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The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 101 – Music From The UK - Congrats Beat



Game No : 101


Category : Music From The UK


(based on an original idea by sfar)




Category Chosen By : Slazorin


Category Explanation (if needed) :



Slazorin said:
Hey there Adrian! :)

The theme I've chosen is Music from the U.K. (U.K. for Adey :D ). I really love a lot of British music and also what better way to honour (spelt it right? :oh:) our favourite Brit and host of TFPBSG, 100 games and going strong! :worship:

Basically, any artist/band born/from The U.K., made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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My song:


THE ORIGINS OF THE GAME

Some time ago one of the nicest guys on the forum Sergio (sfar) tested out an idea he had for a Song Game, which involved people nominating a song – then at the end of it the songs were listed and people voted on their top three songs.

A few months later, as a Eurovision Song Contest nut, I had the thought of bringing the Eurovision element into it along with the voting system used there. We jointly once did some TT Olympic and TT Football specials and always made a great team so I checked with Sergio that he was OK for me to expand on his original idea, which he was, along with adding an interactive element of an interview with all participants about the songs and the game in general where everyone could put forward ideas and suggestions about the game, it's all really thanks to Sergio that this game started :worship: .

I once did a TT Eurovision special and gave the winner a heart-attack when I informed him that the Eurovision tradition is that the winner hosts the following year - instead the winner picks the next category.

Following that on 14th November 2013, the first ever TF Pick The Best Song Game was started.






HOW TO JOIN IN AND PLAY THE GAME


1. Send me a PM with any song that relates to the category above - along with the You Tube link if possible.

2. Make clear which is the song title and which is the artist.

3. When the deadline is over, I'll post all the songs in the thread (without the name of the user who sent it) for everyone to vote.

4.The song that gets the most points wins the game. In the event of a tie the song with the most 12 points will win, if that number is the same then it's the most 10 and so on.



For those who haven’t played before, anyone is welcome to play – here’s a link to all previous games which are housed at the TF Pick The Best Song Game Forum to see how it works :-​

- You can send your song until WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER
- I'll publish all songs received on THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER
- You can vote your 10 favourite songs (which will be given 12, 10, 8-1 points respectively – the good old Eurovision format) from the published list




Semi-Final – One

Song One – The Cure – A Forest
Song Two – Bo Bruce - Alive
Song Three - Katy B – Broken Record
Song Four – Ian McCulloch ft. Elizabeth Fraser - Candleland
Song Five - Lamb – Cotton Wool
Song Six - Hannah Lucia – Don’t Hold Out
Song Seven - Morrissey – First Of The Gang To Die
Song Eight - The Jam – Going Underground
Song Nine – Florence and The Machine - Heartlines
Song Ten - London Grammar – Hey Now
Song Eleven – John Cunningham – Imitation Time
Song Twelve - The Coral – In The Morning
Song Thirteen – Baxter Dury –Isabel
Song Fourteen – The Soft Boys – Kingdom Of Love
Song Fifteen- Lush – Ladykillers
Song Sixteen – Jamie XX ft. Romy – Loud Places
Song Seventeen – Frou Frou – Must Be Dreaming

Semi-Final – Two

Song Eighteen - The Durrati Column – Never Known
Song Nineteen – Fairground Attraction - Perfect
Song Twenty- The Milkshakes – Wo’ Now
Song Twenty-One - Penguin Café Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
Song Twenty-Two - Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Song Twenty-Three - The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
Song Twenty-Four - Emeli Sande – Read All About It Pt III
Song Twenty-Five – Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Song Twenty-Six - Portico Quartet - Ruins
Song Twenty-Seven – The Underground Youth - Silhouette
Song Twenty-Eight – New Order - Singularity
Song Twenty-Nine- Mogwai – Take Me Somewhere Nice
Song Thirty – The Fun Boy Three – The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Song Thirty-One – Squeeze – Up The Junction
Song Thirty-Two – The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star
Song Thirty-Three - Adele – When We Were Young
Song Thirty-Four – Annie Lennox- Why
Song Thirty-Five – CHVRCHES - Empty Threat


Final


Song One – The Cure – A Forest
Song Two - Lamb – Cotton Wool
Song Three - Morrissey – First Of The Gang To Die
Song Four- The Jam – Going Underground
Song Five – Florence and The Machine - Heartlines
Song Six - London Grammar – Hey Now
Song Seven - The Coral – In The Morning
Song Eight- Lush – Ladykillers
Song Nine – Jamie XX ft. Romy – Loud Places
Song Ten – Frou Frou – Must Be Dreaming
Song Eleven - The Durrati Column – Never Known
Song Twelve – Fairground Attraction - Perfect
Song Thirteen - Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Song Fourteen - The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
Song Fifteen - Portico Quartet - Ruins
Song Sixteen – New Order - Singularity
Song Seventeen - Mogwai – Take Me Somewhere Nice
Song Eighteen – The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star
Song Nineteen – Annie Lennox- Why
Song Twenty– CHVRCHES - Empty Threat




SEMI FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2015

FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - TUESDAY 15TH DECEMEBER 2015

VOTING CEREMONY – WEDNESDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2015

DEADLINES FOR EVERYTHING IS 7PM UK TIME – UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED – Here’s a link to what the time is in the UK :-
local time


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[U]HOW TO SEND VOTES[/U]

You pick your ten favourite songs, [U]you cannot vote for the song you have nominated yourself[/U] – 
you award 12 points to your favourite, 10 points to your second favourite, 8 points to your third favourite, 
7 points to your fourth favourite and so on up to your tenth favourite.

Your votes should look like this

PLEASE VOTE FOR SONG TITLES

SEMI FINAL - ONE

12 – Song Title
10 – Song Title
8 – Song Title
7 – Song Title
6 – Song Title
5 – Song Title
4 – Song Title
3 – Song Title
2 – Song Title
1 – Song Title

SEMI FINAL - TWO

12 – Song Title
10 – Song Title
8 – Song Title
7 – Song Title
6 – Song Title
5 – Song Title
4 – Song Title
3 – Song Title
2 – Song Title
1 – Song Title
In case forum ever goes down or my inbox gets full my E mail is adriancollins@hotmail.com

The winner of the game will also be awarded this magnificent Walking Lion Trophy, which has been designed and created by the finest craftsmen on the planet and is a widely sought item which will look good on any shelf and also gets to choose a Category for Game 105 if they wish to :)

NOTE – A Week longer than usual to pick because of Game 100








Heres the songs in list format for those who use Florin's sheet to rank the songs at :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kihtk84tfk5mvld/bsg-rank%20songs.xlsx?dl=0

A Forest
Alive
Broken Record
Candleland
Cotton Wool
Don't Hold Out
First Of The Gang To Die
Going Underground
Heartlines
Hey Now
Imitation Time
In The Morning
Isabel
Kingdom Of Love
Ladykillers
Loud Places
Must Be Dreaming
Never Known
Perfect
Wo' Now
Perpetuum Mobile
Public Image
Pull Shapes
Read All About It Pt III
Relax
Ruins
Silhouette
Singularity
Take Me Somewhere Nice
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Up The Junction
Video Killed The Radio Star
When We Were Young
Why
Empty Threat



There you go guys, there's the link to the MP3's

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#9 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 101 – Music From The UK



RANKINGS POINTS

The following rankings points are given at the end of each game :





Although the game didn't immediately start at one every week, it was fairly early in the run of games that it became a weekly game, so to make things simple I've counted every game as one week.

Rankings are compiled from the last 52 games - the best 16 scores during the last 52 games count to the players total ranking.

With huge thanks and acknowledgement to Markus for doing a lot of the inputting of the then backlog :worship:

 
#10 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 101 – Music From The UK

Adey, surely some of these dates are incorrect.

You can send your song until WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER
- I'll publish all songs received on THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER
- You can vote your 10 favourite songs (which will be given 12, 10, 8-1 points respectively – the good old Eurovision format) from the published list

SEMI FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2015

FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - TUESDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2015

VOTING CEREMONY – WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER 2015
 
#12 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 101 – Music From The UK

Adey, surely some of these dates are incorrect.

You can send your song until WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER
- I'll publish all songs received on THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER
- You can vote your 10 favourite songs (which will be given 12, 10, 8-1 points respectively – the good old Eurovision format) from the published list

SEMI FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2015

FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - TUESDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2015

VOTING CEREMONY – WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER 2015

Adjusted - I was more concentrating on whether I'd bolded and centralised everything before amending the dates on the template.
 
