year: 1991

Song: Codeine – Cave-In

dhwe was sadly a bit late to vote so will receive a slight deducation to this great slowcore indie entry. Although the group broke up in 1994 shortly after the release of The White Birch, their subdued and melancholic style helped pioneer the then-nascent slowcore subgenre of indie rock.

 

 

Apologies for the delay!

 

+12 Caravan - All The Way (1976)

+10 Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1962)

+8 POiSON GiRL FRiEND - Slave to the Computer (1994)

+7 The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (1981)

+6 Sarah McLachlan - Vox (1988)

+5 Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960)

+4 Mark 'Oh - Tears Don't Lie (1995)

+3 T-SQUARE - TRAVELERS (1984)

+2 XTC - Dear God (1987)

+1 Innocence - Natural Thing (1990)

 

103; dandy* - The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (1981)

99; seven - T-SQUARE - TRAVELERS (1984)

96; jimwatts - Mark’Oh – Tears Don’t Lie (1995)

78; gooddelta - Four Jacks and a Jill - Master Jack (1968)

78; Mangø - The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (1965)

77; Severin - XTC – Dear God (1987)

76; Herbs - Sarah McLachlan – Vox (1988)

73; TheSnake - Moby – Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) (1993)

71; DaTilt - Innocence – Natural Thing (1990)

71; Dobbo - Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1962)

70; Bror - Ashra – Blackouts (1977)

68; Nine & ¾ - Hooverphonic - Eden (1998)

67; Roba - The Bangles - I'll Set You Free (1989)

66; Popchartfreak - The Lightning Seeds – Life’s Too Short (1999)

65; Jaz13Music - Buzzcocks – What Do I Get (1978)

60; matto - Caravan - All The Way (1976)

55; danG - Supertramp – School (1974)

53; WoW73 - Marsha Hunt's 22 - (Oh, No! Not!) The Beast Day (1973)

52; Jade - The Starseeds - Parallel Life (1997)

50; Chez Wombat - POiSON GiRL FRiEND - Slave to the Computer (1994)

47; dhwe - Codeine – Cave-In (1991)

47; Lee_J11 - Nilsson – Spaceman (1972)

44; Julian - Tülay German - Burçak Tarlasi (1964)

44; Addy! - Goombay Dance Band - Sun Of Jamaica (1979)

36; Paddington James - The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941)

35; AH Gold - Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960)

31; King Rollo - Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You (1992)

31; Viper* - Tina and Ike Turner - It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (1963)

31; Suedehead2 - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Onedin Line Theme (Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia) Theme (1971)

26; Jester - Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love (1961)

22; Scene - Shakira - Dónde Estás Corazón (1996)

21; AllStarBySmashMouth - Tomoko Aran – Midnight Pretenders (1983)

13; CowTzy - Miki Matsubara - Rainy Day Woman (1980)

On a knife-edge, the status quo remains, Congrats dandy on yet another one of my contests you've won! Full scoreboard coming up in a tick x

Thanks to anyone who gave me points, especially the trio of 10’s

Congrats dandy*. An obvious winner but a good one.

Thanks for hosting Chez, very informed and put together!

Well done Dandy!

Damn, annoyed I missed out Travelers, but never mind, it would only have been 1 or 2 points I guess. Well done on such an inspired entry Seven!

Pleased for Jim too, quite the 90s dance anthem (which I did know, but nice to hear it again!).

Oh I'm delighted to manage a top five! Two 60s songs top five, who'd have called that? I certainly didn't expect it with this song, which doesn't feel like typical Buzzjack contest fare, but I'm glad I stuck with it as I just found it so charming that I didn't want to change from it! Well done to Mango on a 60s hit too! Nice one Herbs too, that's a great choice from Sarah McLachlan, deserved top ten!

Thanks for great hosting and informative write-ups Chez, really enjoyed this one and this is my best ever result here!

Well done Dandy!

And thank you to everyone who gave me points as well. I fully expected to finish last by quite a bit a margin, so to finish 9th from the bottom is a placement I’m very happy with.

Nice win for dandy*!

'TRAVELERS' did better than I expected so it's great to see it that high!

It's also nice to see my 12-pointer at 3rd place.

Well done on the song choices, everyone. It's been a highly interesting set!

A shame that Travelers just missed out there but congratulations to Dandy on winning with a great song from the Human League.

