[TMT20] 2025 Talossan Music Top 20

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

(Elections in 2 months, so I guess it is that time again, hint hint)

For reference:
http://wiki.talossa.com/Talossan_Music_Top_20
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=3199.0

2025 TMT20 Nomination Rules

Nominations are now open. Everyone (including guests and prospective citizens) is invited to nominate songs to form the 2025 edition of the Talossan Music Top 20.

The competition will consist of 150 songs. 100 songs have qualified automatically based on their performance in the 2024 TMT20. Therefore, there will be a total of 50 new nominations.

For now we will start with 3 nominations per person. If we don't have enough songs by Noon TST on January 26, everyone will be free to nominate one new song 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
Aerosmith - Dream On
Agnes Obel - Riverside
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
B-52's - Private Idaho
B-52's - Roam
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Blur - The Universal
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Coldplay - Fix You
Colourist - Little Games
Crosby, Stills and Nash - Southern Cross
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio
Cure - A Forest
Dagny - Somebody
Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
David Bowie - Starman
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Donkeyboy - Ambitions
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Ennio Morricone - Man with a Harmonica
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Walk
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Gazpacho - The Walk
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Adagio (Concierto De Aranjuez)
House of Pain - Jump Around
Jefferson Starship - Jane
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
Madrugada - Majesty
Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
Men at Work - Down Under
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Uprising
Neil Diamond - Hello Again
New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Nolwenn Leroy - Tri Martolod
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel - My Body is a Cage
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Police - Roxanne
Police - Message in a Bottle
Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
Prozac+ - Acida
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Rammstein - Haifisch
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Rush - Subdivisions
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Stromae - Santé
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Toto - Hold the Line
Toto - Africa
Whiskey Myers - On The River

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Reminder the Sultans of Swing was retired at the end of last year's contest (Layla will take the open R1 bye since it had the greatest PPV of the songs eliminated in R2 last year).

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

Thank you, @Sir Ian Plätschisch for starting this new edition.

I propose:

Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love

Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes

Le Tigre - Deceptacon

[M:sr Pôl dal Nordselvă, D.Div, M.Ed]

So those are all from major recording artists, what about music written by Talossans? Maybe not as popular but I'll bet there may be a few nominations.

For example I have two albums released last year. Maybe not chart toppers but still good music (in my humble opinion).

[Glüc]

So those are all from major recording artists, what about music written by Talossans? Maybe not as popular but I'll bet there may be a few nominations.

For example I have two albums released last year. Maybe not chart toppers but still good music (in my humble opinion).

We have had nominations of music written by Talossans before, especially citaxhien Miestră's band, Vostok Lake. Also a christmas carol made by Baron Hooligan actually made the top 20 in the first two editions. So you're very welcome to nominate your own music! Id be very interested to hear it. Of course it helps with the voting if the files are easily accessible (e.g. being on youtube). And you'd have to be comfortable with people judiging your music in comparison to say Neil Diamond...

[Glüc]

Why does Who get a the but not the Cure?

Also I've probably said this before but every year Im really tempted to nominate "The The" just to see how that would be interpreted.

[Glüc]

Anyway, thanks Ian for organising this again. Looking forward to it!

1. Desireless - Voyage Voyage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlgmH5q9uNk

[Gjermund Higraff]

Thanks for getting this going again🙂

1. Mercury Rev - Goddess on a highway

2. Fay Wildhagen - ohmygod

3. Weyes Blood - Something to believe

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Why does Who get a the but not the Cure?

Also I've probably said this before but every year Im really tempted to nominate "The The" just to see how that would be interpreted.

I remove the "the" unless (in my opinion) "the" is an integral part of the name.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

Time for me to nominate more songs that will never make it lol.

• Maanam - Krakowski spleen
• Karolina Czarnecka - Hera koka hasz LSD
• Mirami feat. VovaZiLvova - Sexualna

1 and 2 are from Poland, 3 is from Ukraine.
Second song is a Polish cover of "Heroine and cocaine" by The Tiger Lillies.

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I nominate

Sweet Simona by Alex Schofield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRCiUjduXE

Think About That by Charlie Reager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA3TSYwYTNc

Cristy's Song by Chas Burtchett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKqw2e-Qik

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Against the Current - jump

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Pale Waves - Jealousy

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Beatles - Taxman