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RANKINGS – AFTER GAME NINETY-FIVE




Code:
RKG (PRE) NAME................  .PTS ..# 16th next off (44)
001 (001) histery.............  1270 .52 ..50 ..45
002 (002) Milan...............  1140 .47 ..35 ...0
003 (003) Mustafina...........  1095 .50 ..25 ...1
004 (004) Baraboo.............  1085 .49 ..45 ...1
005 (005) Big_Banana..........  1070 .41 ..30 ...8
006 (006) Beat................  1055 .44 ..45 ..20
007 (007) Hugues Daniel.......  .990 .51 ..40 ...1
008 (008) Silent Bird.........  .985 .51 ..40 ...6
009 (010) TennisFan102........  .900 .51 ..20 ...1
010 (011) dogwonder24.........  .890 .39 ..25 ...1
011 (012) Shvedbarilescu......  .885 .52 ..40 ..10
012 (009) eck.................  .860 .46 ..25 ..85
013 (015) N.M.................  .822 .26 ..16 ...0
014 (013) DollyRose...........  .786 .41 ..14 ..60
015 (014) Wanderer............  .765 .47 ..20 ..30
016 (016) stromatolite........  .760 .50 ..25 ...1
017 (017) zvonarevarulz.......  .739 .50 ..16 ...1
018 (018) SilverPersian.......  .731 .52 ..16 ...1
019 (021) TIEFSEE.............  .705 .52 ..12 ..12
020 (019) salmon pants........  .646 .51 ..14 ..55
021 (020) Slazorin............  .618 .36 ..14 ...0
022 (023) Monzanator..........  .600 .48 ..10 ...1
023 (024) John................  .587 .52 ..12 ...1
024 (022) Northstar...........  .584 .29 ...1 ..18
025 (026) Javi................  .545 .24 ..12 ...1
026 (025) James...............  .538 .18 ...1 ...0
027 (029) AdeyC...............  .460 .52 ...4 ..14
028 (027) SArcher.............  .448 .27 ...1 ...1
029 (028) Litotes.............  .440 .52 ...1 ...1
030 (030) Haimar..............  .409 .25 ...1 ...1
031 (031) ^bibi^..............  .383 .21 ...1 ...0
032 (032) Chastainiac.........  .374 .27 ...1 ...0
033 (033) ElusiveChanteuse....  .368 .18 ...1 .100
034 (034) Thanos..............  .345 .16 ...1 ...0
035 (035) fufuqifuqishahah....  .330 .52 ...1 ...1
036 (036) Crux Squall.........  .308 .43 ...1 ...0
037 (039) Wally...............  .303 .18 ...1 ...0
038 (037) Poldo...............  .301 .27 ...1 ...0
039 (038) Soliloque...........  .287 .19 ...1 ...1
040 (040) Axel323.............  .275 ..9 ...0 ..25
041 (043) Perun...............  .269 .12 ...0 ...0
042 (042) Avada Kedavra!......  .268 .18 ...1 ...0
043 (044) Utautai.............  .265 .14 ...0 ..50
044 (045) Serg................  .262 .16 ...1 ...0
045 (046) Neko................  .258 .10 ...0 ...0
046 (048) DJDVD...............  .256 .32 ...1 ...1
047 (049) Mauriac.............  .256 .17 ...1 ...0
048 (047) Nicolas89...........  .255 ..4 ...0 ...0
049 (050) AaronLHernandez.....  .249 .28 ...1 ..40
050 (051) traddles............  .243 .14 ...0 ...1
051 (052) Cesare Borgia.......  .237 .33 ...1 ..70
052 (053) sfar................  .216 .20 ...1 ...1
053 (055) Leif................  .212 .32 ...1 ...0
054 (041) Igorche.............  .205 .24 ...1 ...0
055 (056) Rui.................  .198 ..6 ...0 ...0
056 (057) Gagsy...............  .198 .14 ...0 ...0
057 (054) Pratik..............  .191 .11 ...0 ..35
058 (062) Sephir..............  .189 .17 ...1 ...0
059 (058) josejaviergud.......  .180 ..8 ...0 ...1
060 (059) Wildfire............  .156 .15 ...0 ...0
061 (060) JustPetko...........  .148 .14 ...0 ...0
062 (061) Lord Choc Ice.......  .144 .18 ...1 ...1
063 (076) drg.................  .134 ..5 ...0 ...0
064 (063) Merxes..............  .132 .23 ...1 ...0
065 (064) Pretty Backhand.....  .129 .17 ...1 ...0
066 (065) Bonfire.............  .119 ..8 ...0 ...0
067 (066) doni1212............  .119 .10 ...0 ...1
068 (068) JJFromTheBlock......  ..98 .27 ...1 ...0
069 (070) MaryportFuninsun....  ..85 .23 ...1 ...0
070 (071) G&R.................  ..79 ..7 ...0 ...0
071 (067) Fantasy Hero........  ..68 ..5 ...0 ...1
072 (073) The Walking Bye.....  ..64 ..5 ...0 ...0
073 (075) catgamer............  ..62 ..8 ...0 ...0
074 (072) Med.Nico............  ..58 ..4 ...0 ...1
075 (077) Marcus1979..........  ..40 ..6 ...0 ...0
076 (078) nathanj594..........  ..39 ..2 ...0 ...0
077 (079) Punky...............  ..39 ..5 ...0 ...0
078 (081) ArturJFC............  ..27 ..3 ...0 ...0
079 (082) Ilovetheblues_86....  ..26 ..2 ...0 ...0
080 (083) Sobbinator..........  ..19 ..4 ...0 ...0
081 (084) DokDi...............  ..16 ..1 ...0 ..16
082 (085) Shinjiro............  ..15 ..2 ...0 ...0
083 (086) Shia................  ...9 ..3 ...0 ...4
084 (087) Otlichno............  ...9 ..2 ...0 ...0
085 (074) MikBs...............  ...7 ..7 ...0 ...1
086 (088) Alwaysfan...........  ...7 ..2 ...0 ...0
087 (089) J99.................  ...6 ..6 ...0 ...0
088 (090) matthias............  ...4 ..4 ...0 ...0
089 (091) DefyingGravity......  ...3 ..3 ...0 ...0
090 (080) lucyfur.............  ...3 ..3 ...0 ...0
091 (093) Alycia..............  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
092 (094) Lazar...............  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
093 (095) Singleniacki........  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
094 (092) *Jean*..............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...1
095 (069) August..............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
096 (096) Chloe S.............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
097 (097) elirj70.............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
098 (098) meyerpl.............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
099 (099) Power Shot..........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
100 (102) mariusz_pol.........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
101 (103) PatsyStone..........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
102 (104) Potapovushina.......  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
103 (105) Serena-rules-no1....  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE

Code:
^bibi^  	29	(30-58)
NeKo    	24	(6-29)
dogwonder24	11	(59-69)
histery         21              (74, 76-95)
Mustafina       4       (70-73)
John    	3	(1-3)
AdeyC   	1	(4)
Gadis Desa	1	(5)
Beat              1              (75)
 
#13 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 101 – Music From The UK

As a devoted Anglophile, I am beyond thrilled with this theme!!! :cheer:
 
#18 ·
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Britpop/rock isn't much my thing as a rule, but I shouldn't have too much trouble finding something I like:cool:
Given the incredible diversity of British pop/rock music over the last 60 years I'm surprised you feel like that Jim. Where does the music come form that you prefer?

I was planning to come back for game 102 but although the timing of this game isn't great for me as I have an important deadline to meet in the 2nd week of December i think I will have to join as I've got a couple of songs on my list that would be great for this. I'll just have to work extra hard in the meantime. :lol:
 
#27 ·
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So hello from the other side. :oh:

So many Girls Aloud songs out there and I can only pick one. :tears:
 
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I hope we don't get flooded with mediocre UK indie stuff for once. :cheer:
 
#39 ·
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I've never heard that song. Doesn't look like it was a hit in the States.
 
#40 ·
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I've never heard that song. Doesn't look like it was a hit in the States.
It got to number 22 in the US Dance chart and number 19 in the US R&B chart according to Wikipedia. It was released in 1985 though, so rather an old track.

When you get an opportunity listen to it, I'd be interested to know what you think. It's not exactly profound - just a piece of bubble gum pop - but I think it's quite catchy and fun to listen to once in a while.
 
#42 ·
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I've done 30 different UK acts in the first 96 games I've played so I guess it won't be too difficult finding another. Will have to think about which one, though.

Just as a formality - how British does it have to be? OK if the band have a foreigner among them as long as it's not the front man/vocalist?
 
#43 ·
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I've done 30 different UK acts in the first 96 games I've played so I guess it won't be too difficult finding another. Will have to think about which one, though.

Just as a formality - how British does it have to be? OK if the band have a foreigner among them as long as it's not the front man/vocalist?
You mean a band like Foreigner, formed by a Brit who has also produced and written most of their songs but whose other members are American? :oh:
 
#45 ·
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Great theme Brian!
 
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#46 ·
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Nice theme Slazorin :cheer:

I can't believe I still haven't nominated The Beatles ( … and I probably won't here either) :tears: I'm planning to listen to this YouTube playlist called The Black Album (from the movie Boyhood) in coming days, which is a mix of the best solo efforts from John/Paul/Ringo/George post-Beatles :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOXkChyhAM&list=PLX78J2bl9NkpYngdeDgpNDlTZaE7zj5LJ
 
#59 ·
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I'm tempted to send a huge vulture. :tears:
I already sent my entry to AdeyC as I dread the thought of someone stealing my song* :hysteric: For the first time so early. I cannot exlude myself being tempted to change my pick though as now I recalled another tune that I always wanted to send :sobbing:

* it's quite a well-known piece of music.
 
#50 ·
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No 1D please :tears:
 
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