Thanks to Chez for a fantastic job hosting this contest and doing a commentary for each entry with all the interesting facts.

A poor result for my own entry this time, I'll try to do better in three months time.

01. dandy* - The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (1981) - 103

02. seven - T-SQUARE - TRAVELERS (1984) - 99

03. jimwatts - Mark’Oh – Tears Don’t Lie (1995) - 96

04. gooddelta - Four Jacks and a Jill - Master Jack (1968) - 78 (13 Voters)

05. Mangø - The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (1965) - 78 (12 Voters)

06. Severin - XTC – Dear God (1987) - 77

07. Herbs - Sarah McLachlan – Vox (1988) - 76

08. DaTilt - Innocence – Natural Thing (1990) - 71 (11 Voters)

09. Dobbo - Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1962) - 71 (9 Voters)

10. Bror - Ashra – Blackouts (1977) - 70

11. Nine & ¾ - Hooverphonic - Eden (1998) - 68

12. Roba - The Bangles - I'll Set You Free (1989) - 67

13. Popchartfreak - The Lightning Seeds – Life’s Too Short (1999) - 66

14. Jaz13Music - Buzzcocks – What Do I Get (1978) - 65

15. matto - Caravan - All The Way (1976) - 60

16. danG - Supertramp – School (1974) - 55

17. WoW73 - Marsha Hunt's 22 - (Oh, No! Not!) The Beast Day (1973) - 53

18. Jade - The Starseeds - Parallel Life (1997) - 52

19. Chez Wombat - POiSON GiRL FRiEND - Slave to the Computer (1994) - 50

20. TheSnake - Moby – Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) (1993) - 48.69 (33.3% deduction)

21. Lee_J11 - Nilsson – Spaceman (1972) - 47

22. Addy! - Goombay Dance Band - Sun Of Jamaica (1979) - 44 (8 voters)

23. Julian - Tülay German - Burçak Tarlasi (1964) - 44 (7 voters)

24. dhwe - Codeine – Cave-In (1991) - 39.95 (15% deduction)

25. Paddington James - The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) - 36

26. AH Gold - Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960) - 35

27. Suedehead2 - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Onedin Line Theme (Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia) Theme (1971) - 31 (8 Voters)

28. Viper* - Tina and Ike Turner - It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (1963) - 31 (6 Voters)

29. King Rollo - Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You (1992) - 31 (5 Voters)

30. Jester - Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love (1961) - 26

31. Scene - Shakira - Dónde Estás Corazón (1996) - 22

32. AllStarBySmashMouth - Tomoko Aran – Midnight Pretenders (1983) - 21

33. CowTzy - Miki Matsubara - Rainy Day Woman (1980) - 13

Sorry, I really got my timings a bit out tonight! I'll do a more full post tomorrow but thanks all for following!

Congratulations dandy!

I didn’t know what to expect, but I’m satisfied of course, and I’m glad I sent this song. 11th place is my best result in a retro edition, so yay. Thanks to everyone who voted.

Congrats to dandy*. Something of a classic from the era so not surprised it came out top.

Pleasantly surprised to see XTC come in 6th, especially after a very slow start. One of Britain's most under appreciated bands and a huge influence on people like Blur. Not their most commercial track but so glad to see it connected with some. Thanks to all those who pointed it, especially the 12.

Well done too to Chez for excellent hosting.

Congratulations Dandy! From everything I've heard, 'The Things That Dreams Are Made Of' is probably the standout from Dare that wasn't a single in the UK, there was no way I wasn't going to give that maximum points. Well done seven as well!

I didn't expect to be anywhere near the top, so 3rd is fantastic - in all Buzzjack contests that's 12 podiums now (1 x 1st, 6 x 2nd, 5 x 3rd) - and this song is such an oddball long time fave of mine from this era, all the big names with acclaimed album releases in 1995 felt a bit played out, I contemplated a deeper dive, but as a #24 UK hit was allowed I had to give it a go. Thanks dhwe for those points, and again to all other voters!

Thank you Chez for hosting - a fun concept with an eclectic set of discoveries here!

Sorry for failing to enter a song this time. 1982 was not represented due to my lack of ideas.

Congrats to the winner - a great choice

So thrilled with 7th - legit thought I was gonna place near the bottom!

First time I have taken part in something like this in my many years of being on Buzzjack and just being mostly a viewer and I didn't come last!

