2023 Talossan Music Top 20 [Final Voting]

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

Round 4

4. Charlie Daniels Band-Devil Went Down To Georgia
3. Earth, Wind & Fire-September
2. Queen-Don't Stop Me Now
1. Gaelic Storm-One More Day Above The Roses

[Placiej]

4 Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
1 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
2 Foo Fighters - Everlong
3 Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

4- Radiohead - Paranoid Android 
3- Foo Fighters - Everlong
2- Police - Message in a Bottle
1- Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

[Sir Lüc]

4. Starman
3. Sweet Dreams
2. Der Kommissar
1. Paranoid Android

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4 Earth, Wind and Fire - September

3 David Bowie - Starman

2 Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

1 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

[Glüc]

4 Paranoid Android
3 Sweet Dreams
2 Der Kommissar
1 Message in a Bottle

Was almost tempted to throw my one point away*, but tbh, looking back, I think introducing that option was a mistake.

* Not because there are only three good songs, but I rate songs 4-9 about equally while clearly preferring the top 3.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

4. One More Day Above the Roses
3. The Devil Went Down to Georgia
2. Everlong
1. September

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

4- David Bowie - Starman
3- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
2- Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
1- Falco - Der Kommissar

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

ROUND 4
1. Starman - 15
2. Paranoid Android - 12
3. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - 11 (two 4-point votes)
4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 11 (no 4-point votes)
5. September - 9
6. One More Day Above the Roses - 8
7. Everlong - 7 (one 3-point vote)
8. Don't Stop Me Now - 7 (no 3-point votes)
9. Der Kommissar - 5 (R3 PPV = 1.200)
10. Message in a Bottle - 5 (R3 PPV = 1.000)

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

All five songs to make it through were either in the Top 20 or were eliminated in Round 4 last year, while all five songs to be eliminated were eliminated before Round 4 last year.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

It's been a few years since the TMT20 had a formatting change, so we're overdue for one. Nothing major, I promise.

I've always thought Round 5 lacked the dignity it deserves. After all, all of the songs it in have already made the Top 20, but here we are voting just like we have in Rounds 1-4.

I am rebranding Round 5 as the SEMI-FINALS. A few new rules:
- DO NOT POST YOUR VOTE HERE. Send me your vote in private (just like for the Finals).
- Introducing the 5-point vote. Give points to exactly five songs (5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
- Voting will last one week.
- Results (except for which five songs advance to the final) will not be announced ahead of the final results reveal.

[Glüc]

Paranoid Android back in the final for the first time since 2017! Very deserved for such a beautiful song.

Amazingly strong semifinal. Strongest group so far (and we've gotten some pretty stacked groups already).

[Glüc]

It's been a few years since the TMT20 had a formatting change, so we're overdue for one. Nothing major, I promise.

I've always thought Round 5 lacked the dignity it deserves. After all, all of the songs it in have already made the Top 20, but here we are voting just like we have in Rounds 1-4.

I like the rebranding of round 5 as semifinal.

Although tbh I wonder if we need round 5 at all. Round 3, 4, 5, final are all just voting on the same couple of songs, which has felt somewhat redundant for a while now and we've often seen people miss out on rounds 4 and 5 in the past. Maybe next year we could just have a 20 song final. Moving to a 15 song from 10 didnt cause any problems at all so I think people can handle a 20 song group. Or alternatively rounds 4 and 5 could be combined into a 15 song semifinal where not all songs make the list?

[Glüc]

- Introducing the 5-point vote. Give points to exactly five songs (5, 4, 3, 2, 1).

I do kinda worry this voting key is very harsh on personal favourites / love-hate songs in favour of songs that everybody kinda likes. That might potentially reduce diversity in the final a bit.

[Glüc]

Anyway,the new fancy semifinal deserves its own spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6pSMedVf8NgGaqwQ3G8Jde

We have a full week now, so a good opportunity to listen to all the songs again before voting.

(Ian hasn't actually posted the songs yet, but I assume it's gonna be these 10)