Where in the world are the middle-aged dummies? Worldwide top 31 song countdown. (3 Viewers)

[krista4]

If people are actually interested in that other idea of submitting 31 from one artist, we could make a rule like you can't do a band that scored in the top 10 or20 of these 3 drafts. That might make it more interesting and trim down the odds of getting multiple drafters with the same artist.

Or we could do a draft of bands.

 

[MAC_32]

So we all just doing 31 songs from one band this time??


Honestly, I think that would be a fun countdown/draft as well. Each of us bring to the table their top 31 songs from a band/artist, but we don't say who it is before the draft starts.

Presumably those of us who did a single-artist countdown would have to come up with something else, since those cards have been played.

Of course. I just figured most of us have 5-10 bands we love enough to throw together 31 songs for. I guess the downfall would be if several of us do the same artist.

I think this is a great idea.

@krista4 please enact the KP is forbidden from selecting Tool clause we discussed privately. I pay in quantities (but not quality) of vino.

Knowing this crew, there would probably be digging a little deeper for a band to highlight, but maybe I am wrong. We could also figure out way to do either a public or secret random order/draft and limit it to only one drafter allowed/artist.

Does Tool even have 31 songs?

Do Harry Manback and the german pancake recipe count as songs?

 

[KarmaPolice]

So we all just doing 31 songs from one band this time??


Honestly, I think that would be a fun countdown/draft as well. Each of us bring to the table their top 31 songs from a band/artist, but we don't say who it is before the draft starts.

Presumably those of us who did a single-artist countdown would have to come up with something else, since those cards have been played.

Of course. I just figured most of us have 5-10 bands we love enough to throw together 31 songs for. I guess the downfall would be if several of us do the same artist.

I think this is a great idea.

@krista4 please enact the KP is forbidden from selecting Tool clause we discussed privately. I pay in quantities (but not quality) of vino.

Knowing this crew, there would probably be digging a little deeper for a band to highlight, but maybe I am wrong. We could also figure out way to do either a public or secret random order/draft and limit it to only one drafter allowed/artist.

Does Tool even have 31 songs?

Do Harry Manback and the german pancake recipe count as songs?

Uh, no.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Nevermind - I am sure OH would like them as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

 

[Zegras11]

If people are actually interested in that other idea of submitting 31 from one artist, we could make a rule like you can't do a band that scored in the top 10 or20 of these 3 drafts. That might make it more interesting and trim down the odds of getting multiple drafters with the same artist.

Or we could do a draft of bands.

My immediate thought also. And we can have people BID for draft order and have that money go to a charity. Chance or Hope.

 

[Mister CIA]

I'm going down a lot of dark alley's discovering new songs, and rediscovering songs that were nearly forgotten. My playlist is going to stomp *** once I finalize it.

 

[Manster]

I just confirmed for myself that Nickelback is in fact eligible....I'm in!

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Nevermind - I am sure OH would like them as well.

Do they shout with homeless guy energy and/or play kazoos?

 

[Mister CIA]

Hey @krista4 ,

I don't know how many various formats you have received on previous submissions, but I think you liked the format I used in PMs, which was nothing but copy and paste from an unformatted four column Excel doc, which pastes into the board software nicely, and just as nicely back into Excel. Don't know if the same works with Google Sheets, but I'd be surprised if it did not. Anyway, I hope this snippet from the last draft is a handy little PSA. I sometimes work better with a visual than the written word, and this is one of those instances. HTH

@ALL, notice "Of" is capitalized in "Whiter Shade Of Pale."

EDIT: All I included in the Link column was the YouTube URL. Board software pulled in the youtube thumbnails and whatnot. Not sure what happens with a Spotify link.

Points	Song	Artist	Link
31​	Victoria	The Kinks	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
30​	Heroes	David Bowie	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
28​	Whiter Shade Of Pale	Procal Harum	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com

 

[Mister CIA]

We've got 23 days to kill. For you Kinks fans, or those about to be converted, here's The Contenders. The YouTube recommendation algorithm is vastly improved of late.

