Song Contest Part VII, Host: Sepp Blatter, Theme: Ashes, Noms Due: Sunday 7:00pm ACDT

[RedmanWasHere]

Also, which song and which player received the worst on ground?

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Also, which song and which player received the worst on ground?

DroopstDanny for Marianne Faithful.

 

[ChappyUK]

5 - Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
4 - Blondie - One Way Or Another
3 - Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
2 - LCD Soundsystem - Emotional Haircut
1 - Pseudo Echo - Listen

In 24th place. LCD Soundsystem – Emotional Haircut@Chappyuk 6 votes 1 billy (14B1)

Ruh ro

 

[raskolnikov]

What were my votes/billies there raskolnikov?

Sorry. Added.

 

[ShanDog]

In 29th place. Devo – Huboon Stomp ShanDog BB (2 Billy)

I give up on you people.

 

[Sozabarus]

5. working with fire and steel
4. listening
3. dusk till dawn
2. cool for cats
1. don't let me be misunderstood
billy: bizarre love triangle

 

[El Dubya]

I have got to say, this is the most bullshit Billy I've seen in quite some time when Karma Chameleon, It's My Life, and Cool For Cats are all there and absolutely horrid songs.

 

[NinjaSwan]

Yeah, Karma Chameleon is way worse though, I'm suprised I'm the only one who billied it.

Would've got my Billy if no previous winners had been nommed.

 

[El Dubya]

5 - Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
4 - Blondie - One Way Or Another
3 - Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
2 - LCD Soundsystem - Emotional Haircut
1 - Pseudo Echo - Listen

In 24th place. LCD Soundsystem – Emotional Haircut@Chappyuk 6 votes 1 billy (14B1)

Ruh ro

Quote my post minnow!

 

[Ulahoopski]

You are wrong. Everything that was big in the 90's was done already in the 80's (it just hadn't gone mainstream)

Opinions are never wrong. There was nothing new about eighties music except the horrible sound of processed synth and fake ass drum sounds. The biggest artists of the eighties were vanilla as **** - Olivia Newton John, Bill Joel, Captain and Tenille, Bette Midler, Air Supply, Chris Cross, Diana Ross, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dr Hook, Kenny Rogers..... I reckon most people rave about the 80s purely out of nostalgia. 60s and 70s were way more creative musically. 90s stuff was generally much more real.

 

[Plugger35]

I give up on you people.

 

[Back One Out]

emotional haircut isn't 80s New Wave but it still has its roots in New Wave.
James Murphy has said as much in interviews.

*Post punk

 

[El Dubya]

Opinions are never wrong. There was nothing new about eighties music except the horrible sound of processed synth and fake ass drum sounds. The biggest artists of the eighties were vanilla as **** - Olivia Newton John, Bill Joel, Captain and Tenille, Bette Midler, Air Supply, Chris Cross, Diana Ross, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dr Hook, Kenny Rogers..... I reckon most people rave about the 80s purely out of nostalgia. 60s and 70s were way more creative musically. 90s stuff was generally much more real.

All the top 40 shit of every era is pretty shit, probably 90s are close to being an exception, but that might be my nostalgia. 80s New Wave broke into the top 40 but didn't dominate.

 

[CakeEater]

royboy2 whats the theme?

 

[El Dubya]

*Post punk

Great idea for a theme there!

 

[Ulahoopski]

5 Cool for cats
4 Why dya do it?
3 one way or another
2 Louise
1 Mexican radio

Billy: pseudo echo

DroopStDanny - will accept a Krispy Kreme voucher.

 

[Back One Out]

A bit dirty that I Ran won, when I nommed a better Flock Of Seagulls song and it got nowhere.

I nominated 'Space Age Love Song' just a few weeks before you rejoined

I could've told you it would tank

 

[ChappyUK]

*Post punk

El Dubya likes this.

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Nobody voted for my song.

**** all ya'll

 

[El Dubya]

I nominated 'Space Age Love Song' just a few weeks before you rejoined

I could've told you it would tank

It shouldn't though.

 

[Nuffers]

Votes
5 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
4 Blondie - One Way Or Another
3 Gary Numan - Are 'friends' electric?
2 Pseudo Echo - Listening
1 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
BM Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement

Being an old metalhead, I absolutely loathed New Wave... Did have a couple of Ultravox albums, mainly because I liked Midge Ure.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Nobody voted for my song.

**** all ya'll

It was average.

 

[Ulahoopski]

All the top 40 shit of every era is pretty shit, probably 90s are close to being an exception, but that might be my nostalgia. 80s New Wave broke into the top 40 but didn't dominate.

Which is exactly the point - 80s top 40 was never the realm of "artists". It was, like every other era, the realm of record company promoted stuff for the casual music listener.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Nobody voted for my song.

**** all ya'll

Much like INXS with Kick, Man of Colours was Icehouse's most successful album but nowhere near their best.

 

[Back One Out]

Much like INXS with Kick, Man of Colours was Icehouse's most successful album but nowhere near their best.

Early Icehouse/Flowers would've been perfect for the new wave theme

Their first 2 albums were their best.

I won the 'Building/architecture' round with this: