[TMT20] 2025 Talossan Music Top 20

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

4. All That Remains - The Thunder Rolls

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

4: Aphex Twin - Avril 14th

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

Ghost - Mary On A Cross

[Sir Lüc]

4. Strawberry Guy - Mrs Magic

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

4 Air - You Make It Easy

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wjedmp2hKM

Christian Collin-Day To Day

[Glüc]

5. Supertramp - Fool's Overture
https://youtu.be/TLbYL10c1zo?feature=shared

[Gjermund Higraff]

5. George Harrison - Beautiful girl

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

5. Tessa Violet ft. lovelytheband - Games

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

3 spots left

[Sir Lüc]

5. The Clash - Rock the Casbah (a previous special edition nomination, but never in TMT20, so it passes my personal criteria. Also there's no other Clash songs in TMT atm.)

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

Cockeyed Optimist-Black Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBuYxBhykAk

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

La Femme - Antitaxi

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Nominations closed. Round 1 soon.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Round 1 of the Talossan Music Top 20 - 2025!

Many thanks to everyone who nominated songs. Of course, people who did not are still very welcome to participate.

Round 1 consists of ten groups of ten songs each. The top five songs in each group advance to Round 2 (and are given entry into next year's TMT20).

Groups are drawn randomly in such a way that each group contains one 6th 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th place song from a Round 2 group last year, and 5 new nominations.*

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 three songs 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly three songs.

GROUP 1
Colourist - Little Games
Donkeyboy - Ambitions
HighSchool - New York, Paris, and London
Justin Johnson - Ghost of the Mountain
La Femme - Antitaxi
Maanam - Krakowski Spleen
Nolwenn Leroy - Tri Martolod
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel - My Body is a Cage
Weyes Blood - Something to Believe

GROUP 2
Aerosmith - Dream On
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Falco - Der Kommissar
Ghost Hounds - Last Train to Nowhere
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes
Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
Modena City Ramblers - Bella Ciao
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life
Tessa Violet ft. lovelytheband - Games

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- Last year's result (Round 2 > Other)
- Last year's Round 2 Rank
- Last year's Round 2 PPV
- Year first nominated (special edition > earlier > later)
- Random chance

Any song eliminated by random chance (and any song eliminated by random chance last year that is eliminated based on last year's result) will be given entry into next year's TMT20.

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.

* One of the 6th ranked songs from R2 last year got a first round bye due to the retirement of Sultans of Swing, and there was also one song eliminated in R1 last year by random chance which thus qualified. To keep the groups as even as possible, I treated the R1 elimination as a 10th place song, then moved the highest PPV-getter in each place up to the next place.