2022 Talossan Music Top 20 [Results]

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Hello and welcome to the 2022 Talossan Music Top 20

We are holding it a bit early this year to celebrate the return of the inestimable Lüc da Schir.

For reference:
http://wiki.talossa.com/Talossan_Music_Top_20
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1007.0

2022 TMT20 Nomination Rules

Nominations are now open. Everyone (including guests and prospective citizens) is invited to nominate songs to form the 2022 edition of the Talossan Music Top 20.

The rounds format and tiebreakers will be the same as last year.

The competition will consist of 150 songs. 101 songs have qualified automatically based on their performance last year. Therefore, there will be a total of 49 new nominations, of which 0 are currently unfilled.

For now we will start with 3 nominations per person. If we don't have enough songs by 17:00 TST on April 22nd, everyone will be free to nominate one new songs every 12 hours.

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.

All genres of music are welcome. Nominating an entire symphony is probably not a good idea, but go for it if you want, I guess.

Do not worry about nominating songs because they are not popular enough (or because they are too mainstream). You do not get a prize if your song wins. If you get someone to listen to a song or genre he did not know or like before, that is nice too. We all seem to love our 70s rock classics, and if your all time favorite song happens to fall in that category, go for it! But if it does not, adding some diversity to the list is just as good. Just nominate whatever song you think deserves to be in the list for whatever reason.

Tagging some people who may or may not be interested (others are equally welcome to nominate songs of course):
@Lüc @Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù @Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu @Munditenens Tresplet @Iason Taiwos @mpf @Miestră Schivă, UrN @Eðo Grischun @Açafat del Val @Sevastáin Pinátsch @xpb @Audrada Roibeardet @Ián Tamorán S.H. @King John @cmsiervicul

[Sir Lüc]

LET'S GOOOOOO

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Nominees
Aaron Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Adult Cinema - Dreamt The Other Night
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith - Same old Song and Dance
After the Dust - Heartsick Lullaby
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
Alex Schofield - Desperado and Troubadour
Ali Handal - You're Worth More
Amadou & Mariam (feat. Manu Chao) - Sénégal Fast Food
Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria In Excelsis Deo
B-52's - Roam
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - My Wheels Won't Turn
Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Beatles - Let it Be
Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love
Björk - Unison
Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Blur - The Universal
Bob Segar - Old Time Rock and Roll
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
Boney M. - Rasputin
Booker T. and the MG's - Green Onions
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
Bush - Letting the Cables Sleep (the N.O.W. Remix)
Carbon Leaf - The Donnybrook Affair
Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Ceann - Old Dun Cow
Charli XCX - Boom Clap
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Parker - Cool Blues
Chicago - Look Away
CHVRCHES - Killer
CHVRCHES ft. Robert Smith - How Not to Drown
Clamavi De Profundus - The Song of Durin
Coldplay - Fix You
Crosby, Stills and Nash - Southern Cross
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
David Bowie - Starman
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Eagles - Midnight Flyer
Earth, Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Ed Welch and Robert Hartshorne, Trap Geek - Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Main Theme Trap Remix
Ennio Morricone - Man with a Harmonica
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Foghat - Slow Ride
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Walk
Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Gaelic Storm - Rum Runners
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Adagio (Concierto De Aranjuez)
Het Goede Doel - België (Is er leven op Pluto...?)
Hooverphonic - Out of Sight
Jason Boland and the Stragglers - Devil Pays In Gold
Jason Boland and the Stragglers - If I Ever Get Back to Oklahoma
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
KISS - Black Diamond
Kool & The Gang - Celebration
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Lights ft. Josh Dun - In My Head
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Ludwig von Beethoven - 9th Symphony in D minor, Op. 125, 4th movement
Luther Vandross - Superstar
Manchester Orchestra - The Alien
Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni
Manhattan Transfer - Birdland
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Matia Bazar - Elettrochoc
Men at Work - Down Under
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Mork and Mindy ft. Billy Nomates - Sleaford Mods
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Uprising
Nathan Evans ft. 220 KID and Billen Ted - Wellerman
New Order - Blue Monday
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
Paramore - Still Into You
Passion Pit - Take a Walk
Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Police - Message in a Bottle
Police - Roxanne
Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band - Boomer Sooner
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Ramin Djawadi - Light Of The Seven
Rammstein - Haifisch
Reckless Kelly - Seven Nights in Eire
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Raise a Little Hell
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Rush - Subdivisions
Rush - Marathon
Sarah Jarosz - Run Away
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Spinners - Rubberband Man
Stromae - Santé
Supertramp - School
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Talk Talk - Life's What You Make it
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Tom Waits - God's Away on Business
Toto - Africa
Trammps - Disco Inferno
Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out
Whiskey Myers - On The River
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem Mass in D minor

