[TMT20] 2025 Talossan Music Top 20

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 7
1. Message in a Bottle - 17
2. Telegraph Road - 17
3. Sympathy for the Devil - 15
4. I'm Still Standing - 12
5. Innuendo - 9
6. Knights of Cydonia - 8
7. A Quiet Life - 8
8. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding - 7
9. Blue Monday - 4
10. Alife - 3

GROUP 8
1. The Chain - 17
2. Starman - 13
3. More Than a Feeling - 11
4. Kashmir - 11
5. Holiday in Cambodia - 10 (one 4-point vote, two 3-point votes)
6. Strawberry Fields Forever - 10 (one 4-point vote, one 3-point vote)
7. Baba O'Riley - 10 (no 4-point votes)
8. Bela Lugosi's Dead - 7
9. I Will Survive - 7
10. One More Day Above the Roses - 4

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2025 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, 0-1 songs that received a special Round 1 bye, 2-3 songs eliminated in Round 3 last year, 0-1 songs eliminated in the semifinal last year, 0-1 songs ranked between 12-20 last year, and one song ranked between 2-11 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 9
Cure - A Forest
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Rammstein - Haifisch
Supertramp - Fool's Overture
Toto - Hold the Line
Toto - Africa

GROUP 10
Blur - The Universal
Donkeyboy - Ambitions
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Police - Roxanne
Queen - Killer Queen
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Whiskey Myers - On The River

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)
- Rank in Round 1 (if applicable)
- Year first nominated (special edition > earlier > later)
- 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.

[Glüc]

Two more very strong groups

A Forest - 4
Child in Time - 3
Haifisch - 2
Fool's Overture - 1

Street Spirit - 4
The Universal - 3
Sweet Dreams - 2
Roxanne - 1

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

Group 9

4-Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3-Jefferson Starship - Jane
2-Toto - Africa
1-Deep Purple - Child in Time

Group 10

4-Whiskey Myers - On The River
3-Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
2-Police - Roxanne
1-Queen - Killer Queen

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

GROUP 9
4- Cure - A Forest
3- Foo Fighters - Everlong
2- Supertramp - Fool's Overture
1- Rammstein - Haifisch

GROUP 10
4- Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3- Police - Roxanne
2- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1- Blur - The Universal

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I don't know if anyone cares but due to participating in this I have discovered a few artists I was not aware of before and bought a couple of CD's (yes I'm old and I like CD's LOL). So far I have bought CD's by Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and Ghost Hounds, Whiskey Myers is on my list for a future purchase. Listening to my new Ghost Hounds CD right now and enjoying the hell out of it LOL

[Glüc]

I don't know if anyone cares but due to participating in this I have discovered a few artists I was not aware of before and bought a couple of CD's (yes I'm old and I like CD's LOL). So far I have bought CD's by Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and Ghost Hounds, Whiskey Myers is on my list for a future purchase. Listening to my new Ghost Hounds CD right now and enjoying the hell out of it LOL

I used to collect CD's about when I was about 15-20. I got to about a 100 -Incidentally one of the first two being "The Colour and the Shape" by the Foo Fighters, which contains Everlong.-

Unfortunately then came Spotify and bluetooth speakers and cars have bluetooth radio now and I can listen to whatever I want on any device now so I stopped using them and eventually stopped collecting them as well. I'm not even sure if I have a working CD player anymore. So it's basically like a stamp collection now. And unlike books it's not like you can use them on a desert island without equipment, so I don't think CD's will make a comeback when civilisation collapses. And to make matters worse all the fashionable vintage people go for vinyl. Best we can hope for is the collapse of all digital infrastructure, but not electricity. Oh well.

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I don't know if anyone cares but due to participating in this I have discovered a few artists I was not aware of before and bought a couple of CD's (yes I'm old and I like CD's LOL). So far I have bought CD's by Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and Ghost Hounds, Whiskey Myers is on my list for a future purchase. Listening to my new Ghost Hounds CD right now and enjoying the hell out of it LOL

I used to collect CD's about when I was about 15-20. I got to about a 100 -Incidentally one of the first two being "The Colour and the Shape" by the Foo Fighters, which contains Everlong.-

Unfortunately then came Spotify and bluetooth speakers and cars have bluetooth radio now and I can listen to whatever I want on any device now so I stopped using them and eventually stopped collecting them as well. I'm not even sure if I have a working CD player anymore. So it's basically like a stamp collection now. And unlike books it's not like you can use them on a desert island without equipment, so I don't think CD's will make a comeback when civilisation collapses. And to make matters worse all the fashionable vintage people go for vinyl. Best we can hope for is the collapse of all digital infrastructure, but not electricity. Oh well.

I currently have 23,281 songs downloaded onto my computer, I had to buy an external CD player to put them on this computer because computers don't come with them anymore. I fear that digital music will eventually be the downfall of the music industry. I mean, what is the incentive to practice hard and become great at what you do unless you can make money doing it? (FYI I also have a turntable and quite a vinyl collection, some of which I am converting to CD and installing on my computer as well)

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 9
4 - Cure - A Forest
3 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2 - Toto - Africa
1 - Deep Purple - Child in Time

GROUP 10
4 - Donkeyboy - Ambitions
3 - Blur - The Universal
2 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

[King Txec]

Group 9

4 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
3 - Foo Fighters - Everlong
2 - Toto - Africa
1 - Rammstein - Haifisch

Group 10

4 - Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
3 - Police - Roxanne
2 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (are Made of This)
1 - Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

[Placiej]

GROUP 9
2 Foo Fighters - Everlong

3 Jefferson Starship - Jane

1 Toto - Hold the Line

4 Toto - Africa

GROUP 10
2 Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running

3 Police - Roxanne

1 Queen - Killer Queen

4 Whiskey Myers - On The River

[xpb]

GROUP 9
4 Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
3 Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2 Rammstein - Haifisch
1 Supertramp - Fool's Overture

GROUP 10
4 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
3 Falco - Der Kommissar
2 Queen - Killer Queen
1 Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 9
4 - Foo Fighters - Everlong
3 - Rammstein - Haifisch
2 - Toto - Hold the Line
1 - Jefferson Starship - Jane
HM - Toto - Africa

GROUP 10
4 - Whiskey Myers - On The River
3 - Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
2 - Queen - Killer Queen
1 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

[Glüc]

3- Police - RoxanneDonkeyboy - Ambitions

Something may have gone wrong here.

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

3- Police - RoxanneDonkeyboy - Ambitions

Something may have gone wrong here.

Yes i keep Roxanne, thanks Glüc