Where in the world are the middle-aged dummies? Worldwide top 31 song countdown. (2 Viewers)

[Raging weasel]

This jawn from the Last 5 Outs would have been high up on the new-to-me rankings if it had actually appeared in the countdown.

Up in the Sky -- Somali Yacht Club

After seeing how many people liked Mansters stoner rock picks I wish I would've gone with my original plan- top 10 of all time favs and 21 fav stoner/doom songs.

 

[KarmaPolice]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

This was originally @KarmaPolice idea.
I’d be in.

When I thought of it, I wondered if we should put limits on it so we don't get a ton of artists already covered in the other drafts. E.g.: no artists that got a top 20 score in any draft, something like that. Or knowing many of us, we would naturally do that as well because we are nerds.

Also, do FCFS so that we only have 1 person who could be doing a specific artist?

I don't think there are too many artists, other than the ones we've done/doing now, in which I could justifiably go 31 deep without just picking stuff (not even Krokus). Would probably have to sit this one out.

Not a mandatory suggestion, just thinking aloud. Its best when people are doing bands they know and love or at least WANT to explore more for a thing like this.

I just figured it would be more interesting if it wasn't just be all Beatles, Floyd, Queen, etc.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

This was originally @KarmaPolice idea.
I’d be in.

When I thought of it, I wondered if we should put limits on it so we don't get a ton of artists already covered in the other drafts. E.g.: no artists that got a top 20 score in any draft, something like that. Or knowing many of us, we would naturally do that as well because we are nerds.

Also, do FCFS so that we only have 1 person who could be doing a specific artist?

I don't think there are too many artists, other than the ones we've done/doing now, in which I could justifiably go 31 deep without just picking stuff (not even Krokus). Would probably have to sit this one out.

Not a mandatory suggestion, just thinking aloud. Its best when people are doing bands they know and love or at least WANT to explore more for a thing like this.

I just figured it would be more interesting if it wasn't just be all Beatles, Floyd, Queen, etc.

I think leave it up to each person. My guess is people would be more interested in introducing others to an artist they love - whether it’s more obscure or The Beatles (and anywhere in between).
Not sure if it would be fun with all obscure bands that play once a month at some bar in Vermont or if they were all Zeppelin level bands but I’d expect a nice mix.

 

[simey]

It has one of Hynde's best vocals and an absolutely stunning bridge.

I agree, and the bridge is my favorite part of the song.

 

[KarmaPolice]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

This was originally @KarmaPolice idea.
I’d be in.

When I thought of it, I wondered if we should put limits on it so we don't get a ton of artists already covered in the other drafts. E.g.: no artists that got a top 20 score in any draft, something like that. Or knowing many of us, we would naturally do that as well because we are nerds.

Also, do FCFS so that we only have 1 person who could be doing a specific artist?

I don't think there are too many artists, other than the ones we've done/doing now, in which I could justifiably go 31 deep without just picking stuff (not even Krokus). Would probably have to sit this one out.

Not a mandatory suggestion, just thinking aloud. Its best when people are doing bands they know and love or at least WANT to explore more for a thing like this.

I just figured it would be more interesting if it wasn't just be all Beatles, Floyd, Queen, etc.

I think leave it up to each person. My guess is people would be more interested in introducing others to an artist they love - whether it’s more obscure or The Beatles (and anywhere in between).
Not sure if it would be fun with all obscure bands that play once a month at some bar in Vermont or if they were all Zeppelin level bands but I’d expect a nice mix.

And to be more clear, I am never the one running these, so I am cool with whatever. I just liked the idea of 31 from an artist.

 

[simey]

I don't think there are too many artists, other than the ones we've done/doing now, in which I could justifiably go 31 deep without just picking stuff (not even Krokus). Would probably have to sit this one out.

I think 15 to 20 songs is enough for one artist/band.

 

[simey]

Shocking to me that Up On Cripple Creek didn't have other votes. OH was torn between that and The Weight. I bet it's a lot of people's second-favorite song from The Band.

My second favorite after The Weight is Ophelia. I especially love The Last Waltz version, which is a swinging good time.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

This was originally @KarmaPolice idea.
I’d be in.

When I thought of it, I wondered if we should put limits on it so we don't get a ton of artists already covered in the other drafts. E.g.: no artists that got a top 20 score in any draft, something like that. Or knowing many of us, we would naturally do that as well because we are nerds.

Also, do FCFS so that we only have 1 person who could be doing a specific artist?

I don't think there are too many artists, other than the ones we've done/doing now, in which I could justifiably go 31 deep without just picking stuff (not even Krokus). Would probably have to sit this one out.

Not a mandatory suggestion, just thinking aloud. Its best when people are doing bands they know and love or at least WANT to explore more for a thing like this.

I just figured it would be more interesting if it wasn't just be all Beatles, Floyd, Queen, etc.

I think leave it up to each person. My guess is people would be more interested in introducing others to an artist they love - whether it’s more obscure or The Beatles (and anywhere in between).
Not sure if it would be fun with all obscure bands that play once a month at some bar in Vermont or if they were all Zeppelin level bands but I’d expect a nice mix.

And to be more clear, I am never the one running these, so I am cool with whatever. I just liked the idea of 31 from an artist.

@Zegras11 said he'd run it. I'd be willing to help out.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

I’ll cover this one. Consider it done.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

I’ll cover this one. Consider it done.

Donation made.

This was going to be my charity if I’d been one of the contest winners.

 

[bigbottom]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

Thank you so much for your kindness brother. DM sent.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

Thank you so much for your kindness brother. DM sent.

To be fair @The Dreaded Marco is the one actually making the donation - but you are more than welcome and thanks for reaching out. It's appreciated.

 

[krista4]

As for what's next, other than the various countdowns and such that are already going on...covers thingie? It was mentioned, and I thought it sounded fun. We could do draft or countdown format, but did we do draft before?

I would not be able to volunteer for countdown duty for a while, if we went that direction. Any countdown would have to be in June.

Not going to lie, a little break would be nice lol. Not sure I'd be able to do playlists for anything till July. Bunch of travel and weekend stuff in May and June.

This is me - lots of travel in May/June, including my visit to the holy land (Liverpool). I can participate but not run anything for a couple of months.

 

[krista4]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

 

[Hawks64]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

Please let me know where to donate as well.

 

[bigbottom]

I would like to donate my winnings to @bigbottom 's Chance for Hope foundation. He's one of the more solid people on this board (and helped talk me down in one of the dog supermarket threads where I took things a little personally). My personal experience allows me to know what he went through and I'm super-impressed with what he's done to cope.

Thank you so much for your kindness brother. DM sent.

To be fair @The Dreaded Marco is the one actually making the donation - but you are more than welcome and thanks for reaching out. It's appreciated.

Thank you @The Dreaded Marco for your incredible generosity!!!

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

I'll add another $100 later today!

 

[bigbottom]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

Love!

 

[bigbottom]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

I'll add another $100 later today!

LOVE!

 

[krista4]

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

Please let me know where to donate as well.

Can I clarify the donation made to Chance for Hope? @The Dreaded Marco , you were “only” on the hook for $250, and first place gets $350, so I can make the other $100 donation if need be.

I'll add another $100 later today!

Oh boy, I didn't mean that you needed to do that. You are awesome! I'm still willing to make it instead, though. Just let me know.

@Hawks64 , I'm awaiting DrIan to select his charity, and then you, @Uruk-Hai and I will divvy up the remaining donations.

Current accounting:
Dr. Octopus: $350 - $250 made to Chance for Hope, and either Marco or I will pay the remaining $100
Don Quixote: $150 - I made this donation last night to the March of Dimes March for Babies in which DQ is participating this weekend (cool!)
Val Rannous: $150 - I have his charity info and we can figure out who pays this one once we have...
DrIanMalcolm: $350 - TBD

 

[Zegras11]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

 

[MAC_32]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

Oooooo, I forgot about that. I like that one, too. A lot.

The US one was great because I kept up and contributed throughout. The British one less so because of the stresses on my time - felt more like a chore to find space to listen rather than just soaking it all in. Then this one was awful as my listening regressed from a chore to just too far behind to comment much. Due to all that I was planning on bowing out of music drafts for an indefinite period of time, but this is one that I would do since it'd a) require little effort on my part and b) allow me to fall woefully behind on listening while still being a relatively infrequent participant. Whoever runs the next one, please don't decision make based on me though.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

How do you propose the artists get distributed? Say you & I want the same artist.........

 

[Zegras11]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

How do you propose the artists get distributed? Say you & I want the same artist.........

See my post about this. Any ties and I would throw Into a randomizer

 

[Uruk-Hai]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

How do you propose the artists get distributed? Say you & I want the same artist.........

See my post about this. Any ties and I would throw Into a randomizer

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So, by PM to Zegras?

I honestly think I'm losing my mind.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So, by PM to Zegras?

I honestly think I'm losing my mind.

yes

 

[Uruk-Hai]

DrIanMalcolm: $350 - TBD

I'll take his when it comes in.

 

[Zegras11]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

@Uruk-Hai

 

[Uruk-Hai]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

@Uruk-Hai

Get my PM?

 

[Zegras11]

covers thingie?

I like this idea.

What about the idea where everyone chooses an artist and ranks their top 31? I liked that one also.

I would be willing to take everyone's artist preference list. Everyone gets their first choice, unless two or more people have it #1 and then I throw it into a randomizer. That could be real interesting.