So thanks for having me and well done @dandy*

Congrats Dandy!

Certainly disappointed by finishing last, but thanks to everyone voting for my city pop entry. Kinda wish Mayonaka no Door was released 2 months later x

26th - I’ll take that. I was expecting bottom 3, if not last, so I’m very pleased. And it meant I got to discover a very strange and futuristic (for the time) song in I Hear A New World. When searching for a track from 1960 it between that and The Shirelles. I imagine the latter would have probably performed much better but the Joe Meek one got stuck in my head, so had to go with that one really.

Congrats @dandy* on the win. Love Dare and that’s a great track from it. And thanks for hosting @Chez Wombat. A fantastic idea/contest which I’ve really enjoyed. ❤️

Thanks for hosting @Chez Wombat!

That was fun and quite the challenge too.

Apologies but my nocturnal tendencies kicked in again and I fell asleep literally right before the results started and woke up just after they finished it appears...! Took my time reading through the thread anyway to appreciate the effort put into all the little write-ups for each song/artist, fun facts aplenty throughout *.*

Thrilled to have got the highest finishing 70s song and thanks to a Snake deduction given the decade its only representation in the final top 10 - not surprising that was the toughest decade to find something that would connect with people but managed to find a niche that pulled through in finding a few big fans, nearly all of the people who voted for 'Blackouts' gave it at least 6 points which makes sense. Thanks very much to @Suedehead2 for a gold medal, @Julian_ for a silver, @danG, @Dobbo and @King Rollo for bronzes and @CowTzy, @Chez Wombat, @matto, @nine¾ and @Jade for the rest of the points! I would have predicted Buzzcocks to get the highest 70s song and they obviously weren't far off that. A little gutted though that my own favourite from the decade (minus my own) was the lowest finishing one from The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, I guess a classical instrumental didn't quite attract the same niche but I thought it was a really lovely piece. Although interesting to note that the 70s had both the lowest placing highest song and the highest placing lowest song out of the decades! (Excluding The Andrews Sisters on both counts although if you count that the same analysis holds for the 40s too technically lol).

Well done to @dandy* on the win, as I posted in the other thread I'm not particularly enthused by that as a winner unfortunately but can't argue with democracy (it's not bad but it doesn't stick out to me personally as anything particularly special even among The Human League songs). Wow at T-SQUARE coming so close to the win though - I'd have been really gutted if it was a couple of points closer as I dropped it from 10 points to 7 after my second listen but there was nothing in it between it and my other two podium songs, as it were it'd still have been a point off even if I did give it 10 though so phew. (Although I see a couple of other people also saying it just barely missed out on their points so really could have taken a surprise win if the wind had just blown slightly differently whoops!) A really inspired pick there anyway so great to see it in the top 2. I didn't vote for the 3rd or 4th place songs either but also an interesting surprise to see 'Master Jack' placing so highly and being the top 60s song, it is a very nice song that in retrospect maybe should have ranked higher for me. There were 3 more I voted for in the top 10 from The Supremes, XTC and Bob Dylan - the Dylan song needed the second listen to properly click with me but it is quite beautiful. I was never familiar with XTC's music until recently with the weekly (ish) listenthroughs of 80s top 40 hits, ended up really enjoying a lot of their hits and this song was another brilliant discovery. Shame that Supremes track wasn't a UK hit but at least it did the business in the US, stands toe to toe with some of their classics!

All of my own medallists finished outside the top 10 sadly - Hooverphonic only just missing out though. The Starseeds really deserved far better, honestly I was half considering throwing their name out as a dark horse winner contender oops, would have been way off there! My guess about who was behind Codeine was correct, slowcore feels like a very @dhwe-coded subgenre - that was an easy favourite and has to be up there with the very best songs I've discovered from this contest to date so nice one there (and glad you did get votes in again even if a bit late - I see it would have just missed the top 20 even without the deduction which is disappointing but ho hum). I admittedly didn't love either of them but ouch at the two city pop songs being the final bottom 2 </3 (and 'Rainy Day Woman' was the better of the two imo, was just short of my list of commiserations). At least T-SQUARE (and POiSON GiRL FRiEND to a lesser extent) brought some glory to Japan x

Thanks for hosting Chez, nice concept and was pleased that this produced imo a better quality list of songs than the BJSC Lottery spinoff. (anyway I should probably try and get back to sleep now x)