 

[krista4]

Hey @krista4 ,

I don't know how many various formats you have received on previous submissions, but I think you liked the format I used in PMs, which was nothing but copy and paste from an unformatted four column Excel doc, which pastes into the board software nicely, and just as nicely back into Excel. Don't know if the same works with Google Sheets, but I'd be surprised if it did not. Anyway, I hope this snippet from the last draft is a handy little PSA. I sometimes work better with a visual than the written word, and this is one of those instances. HTH

@ALL, notice "Of" is capitalized in "Whiter Shade Of Pale."

EDIT: All I included in the Link column was the YouTube URL. Board software pulled in the youtube thumbnails and whatnot. Not sure what happens with a Spotify link.

Points	Song	Artist	Link
31​	Victoria	The Kinks	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
30​	Heroes	David Bowie	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
28​	Whiter Shade Of Pale	Procal Harum	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com

This is indeed a lovely format. As far as how many different formats I had, we had 45 entries, so...45.

ETA: Another excellent format includes the hyperlinks within the song titles.

 

[Mister CIA]

Hey @krista4 ,

I don't know how many various formats you have received on previous submissions, but I think you liked the format I used in PMs, which was nothing but copy and paste from an unformatted four column Excel doc, which pastes into the board software nicely, and just as nicely back into Excel. Don't know if the same works with Google Sheets, but I'd be surprised if it did not. Anyway, I hope this snippet from the last draft is a handy little PSA. I sometimes work better with a visual than the written word, and this is one of those instances. HTH

@ALL, notice "Of" is capitalized in "Whiter Shade Of Pale."

EDIT: All I included in the Link column was the YouTube URL. Board software pulled in the youtube thumbnails and whatnot. Not sure what happens with a Spotify link.

Points	Song	Artist	Link
31​	Victoria	The Kinks	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
30​	Heroes	David Bowie	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com
28​	Whiter Shade Of Pale	Procal Harum	- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. www.youtube.com

This is indeed a lovely format. As far as how many different formats I had, we had 45 entries, so...45.

ETA: Another excellent format includes the hyperlinks within the song titles.

Hmm, still killing time. Let's try three column submission with links embedded in the song title.

Points	Song	Artist
31​	Victoria	The Kinks
30​	Heroes	David Bowie
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison
28​	Whiter Shade of Pale	Procal Harum

 

[krista4]

Hmm, still killing time. Let's try three column submission with links embedded in the song title.

Points	Song	Artist
31​	Victoria	The Kinks
30​	Heroes	David Bowie
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison
28​	Whiter Shade of Pale	Procal Harum

I think I'm turned on now.

 

[Mister CIA]

Hmm, still killing time. Let's try three column submission with links embedded in the song title.

Points	Song	Artist
31​	Victoria	The Kinks
30​	Heroes	David Bowie
29​	Sweet Thing	Van Morrison
28​	Whiter Shade of Pale	Procal Harum

I think I'm turned on now.

So tell me what you want, what you really, really want

 

[krista4]

35 participants right now!

 

[landrys hat]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

Post the playlist/links

 

[Mister CIA]

Future contest thought bubble, what if we did something by state?

By means unknown, we pick the top-16 "music" states and slot them in 16-team bracket tournament (sorry, Iowa, you can go kiss South Dakota), with a 5-song playlist submission for each round, with the obvious stipulation that a song is ineligible for future rounds once selected. It would be a team game, where particpants have to join Team Texas, or Team California, etc, where one person is the captain surrounded by a peanut gallery, or harem, or whatever.

...just an idea guy. Not sure how to determine winners of each round.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

This eligibility thing is ****ing me over.
So if a band had US and British Isles members they weren’t eligible for either list? Like the Police?

Eligibility: The rules for eligibility in this countdown will be "songs that weren't eligible in the first two countdowns"; please refer to the eligibility requirements and ineligible lists in those for guidance.

So the Police are eligible here?

Yes, The Police are eligible here.

So the Police are eligible here?

"mixed" bands that were not eligible (i.e. The Police) can be used in this one.

So the Police are eligible here?

"mixed" bands that were not eligible (i.e. The Police) can be used in this one.

Careful of partial catalogs, though.

Quote function sure sucks.
Thanks all. Therefore you could do a list of 31 easily comprised entirely of UK and US artists with the rules set up in the first two.
Pretty good lists too.

Thats boring though. 31 countries, here i come.

I've got dibs on Zanzibar. Kthanksbye.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

Post the playlist/links

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

 

[Mister CIA]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

Post the playlist/links

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

Oh God, don't post it here.

Sorry, I'm working on my R*U*S*H material

EDIT:srsly, jk.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

Post the playlist/links

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

Oh God, don't post it here.

Sorry, I'm working on my R*U*S*H material

EDIT:srsly, jk.

****ting on Rush will not be tolerated ...

 

[Mister CIA]

Alright, @landrys hat - I forced myself to rank my finalized 31 for Radiohead. Now what??

Post the playlist/links

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

Oh God, don't post it here.

Sorry, I'm working on my R*U*S*H material

EDIT:srsly, jk.

****ting on Rush will not be tolerated ...

Show us on the doll where Rush hurt you.

 

[Tau837]

If people are actually interested in that other idea of submitting 31 from one artist, we could make a rule like you can't do a band that scored in the top 10 or20 of these 3 drafts. That might make it more interesting and trim down the odds of getting multiple drafters with the same artist.

In. I will take Foo Fighters or Linkin Park. Or both.

 

[Mister CIA]

If people are actually interested in that other idea of submitting 31 from one artist, we could make a rule like you can't do a band that scored in the top 10 or20 of these 3 drafts. That might make it more interesting and trim down the odds of getting multiple drafters with the same artist.

In. I will take Foo Fighters or Linkin Park. Or both.

Reaction

 

[Doug B]

Lemme try something here ...

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

EDIT: Not really an embedded video, but something. Lemme see something else ...

I Go Swimming (Live)

Peter Gabriel · Plays Live · Song · 1983

open.spotify.com

EDIT2: So that's what a Spotify link does.

 

[Mister CIA]

Lemme try something here ...

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

EDIT: Not really an embedded video, but something. Lemme see something else ...

I Go Swimming (Live)

Peter Gabriel · Plays Live · Song · 1983

open.spotify.com

EDIT2: So that's what a Spotify link does.

Looks good that they are so similar, but with the green vs red to tell you where the link goes.

 

[Mister CIA]

Moment of Zen

 

[shuke]

One song per artist, you cowards.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

One song per artist, you cowards.

You are playing my song.

 

[Tau837]

One song per artist, you cowards.

(I'm assuming the 31 songs from one artist idea would be a different countdown...)

 

[krista4]

Future contest thought bubble, what if we did something by state?

By means unknown, we pick the top-16 "music" states and slot them in 16-team bracket tournament (sorry, Iowa, you can go kiss South Dakota), with a 5-song playlist submission for each round, with the obvious stipulation that a song is ineligible for future rounds once selected. It would be a team game, where particpants have to join Team Texas, or Team California, etc, where one person is the captain surrounded by a peanut gallery, or harem, or whatever.

...just an idea guy. Not sure how to determine winners of each round.

I really like the state idea! Not sure of format, but we could work it out. Generally a very fun idea, though.

 

[krista4]

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

I wonder if you should keep it until we do your idea of a bunch of artist-related 31-song countdowns? I mean, I'm happy to have your list/thread now, but if we're going to do that you might save it?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Finally got "serious" about compiling a list of potential artists and now have a list of 45 to whittle down. Like the U. K. list I may have one artist with two entries.

Gotta say, in total, I don't like this list nearly as much as my U. K. one.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown. @krista4 - do you care if I put it in the UK countdown?

I wonder if you should keep it until we do your idea of a bunch of artist-related 31-song countdowns? I mean, I'm happy to have your list/thread now, but if we're going to do that you might save it?

I did think about this, but I am going to unleash it this morning for a few reasons. The weather is crap and I can't go anywhere on my day off. I already revealed a top song, and that is not acceptable for my nerd brain if we do that idea. Most importantly, though - if I don't, I will obsess about this #$%!# list for the next few months and redo it another 100s times.

 

[Mt. Man]

I will do a mild countdown with comments, but just doing the playlist tired me out and I don't want to put max effort into the countdown.

It wears him out. It wears him out. It wears...,

 

[Hawks64]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

Just returned...My god was it insane in the best possible way.

Also, in! And will do the playlists for this one as well. No more multiple day travel until June so we should be good

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I'm starting to put my list together for this one. I'm trying to keep it more in the spirit (i.e. "the rest of the world") rather than look for "loopholes" that will allow bands/artists that were already fully represented in the other two exercises to get more songs on this list.

In other words, I'm leaving off huge British super-stars that will be eligible because their wives were not British but included in their bands or British/American bands that have one album with a German trombone player which made that one or two album(s) ineligible but allowed those bands to be otherwise well represented.

I will include bands that were completely* shut out because they are "mixed" or had one or two members born outside of the United States/England which kept them off the other two lists though - since this is the first time those bands can be represented.

* I'm including Fleetwood Mac for example, because most of their catalogue was ineligible so not necessarily "completely" shut out.

 

[Val Rannous]

"loopholes" that will allow bands/artists that were already fully represented in the other two exercises to get more songs on this list.

Yeah, but what about that ONE song that you love, and it happened to be on an album that had a German trombone player? That's why Thunderstruck showed up for me in the last exercise, it was too good of a song to pass up, and it was only legal at that point. Yes, more AC/DC will show on this list now, but that song can't.

I'd say if it's legal now, it's legal. Let's hear the best songs we can.

 

[KarmaPolice]

"loopholes" that will allow bands/artists that were already fully represented in the other two exercises to get more songs on this list.

Yeah, but what about that ONE song that you love, and it happened to be on an album that had a German trombone player? That's why Thunderstruck showed up for me in the last exercise, it was too good of a song to pass up, and it was only legal at that point. Yes, more AC/DC will show on this list now, but that song can't.

I'd say if it's legal now, it's legal. Let's hear the best songs we can.

It would have been amazing if we had the rule that an artist could only show up on one of the countdowns and you knocked out AC/DC with Thunderstruck in the UK one.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Yeah, but what about that ONE song that you love, and it happened to be on an album that had a German trombone player?

I don’t care what anyone else does - I’m just saying what I’m doing. If some one wants to take every song off of Brothers In Arms album (for example) since that was the one (or two) Dire Straits album(s) ineligible in the last one they’re free to do that of course as it would be legal under letter of the law. I’m just going more with the “spirit of the law”.

 

[DrIanMalcolm]

Future contest thought bubble, what if we did something by state?

By means unknown, we pick the top-16 "music" states and slot them in 16-team bracket tournament (sorry, Iowa, you can go kiss South Dakota), with a 5-song playlist submission for each round, with the obvious stipulation that a song is ineligible for future rounds once selected. It would be a team game, where particpants have to join Team Texas, or Team California, etc, where one person is the captain surrounded by a peanut gallery, or harem, or whatever.

...just an idea guy. Not sure how to determine winners of each round.

It's New Jersey, for every round, as Pip and I will attest.

 

[Hawks64]

X-posted from the Brits thread.
6 short clips from where we were standing on the second night. Only short clips because quite frankly I can't not sing for much longer than that

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I am up to 47 countries and still going. Some brutal....and fairly easy cuts coming up.
Will definitely have stuff from China, India, Japan, Poland and Hungary.

Surprisingly a difficult choice coming up for Lebanon

 

[Raging weasel]

My initial list of artists was 55 and have knocked it down to 40. I have 14 artists with songs locked in but they are not necessarily my top 14

 

[zamboni]

I am up to 47 countries and still going.

I can barely name 47 countries.

 

[simsarge]

If people are actually interested in that other idea of submitting 31 from one artist, we could make a rule like you can't do a band that scored in the top 10 or20 of these 3 drafts. That might make it more interesting and trim down the odds of getting multiple drafters with the same artist.

Or we could do a draft of bands.

My immediate thought also. And we can have people BID for draft order and have that money go to a charity. Chance or Hope.

Or a NEW couch, anti-venom 1st aid and an exterminator for me

 

[rockaction]

Oh wow. I was going to eliminate all U.S./U.K. bands from my list, but there was one dude I just don't think I can tell him sorry, not today.

 

[timschochet]

My list has been sent.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

My list has been sent.

Showoff.