Announcement: The Great Music Tournament of 2016

Sounds like fun. Sorry I'm late to it.

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Originally Posted by M-O-O-N

Sounds like fun. Sorry I'm late to it.

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Jump right in.

Thread #12 (2000-2004) will be going up tomorrow morning!

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Originally Posted by T-Dogz_AK47

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Originally Posted by pablo

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Originally Posted by Iwritecode

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Originally Posted by pablo

Since we've recently reached our goals in several of the long-ongoing threads (and Thread #2 is close to being finalized as well, while we're well past halfway in Thread #9), Thread #10 for the early to mid '90s will be going up tomorrow morning.

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I have entire albums I want to nominate. :excited:

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What would those be? Offhand I can only think of Nirvana's Nevermind (not every song, but most need to be nominated).

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Interesting, I seem to recall being criticised by another member for trying to push through more than four U2 songs in thread 9.... Something to do with variety?

Yet I notice that thread 7 has a total of 8 songs by Pink Floyd and now people are discussing nominating entire albums in thread 10.

Not cool.

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Four WHOLE U2 songs!!!???!!!

You BASTARD!!! Do you hook fake air lines to the shower heads of elderly Jewish folks???!!??
* hides his Maiden albums*

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One thing I thought would be fun would be to give all "active participants" one nuke button. Not per thread, but one for the contest. One song you just hate so much you could nuke it from orbit. There are a couple of songs I just hate with a passion. Two I can think of for sure are million-sellers but neither has been nominated so far (thank god). However, I don't know how you could determine who was active enough to get that privilege, as opposed to the person who posted once or twice zapping a song out of the contest. But it's fun to think about!

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Originally Posted by Tommy

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And also, divemaster, what are the two million-sellers you would "nuke" as mentioned above?

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I like so much of Elton John's work (with the exception of one song that makes me want to stab out my eardrums with an icepick). Even the songs that make no lyrical sense are still captivating.

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Ok, so one of the songs I would use my nuke button for is...Benny and the Jets.

The other would be any song from Peter Frampton. Meaning, anything from Frampton Comes Alive!, which is the only Frampton stuff I'm familiar with from what they play on classic rock stations. From everything I hear, Frampton is truly a nice guy and very personable. But I can't tell you how much I hate those songs. I'll start to hear Do You Feel Like We Do, and immediately switch over to the sports talk station. Then, like a half hour later, I'll switch back over to the classic rock station and that damn song is still playing! (LOL; I exaggerate--but not by much).

I can probably come up with a couple more. Band on the Run would be close. Oh, and from my country music days...Islands in the Stream.

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I don't really like any of those either, except Islands in the Stream

I've started to notice as we get into the late 90s and 2000's it's getting more difficult to determine the release date of some songs. Digital downloads became a thing. Sometimes singles were released digitally months before the actual album.

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Originally Posted by Iwritecode

I've started to notice as we get into the late 90s and 2000's it's getting more difficult to determine the release date of some songs. Digital downloads became a thing. Sometimes singles were released digitally months before the actual album.

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That's true for the last ten or so years, yeah. A lot of the lesser known stuff is also not on Wikipedia (not that that's a 100% reliable source), but I also check Discogs (usually reliable), and just plain ol' Google.

Where does this go?????

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQG4CcoRuM

Here's a question for y'all: Would you like to start the voting process now or prefer to wait until the nomination process is complete? The reason I ask is because as outlined earlier, this will be a very long tournament, but I'm fully dedicated to see it through. However, since it is so long, we can actually start voting on the earlier decades while finalizing the nominees for the 2000s, since it will take us about a month to vote on the polls from the 1940s to the 1990s. The downside being, of course, confusion, and the need to vote in numerous polls in addition to whittling down our list of nominees. I can see pros and cons in both, so wanted to see what others thought. If everyone's okay with taking our time and knocking out the remaining nominations, that's cool. I'm leaning towards that myself, but I can understand if some of you wish we were already voting on these.

P.S.: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony can be nominated when we do 1820-1824 :wink:

IMHO I think it's best to start voting, only when all the nominations are complete.

I vote to wait until all done with noms.

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Originally Posted by divemaster

I vote to wait until all done with noms.

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Oh what do you know?!?! You have a chick as your AV!!



Yeah.. let's clear the threads as much as we can B4 voting.

Sounds good, folks. Since we are nearing the end in Thread #11 and about halfway through Thread #12, the last two threads will be going up Friday morning :excited:

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I vote to wait until all done with noms.

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Oh what do you know?!?! You have a chick as your AV!!

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Oh yes. Yes I do. A finely attractive chick who is very pleasing to the eye. :)

I'm also game for waiting until the nominations are complete before we do voting.

Also: I'm finding it hard to nominate much past 2000 since most newer music is junk. :lol:

Have you checked out acclaimedmusic.net and tsort.info yet? Very useful sites for looking up songs for a given year.

My hope is for the nominations to be finished by the end of this month or very early next month, because the target start date for the tournament is March 7. The nominations and secondings, however, seem to have slowed a little in the last few days. I'm hoping we can power through these. This doesn't mean I want everyone to second everything in sight and nominate random stuff, but I'm hoping it's not that the more recent music is not as popular as the '80s and '90s, which seemed to generate the most interest, understandably so. There is still a lot of great music of all kinds from the last 15 years to nominate, so hopefully we will be able to do this in the next couple of weeks, if we all put our minds to it. Because then the real fun begins! I've already got the (very numerous) groups set up and it will be a doozy, I can tell you now! Very competitive with pretty much every nomination at least being good if not great. It will be loads of fun. Cannot wait!

I've got tons of stuff to nominate in the current threads. Just need to get a few more people going so I can get them in.

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I had not considered that the later eras may bring in the younger Folks!!

Since the action has slowed down the last week or two, if nobody minds we'll set the waiting period for seconding at one (1) and keep the waiting period for nominations at two (2). I'll make it official later on today if everyone's okay with it. Just trying to spur some activity and get us closer to voting!

That's fine with me pablo. What would really speed things up is if we could second our own nominations. :clap::evil:

How about two nominations in a row?

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How about two nominations in a row?

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The problem isn't lack of nominations. We've got tons of those. It's lack of secondings.

So since nobody minds it, secondings are as of now on a waiting period of one.

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How about two nominations in a row?

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The problem isn't lack of nominations. We've got tons of those. It's lack of secondings.

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Ummmm... yeah... but without nominations, there are no seconds.

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How about two nominations in a row?

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The problem isn't lack of nominations. We've got tons of those. It's lack of secondings.

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But my point is....those of us with limited time online may only get to nominate or second one song per category a week.

The '95-'99 thread filled so fast with nominations it made my head spin. In the '00-'04 thread, we made it over 80 seconded until two very impactful songs (Disturbed's - Down With the Sickness and Drowning Pool's -Bodies) were even mentioned.

(I am no particular fan of either band, but I think the impact of those two songs was worthy of consideration LONG before 80 seconds. To that point, neither song was even nominated. Due to my limited online time,I felt I had to break the rule {I nominated these two in a row} to get such songs even for consideration.)