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The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Congrats histery

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Game No : 110


Category : Life Sucks


(based on an original idea by sfar)




Category Chosen By : Mustafina


Category Explanation (if needed) :



Mustafina said:
AdeyC said:
Hey,

Congrats on the Song Game win :worship:

You know the routine - as winner you can either choose a category for the next game or choose to leave it an Open Game.

Can you let me know by 7pm tomorrow what you'd like.

Adey
Thanks Adey,

My theme will be Life Sucks.

Pick a song that honestly reflects the harsh reality of everyday life.



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 3rd FEBRUARY 2016
- I'll publish all songs received on THURSDAY 4th FEBRUARY 2016
- 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 – Cold Chisel – Choir Girl
Song Two – Lisa Germano – Cry Wolf
Song Three - Peter Gabriel – Digging In The DIrt
Song Four – Daughter – Doing The Right Thing
Song Five - Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole
Song Six - Lorde – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Song Seven - Chet Baker – Everything Happens To Me
Song Eight - Paradise Lost – Forever Failure
Song Nine – Soft Cell - Frustration
Song Ten - The Chemical Brothers - Galvanise
Song Eleven – BonIver - Holocene
Song Twelve - Publio Delgado & Glozell - Hot Pepper Challenge Harmonizator
Song Thirteen – Leanne Rimes – How Do I Live?
Song Fourteen – The Ramones – I Don’t Want To Grow Up
Song Fifteen- Guns – I Know Exactly How It Feels
Song Sixteen – Mel C – If That Were Me
Song Seventeen – Julieta Venegas & Marisa Monte - Ilusion
Song Eighteen - Hollis P Monroe – I’m Lonely


Semi-Final – Two


Song Nineteen – Fine Young Cannibals – I’m Not Satisfied
Song Twenty- Low – Just Make It Stop
Song Twenty-One - Tame Impala – Let It Happen
Song Twenty-Two - Elfenlied – Lilium
Song Twenty-Three - Robert Johnson – Love In Vain Blues
Song Twenty-Four - J Geils Band – Love Stinks
Song Twenty-Five – Jason Molina – No Moon On The Water
Song Twenty-Six - Slaid Cleaves – One Good Year
Song Twenty-Seven – Annie Lennox – Pavement Cracks
Song Twenty-Eight – Manu Chao – Rainin’ In Paradize
Song Twenty-Nine- Blur - Sing
Song Thirty – Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Song Thirty-Two - Charlotte Cornwall, Julie Covington,
Rula Lenska and Sue Jones Davies – The Real Life

Song Thirty-Three – Nerina Pallot – The Road
Song Thirty-Four – Sad Lovers and Giants – Things We Never Did
Song Thirty-Five – Molly Nilsson – Whiskey Sour
Song Thirty-Six – R L Kelly – You’re Not The Only Monster From Hell


Final


Song One – Lisa Germano – Cry Wolf
Song Two - Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole
Song Three - Chet Baker – Everything Happens To Me
Song Four – Soft Cell - Frustration
Song Five – BonIver - Holocene
Song Six – Leanne Rimes – How Do I Live?
Song Seven – The Ramones – I Don’t Want To Grow Up
Song Eight- Guns – I Know Exactly How It Feels
Song Nine – Julieta Venegas & Marisa Monte - Ilusion
Song Ten - Hollis P Monroe – I’m Lonely
Song Eleven - Low – Just Make It Stop
Song Twelve - Tame Impala – Let It Happen
Song Thirteen – Jason Molina – No Moon On The Water
Song Fourteen – Annie Lennox – Pavement Cracks
Song Fifteen – Manu Chao – Rainin’ In Paradize
Song Sixteen - Blur - Sing
Song Seventeen – Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Song Eighteen – Sad Lovers and Giants – Things We Never Did
Song Nineteen – Molly Nilsson – Whiskey Sour
Song Twenty – R L Kelly – You’re Not The Only Monster From Hell


SEMI FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - FRIDAY 12th FEBRUARY 2016

FINAL VOTING DEADLINE - TUESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2016

VOTING CEREMONY – WEDNESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2016

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 Seagull 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 113 if they wish to :)









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

Choir Girl
Cry Wolf
Digging In The Dirt
Doing The Right Thing
Down In A Hole
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Everything Happens To Me
Forever Failure
Frustration
Galavnise
Holocene
Hot Pepper Challenge Harmonizator
How Do I Live?
I Don't Want To Grow Up
I Know Exactly How It Feels
If That Were Me
Ilusión
I'm Lonely
I'm Not Satisfied
Just Make It Stop
Let It Happen
Lilium
Love In Vain Blues
Love Stinks
No Moon On The Water
One Good Year
Pavement Cracks
Rainin' In Paradize
Sing
Standing In The Way Of Control
The Real Life
The Road
Things We Never Did
Whiskey Sour
You're Not The Only Monster From Hell



