3 Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
2 Madness - One Step Beyond
1 The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (This messes with my brain)

3 Porter Robinson - Kids
2 Alexa Melo - Idiotheque
1 Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

1. Gigi d'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours

2. Sash! - Ecuador

2025 Talossan Music Top 20 Special Edition: Covers of original songs

Many thanks to everyone who nominated songs. Of course, people who did not are still very welcome to participate.

Give your top three songs 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly three songs.

Voting will last 96 hours (4 days) or until there are at least three voters. The top two songs from each group advance to the Final.

GROUP 1
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]
Madness - One Step Beyond [Prince Buster]
Molly Tuttle - Olympia, WA [Rancid]
Panic! At the Disco - The Greatest Show [Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya]
The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [Black Sabbath]


GROUP 2
Alexa Melo - Idiotheque [Radiohead]
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - If I Had the World to Give [The Grateful Dead]
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel [Bob Dylan/Old Crow Medicine Show]
Porter Robinson - Kids [MGMT]
Weezer - Africa [Toto]



Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- 24-hour tiebreaker round
- Random chance

Tactical voting refers to either giving more points than you normally would to a song because it would make the difference between it going through or getting eliminated, or giving fewer points than you normally would to a song because it might kick a song you like even more out of the competition. This is hard to prevent, but my very strong request would be to not do it. Give points to the songs you believe deserve to go through, regardless of how others are voting. Doing otherwise reduces the value of votes that came before you, which is unfair to them. Remember that it's not a competition between voters, but a collective effort to make a nice list of songs we like. Thanks.

I did my best with all the links but there is always a chance some are broken or have a wrong version or bad audio quality. If a link is broken or you have a suggestion for a better link, please contact me or post the link in the thread. Officially, we are not voting on the YouTube link, but on the listed Artist + Title.

COMMENTARY ON THE PROGRESS OF THE GAME, THE RULES, WHAT SONGS YOU LIKE, ETC., IS VERY WELCOME.

The second category is Eurodance/Eurodisco

Nominations are now open.

We are looking for 25 nominations.

Each person may nominate two songs, with a deadline of 72 hours. (Please include a youtube link)
If we're not full after 72 hours everyone gets another nomination 24 hours after their previous nomination.


---Specific rules for this category---

(This would be my interpretation anyway. I hope @Sir Lüc, who nominated the category, agrees, but if not we can make some rule changes of course.)

We are looking for songs from one of two particular genres. That means it's not just dance/disco from europe. Songs from outside of Europe are allowed if they fit the genre.

There is no hard definition here. I'm also not relying on any particular list, but these two pages are a good starting point:
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/euro-disco/
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/eurodance/
If you want to nominate something that is not labelled euro-disco or eurodance (or a subgenre of one of these) on RYM you should probably have a very strong argument or you might want to reconsider.
If you feel like nominating an edgecase (especially one that is labelled eurodance/euro-disco) I'm not gonna reject it if it's at least eurodance/disco-adjacent, but of course people are free to withhold points from songs they believe do not fit the category.

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We are voting on the written combination artist (or composer) + title, rather than the specific version that is being linked to, in case people do not like that version.

If you can, please include a link to YouTube or some other video or audio file of the song. Otherwise I will find a link myself, but I might not always find the best version.

Nominated so far:

Anyway, nominations are closed. I will set up nominations for the next category and then we shall proceed to voting in the other thread.

Quote from: Gjermund Higraff on September 15, 2025, 02:32:19 PMI'll add one to help close out the nominations. Someone else do one too, please 🙂

5. Kirsty MacColl - Days

Strictly speaking this was posted less than 24 hours after your previous nomination, but considering we weren't full when the 24 hours were up I will count this as if it were posted then. (I think there is precedent for this)

Quote from: Glüc on September 09, 2025, 03:10:08 PMI imagine eurodance is gonna be like a race to nominate Scatman, What is Love and I'm Blue and then people are gonna struggle :p Still, I really like the category because it does feel 'special' as in these aren't gonna be songs that would normally do well in TMT, but people can still enjoy them.

Admittedly I kind of overlooked the eurodisco bit here. If Boney M, Modern Talking and even certain ABBA songs are included then surely we should be able to find enough nominations.

Well that was an eventful season. Kind of a weird ending, although somehow appropriate I guess. Three close finishes (all within 220 points).

Congrats to Lüc for winning this leg. Congrats to Mic'haglh for winning the season standing. (Strong performances by the Belacostăn teams. Next year I'm sure we'll see Cézembre strike back.)

Thanks everyone for playing and as usual of course many thanks to Lüc for co-hosting!

See you all next year!

Two spots left!

