The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

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BimboBoooooooooob! I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again.

Simon & Garfunkel do it. They beat the Rolling Stones in the Cup Final.


The Boxer 34 - 32 Gimme Shelter



Congratulations to @FogBlueInSanFran who had the final winning song but ultimately to @bennyboy who wins the whole competition and a signed Gareth Southgate autobiography.



 
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Songs left in the cupPointsSongs out
bennyboy
0​
223​
Arabian Nights / These Are The Days / The Last Time / How Soon Is Now? / Gimme Shelter
Mad Eyed Screamer
0​
217​
There Is A Light / Spellbound / Irish Blood,English Heart / Ghost Town / Like A Rolling Stone
Goaters Left shin
0​
179​
17 Going Under / Free Man In Paris / Sexy Boy / Common People / Good Vibrations
Bill Walker
0​
178​
Rehab / Green Manalishi / Can't Get You Out Of My Head / Something / A Day In The Life
Johnnytapia
0​
166​
First Of The Gang / Now My Heart Is Full / Back On The Chain Gang / Don't Look Back In Anger / Say Hello,Wave Goodbye
FogBlueInSanFran
1​
163​
All My Friends / Waiting Room / Take The Skinheads /Head Over Heels
Levets
0​
162​
Run / Question / You're The Best Thing / Quicksand / Heroes
BimboBob
0​
158​
Nothing Going On / Black Betty / Dr Who Theme / Get It Right Next Time / Enjoy The Silence
NzBlue
0​
130​
Radar Love / Bluemoon Revisited / Hurt / Shine On You Crazy Diamond / Kashmir
BlueHammer85
0​
126​
Wicked Game / If I Had A Gun / Just Breathe / Angel Of Harlem / Live Forever
Journoloud
0​
119​
Coversation 16 / Work / Stop Your Tears / A House Is Not A Motel / I'm Not In Love
Tourist Since 1971
0​
115​
Stargazer/ Bird Of Paradise/ Rooms On Fire/ Back To Black / All Along The Watchtower
PinkFinal
0​
112​
Beautiful Thing / Time / Baby Love / Tears / Wuthering Heights
BedsBlue 68
0​
107​
Single Girl / Slice Of Lime / This Charming Man / Regret / The Only One I Know
Protein Junkie
0​
89​
Bring Me To Life / Space / It's Only Natural / Everywhere / Man With Child in His Eyes
Dogtanian
0​
86​
What's Up / Pumped Up Kicks / 2+2=5 / Sowing the Seeds of Love / Born Of Frustration
bluejon
0​
75​
Chinese Satellite / My Delirum / Sing A Simple Song / How Lucky / Unfinished Sympathy
bigstanhibbert
0​
73​
Happy Ever After / Have You Made Up Your Mind / Love Can Move Mountains / Hungry Heart / Down At The Tube Station
Saddleworth2
0​
68​
The Sensual / Among Angels / Black Dogs / For Emily / Don't Fear The Reaper
threespires
0​
51​
Sun Ain't Gonna Shine / Get Lucky / Bizarre Love Triangle / Alone Again Or / Feeling Good
Millo
0​
47​
My Way Of Thinking / Salvatore / Empire State Of Mind / Age Of Consent / Forever Young
Onholiday (somemightsay)
0​
42​
Porcelain / déjà vu / Little Bird / Dear Prudence / The Wind Cries Mary
Lancet Fluke
0​
40​
One / All These Things / Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want / I Feel Love / Ring The Bells
Mancitydoogle
0​
40​
Car Wheels / Under The Pressure / Willin' / Refugee / Streets Of Philidelphia
Rob MCFC
0​
39​
Choice In Matter / Don't Dream It's Over / Free Fallin' / Sweet Child O' Mine / Crystal Frontier
Knaresborough Blue
0​
39​
Sinnerman / Try Again / Vanishing Point / Lovers Concerto / Earth,Wind,Fire
City Hobgoblin
0​
36​
Push The Button / Edith & the Kingpin /Leave The Capital / Streets Of Your Town / Oh Sweet Nothing
supercity 88
0​
30​
Songbird / Ocean Eyes / Crosses / Let It Be / Fake Plastic Trees
Out On Blue 6
0​
16​
Brainstorm / Remembering Me / Midnight In A Perfect World / Rembering Me / Dayvan Cowboy
Mrs BimboBob
0​
7​
Take On Me / Trustfall / Mr Brightside / Cuddly Toy / Two Princes
Coatigan
0​
6​
23 / When I'm Down / Lost Words / Tell Her This / Fireworks
denislawsbackheel
0​
0​
Kites / Why D'ya Do It / Kindling / Strange Weirdos / Love&Regret
 
Thanks @BlueHammer85 for a fantastic thread. I’m looking forward to the next one. Next week right? :)

I am seriously flabbergasted that The Boxer won this. I added it because I needed a song that had been top ten in the charts in the US and UK, and as I was hurriedly doing my list last minute, Paul Simon’s “Graceland” was playing on my Spotify, and I randomly wikied The Boxer on the off-chance it was popular in the UK, which to my surprise it was. A great song and a worthy champion I think!
 
