Have I shot myself in the foot?

We could be getting our first two-time winner!

37/37: @King Rollo

Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken

The answer song to the 1984 track “Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?” by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions and what a fabulous choice for the contest!

Thanks to Julian for hosting this edition. This is my vote:

+18 Panda Bear - Bros

+15 Puracane - Warzone

+13 Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust

+12 Regina Spektor - On The Radio

+11 Hot Chip - Colours

+10 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House

+09 Anathallo - Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)

+08 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great

+07 Snow Patrol - Hands Open

+06 The Cardigans - Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)

+05 Islands - Rough Gem

+04 Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir

+03 The Knife - Silent Shout

+02 Beirut - After The Curtain

+01 Freestylers featuring Pendulum - Painkiller

Final scoreboard:

Position	Artist	Title	Sender	Points	Tiebreak
1	Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken	King Rollo	206
2	Snow Patrol	Hands Open	jimwatts	198
3	The Knife	Silent Shout	Dobbo	192
4	Sneaky Sound System	Pictures	awardinary	191
5	LCD Soundsystem	Someone Great	Julian_	182
6	Nelly Furtado	Do It	Scene	180
7	Dannii Minogue	Love Fight	WoW73	176
8	Keisha White	Don't Mistake Me	Tafty	167
9	Evanescence	Sweet Sacrifice	Lukuzz	162
10	Cardigans	Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)	gooddelta	157	20 voters
11	Infernal	Ten Miles	Addy!	157	17 voters
12	Regina Spektor	On The Radio	Herbs	150
13	Basement Jaxx	Take Me Back To Your House	Doug	148
14	Freestylers featuring Pendulum	Painkiller	lewistgreen	144
15	Junior Boys	In The Morning	Jade	142
16	Oxia	Domino	danG	141
17	The Pipettes	Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling)	Lee_J11	140
18	Moony	For Your Love	Roba.	133
19	Soul Avengers featuring Javine	Don't Let The Morning Come	vibe	131
20	Daughtry	Feels Like Tonight	Viper*	126
21	Cassius	Toop Toop	dandy*	122
22	Yelle	Je Veux Te Voir	Josh!	120
23	Puracane	Warzone	mattias	113	14 voters & 1 18
24	Delta Goodrem	Flawed	Paddington James	113	14 voters & 0 18s
25	Panda Bear	Bros	Chez Wombat	112
26	Anathallo	Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)	Bror	102
27	Hot Chip	Colours	dhwe	89
28	All Saints	Fundamental	Mangø	87
29	Poets Of The Fall	Carnival Of Rust	nine3/4	81
30	Emma Bunton	Perfect Strangers	Spiceboy	80
31	Saosin	You're Not Alone	AllStarBySmashMouth	68
32	The Hush Sound	Wine Red	Cody Rozanov	66
33	Deichkind	Remmidemmi	DaTilt	64
34	Islands	Rough Gem	RabbitFurCoat	59
35	Beirut	After The Curtain	Jaz13music	53
36	Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto	Hare Hare Yukai	CowTzy	36

A truly excellent winner and my current favourite song (it’s on repeat!) 😂

Congrats @King Rollo !! ❤️

Rollo, I was ready to be heartbroken the moment I realised my podium finish was as going to come to an end. But congrats to you! 😄

Congrats to you @King Rollo!! And thank you @Julian_ for doing this, was such a thrill and I look forward to the next one, next time my votes won’t come anywhere near as late 😅

Big thanks to everyone who gave my tune points too! Delighted with how mine finished!

I'm absolutely thrilled to win. 😃

I knew it was a great song but didn't expect it to do so well. I'll write a longer post in a minute on how I came to enter it to the contest.

Rollo wins another contest this year!

31st is pretty much I expected for my entry (LMAO). I wasn't expecting wonders, but I like to pick a different style each time. I went party last edition, and before that it was pop. Maybe next Bop Idol it's something else again (or maybe not). 🥸 But thanks for the many small points. Thank goodness for being able to vote 15!

Edited Tuesday at 21:291 day by AllStarBySmashMouth

Omg I won a tie for once for an important position!

Delighted to scrape into the top ten with The Cardigans, it was such a crazy strong contest, many thanks to all the voters.

Congrats Rollo, my favourite discovery from Bop Idol so far, just an absolutely glorious track. Glad you didn’t foot shoot in the end there.

Well done Jim and Dobbo too on podium finishes and commiserations to Wardy who was almost there.

Thanks Julian for the great theme and amazing hosting!

Congratulations on the win, Rollo! I gave 'Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken' 13 points so very much approve of this stunning champion.

My contender tip and personal favourite 'Silent Shout' came third in the end then, fantastic.

My 15 pointer from LCD Soundsystem finished 5th so all of my podium snatched those top 5 odd positions *.*

I also voted for Sneaky Sound System and Nelly Furtado in the top 10 so exactly half of that top tier.

