Voting - Talossan Music Top Special Edition! 2025 [No Lyrics]

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

So are we dropping this?

Yep, confirming it has been dropped.

[Glüc]

Ok, nominations are closed. We now proceed to voting on the proposed categories.

Like last time, we shall be using single transferable vote, and I shall be calculating the results manually using excel (so if any politically minded Talossans are interested in the feasibility of this, pay attention).

This system is designed to result in somewhat equal representation for different factions (or music preferences) even when proportional representation is not possible. However, it is also really designed for a situation with more voters than candidates, which we don't have. In this particular case, there is a rather large risk everyone just votes for one of their own categories, resulting in a 7-way tie, which can be resolved by random chance, but that wouldn't yield a particularly satisfying result.

So instead we will cheat a bit, by artificially inflating the number of voters by giving everyone who nominated categories two votes, 1 including and 1 excluding their own suggestions.

In order to do so everyone who nominated songs will be asked to rank their own suggestions and all the others separately which will be interpreted as one vote with their own suggestions listed first followed by their other votes and one vote with only their votes for others suggestions.


Therefore

How to vote

A If you submitted any category suggestions.

1. Rank your own suggestions in order of preference.
2. Rank at least 5 of the other suggested categories in order of preference.

B If you did not submit any category suggestions

1. Rank at least 5 categories in order of preference.

Deadline
The deadline will be exactly one week (168 hours) from now

Suggested categories
You can vote on the following categories:

- Covers of original songs
- Songs with less than 5000 listenings on Spotify
- Songs in invented language
- Songs that include unusual time signatures
- Songs with twin guitars
- Songs about historical events
- Commercial jingles
- Ska/reggae songs
- Metal songs
- Songs in French
- Songs that mention the weather
- Songs with no lyrics
- Songs sung by puppets
- Hymns/spiritual songs
- Indie rock
- Jazz/big band
- Eurodance/Eurodisco

The 5 selected categories + the recent songs category will be the categories in which we create a top 25 of songs for the TMT special edition 2025.

[Glüc]

My own vote:

Own nominations:
1. Ska/reggae songs
2. Songs in French
3. Metal songs

Other peoples nominations:
1. Eurodance/Eurodisco
2. Songs that include unusual time signatures
3. Indie rock
4. Songs with no lyrics
5. Songs that mention the weather
6. Songs about historical events
7. Songs in invented language
8. Covers of original songs
9. Jazz/big band

[Gjermund Higraff]

Own nominations:
1. Songs that include unusual time signatures
2. Songs about historical events
3. Songs with twin guitars


Other peoples nominations:
1. Songs in French
2. Songs with no lyric
3. Covers of original songs
4. Songs that mention the weather
5. Ska/reggae songs
6. Indie rock

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Own nominations :
1- Songs in invented language
2- Covers of original songs
3- Songs with less than 5000 listenings on Spotify 

Other people nominations :
1- Songs that include unusual time signatures
2- Songs in French
3- Songs with no lyrics
4- Indie rock
5- Metal songs

[Sir Lüc]

Own nomination:
1. Eurodance/Eurodisco

Other nominations (partly influenced by how likely I am to find suitable nominations):
1. Songs with no lyrics
2. Ska/reggae songs
3. Covers of original songs
4. Songs that include unusual time signatures
5. Songs in French
6. Jazz/big band

[King Txec]

My Own Nominations

1. Songs sung by puppets
2. Songs that mention the weather
3. Songs with no lyrics

Other Nominations

1. Covers of original songs
2. Indie Rock
3. Songs about historical events
4. Songs in invented language
5. Songs that include unusual time

-Txec R

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

BALLOT 1
Indie Rock
Hymns/spiritual songs
Jazz/big band

BALLOT 2
Songs about historical events
Songs that mention the weather
Commercial jingles
Songs with twin guitars
Songs with no lyrics
Covers of original songs

[Glüc]

Six hours left to vote!

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

1- Eurodance/Eurodisco
2- Covers of original songs
3- Songs with no lyrics
4- Songs in French
5- Songs about historical events
6- Metal songs
7- Songs that include unusual time signatures

[Glüc]

Voting is closed. Will probably do the results in a separate thread

[Glüc]

https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=4372.0

The categories for this year's TMTspecial are

- Covers of original songs
- Songs that include unusual time signatures
- Songs in French
- Songs with no lyrics
- Eurodance/Eurodisco

And of course

- Songs released on or after February 2nd, 2023

[Gjermund Higraff]

It's slightly ironic that the category that I suggested is the one I have least idea about what to nominate for it.

edit: except eurodance, where I have no idea where to start even.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=4372.0

The categories for this year's TMTspecial are

- Songs that include unusual time signatures
- Songs with no lyrics

There's more than enough room in these categories for me to smuggle some jazz and big band in here :P

Sad that indie lost though

[Gjermund Higraff]

There's more than enough room in these categories for me to smuggle some jazz and big band in here :P

Sad that indie lost though

Does "songs with no lyrics" mean instrumentals, or instruments and vocals without words? Both?

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Anyway here are a few songs I would have nominated had different categories won

Songs about historical events

Advertising jingles

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Songs that mention the weather

Hymns

[Glüc]

It's slightly ironic that the category that I suggested is the one I have least idea about what to nominate for it.

edit: except eurodance, where I have no idea where to start even.

I imagine eurodance is gonna be like a race to nominate Scatman, What is Love and I'm Blue and then people are gonna struggle :p Still, I really like the category because it does feel 'special' as in these aren't gonna be songs that would normally do well in TMT, but people can still enjoy them.

[Gjermund Higraff]

Anyway here are a few songs I would have nominated had different categories won

Songs about historical events

Considering I came up with the category myself, I hadn't really considered any suggestions for it 😂 But here's one I would have nominated.

[Glüc]

There's more than enough room in these categories for me to smuggle some jazz and big band in here :P

Yeah, for the no lyrics category we obviously had film music and classical music in previous editions which were mostly dominated by songs with no lyrics anyway, but I'm hoping we don't get too much overlap, so it would be nice to have jazz instead.  (Although I can't help much there myself as I don't know much jazz, so I'll probably stick to pop/rock instrumentals)