[TMT20] 2025 Talossan Music Top 20

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

To account for the extra group, voting on this set of groups will last four days instead of the usual three.

[xpb]

GROUP 1
6 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4 Le Tigre - Deceptacon
3 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
2 Prozac+ - Acida
1 Police - Message in a Bottle

GROUP 2
6 Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
4 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
3 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
2 Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
1 David Bowie - Starman

GROUP 3
6 Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
4 Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
3 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
2 Supertramp - Breakfast in America
1 Muse - Uprising

[King Txec]

Wow this was a tough round to choose!

Group 1

6 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
4 - Eton John - I'm Still Standing
3 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
2 - The Police - Message in a Bottle
1 - Toto - Africa

Group 2

6 - Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
4 - Boston - More Than a Feeling
3 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
2 - David Bowie - Starman
1 - Earth, Wind and Fire - September

Group 3

6 - Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
4 - Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
3 - Muse - Uprising
2 - Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
1 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

[Glüc]

Nearly every song is worth points at this stage. Only group 2 appears a bit weak. Its a strong third round as usual. Still Im a bit worried about groups 4 and 5 because it appears most personal favourites have ended up in there. Difficult choices ahead.

Innuendo - 6
Black Hole Sun - 4
Stairway to Heaven - 3
Im Still Standing - 2
Acida - 1

Haifisch - 6
Sweet Dreams - 4
Down Under - 3
Live in the Moment - 2
Everlong - 1

Wuthering Heights - 6
Sympathy for the Devil - 4
The Chain - 3
Under Pressure - 2
Uprising - 1

[Glüc]

VIRTUAL TOP 20 (R2 PPV)
1. Rock the Casbah
1. September
3. Roxanne
4. A Forest
5. Message in a Bottle
5. Telegraph Road
5. The Chain
5. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
9. Under Pressure
9. Wish You Were Here
11. Paranoid Android
11. Paranoid
13. Down Under
13. Roam
13. Sympathy for the Devil
16. Wuthering Heights
16. Stairway to Heaven
16. Black Hole Sun
16. Africa
20. Acida
20. The Gambler

I like these stats either way, but wow this would be a very strong (semi)final

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

GROUP 1
6- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4- Police - Message in a Bottle
3- Le Tigre - Deceptacon
2- Prozac+ - Acida
1- Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

GROUP 2
6- Foo Fighters - Everlong
4- Rammstein - Haifisch
3- Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1- David Bowie - Starman

GROUP 3
6- Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
4- Police - Roxanne
3- Muse - Uprising
2- Supertramp - Breakfast in America
1- Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
   

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 1
6 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
4 - Toto - Africa
3 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
1 - Police - Message in a Bottle

GROUP 2
6 - David Bowie - Starman
4 - Boston - More Than a Feeling
3 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2 - Earth, Wind and Fire - September
1 - Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment

GROUP 3
6 - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
4 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
3 - Police - Roxanne
2 - Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
1 - Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

[Placiej]

GROUP 1

4 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
6 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1 Police - Message in a Bottle
3 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
2 Toto - Africa

GROUP 2
6 Boston - More Than a Feeling
2 Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
4 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
3  Foo Fighters - Everlong
1 Men at Work - Down Under


GROUP 3
6 Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
3 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
4 Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
2 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
1 Police - Roxanne

[Glüc]

Le Tigre - Deceptacon

[Sir Lüc]

GROUP 1
6. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
4. Queen - Innuendo
3. Prozac+ - Acida
2. Toto - Africa
1. Elton John - I'm Still Standing



HM: Clash - Rock the Casbah 

GROUP 2
6. David Bowie - Starman
4. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
3. Men at Work - Down Under
2.  Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
1. Earth, Wind and Fire - September

GROUP 3
6. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
4. Police - Roxanne

3. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
2. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
1. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

GROUP 1
4 Clash - Rock the Casbah
2 Elton John - I'm Still Standing
6 Le Tigre - Deceptacon
3 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
1 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