@BlueHammer85 in case you have trouble thinking of criteria for the five tracks in next years competition I've taken the liberty of coming up with some that I think would fit our demographic nicely….

1. Song by band or artist who can be proven to have used either the 101 or 105 bus routes in their formative years (might be too specific so you could chuck in the 42 and the 192 for a bit of variety)

2. A song focused on identify politics

3. Disney soundtrack song

4. Song featuring pipes (wind instrument or tobacco type)

5. Song that has more than a quarter of a billion plays on tiktok and at least 100,000 different videos of people dancing to it on their patio.

No need to thank me mate, I'm always happy to help.

(and once again well done on a sterling job)
 
Great effort @BlueHammer85 - this took a lot of time to implement and manage, and I commend you for sticking to the task and putting up with the peanut gallery! This was really enjoyable and it clearly kept a lot of people engaged for a good six months.

Also well done to @bennyboy and @FogBlueInSanFran - it was nice to see a couple of Album Club members duking it out in the final.

Just one piece of constructive criticism and one suggestion:-

1. To avoid the Depeche Mode debacle, you really should have implemented a preliminary round to reduce the numbers to 128 so that it gradually reduced the number of songs remaining down to a traditional R16, QF, SF etc. Easy to implement and avoids having to resort to FIFA-style nonsense rules. Unless it was you aim to cause a bit of friction and outrage, in which case, job done.

2. As West Ham are no strangers to minor UEFA competitions, what about saying that entry to next year's Bluemoon Cup is barred to any artists that appeared in this year's cup? Sort of like a Europa League/Conference deal. That would certainly make things even more unpredictable.
 
RobMCFC said:
Great effort @BlueHammer85 - this took a lot of time to implement and manage, and I commend you for sticking to the task and putting up with the peanut gallery! This was really enjoyable and it clearly kept a lot of people engaged for a good six months.

Also well done to @bennyboy and @FogBlueInSanFran - it was nice to see a couple of Album Club members duking it out in the final.

Just one piece of constructive criticism and one suggestion:-

1. To avoid the Depeche Mode debacle, you really should have implemented a preliminary round to reduce the numbers to 128 so that it gradually reduced the number of songs remaining down to a traditional R16, QF, SF etc. Easy to implement and avoids having to resort to FIFA-style nonsense rules. Unless it was you aim to cause a bit of friction and outrage, in which case, job done.

2. As West Ham are no strangers to minor UEFA competitions, what about saying that entry to next year's Bluemoon Cup is barred to any artists that appeared in this year's cup? Sort of like a Europa League/Conference deal. That would certainly make things even more unpredictable.
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The first one is a good suggestion — the play-in round. Not sure how one selects the lower “seeds” though. Maybe do an “all in” round to start, and then the lowest vote totals get dumped so we get down to a more conventional match up.

I don’t think barring artists is the right thing to do but definitely no repeat song nominations (unless they are covers by different artists).
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
The first one is a good suggestion — the play-in round. Not sure how one selects the lower “seeds” though. Maybe do an “all in” round to start, and then the lowest vote totals get dumped so we get down to a more conventional match up.

I don’t think barring artists is the right thing to do but definitely no repeat song nominations (unless they are covers by different artists).
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Lol, ignore him Rob :-)
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
The first one is a good suggestion — the play-in round. Not sure how one selects the lower “seeds” though. Maybe do an “all in” round to start, and then the lowest vote totals get dumped so we get down to a more conventional match up.
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That is good, maybe have entrants rank their lowest of the 5 selections to allow some of those "play in" rounds to take place to keep the numbers early on work down to a 2 to the nth number.
FogBlueInSanFran said:
I don’t think barring artists is the right thing to do
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Radiohead and I agree with this approach. Can't wait to get in on the next round!
FogBlueInSanFran said:
but definitely no repeat song nominations (unless they are covers by different artists).
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I think once a specific song is used, it is burned, but I'm sure @BlueHammer85 will have thoughts on that. That will also probably save me from myself with something from Ryan Adams' 1989 album.
 
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