4. Rick Astley & Blossoms - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out


If Morrissey were likeable...

Is Dead Last going to be first? It looks like it, but it depends on Pedersen. Yesterdays stage saw Vingegaard giving the decisive blow on the Puerto de Navacerrada, winning the stage and securing the overall victory. Kuss (CFA) came second, followed by Hindley (CFA/REX/VFL), Pidcock (BDC/DED/EVC/REX/VFL) and Almeida (CFA/DED/REX), resulting in Kuss climbing to 7th place. The top 4 remains the same, but Pellizzarri lost time and drops to 6th (BDC/CHX). The result is another massive stagewin for Fiescha.

Standings after stage 20:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	8551	+647
2nd	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	8350	+538
3rd	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	7801	+585
4th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	7608	+937
5th	(=)		Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	7138	+558
6th	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	7005	+676
7th	(+1)		Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX)	6693	+587
8th	(-1)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	6634	+493
9th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	6343	+370
10th	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	5897	+474
11th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	5801	+421

We know the final results in GC which also tells us most of the end of tour points that will be awarded. Cézembre Fiescha will score a lot of points from having 3 riders in the top 4 of the standings and 4 riders in the top 7. However, the gap with the top 2 is just a bit too large. The first for the podium is still very much on. BdC needs Philipsen to do very well today to keep third place, otherwise CFA will overtake them.

 Dirnalaiset Mortescu however is not that many points removed from GHST. At the moment GHST is still in the lead, but there is one stage to go, for this edition and for this season and it's the stage to Madrid which will likely end in a sprint. Philipsen might be the favourite, but if Pedersen is competitive he will likely score enough points to secure the overall victory for Dead Last!

It will come down to the wire. GHST is not defeated yet, but advantage DED.

3. Madness - One Step Beyond

(Sneaking Ska in after all)

There are 11 spots left! Everyone now gets one additional nomination every 24 hours.

To be clear: those who haven't nominated yet can still post two picks at once (but then would have to wait another 24 hours before their third nomination)

I really don't have much time for update today sorry. Also for a recap of thursdays time trial I'm afraid. Ganna (BDC/DED/REX/VFL) won that one ahead of Vine (GHS/DED), Almeida (CFA/DED/REX) and Armirail (CHX/MCB/PTM), and then Philipsen (BDC/DED/GHS/REX/VFL) beat Pedersen (DED/MCB/PTM), Aular (CJO) and Biermans (EVC) in the sprint yesterday. GC is still undecided, just as TCAT, where the result of these two days is Dead Last scoring the most points on both days and getting very close to dead first, but presumably several teams are still in the running for the final victory.

Standings after stage 19:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	7904	+381
2nd	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	7812	+519
3rd	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	7216	+352
4th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	6671	+208
5th	(=)		Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	6580	+320
6th	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	6329	+293
7th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	6141	+257
8th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX)	6106	+315
9th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	5973	+281
10th	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	5423	+97
11th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	5380	+287

Two stages today, including a mountain stage with a HC finish today, which will determine the overall GC winner and the traditional sprint in Madrid on sunday.

Stage 17   »   O Barco de Valdeorras  ›  Alto de El Morredero

Today was one for the GC and indeed the last 5 riders remaining in front were also the top 5 of the current standings. We didn't get a real all out fight for GC however and no decisive blows were landed. In the end it was Pellizzari (BDC/CHX) who got away and finished in first place, 18 seconds ahead of Pidcock (BDC/DED/EVC/REX/VFL), followed by Hindley (CFA/REX/VFL), Vingegaard and Almeida (CFA/DED/REX).

Vingegaard remains in the lead, but the difference with Almeida is less than a minute. Pidcock, Hindley and Pellizzari follow on 2'28", 3'04" and 3'51" respectively.

Just like the fight for the red jersey has not been decided, the situation in TCAT is also still unclear with GHST having a significant lead, but not doing well in the GC standings and therefore likely suffering when we get to eot points. Today was a good day for their competitors, with BdC winning and Fiescha also doing very well.

Standings after stage 17:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	7151	+326
2nd	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	6616	+448
3rd	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	6481	+698
4th	(+2)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	6012	+644
5th	(-1)		Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	5896	+343
6th	(+1)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	5833	+631
7th	(-2)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	5727	+277
8th	(+1)		Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX)	5330	+622
9th	(-1)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	5249	+221
10th	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	5045	+478
11th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	4805	+462

Tomorrow we get the only ITT of this edition. A short, flat parcours through the city of Valladolid. There aren't many stages left so perhaps this will tell us a bit more (if it doesn't get interrupted by protests). Specialist Ganna (BDC/DED/REX/VFL) should probably be the favourite.