Re: TMT Special! Nominations: Recent releases (after feb 2nd 2023)

[Glüc]

Two spots left!

[Gjermund Higraff]

I'll add one to help close out the nominations. Someone else do one too, please 🙂

5. Kirsty MacColl - Days

[Gjermund Higraff]

Please?!! 😂 Time to move on, people!

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

2,000th post

[Glüc]

I'll add one to help close out the nominations. Someone else do one too, please 🙂

5. Kirsty MacColl - Days

Strictly speaking this was posted less than 24 hours after your previous nomination, but considering we weren't full when the 24 hours were up I will count this as if it were posted then. (I think there is precedent for this)

[Glüc]

Anyway, nominations are closed. I will set up nominations for the next category and then we shall proceed to voting in the other thread.

[Glüc]

The second category is Eurodance/Eurodisco

Nominations are now open.

We are looking for 25 nominations.

Each person may nominate two songs, with a deadline of 72 hours. (Please include a youtube link)
If we're not full after 72 hours everyone gets another nomination 24 hours after their previous nomination.


---Specific rules for this category---

(This would be my interpretation anyway. I hope @Sir Lüc, who nominated the category, agrees, but if not we can make some rule changes of course.)

We are looking for songs from one of two particular genres. That means it's not just dance/disco from europe. Songs from outside of Europe are allowed if they fit the genre.

There is no hard definition here. I'm also not relying on any particular list, but these two pages are a good starting point:
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/euro-disco/
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/eurodance/
If you want to nominate something that is not labelled euro-disco or eurodance (or a subgenre of one of these) on RYM you should probably have a very strong argument or you might want to reconsider.
If you feel like nominating an edgecase (especially one that is labelled eurodance/euro-disco) I'm not gonna reject it if it's at least eurodance/disco-adjacent, but of course people are free to withhold points from songs they believe do not fit the category.

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We are voting on the written combination artist (or composer) + title, rather than the specific version that is being linked to, in case people do not like that version.

If you can, please include a link to YouTube or some other video or audio file of the song. Otherwise I will find a link myself, but I might not always find the best version.

Nominated so far:

2 Unlimited - No Limit
Agnes - Fingers Crossed
Alice Deejay - Better off Alone
Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler
Boney M. - Ma Baker
Christian Steiffen - Ich fühl' mich Disco
Eiffel 65 - Blue (da ba dee)
Erasure - Take a Chance on Me
Gala - Freed From Desire
Gigi d'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours
Haddaway - What Is Love
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Neja - Restless
Nu Genea - Marechià
Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive
Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone
Sandra - Maria Magdalena
Sash! - Ecuador
Scatman John - Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)
Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer
Sparks - More Than a Sex Machine
Sparks - When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"
Stereo MC's - Connected
Technotronic - Pump up the Jam
Vitas - The 7th Element

[Glüc]

1. Gigi d'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours

2. Sash! - Ecuador

[Gjermund Higraff]

By following the eurodance list in the RYM link above, I came up with these:

1. Erasure - Take a chance on me

2. Snap! - Rythm is a dancer

If they don't fit the category, then I plead utter and complete ignorance 😁

[Vitxalmour]

[Gjermund Higraff]

Only 19 spots left, folks! Get those nominations posted!

[Sir Lüc]

Gonna start with an Eurodance and an Eurodisco respectively (if Marechià counts as such, which I think it does):

1. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

2. Nu Genea - Marechià

[Erschéveþ da Schir]

1. La Bouche - Be My Lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3MtiifXp9k

2. Neja - Restless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-I1jJrxfY

Restless is not explicitly classified as Eurodance on RYM but as "Europop, Dance-Pop, Euro House, Dance, Italo Dance" I think it should still be fine

[Glüc]

Restless is not explicitly classified as Eurodance on RYM but as "Europop, Dance-Pop, Euro House, Dance, Italo Dance" I think it should still be fine

Fwiw, Italo Dance is listed as a subgenre of Eurodance, so I guess it does count according to RYM. Either way this would have been totally fine.
(There have been nominations that have been pushing the boundaries quite a bit more already imho. As mentioned Im not gonna disallow edgecases.)

[Glüc]

There are 15 spots left! Everyone now gets one additional nomination every 24 hours after their previous nomination(s).

[Glüc]

Boney M - Ma Baker

[Gjermund Higraff]

3. Sparks - When do I get to sing "My way"

[Glüc]

2 Unlimited - No Limit

[Gjermund Higraff]

Sorry for repeating myself, but as long as it says "eurodance" on the RYM list and it's Sparks, I'm nominating 🙂
4. Sparks - More than a sex machine

[Glüc]

So many classics still unpicked

Scatman John - Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)

10 spots left