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

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Opinions are never wrong. There was nothing new about eighties music except the horrible sound of processed synth and fake ass drum sounds.
Wrong.

I can't think of another decade which spawned so many new genres of music: hardcore punk, noise rock, thrash metal, death metal, rap/hip-hop, techno/house/trance, goth, industrial, synthpop, shoegaze, etc

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
Eh? This is 70s music... They might've had a few hits in the early 80's but they were old 70's campaigners. Are you trolling?

The biggest artists of the 80s were Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, George Michael, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, The Police, Sting, Huey Lewis, U2, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Simple Minds, and here in Oz: Men At Work, INXS, Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil

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.
When people bag the 80's, they're usually just thinking of the chart stuff. It's like saying the 90's are defined by Celine Dion, Backstreet Boys, Oasis, Mariah Carey, Nirvana, Smash Mouth, Hansen, Aqua and the Baha Men. FWIW, the 80's top 40 >>>>> Top 40 from every other decade (the 60's is the only decade which can compare)

But the 80s was so much more than that. Think of all the amazing alternative music which most of the 90s bands just copied. Think of all the new genres of music I listed above which started in the 80s. You probably turn your nose up at most of that stuff, but you've grown up with it always being there. You don't know what it was like BEFORE all that and to experience the birth of all these different scenes and watch them take off. It was all new and fresh. EXCITING. Not the boring, stale rehashes which occurred over the next 20 years. A lot of that pop punk & alt-rock which charted in the 90's, I just laughed at - 2nd rate copies of underground 80's alternative/punk. A lot of bands which get nominated in this thread - just blatant ripoffs of older bands from the 80s

Electronic music has exploded in the last 10-15 years - not the popular stuff, I mean, but kids with laptops doing their own weird shit and posting it online. This is the only interesting development in music, but I'm old and struggle to get into a lot of it - some of it is okay. At least that's new.
 
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Post-round update! (242)

There are no hall entries this round, only the highlights from that round.

  • The original statsman is back! Yidaki returns for the first time since round 59 with a mid-table finish. Dubs has stuck around so hopefully you do as well Yids.
  • DroopStDanny wins just his 2nd Billy of the contest with his first coming back in round 144, 98 rounds ago.
  • Nuffers is turning his fortunes around with back to back top 10 finishes. 5 more and he will get a magnificent seven award! That might be a stretch though given the rarity of it.
  • NinjaSwan gets his 6th podium of the contest after a couple of finishes 20th or lower.
  • Joining him in equal 3rd is Bet on Blue who chalks up podium #22.
More to come.
 

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  • RedmanWasHere (after nearly winning the Billy himself) cost Jazny the opportunity to join NS and BoB on the podium by Billying her nom.
  • The Filth Wizard is back where he belongs in 2nd position. It seems that him and Smeg Head are fighting for who is the true moral victor of the song contest at this point in time. That was his 12th podium.
  • whoreboy2 has done what he does best and wins his 15th contest while getting his 39th podium. When you see this, please give us a theme.
Until next time!
 

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roo2macca isn't that my 6th podium not 5th? This one, and then 3rd place with Chvrches and Courtney Barnett, wins with Sufjan and Kurt Vile and a 2nd with Hakuna Mattata.
 

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I was going to nom I Ran if no one else did. But glad I didn't. Didn't really have time to host again. The only reason I got time to count the votes was that I had an exam supervision so got to do it while doing that.

Just to update too. The 2 songs that finished 3rd had 1 billy each not 0 billies.
 

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I was going to nom I Ran if no one else did. But glad I didn't. Didn't really have time to host again. The only reason I got time to count the votes was that I had an exam supervision so got to do it while doing that.

Just to update too. The 2 songs that finished 3rd had 1 billy each not 0 billies.
Who the **** Billies The Church and Talking Heads? Morans.
 

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Never fear #worsthostever is here!

Some of you do know, but most don't know that I am involved with Tabcorp and as such there is absolutely no chance of me hosting anything this weekend.

So unfortunately for those looking forward to the inevitable cock ups that me hosting delivers, I will have to pass on the hosting duties to 2nd The Filth Wizard or anyone else with a theme in mind and wants to host.
 

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5 - Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place - **** it, their best song, why didn't I think of it? Clear standout!!
4 - Talk Talk - It's My Life
3 - Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
2 - Cut Copy - Lights and Music
1 - New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

BM - LCD Sound System - Emotional Haircut
 

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I was going to nom I Ran if no one else did. But glad I didn't. Didn't really have time to host again. The only reason I got time to count the votes was that I had an exam supervision so got to do it while doing that.

Just to update too. The 2 songs that finished 3rd had 1 billy each not 0 billies.
Isn't "active supervision" written into your contract?
 

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Bollocks! This was the greatest period of Top 40 music ever.

When the charts and commercial radio playlists were still the preserve of artists and hadn't yet been co-opted by media corporations.
Wrong.

Eh? This is 70s music... They might've had a few hits in the early 80's but they were old 70's campaigners.

Are you trolling or are you just ignorant?

The biggest artists of the 80s were Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, George Michael, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, The Police, Sting, Huey Lewis, U2, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Simple Minds, and here in Oz: Men At Work, INXS, Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil

You probably turn your nose up at most of that stuff, but you've grown up with it always being there.
If you wanna claim that the 80s prior to 1985 was the greatest period of top 40 music then surely you need to consider the top selling artists of that time regardless of their previous success in the 70s? All the stuff I gave you were from the biggest selling singles of 1980. This link to the UK's biggest selling singles of the eighties is a list of primarily vanilla middle of the road Billy bait. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_of_the_1980s_in_the_United_Kingdom

The biggest artists of the 80s that you listed for the most part did nothing new and exciting - most of it is rooted in the 70s.

I was a Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, through to Sex Pistols, Crass, Dead Kennedys, and Zappa obsessive in 1980 - that's the sort of music that did it for me. The onslaught of fashion conscious synth based new wave artists was new but far from exciting. I loathed it then and whilst I can appreciate some of it more than back in the day, I still loathe the majority of it. To me, both then and now, it was wanky image based pout at the camera fake sound stuff the polar opposite of punk and hard rock.
 
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