After all the #1's are doled out, I go to the #2's on the remaining lists, and so on. You could leave a list of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Up to you. #Ranked Choice Voting

@Uruk-Hai

Get my PM?

Yes. Thanks.

 

[Raging weasel]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

How do you propose the artists get distributed? Say you & I want the same artist.........

3 round cage match or Zoom karaoke showdown of artist's song

 

[krista4]

DrIanMalcolm: $350 - TBD

I'll take his when it comes in.

Thank you. @Hawks64 , I'll PM you with the other one.

 

[krista4]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So to be safe, people should send a list of several? When are the lists due, for randomization determinations?

 

[krista4]

Zoom karaoke showdown of artist's song

I really, really want this to be the way to determine.

 

[simsarge]

As for what's next, other than the various countdowns and such that are already going on...covers thingie? It was mentioned, and I thought it sounded fun. We could do draft or countdown format, but did we do draft before?

I would not be able to volunteer for countdown duty for a while, if we went that direction. Any countdown would have to be in June.

I'm unavailable (as in, on a cruise ship with no phone/internet) the first week of May, so I'm not able to commit to much anything before that. My Pink Floyd list is already in to Anarchy!

I'd be willing to sacrifice my time and countdown list and take your place. Strictly for the sake of the Countdown mind you.

 

[simsarge]

Someone put the Wiggles in their Last 5 Out?????????????????????

 

[Zegras11]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So to be safe, people should send a list of several? When are the lists due, for randomization determinations?

I was going to message you and some others about this. You said you had some travel coming up.

When would be a good deadline to send in lists to determine artists for each one of us?

And then I was thinking about another month for people to create and send me their lists. What do you think?

 

[Zegras11]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So to be safe, people should send a list of several? When are the lists due, for randomization determinations?

Send in how ever many you like. I think some of the strategy would be to have 2 or 3 at the end of the list that aren't likely to be listed by others.

It's possible someone leaves me like 10 and loses the karoke.... err randomizer spin. If that happens I'll ask for more

I think the reveal of it all will be fun and we can laugh at whomever loses the most random spins.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Oh, NOW other people have questions after I got left hanging in the wind for hours (narrator: it was really like 12 minutes).

 

[krista4]

I was going to message you and some others about this. You said you had some travel coming up.

When would be a good deadline to send in lists to determine artists for each one of us?

And then I was thinking about another month for people to create and send me their lists. What do you think?

Oh, I can send in my list of artists any time. No problem on that. And once I have my artist, it won't be hard for me to come up with my songs*, so that's not a problem for me either. My travel would only interfere with my ability to do a massive countdown with calculations and ****, which this isn't and I'm not running anyway!

*Pipe down, Pip.

 

[Ilov80s]

In regards to the 31 per artist idea... just one artist per person, and only one artist among all of us. One person gets them and that's it.

Ranked lists would be interesting and provide some fun strategy in selecting artists.

I could run it. I would be able to post each night around 9pm mt.

There are dozens of new artists for me on these last 3 count downs and it would be awesome to dig deeper on all of them.
I would not be able to run any contests. If someone wants to help do that....

Are we doing another thing here? I'll play along if someone explains it to me.

 

[KarmaPolice]

So we are already sending in our artist for the next thingie?

 

[KarmaPolice]

The movie stuff largely kept me away from this draft, but I was .

I think a few actually liked the Opeth picks. I think I saw them pop up on @Pip's Invitation posts a few times and a couple others. IF anybody is interested in exploring albums, most of the songs I took are from albums that are all clean lyrics and proggy. I think the hardest albums to choose from were Pale Communion and Sorceress, so I would start any adventure there.

 

[Zegras11]

Sorry - I'm still birthday-hungover. I'm not getting how this will be ordered. How are we initially selecting our artists?

You would just submit your choice(s) of artist to Zegras11 - if he got two requests for the same artist then he would randomly chose who would get that artist and the other person would get their second choice.

So to be safe, people should send a list of several? When are the lists due, for randomization determinations?

Send in how ever many you like. I think some of the strategy would be to have 2 or 3 at the end of the list that aren't likely to be listed by others.

It's possible someone leaves me like 10 and loses the karoke.... err randomizer spin. If that happens I'll ask for more

I think the reveal of it all will be fun and we can laugh at whomever loses the most random spi

So we are already sending in our artist for the next thingie?

I already have 2 lists lol. I'm on my phone and can't get rid of the other quote

 

[Zegras11]

About to board plane. No funky rules. If the artist was involved you can list them.

 

[Zegras11]

Instead of 31, should we do top 20? Uruk said simey suggested that. I can't find the post lol

 

[Ilov80s]

So I PM Zegras the couple artists I would want to choose. And what I am choose them for us to rank my 31 favorite songs from that artist?