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Nominations open

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Hooverphonic - Out of Sight (2007)
https://youtu.be/AZTdZAScPbg

Luther Vandross - Superstar (1983)
https://youtu.be/1xoQej06OEQ

Björk - Unison (2001)
https://youtu.be/rgEhj4edj4Y

[Glüc]

Updated all-time top 20 after 2021 based on my weird counting system:

1. (=) Bohemian Rhapsody - 356
2. (=) Telegraph Road - 244
3. (+3) Gimme Shelter - 170
4. (+3) The Devil Went Down to Georgia - 155
5. (=) You Give Love a Bad Name - 144
6. (-3) Under Pressure - 137
7. (-3) Starman - 129
8. (-1) Knights of Cydonia - 128
9. (=) What a Wonderful World - 125
10. (+1) Ring of Fire - 120
11. (+6) Sultans of Swing - 118
12. (-3) Feel Good Inc. - 116
13. (-1) Hurt - 96
14. (+7) Once in a Lifetime - 83
15. (-2) Eleanor Rigby - 75
16. (-3) Viva la Vida - 74
17. (-2) Imagine - 72
18. (+10) One More Day Above the Roses - 65
18. (+46) The Chain - 65
20. (-4) Copacabana - 60

Anyway, looking forward to the new edition! Thanks to Ian for organising this again!

[Glüc]

1. Amadou & Mariam (feat. Manu Chao) - Sénégal Fast Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43T8rEOg-I

2. Stromae - Santé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QS83ubhHE

3. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek

[Glüc]

Was also considering nominating something by The The, just to see how Ian would deal with that (having removed all the "The"'s from the artist names). ;D

Edit: nevermind, we still have The Weeknd and The Who. I suppose "Who" would be almost as bad as "The"

[Sir Lüc]

Very tough to pick just 3 as usual, so I tried to pick unrepresented artists:


1. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRMvKFJ5fZM

2. Kool & The Gang - Celebration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

3. Boney M. - Rasputin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Eo2QzqU4

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nft1OVNLM7A


New Order - Blue Monday (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GxjzHm5us


The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIe-Cj071l0

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Going with three modern songs this time, which probably means that all of them will be eliminated in the first round, but whatever.

1. Paramore - Still Into You (the song our Organic Law is kind of named after)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OblL026SvD4

2. Charli XCX - Boom Clap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOPMlIIg_38

3. CHVRCHES - Killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDEyC8F4NgE

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Was also considering nominating something by The The, just to see how Ian would deal with that (having removed all the "The"'s from the artist names). ;D

Edit: nevermind, we still have The Weeknd and The Who. I suppose "Who" would be almost as bad as "The"

I remove "The" unless it is an integral part of the name (in my judgment)

[NRB]

I know there's one Foo Fighters song already but given the sad news about Taylor I think it's a good idea to throw up their biggest hit
Foo Fighters - Everlong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y

List could use some Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd23UVID7k

also this cause BOOMER
The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band - Boomer Sooner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ErtzJSUiQY

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etmLglO1KGo

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytSaHgYRG4

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enoQSkYgvPY

This year I am entering unknown or little known artists I have discovered. I hope you enjoy them even if you don't vote for them.

[Iason Taiwos]

https://youtu.be/iKcbSOjIzjQ
https://youtu.be/cK8TQ11uJ_4
(This group is technically Alvin and the Chipmunks)
https://youtu.be/FQ70oQVos5Q