2023 Talossan Music Top 20 [Final Voting]

[Sir Lüc]

GROUP 3
4 - Bohemian Rhapsody
3 - Adagio (Concierto De Aranjuez)
2 - Paranoid
1 - Solsbury Hill

GROUP 4
4. Santé
3. Gimme Shelter
2. Kashmir
1. Don't Stop Me Now

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 3
1. Bohemian Rhapsody - 18
2. Uprising - 9 (two 4-point votes)
3. On The River - 9 (one 4-point vote, one 3-point vote)
4. Paranoid - 9 (one 4-point vote, no 3-point votes)
5. Solsbury Hill - 7
6. Adagio (Concierto De Aranjuez) - 5 (1.125 R1 PPV)
7. Jane - 5 (0.750 R1 PPV)
8. The Sound of Silence - 4
9. Holiday in Cambodia - 3
10. Ohio - 1

GROUP 4
1. Gimme Shelter - 15
2. Santé - 12
3. Kashmir - 9
4. I'm Shipping Up To Boston - 8
5. Don't Stop Me Now - 7
6. Roam - 6
7. Haifisch - 5
8. The Impression That I Get - 4
9. I Left My Heart in San Francisco - 3
10. Moaning Lisa Smile - 1

Bohemian Rhapsody is back with a vengeance after an early exit last year.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2023 TMT20 ROUND 2

Round 2 consists of ten groups of ten songs each. The top five songs in each group advance to Round 3.

Groups are drawn randomly in such a way that each group contains one 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place song from Round 1, 2-3 songs eliminated in Round 3 last year, 0-1 songs eliminated in Round 4 last year, 1 song ranked between 11-20 last year, and 1 song ranked between 1-10 last year.

We will vote on groups two at a time (although you can vote on only one of the groups if you want). Each voting period will last three days (72 hours). 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.

Give your top four songs 4, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly three or four songs (awarding the 1-point vote is optional).

GROUP 5
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Ennio Morricone - Man with a Harmonica
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Rush - Marathon

GROUP 6
Blur - The Universal
Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Men at Work - Down Under
Police - Message in a Bottle
Rammstein - Sonne

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 4 points
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- 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.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 5
4. Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
3. Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
2. Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
1. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

GROUP 6
4. Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
3. Men at Work - Down Under
2. Elton John - I'm Still Standing
1. Police - Message in a Bottle

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

Group 5

4. Dire Straits-Sultans Of Swing
3. Rush-Marathon
2. Gaelic Storm-One More Day Above The Roses
1. Rolling Stones-You Can't Always Get What You Want

Group 6

4. Looking Glass-Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
3. Elton John-I'm Still Standing
2. Men At Work-Down Under
1. Deep Purple-Child In Time

[Glüc]

Group 5: Very strong. Strongest group so far.
Street Spirit - 4
Marathon - 3
You Can't Always Get What You Want - 2
Sultans of Swing - 1

Group 6:
The Universal - 4 (I kinda agree with Gjermund that I should have nominated the Hyde Park version)
Child in Time - 3
Sweet Dreams - 2
Sonne - 1

[Sir Lüc]

GROUP 5
4. Sultans of Swing
3. Man with a Harmonica
2. Take Five
1. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

GROUP 6 - Ridiculously tough choices for 3-2-1-HM.
4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
3. I'm Still Standing
2. Child in Time
1. The Universal
HM: Down Under

All these R2 groups kinda feel strong but balanced. Even the R1 groups were mostly like that, with the exception of a couple of weak groups. I'm kinda surprised at the absence of true stacks so far (inb4 one of the remaining R2 groups proves me wrong). Looking at how songs are laid out in pools, though, I think the likelihood of any of the remaining group having more than four personal favourites is kinda low, so luckily I don't think I'll have to leave further must-votes at 0.

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 5
4 - Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
3 - Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
2 - Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
1 - Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing


GROUP 6
4 - Blur - The Universal
3 - Police - Message in a Bottle
2 - Deep Purple - Child in Time
1 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

GROUP 5
4- Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3- Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
2- Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
1- Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

GROUP 6
4- Police - Message in a Bottle
3- Rammstein - Sonne
2- Deep Purple - Child in Time
1- Men at Work - Down Under

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

GROUP 5
4- Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
3- Ennio Morricone - Man with a Harmonica
2- Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
1- Beatles - Eleanor Rigby

GROUP 6
4- Elton John - I'm Still Standing
3- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
2- Rammstein - Sonne
1- Police - Message in a Bottle

[Placiej]

Group 5
4 Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
1 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
3 Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
2 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want


GROUP 6
4 Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
2 Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
1 Men at Work - Down Under
3 Police - Message in a Bottle

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 5
1. Sultans Of Swing - 16
2. Take Five - 11
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - 9 (two 4-point votes)
4. One More Day Above the Roses - 9 (one 4-point vote)
5. You Can't Always Get What You Want - 8
6. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding - 7
7. Man with a Harmonica - 6 (R3 last year)
8. Marathon - 6 (R2 last year)
9. Live in the Moment - 5
10. Eleanor Rigby - 3

GROUP 6
1. I'm Still Standing - 12 (one 2-point vote)
2. Message in a Bottle - 12 (no 2-point votes)
3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 10 (one 4-point vote)
4. Child in Time - 10 (no 4-point votes)
5. The Universal - 9
6. Southern Gothic - 8
7. Down Under - 7
8. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - 6 (one 4-point vote)
9. Sonne - 6 (no 4-point votes)
10. Freedom of Choice - 0

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2023 TMT20 ROUND 2

Round 2 consists of ten groups of ten songs each. The top five songs in each group advance to Round 3.

Groups are drawn randomly in such a way that each group contains one 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place song from Round 1, 2-3 songs eliminated in Round 3 last year, 0-1 songs eliminated in Round 4 last year, 1 song ranked between 11-20 last year, and 1 song ranked between 1-10 last year.

We will vote on groups two at a time (although you can vote on only one of the groups if you want). Each voting period will last three days (72 hours). 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.

Give your top four songs 4, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly three or four songs (awarding the 1-point vote is optional).

GROUP 7
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Laama - Talossa
Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Peter Gabriel - My Body is a Cage
Queen - Innuendo
Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

GROUP 8
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Coldplay - Fix You
Eagles - Midnight Flyer
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 4 points
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- 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.

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 7
4 - Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
3 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2 - Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
1 - Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'


GROUP 8
4 - Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
3 - Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
2 - Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
1 - Coldplay - Fix You

[Glüc]

Group 7: oof, very strong group. Strongest group so far.
Paranoid Android - 4
Sympathy for the Devil - 3
Telegraph Road - 2
Innuendo - 1

Group 8:
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - 4
Fix You - 3
Mondscheinsonate - 2
I Will Survive - 1