2023 Talossan Music Top 20 [Final Voting]

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Hello and welcome to the 2023 Talossan Music Top 20

It seems like just yesterday that we wrapped up the 2022-2023 Special Edition, but it is again time for the annual main event.

For reference:
http://wiki.talossa.com/Talossan_Music_Top_20
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1326.0

2023 TMT20 Nomination Rules

Nominations are now open. Everyone (including guests and prospective citizens) is invited to nominate songs to form the 2023 edition of the Talossan Music Top 20.

The rounds format will be the same as last year.

The competition will consist of 150 songs. 106 songs have qualified automatically based on their performance in the 2022 TMT20 or the 2022-2023 Special Edition. Therefore, there will be a total of 44 new nominations.

For now we will start with 3 nominations per person. If we don't have enough songs by 17:00 TST on July 21st, 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.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Existing Nominations
From 2022 TMT20
Aaron Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith - Same old Song and Dance
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria In Excelsis Deo
B-52's - Roam
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Beatles - Let it Be
Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Blur - The Universal
Bob Segar - Old Time Rock and Roll
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Ceann - Old Dun Cow
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Parker - Cool Blues
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
Ennio Morricone - Man with a Harmonica
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
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
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Adagio (Concierto De Aranjuez)
Jason Boland and the Stragglers - Devil Pays In Gold
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
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
Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni
Manhattan Transfer - Birdland
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Men at Work - Down Under
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Uprising
New Order - Blue Monday
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
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
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)
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 - Marathon
Rush - Subdivisions
Sarah Jarosz - Run Away
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Spinners - Rubberband Man
Stromae - Santé
Supertramp - School
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tom Waits - God's Away on Business
Toto - Africa
Whiskey Myers - On The River
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem Mass in D minor

From 2022-2023 Special Edition
CHVRCHES - Final Girl
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Lesley Roy - Maps
Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat It

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

1. John Fogerty - Centerfield

2. Paramore - Crushcrushcrush

3. Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Hello TMT ! Here are my nominations :

Laama - Talossa
https://youtu.be/30L0_nSaeqc

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now ?
https://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
https://youtu.be/hjpF8ukSrvk

[Glüc]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
https://youtu.be/hjpF8ukSrvk

Nooo! Why did you remove The Smiths :( That was such a good pick...

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Nooo! Why did you remove The Smiths :( That was such a good pick...

You're right ! I've put in back again.. 3 choices are not enough...

[Glüc]

Nooo! Why did you remove The Smiths :( That was such a good pick...

You're right ! I've put in back again.. 3 choices are not enough...

For transparency's sake I should probably warn that I may possibly have nominated HSIN? last year and sadly it didn't go too well.

But agreed, it's so hard picking just three.


PS: on the topic of the Smiths, apparently this happened, and it was the best thing to happen to music this year:

(NOT my nomination, although maybe it should be...)

[Glüc]

Urban Symphony - Rändajad

This is an amazing song, a well deserved winner of the special edition and I would love to have it in the main edition again,

but

what is the criterion you use to decide which of the special edition songs go to the regular edition (re previous participations in tmt)?

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

PS: on the topic of the Smiths, apparently this happened, and it was the best thing to happen to music this year:

Difficult to be better than the original, but all tributes which can lead to listen again to the Smiths are welcome ! So many good songs.. the compilation album « Hatful Of Hollow » is the perfect first step for those who don't know yet this legendary group gathering a perfect guitarist, a perfect bass guitar player (rip), and the best song writer of the 80's.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Urban Symphony - Rändajad

This is an amazing song, a well deserved winner of the special edition and I would love to have it in the main edition again,

but

what is the criterion you use to decide which of the special edition songs go to the regular edition (re previous participations in tmt)?

I was intending to skip any song that had already been in the TMT20 and didn't realize Randajad was such a song. To be consistent I should replace it with "Maps" (since Zitti e Buoni has also already been in)

[Glüc]

Urban Symphony - Rändajad

This is an amazing song, a well deserved winner of the special edition and I would love to have it in the main edition again,

but

what is the criterion you use to decide which of the special edition songs go to the regular edition (re previous participations in tmt)?

I was intending to skip any song that had already been in the TMT20 and didn't realize Randajad was such a song. To be consistent I should replace it with "Maps" (since Zitti e Buoni has also already been in)

Yeah, I unsuccesfully nominated it in 2017. Sad, but fair I suppose.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Urban Symphony - Rändajad

This is an amazing song, a well deserved winner of the special edition and I would love to have it in the main edition again,

but

what is the criterion you use to decide which of the special edition songs go to the regular edition (re previous participations in tmt)?

I was intending to skip any song that had already been in the TMT20 and didn't realize Randajad was such a song. To be consistent I should replace it with "Maps" (since Zitti e Buoni has also already been in)

Yeah, I unsuccesfully nominated it in 2017. Sad, but fair I suppose.

I appreciate your honesty

[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat]

It is hard to only pick three!

Lonely Island feat. Niki Minaj - Creep

The Midnight - Gloria

Electric Six - High Voltage

[xpb]

The Band, And The Staples - The Weight (The Last Waltz)
https://youtu.be/ccJTFXvkXkA

Brandi Carlile - The Story
https://youtu.be/o8pQLtHTPaI

Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
https://youtu.be/xdLlk7NYGAA