23 hours ago23 hr Wait... it wasn't Rollo behind Fish? Thee guy from Marillion?! You guys are blowing my mind this month!
23 hours ago23 hr Just now, Jade said:Wait... it wasn't Rollo behind Fish? Thee guy from Marillion?!You guys are blowing my mind this month! I recognise voice from Marillion
23 hours ago23 hr You guys all talking about who you think people are and I’m sat here reminding myself I know nothing about anything!
23 hours ago23 hr Not sure if it's more shocking that Fish wasn't Rollo or that it was WoW. That's certainly not a style of music I'd associate with him...!Melanie is a good early leader but otherwise the top end isn't much in line with my taste thus far (not that I'd expect it to be from the people whose votes have been revealed).
23 hours ago23 hr I almost convinced myself that my own song was by Fish. I was struggling to think of who might have sent him, maybe AH Gold. Fish was a great decoy to make sure that no one would guess what my entry actually was.
23 hours ago23 hr Author FOUR23 hours ago, Lee_J11 said:Hey dandy - as per my post earlier on, I completely missed Kate Bush from my listens. And as it turns up, it’s the biggest bop going 😂 so I’ve moved everything down one and here are my updated votes…!12 Kate Bush - Ken10 Gabrielle - Forget About the World08 Melanie - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)07 Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan06 Youssou N'Dour - The Lion (Gaiende)05 Noriyuki Makihara - Mo Koinante Shinai04 Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours03 Rufus Wainwright - April Fools02 Joan Osborne - St Teresa01 Buffy Saine-Marie - The Big Ones Get AwayMy apologies to Natalie Merchant who now misses out!I hope this is ok!Next up we have our first guest voter in the shape of Lee_J11. After having a couple of Suzanne Vega tracks vetoed he sadly didn't have time to find something else to send himself, but I'm delighted to say he still voted - thank you!.. and he must be happy enough with the table at this stage as he gave points to our current top 5 songs... a last minute alteration after being reminded Kate Bush wasn't on the playlists resulted in him finding his eventual favourite song in the contest!
23 hours ago23 hr Author I must admit it was very amusing watching people enter artists who I knew full well were largely associated with someone else!
23 hours ago23 hr Author Just now, Jade said:That 12 pointer...Ken Leeno notesThis post made me HOWL!!!
22 hours ago22 hr Author FIVEOn 20/08/2026 at 10:05, Dobbo said:12 Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan10 Exuma - Dambala08 Youssou N'Dour - The Lion (Gaiende)07 Noriyuki Makihara - Mo Koinante Shinai06 Đorđe Balašević - Ne lomite mi bagrenje05 Elvis Costello - I Want You04 Gabrielle - Forget About the World03 Kate Bush - Ken02 Melanie - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)01 Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face00 Tom Waits - Downtown TrainDobbo was up next and sent one of our two tracks from the 60s in the form of Scott Walker. His votes push Leonard Cohen to within one point of the lead but more points for all of the current top 3. As he hinted in the voting thread, it wan't quite his favourite but he did love Exuma who rockets up to 11th after the silver medal here - things are very tight towards the bottom and it's unusual that 10 points is enough for a slot in the top 10 after five voters. Ani DiFranco gets off the mark at the foot of the table, leaving just 4 tracks yet to score.We're off to visit Jaz next...
22 hours ago22 hr I was excited to hear that as Scott Walker has such a great voice and it did not disappoint, fab pick Dobbo!
22 hours ago22 hr I hope this makes sense but nice to see a vote that has a lot of the male artists in it. I find this genre to be a wealth of treasure from all genders (whereas other spin off contests tend to have a gender bias)
22 hours ago22 hr I was fairly sure that Popchartfreak was Scott Walker. It was a good discovery from him with the same big orchestration that the Walker Brothers had on their hits.
22 hours ago22 hr Author SIXOn 25/08/2026 at 07:52, Jaz13music said:Here’s my votes, it was really difficult to chose with such a great group of songs.12 That I Would Be Good — Alanis Morissette10 The Lion (Gaïende) — Youssou N'Dour8 A Gentleman's Excuse Me — Fish7 I Want You — Elvis Costello6 Untouchable Face — Ani DiFranco5 Mo Koinante Shinai — Noriyuki Makihara4 Downtown Train — Tom Waits3 Wonder — Natalie Merchant2 Sharkey's Day — Laurie Anderson1 Such a Small Love — Scott WalkerAlanis Morissette becomes the first act to gain two maximums as Jaz was also a huge fan of That I Would be Good... his votes also get Fish off the mark. 10 points to Youssou N'Dour rockets The Lion into the top 10 at this stage.So with both Aimee Mann and Rufus Wainwright revealed not to have been my entry... let's go to my own votes next to find out who I did send!
22 hours ago22 hr Ooooh I wondered who sent Rufus I did look at his first album stuff for this contest but couldn’t commit to a song
22 hours ago22 hr Great pick from Dobbo - as I posted already it was a shame we didn't get more 60s entries especially as the ones we did get were very good! Scott Walker not quite in his avant garde era yet with this song though x
22 hours ago22 hr The typo on the cover of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie ('premiess' instead of 'premises') always bugged me lmao, but I bet they just left it there for fun 😆 (some of the other words have their beginnings cut off but they're on other parts of the booklet)
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