GROUP 2
6 Boston - More Than a Feeling
3 Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
4 Earth, Wind and Fire - September
1 Foo Fighters - Everlong
2 Men at Work - Down Under

GROUP 3
6 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
1 Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
3 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
2 Police - Roxanne
4 Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

[Glüc]

Looks like Kate Bush is going to the final! Wonder if we can get @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC to start participating in TMT now :p

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

Group 1

6-Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4-Elton John - I'm Still Standing
3-Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2-Police - Message in a Bottle
1-Toto - Africa

Group 2

6-Boston - More Than a Feeling
4-Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
3-Men at Work - Down Under
2-David Bowie - Starman
1-Earth, Wind and Fire - September

Group 3

6-Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
4-Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
3-Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
2-Supertramp - Breakfast in America
1-Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 1
6 - Police - Message in a Bottle
4 - Toto - Africa
3 - Elton John - I'm Still Standing
2 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
1 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

GROUP 2
6 - Rammstein - Haifisch
4 - Men at Work - Down Under
3 - Foo Fighters - Everlong
2 - Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
1 - Earth, Wind and Fire - September


Group 3 is a big stack.

GROUP 3
6 - Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
4 - Muse - Uprising
3 - Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
2 - Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
1 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

GROUP 1
6- Queen - Innuendo
4- Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
3- Toto - Africa
2- Prozac+ - Acida
1- Elton John - I'm Still Standing

GROUP 2
6- David Bowie - Starman
4- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
3- Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2- Earth, Wind and Fire - September
1- Men at Work - Down Under

GROUP 3
6- Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
4- Police - Roxanne
3- Supertramp - Breakfast in America
2- Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
1- Muse - Uprising

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

GROUP 1
1. Wish You Were Here - 28
2. Stairway to Heaven - 23
3. Black Hole Sun - 20
4. Message in a Bottle - 17 (one 6-point vote)
5. Africa - 17 (no 6-point votes, R2 PPV = 1.4)
6. I'm Still Standing - 17 (no 6-point votes, R2 PPV = 1.2)
7. Innuendo - 16
8. Rock the Casbah - 15
9. Deceptacon - 13
10. Acida - 10

GROUP 2
1. More Than a Feeling - 26
2. Starman - 24
3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 20
4. September - 20
5. Down Under - 17
6. Haifisch - 16
7. Lyin' Eyes - 15
8. Everlong - 14
9. Here Comes the Rain Again - 13
10. Live in the Moment - 11

GROUP 3
1. Wuthering Heights - 27
2. Sympathy for the Devil - 22 (two 4-point votes)
3. Under Pressure - 22 (one 4-point vote)
4. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - 21
5. Roxanne - 18
6. The Chain - 17
7. Crazy Train - 15
8. Uprising - 13
9. Breakfast in America - 11
10. The Gambler - 10

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

TMT20 ROUND 3

Round 3 consists of five groups of ten songs each. The top two songs from each group advance directly to the Final, while the next three songs from each group advance to the Semifinal. 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 four days (96 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 five songs 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly four or five songs (awarding the 1-point vote is optional).

GROUP 4
B-52's - Private Idaho
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Desireless - Voyage Voyage
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

GROUP 5
B-52's - Roam
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Cure - A Forest
House of Pain - Jump Around
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Whiskey Myers - On The River

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 6 points
- Number of voters giving 4 points
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- PPV in Round 2
- Rank in Round 2
- 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.

[xpb]

GROUP 4
6 Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
4 B-52's - Private Idaho
3 Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
2 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
1 Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

GROUP 5
6 B-52's - Roam
4 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
3 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
2 Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane
1 Cure - A Forest

[King Txec]

Group 4

6 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android
4 - Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetie
3 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2 - B-52's - Private Idaho
1 - Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Group 5

6 - Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
4 - Smiths - How Soon is Now
3 - Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
2 - Led Zeppelin- Kashmir
1 - B-52's - Roam

[Iac Éovard Valadeir]

GROUP 4
6. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
4. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
1. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

GROUP 5
6. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
4. House of Pain - Jump Around
3. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2. B-52's - Roam
1. Smiths - How Soon is Now?