2023 Talossan Music Top 20 [Final Voting]

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 1
1. Blue Monday - 13 (one 2-point vote)
2. Crazy Train - 13 (no 2-point votes)
3. Africa - 12 (two 4-point votes)
4. Der Kommissar - 12 (no 4-point votes, three 3-point votes)
5. Don't Stop Me Now - 12 (no 4-point votes, one 3-point vote)
6. Santé - 10
7. I'm Still Standing - 9
8. On The River - 8 (two 2-point votes)
9. I'm Shipping Up To Boston - 8 (one 2-point vote)
10. Southern Cross - 3

GROUP 2
1. Telegraph Road - 20
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - 15
3. Enjoy the Silence - 13
4. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - 12
5. Paranoid Android - 9 (two 4-point votes)
6. The Universal - 9 (one 4-point vote)
7. Uprising - 6 (R2 PPV = 1.286)
8. Child in Time - 6 (R2 PPV = 1.250)
9. Solsbury Hill - 5 (one 3-point vote)
10. I Will Survive - 5 (no 3-point votes)

GROUP 3
1. Wish You Were Here - 18
2. Under Pressure - 14
3. Once in a Lifetime - 11
4. Everlong - 10 (one 4-point vote)
5. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 10 (no 4-point votes)
6. Take Five - 9
7. Paranoid - 8 (one 4-point vote)
8. Kashmir - 8 (no 4-point votes)
9. Long Train Runnin' - 6 (one 4-point vote)
10. The Chain - 6 (no 4-point votes)

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

TMT20 ROUND 3

Round 3 consists of five groups of ten songs each. The top five songs from each group advance according to the flowchart above. Groups are drawn randomly in such a way that each group contains two 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place songs from Round 2.

We will vote on groups 1, 2, and 3 and then groups 4 and 5. 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 4
David Bowie - Starman
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Queen - Killer Queen
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Smiths - How Soon is Now?
The Who - Baba O'Riley

GROUP 5
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Police - Message in a Bottle
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

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

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

GROUP 4
4 Johnny Cash - Hurt
2 Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
3 Smiths - How Soon is Now?
1The Who - Baba O'Riley


GROUP 5
2 Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
4 Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
1 Muse - Knights of Cydonia
3 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter


Group 4 is my favorite group ever.

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

Group 4

4. Johnny Cash-Hurt
3. The Who-Baba O'Riley
2. Queen-Killer Queen
1. Earth, Wind and Fire-September

Group 5

4. Dire Straits-Sultans Of Swing
3. Blue Oyster Cult-Burning For You
2. Alan Parsons Project-Sirius/Eye In The Sky
1. Gaelic Storm-One More Day Above The Roses

[Glüc]

As expected, two more really strong groups where some obvious top 20 worthy songs will have to do with 2 points or in group 3 even 1 point. I just really hope at least one 4 pointer makes it to the final this time.

4 Smokers
3 Sympathy for the Devil
2 How Soon Is Now?
1 You Cant Always Get What You Want

4 Street Spirit
3 Knights
2 Gimme Shelter
1 Sultans

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 4
4 - David Bowie - Starman
3 - Smiths - How Soon is Now?
2 - Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
1 - The Who - Baba O'Riley


GROUP 5
4 - Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
3 - Police - Message in a Bottle
2 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
1 - Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

GROUP 4  (strong group for sure !)
4- Smiths - How Soon is Now?
3- Johnny Cash - Hurt
2- Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
1- Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want


GROUP 5
4- Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3- Police - Message in a Bottle
2- Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
1- Muse - Knights of Cydonia

[xpb]

GROUP 4

4 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
3 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
2 Johnny Cash - Hurt
1 David Bowie - Starman


GROUP 5

4 Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
3 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
2 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
1 Police - Message in a Bottle

[Placiej]

GROUP 4
2 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
4 Johnny Cash - Hurt
1 Queen - Killer Queen
3 The Who - Baba O'Riley

GROUP 5
1 Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The sky
4 Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
2 Police - Message in a bottle
3 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

[Sir Lüc]

GROUP 4
4 - Starman
3 - Killer Queen
2 - September
1 - Baba O'Riley

GROUP 5
4 - Layla
3 - Sultans Of Swing
2 - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
1 - Gimme Shelter

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 4
4. Sympathy for the Devil
3. Baba O Riley
2. How you remind me
1. September

GROUP 5
4. One More Day Above the Roses
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
2. Gimme Shelter
1. Knights of Cydonia

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 4
1. Hurt - 17
2. How Soon is Now? - 12 (one 4-point vote)
3. Baba O'Riley - 12 (no 4-point votes)
4. September - 10
5. Starman - 9 (two 4-point votes)
6. Sympathy for the Devil - 9 (one 4-point vote)
7. Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - 8
8. Killer Queen - 6
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want - 5
10. How You Remind Me - 2

GROUP 5
1. Gimme Shelter - 17
2. Sultans Of Swing - 14
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - 10
4. One More Day Above the Roses - 9 (two 4-point votes)
5. Message in a Bottle - 9 (no 4-point votes)
6. Burnin' For You - 7 (one 4-point vote, R2 PPV = 1.222)
7. You Give Love a Bad Name - 7 (one 4-point vote, R2 PPV = 0.875)
8. Sirius/Eye In The Sky - 7 (no 4-point votes)
9. Knights of Cydonia - 6
10. Layla - 4

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

The difference between #1 and #6 in each group was always at least 8 points, except in Group 1, where it was only 3 points.

Three of the eight new nominations that made it to Round 3 (Enjoy the Silence, Wish You Were Here, and How Soon is Now) are now guaranteed a spot in the Top 20. The rest were eliminated. Last year, all three of the new nominations in Round 3 were eliminated, although two of those three (Blue Monday and Der Kommissar) have now advanced this year.

Six of last year's Top 20 were eliminated in Round 3, including last year's #3 (The Chain) and #4 (On the River).

Seven of the 22 songs on the Virtual Top 20 by Round 2 PPV were eliminated. The most popular Round 2 songs to be eliminated were The Chain and Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (both with 1.75 PPV in R2 but less than 1.00 PPV in R3).

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

TMT20 Round 4

Round 4 consists of one group of ten songs (the 4th and 5th place songs from each of the five groups of Round 3). The top five songs advance to Round 5 and earn a spot in the Top 20.

The 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).

Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
David Bowie - Starman
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Police - Message in a Bottle
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Radiohead - Paranoid Android

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

[Gjermund Higraff]

Round 4
4 - David Bowie - Starman
3 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2 - Police - Message in a Bottle
1 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)