The biggest robbery for me was Puracane not making the top 20! Can definitely see why people thought that might've been my entry.

As for my own actual choice... I forgot how much I bombed in the last edition so will gladly take 14 positions higher than that this time thanks everyone who pointed Junior Boys!

Lastly, thank you Julian for transporting us back to 2006, you did great. 🫶

And so, what an honour to give the 21st Century award to the biggest non fan of 21 Century music, @King Rollo !

In all seriousness I’m delighted for you Rollo and it’s great that we’ve managed to give you some post 2000 stuff that you do enjoy here.

Thanks so much all for a wonderful contest!

Oh ending with an 18 swap with the winner, love to see it *.

Congrats Rollo! I should be kicking myself really, but I'm glad to see that song get so much recognition - it's a beautiful song that I'm sad I never heard of before, the melancholy strings, anthemic chorus and distinctive Scottish accent make for a wonderful song. I only pointed another three of the top 10 but they're all good ones, I already knew Someone Great through some scattered plays on 6Music but it's a fantastic song, and The Knife sounded like another great song from an album I should really check out.

I had sacrificed my attempt at a hit with my choice, so I will take getting over 100 and avoiding the bottom 10 given I was languishing there for quite some time. Thanks to all who entertained the Panda, there were a few unexpected ones in there! Would've liked to Anathallo and Puracane a little bit higher as well.

Many thanks Julian for hosting, made some excellent discoveries from this one.

Congrats King Rollo! Great to see another member get their first BI win. Thanks for a fantastic contest Julian - the theme was right up my alley and super chuffed with 6th place. Thanks for the points all! I hope we can do another year-themed Bop Idol at some point soon.

Hope to see everyone back for Bop Idol 8. 😎❤️

Fantastic winner well done @King Rollo, also thanks @Dobbo for choosing the song I almost (obviously should have) picked!

Finally thanks @Julian_ for my favourite song of the contest and some brilliant hosting.

Great work everyone, really enjoyable, I’m already looking forward to the next one. As that reality TV show bloke says, ‘It’s all about the song choice’, so I hope I can get the hang of this song contest lark eventually!🤣

Ah I should have gone with my gut and posted that Camera Obscura was a winner contender x But the one I predicted to win came 5th which is not too far out! (And I see I was right to be skeptical of Basement Jaxx being a contender, not that that's a terrible result for them or anything).

Well done Rollo on a first win, that was an early standout track in the running order, I'm not sure I've ever heard anything by Camera Obscura before despite vaguely recognising the name so this was a lovely introduction to them! Voted for all of the rest of the top 5 as well including giving a medal to Snow Patrol (and all 5 were in my top 10 so would have got points from me regardless of the voting system). Would be interesting to see what the results would have been if we stuck with the regular voting system considering how close it is at the top - songs with more niche appeal tend to do a bit better under the Eurovision voting system (learnt from me calculating this for BJSC every month, but also makes logical sense considering every individual vote is effectively ~5 extra points for free under the 18 point system so fewer votes but more higher placings preserves more of the points when converting).

The other half of the top 10 is less to my taste although did also give a couple of points to Evanescence and I do think the Dannii song was one of the catchier pure pop entries. Keisha White doing so well feels very unexpected to me but fair play! Happy to also see top half finishes for Junior Boys and Oxia. Relying on the alt bloc niche not being a particularly great strategy here with my own entry landing in lower midtable alongside Puracane and Panda Bear - still great company to be in though x Saosin got robbed a bit and also quite sad to see Beirut in the bottom 2.

Thanks to Julian for the hosting, has been fun despite me not being around to engage with the listenthrough as I usually like to. And also thanks to you for providing a 5th medal for Anathallo + to Rollo for the last handful of points allowing them to sneak over the 100 points mark at the last gasp! That is my lowest finish in Bop Idol to date technically, although far from my worst result really as this contest was quite a bit larger than the first few editions (coming dead last in the second edition counts as 20th in my stats hehe).

Oh, these last voters are the best! I made it top 30 🤣

Congratulations @King Rollo !!!

Congrats @King Rollo

Thank you @Julian_ for hosting this.

Also, when can we open up the discussions for the length of the ban / the punishment for @Chez Wombat making us sit through a near 13 minute song?

1 minute ago, Viper* said:

Also, when can we open up the discussions for the length of the ban / the punishment for @Chez Wombat making us sit through a near 13 minute song?

The words of someone who is clearly not initiated into BuzzJack song contest lore hehe

(let's just say 13 minutes is nowhere near the longest that's showed up in a contest x)

Just now, Bror said:

The words of someone who is clearly not initiated into BuzzJack song contest lore hehe

(let's just say 13 minutes is nowhere near the longest that's showed up in a contest x)

Oh it gets worse?