2022 Talossan Music Top 20 [Results]

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

FINAL TMT20 VOTING
The final round consists of one group of fifteen songs (the 1st and 2nd place song from each group in Round 3 and the top five songs from Round 5).

The voting period will last one week. Votes cast after that will not be accepted, with the exception that we will always keep going until we have at least three votes per group.

DO NOT POST YOUR VOTE HERE. SEND ME YOUR VOTE IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE.

Give your top ten songs 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly ten songs.

Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Men at Work - Down Under
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Toto - Africa
Whiskey Myers - On The River

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 12 points
- Number of voters giving 10 points
...
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- PPV in Round 5 (if applicable)
- PPV in Round 4 (if applicable)
- PPV in Round 3
- PPV in Round 2
- Last year's result (1 > 2 > ... > 20 > Round 4 > Round 3 > Round 2 > other)
- PPV in Round 1 (if applicable)
- 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.

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Voted by PM as specified.  As usual, a difficult set of choices.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #20

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk

Released 1963
From the album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash

First nominated by Moritz Fernaodescu in 2013
Previously #5 in 2016, #16 in 2017, #3 in 2020, and #17 in 2021.

Round 5 Points - 4

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #19

Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEwaS-lLk0Y

Released 1982
From the album Eye in the Sky

First nominated by Munditenens Tresplet in 2016
Previously #5 in 2017

Round 5 Points - 5

[Glüc]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

Link doesnt work anymore

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

Link doesnt work anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Only two days left to vote! Only five votes so far.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #18

The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
https://youtu.be/2dANDhfWU8g

Released 1975
From the album One of These Nights

First nominated by Txec dal Nordselva in 2021

Round 5 Points - 7

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #17

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc

Released 1975
From the album Physical Graffiti

First nominated by Dieter Vercáriâ in 2013
Previously #18 in 2015, #14 in 2017, and #16 in 2020

Round 5 Points - 8


Kashmir continues its habit of popping in and out of the bottom half of the chart.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #16

David Bowie - Starman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcPA7Fzebw

Released 1972
From the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

First nominated by Munditenens Tresplet in 2018
Previously #4 in 2018, #1 in 2019, and #9 in 2020

Round 5 Points - 8

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Only a few hours left to vote!

[Glüc]

The final doesn't have as many obvious favourites for me as previous years. (Missing Once in a Lifetime, Haifisch, Knights of Cydonia, Feel Good Inc, Innuendo, Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors in particular) On the other hand, there are very few weaker songs too. All songs in the final are decent and nearly all of them are good imho. This makes voting extra difficult. I've listened to all the songs many times now this week, but theres still some difficult choices Im not 100% sure about. Don't worry, I will vote soon. Already know the order will be significantly different from how I expected to vote a week ago.

[Glüc]

Either way I'm looking forward to the reveal.

Seems like a good time to kick of the prediction game. This too feels more difficult than previous years, as there aren't that many obvious candidates for last place. Still, I would expect (not based on any deep analysis or anything) the following to appear pretty soon:

Prediction (bottom third):
15 - Down Under
14 - Crazy Train
13 - Burnin' For You
12 - On the River
11 - YCAGWYW

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Voting is now closed. Songs 11-15 will come out over the next few days, but I'm considering doing a live stream to reveal the top 10 spots.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2022 TMT20 #15

The Who - Baba O'Riley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g

Released 1971
From the album Who's Next

First nominated by Ian Plätschisch in 2019

Final Round Points - 18



Five voters (out of seven) gave it at least one point, but two of those gave it exactly one point, and no one gave it more than six.