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Freddino18 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 5:44 pm I'm just saying that Thriller is immensely popular and I thought it had a shot at the top spot, whereas I found Where Evil Grows rewatching the Sonic movie.

I did dock some points from Thriller just because I think the music video is a bit tedious.

I only ever judge these by the music, not the video.

ratammer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:56 pm I only ever judge these by the music, not the video.

I usually do that too, but this one is more than twice the length of the song itself and the music gets interrupted for dialogue and dramatics so I made an exception.

somitomi wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:00 pmI did dock some points from Thriller just because I think the music video is a bit tedious.

same

24-ish hr. reminder! Get your entries in while ya can...!

...and a mere 80+ hrs. later, the entries!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI - Jonathan Coulton - "Still Alive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZ6_tbLgXM - Gary Numan - "Metal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuxZ2u8-WXg - Venjent - "Create Machines"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8 - Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE3zsLDtFPU - Daoirí Farrell - "Windmills"

Get your votes in by Monday, August 5th...!

~48-ish hr. reminder...! Get your votes in!

I'm going to write in a vote for Wintergatan's Marble Machine

stuff the ballot boxes

Freddino18 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:54 am I'm going to write in a vote for Wintergatan's Marble Machine

stuff the ballot boxes

Now that you mention it I'm surprised nobody sent that in

I was considering it, but I remembered the song I actually sent in and decided to go with that instead.

And with mechanical precision, a mere ~57 hrs. later, the results! A hearty congratulations to Freddino18, who comfortably outpaced everyone else here! Take it away...!

Congrats Fredino18!!!

Oh nice, well done Fred!

Thank you everyone! The theme for this one is a bit different. This round we will be doing runners-up. The pool of submissions is restricted to songs that have already been submitted in this thread that have not won a round. In addition, you must submit a song that has been submitted by someone else. Due to the nature of this round, I will be allowing an extra week (give or take a couple of days), so the deadline will be August 23, the Friday after next. Please include the original poster in your submission!

This idea has been knocking around my head for a while. Let me know if you have any issues finding songs, I may change this to include songs about coming in second place if this ends up being a hassle for everyone.

Ooh, interesting idea!

Intriguing...

24 hour reminder!

Sorry for the delay!

List of songs is as follows:

Journey of the Sorcerer by Eagles, originally submitted by Ratammer.

Vintersaga by Amanda Bergmann, originally submitted by Somitomi.

Up the Junction by Squeeze, originally submitted by Ratammer.

Books from Boxes by Maximo Park, originally submitted by Ratammer.

Teo Torriatte by Queen, originally submitted by Commodorejohn.

Tenuousness by Andrew Bird, originally submitted by LingEarth.

Voting will end in a week on September 4. Good luck!

PS: You do not need to include the original person who submitted the song in your votes.

I'm flattered.

Luckily, I don't have to decide which song to put first

I should have thought of that lol.

Freddino18 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:17 am Voting will end in a week on September 4. Good luck!

Results soon...?

Later today, had a few things come up.

Here's the results, sorry for being late across the finish line! Congratulations to John for the win!

Hold on, got my votes mixed up, totals are the same.