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 110 – Life Sucks



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 and clearing the then backlog :worship:

 
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Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks



RANKINGS – AFTER GAME 106




Code:
RKG (PRE) NAME................  .PTS ..# 16th next off (55)
001 (001) histery.............  1290 .51 ..50 .100
002 (002) Milan...............  1215 .52 ..50 ...1
003 (003) Big_Banana..........  1165 .42 ..40 ..30
004 (004) Beat................  1060 .44 ..35 ..70
005 (006) Mustafina...........  1010 .50 ..25 ...1
006 (005) Baraboo.............  .965 .47 ..35 ..20
007 (008) Hugues Daniel.......  .940 .51 ..30 ...1
008 (007) N.M.................  .937 .25 ..16 ..18
009 (009) stromatolite........  .905 .48 ..30 ...1
010 (010) Silent Bird.........  .895 .50 ..35 ..35
011 (011) TennisFan102........  .880 .51 ..25 ...1
012 (012) Shvedbarilescu......  .840 .52 ..35 ...1
013 (013) SilverPersian.......  .823 .52 ..18 ...6
014 (014) eck.................  .815 .42 ..25 ...0
015 (015) Wanderer............  .774 .43 ..16 ..12
016 (016) zvonarevarulz.......  .746 .49 ..12 ...8
017 (018) TIEFSEE.............  .715 .51 ..18 ..50
018 (019) Slazorin............  .708 .47 ..18 ...0
019 (020) dogwonder24.........  .697 .32 ..16 ...1
020 (017) DollyRose...........  .684 .41 ..14 ...1
021 (021) Javi................  .680 .25 ..12 ...0
022 (022) John................  .678 .52 ..12 ...1
023 (023) Monzanator..........  .668 .49 ..12 ...1
024 (024) salmon pants........  .655 .50 ..20 ..40
025 (028) fufuqifuqishahah....  .571 .52 ...4 ...1
026 (025) James...............  .564 .20 ...1 ...0
027 (026) Northstar...........  .554 .27 ...1 ..60
028 (027) Wally...............  .524 .29 ..10 ...0
029 (029) AdeyC...............  .458 .52 ...4 ...4
030 (030) Crux Squall.........  .397 .52 ...1 ..14
031 (032) Litotes.............  .395 .52 ...1 ..45
032 (031) drg.................  .394 .16 ...1 ...0
033 (033) Perun...............  .375 .23 ...1 ...0
034 (034) Chastainiac.........  .374 .28 ...1 ...0
035 (035) Poldo...............  .359 .34 ...1 ...0
036 (036) Thanos..............  .353 .21 ...1 ...0
037 (037) Haimar..............  .345 .18 ...1 ...0
038 (038) ^bibi^..............  .314 .21 ...1 ..55
039 (039) SArcher.............  .306 .18 ...1 ...1
040 (041) Mauriac.............  .299 .24 ...1 ...0
041 (043) Avada Kedavra!......  .292 .24 ...1 ...0
042 (040) Sephir..............  .288 .18 ...1 ...0
043 (042) Leif................  .268 .30 ...1 ...0
044 (044) ElusiveChanteuse....  .265 .15 ...0 ...1
045 (046) Serg................  .262 .16 ...1 ...0
046 (050) wayitis.............  .262 ..6 ...0 ...0
047 (047) Neko................  .248 ..9 ...0 ...0
048 (048) traddles............  .242 .13 ...0 ...0
049 (045) Utautai.............  .240 .17 ...1 ...1
050 (049) Bonfire.............  .220 .10 ...0 ...0
051 (051) Gagsy...............  .202 .15 ...0 ...0
052 (052) Rui.................  .200 ..8 ...0 ...0
053 (053) Cesare Borgia.......  .196 .29 ...1 ...1
054 (058) JJFromTheBlock......  .179 .34 ...1 ...1
055 (054) Soliloque...........  .176 .13 ...0 ...0
056 (055) DJDVD...............  .161 .22 ...1 ..25
057 (056) Pratik..............  .153 ..7 ...0 ...0
058 (057) JustPetko...........  .146 .12 ...0 ..10
059 (059) Wildfire............  .138 .10 ...0 ...0
060 (060) Merxes..............  .135 .24 ...1 ...0
061 (062) G&R.................  .128 .10 ...0 ...0
062 (061) Igorche.............  .126 .17 ...1 ...1
063 (064) MaryportFuninsun....  ..85 .17 ...1 ...1
064 (065) Axel323.............  ..85 ..1 ...0 ..85
065 (063) sfar................  ..76 .12 ...0 ...0
066 (066) Lord Choc Ice.......  ..76 .11 ...0 ...1
067 (067) Pretty Backhand.....  ..74 .15 ...0 ...0
068 (068) Marcus1979..........  ..74 ..6 ...0 ...0
069 (069) AaronLHernandez.....  ..64 .18 ...1 ...1
070 (070) The Walking Bye.....  ..64 ..5 ...0 ...0
071 (071) catgamer............  ..62 ..8 ...0 ...0
072 (072) Coco Hero...........  ..60 ..4 ...0 ...0
073 (073) josejaviergud.......  ..60 ..4 ...0 ...0
074 (074) Punky...............  ..39 ..5 ...0 ...1
075 (075) paulxx23............  ..38 ..6 ...0 ...0
076 (076) nathanj594..........  ..36 ..2 ...0 ...0
077 (UNR) chaton..............  ..35 ..1 ...0 ...0
078 (UNR) Andreas.............  ..30 ..1 ...0 ...0
079 (077) doni1212............  ..29 ..5 ...0 ...1
080 (078) ArturJFC............  ..27 ..3 ...0 ...0
081 (079) Ilovetheblues_86....  ..26 ..2 ...0 ...0
082 (080) JMG.................  ..22 ..3 ...0 ...0
083 (086) Shia................  ..21 ..7 ...0 ...0
084 (081) Sobbinator..........  ..19 ..4 ...0 ..16
085 (082) Shinjiro............  ..15 ..2 ...0 ...0
086 (083) Matmagix............  ..11 ..2 ...0 ...0
087 (084) Queen Vika..........  ..10 ..5 ...0 ...0
088 (085) Otlichno............  ...9 ..2 ...0 ...0
089 (087) Cristian Gullden....  ...8 ..1 ...0 ...0
090 (088) Alwaysfan...........  ...7 ..2 ...0 ...0
091 (089) J99.................  ...6 ..6 ...0 ...0
092 (090) AmtrakQuebec........  ...4 ..4 ...0 ...0
093 (091) DefyingGravity......  ...3 ..3 ...0 ...0
094 (094) Alycia..............  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
095 (092) Lazar...............  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
096 (093) Singleniacki........  ...2 ..2 ...0 ...0
097 (098) August..............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
098 (099) elirj70.............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
099 (100) lucyfur.............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
100 (101) Power Shot..........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
101 (102) CrossCourt~Rally....  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
102 (095) mariusz_pol.........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
103 (103) Nico................  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
104 (104) PatsyStone..........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
105 (096) Potapovushina.......  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
106 (UNR) ranfurly............  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
107 (105) Selenator...........  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
108 (097) Serena-rules-no1....  ...1 ..1 ...0 ...0
WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE

Code:
histery         32      (74, 76-106)
^bibi^  	29	(30-58)
NeKo    	24	(6-29)
dogwonder24	11	(59-69)
Mustafina       4       (70-73)
John    	3	(1-3)
AdeyC   	1	(4)
Gadis Desa	1	(5)
Beat            1       (75)
 
#11 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

Godwin :tears:

This theme is right up my alley. :sobbing:
 
#13 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

My possible nominations list is very whiny, now I look at it.

The only problem is that my actual life is that of a sheltered middle-class adolescent, so I don't know if any of these songs actually reflect that :D
 
#15 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

:haha:
 
#16 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

This category really sucks...

So much to choose from :drool:

:drool:
 
#18 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

OMG... I have the perfect song. It is so ideally fitting that it is scary. I will leave entering it for a while to give everyone else a chance at entering it but if no one else takes it, I owe it to the game to see to it that this completely nihilistic, yet strangely fun song gets entered. Actually I've thought of another 3 really good alternate selections too, but nothing could beat my 1st choice. :devil:
 
#21 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

OMG... I have the perfect song. It is so ideally fitting that it is scary. I will leave entering it for a while to give everyone else a chance at entering it but if no one else takes it, I owe it to the game to see to it that this completely nihilistic, yet strangely fun song gets entered. Actually I've thought of another 3 really good alternate selections too, but nothing could beat my 1st choice. :devil:
I think I already submitted it

...
 
#20 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

Some of my shortlisted songs are quite upbeat for some reason - I think there are a range of ways in which human misery can be expressed :)

A song like CockNBullKid - Hold On To Your Misery might be a good example of a song that is tonally quite chipper while being about life sucking...
 
#30 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

Some of my shortlisted songs are quite upbeat for some reason - I think there are a range of ways in which human misery can be expressed :)

A song like CockNBullKid - Hold On To Your Misery might be a good example of a song that is tonally quite chipper while being about life sucking...
WHAT A GREAT SONG. :bowdown:
 
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#26 ·
Re: The TF Pick The Best Song Game – Game 110 – Life Sucks - Nominate!!!!!!!

I'm not sure I want to listen to a field of songs telling me life sucks :hysteric: :oh:
 
#28 ·
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Sent a gem. :hearts:
 
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