Voting - Talossan Music Top Special Edition! 2025 [Covers of original songs]

[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)

[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

[Glüc]

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.

Admittedly I kind of overlooked the eurodisco bit here. If Boney M, Modern Talking and even certain ABBA songs are included then surely we should be able to find enough nominations.

[Glüc]

2025 Talossan Music Top 20 Special Edition: Covers of original songs

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

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

Voting will last 96 hours (4 days) or until there are at least three voters. The top two songs from each group advance to the Final.

GROUP 1
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]
Madness - One Step Beyond [Prince Buster]
Molly Tuttle - Olympia, WA [Rancid]
Panic! At the Disco - The Greatest Show [Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya]
The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [Black Sabbath]


GROUP 2
Alexa Melo - Idiotheque [Radiohead]
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - If I Had the World to Give [The Grateful Dead]
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel [Bob Dylan/Old Crow Medicine Show]
Porter Robinson - Kids [MGMT]
Weezer - Africa [Toto]



Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- 24-hour tiebreaker round
- 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.