Talossan Music Top Special Edition! 2025 - Category selection / vote

[Glüc]

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

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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)

[Glüc]

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

My interpretation would be both.

[King Txec]

When I suggested the category (I may not have been the only one - I don't remember) I had just listened to this song from when I was a kid and it got me thinking: (this is not the exact version I remember but it's close)

-Txec R

[Glüc]

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

My interpretation would be both.

Was that your thought behind puppets as well?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE