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The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023
- Thread starter BlueHammer85
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RobMCFC
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I won't be nominating Midnight Oil - they are about as far from Manchester as you can get and therefore will have no chance.I don’t care for the non-NA/UK thing. It narrows down the selection set for one pick drastically for no good reason. It’s not like a Peruvian flute band is going to win, or Midnight Oil will (which is what @RobMCFC is secretly hoping . . . )
I do think forcing people to pick at least one from outside the NA/UK will be a good category as it would help broaden the selections, although they would almost certainly all fall in the first round.
Last year we had to have one year 2000+ pick - was the reason for this any better than a geographical category?
FogBlueInSanFran
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Yeah, because there have been about a quadrillion songs made since 2000, but since the beginning of time, I (and am guessing most everyone else here) can name far fewer than a quadrillion made in any nation outside of those that speak English.I won't be nominating Midnight Oil - they are about as far from Manchester as you can get and therefore will have no chance.
I do think forcing people to pick at least one from outside the NA/UK will be a good category as it would help broaden the selections, although they would almost certainly all fall in the first round.
Last year we had to have one year 2000+ pick - was the reason for this any better than a geographical category?
So, sure, we'll get Aussie-NZ, Irish, ABBA, Bob Marley, maybe some German bands who sung in English . . . then what? Seven people pick "Take On Me"?
It should be restrictive breadth we're after, not constrictive breadth.
RobMCFC
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Not sure I see where you are coming from. Any category is a restriction of a kind and I’d argue if you picked 100 songs from the year 2000+ they’d be just as good/bad as a geographic category.Yeah, because there have been about a quadrillion songs made since 2000, but since the beginning of time, I (and am guessing most everyone else here) can name far fewer than a quadrillion made in any nation outside of those that speak English.
So, sure, we'll get Aussie-NZ, Irish, ABBA, maybe some German bands who sung in English . . . then what? Seven people pick "Take On Me"?
It should be restrictive breadth we're after, not constrictive breadth.
FogBlueInSanFran
Well-Known Member
It's just about selection set, not quality.Not sure I see where you are coming from. Any category is a restriction of a kind and I’d argue if you picked 100 songs from the year 2000+ they’d be just as good/bad as a geographic category.
"Post-2000 songs" is a much, much wider category in terms of possible choices for regular English-speaking music fans than "no songs from North America or the UK" for obvious reasons.
RobMCFC
Well-Known Member
If only there was a thread that summarised the results on page #1 :)What were the top 4 songs last year.
Made the schoolboy error of using the search for 2023.LOL.If only there was a thread that summarised the results on page #1 :)