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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.

Did you think of one yet?

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

And here are the results: Congratulations to ratammer!

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

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

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

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

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

somitomi wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:29 pmYeah, 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 ;)

commodorejohn wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:02 am

somitomi wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:29 pmYeah, 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

Here is your reminder that tomorrow is the deadline!

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

Here's your reminder that the deadline is tomorrow!

And here are the results!



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

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! This was a fun one.

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

Suzaku wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:31 am 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

Congrats! Great variance of votes too

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