Song Contest (Reprise)

[Suzaku]

Thank youall!
I love Clamavi de Profundis, so really stoked to get a win with their Christmas medley.

I will think about a new theme overnight, and hopefully it will be up tomorrow.

[LingEarth]

Did you think of one yet?

[Suzaku]

Blargh! Sorry about that all - I got sucked into an audit at work so it's been a bit crazy the last week.

Anyway.

Having dealt with Christmas, I'd like to move on to the next significant event: New Year! But I'm going to throw the gates open a little wider than just songs about new year's eve or new year's day. We shall have a round about Renewal.
New Year songs are of course OK, but also Winter into Spring, Solstice, anything that suggests to you a renewal or revitalisation of something.

Since one week from now will be Christmas Day, I'll set the deadline to a couple of days later.

Deadline will be 2024-12-27 21:00 JST (which is 12:00 UTC)

[Suzaku]

With only two entries so far, I'll kick the deadline out 'til after the weekend, so this is now a 2½-day warning.

New deadline is 2024-12-30 09:00 JST (00:00 UTC)

[Suzaku]

All entries are in (and all were correctly submitted before the deadline - delays due to my year-end schedule), so here they are.
Deadline for voting will be in a week.

Song list (order randomised):

Spiral Dance - "The Quickening" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f_TJMKSpn4
Courtney Barnett - "Turning Green" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiaB6uedjFU
Farya Faraji - "Sumer Is Icumen In" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GkJ1Eg1N5k
The Stone Roses - "I Am the Resurrection" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY9g-PgSiGA
Jethro Tull - "Ring Out, Solstice Bells" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJS9TjjHxx8

Please send your votes by PM before 2025-01-07 22:00, JST (13:00 UTC)

And a reminder: you do NOT have to have submitted a song to be able to vote.

[Suzaku]

48 hour reminder to please send your votes by PM before 2025-01-07 22:00, JST (13:00 UTC)

And also a reminder that you do NOT have to have submitted a song to be able to vote.

[Suzaku]

The deadline has passed, but I have received one vote for which I need clarification. The person who sent in the vote hasn't yet seen my return message, so I will wait until I receive a response before finally tabling up the results.

[Suzaku]

Clarification received, so all voting is now final.
I'm back at work now, so I'll try to get the results tabulated this evening.

[Suzaku]

Well, that was another set of bangers; nothing to choose between them at all.

And here are the results:

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                                                        somi  Ling  rat   john  Bop   Suz   Tot   Rank
ratammer      The Stone Roses - "I Am the Resurrection" 4     1     -     3     2     3     13    1
commodorejohn Jethro Tull - "Ring Out, Solstice Bells"  2     4     4     -     0.5   2     12.5  2
Suzaku        Spiral Dance - "The Quickening"           3     3     3     2     1.5   -     12.5  2
LingEarth     Farya Faraji - "Sumer Is Icumen In"       1     -     1     4     -     4     10    4
somitomi      Courtney Barnett - "Turning Green"        -     2     2     1     1     1     7     5

Congratulations to ratammer!

And welcome in to new player Bop. Hope you enjoyed it and hope you'll stay for the next round.

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, this was an all-'round great selection.

[ratammer]

Ooh wow, yeah, that was close! I'll put up the next theme later.

[somitomi]

Yeah, I had a hard time ordering everyone else's songs. Guess you guys weren't ready for mine

[ratammer]

OK, it doesn't look like we've yet done the theme of duets! Please get your submissions in for 17th January!

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, I had a hard time ordering everyone else's songs. Guess you guys weren't ready for mine :lol:

Honestly dug that one, too - in the end, I had to rank by which ones felt theme-ier to me, as I couldn't arrive at a solution on the basis of ones I liked less ;)

[Bop]

Yeah, I had a hard time ordering everyone else's songs. Guess you guys weren't ready for mine

Honestly dug that one, too - in the end, I had to rank by which ones felt theme-ier to me, as I couldn't arrive at a solution on the basis of ones I liked less

Same! Was a really good set overall, and that one still made my monthly playlist

[ratammer]

Here is your reminder that tomorrow is the deadline!

[ratammer]

And here are the entries! Please get your votes to me by 26th January!

• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
• Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Fairytale of New York
• Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
• Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland - Promiscuous
• Qing Feng Wu & Aurora - Storm
• Stephen Sondheim - Agony
• The Moldy Peaches - Steak For Chicken

[ratammer]

Here's your reminder that the deadline is tomorrow!

[ratammer]

And here are the results!



It's a rare tie between Suzaku and somitomi! Congrats, both of you!

[Suzaku]

Wow. And congrats to somi as well.

Since I ran the round immediately prior to ratammer's, I suggest somi takes the next round. Unless they don't want to, in which case I will

[commodorejohn]

Congrats! This was a fun one.

[Bop]

Congrats! These were wildly different, this was a blast.

[somitomi]

Wow. And congrats to somi as well.

Since I ran the round immediately prior to ratammer's, I suggest somi takes the next round. Unless they don't want to, in which case I will

Congrats.
I'll do the next round, just as soon as I can think of something

[heuristically_alone]

Congrats! Great variance of votes too

[somitomi]

Okay, why didn't anyone yell at me for not doing this? Anyway, I can't think of anything so let's do a free for all round. You have until the 10th of February