The New DDD Song Tournament: Nominations

piper · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 12:32 pm

The Soft Boys - Kingdom of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRx2ytKsC8Y

Wire - Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2RvSHK_B8

Brett Alan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:17 pm **Posts:** 2858

I would suggest that "Let The Music Play" (top ten pop hit, still gets lots of airplay, number one on our Freestyle Dance Songs list) and "Christmas Wrapping" (tons of airplay every holiday season) are way too popular/well-known to be included.

Machine Head · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 6:11 pm

Bowtie - Outkast

Country Shit (Remix) - Big K.R.I.T.

piper · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 8:19 pm

Brett Alan wrote:

I would suggest that "Let The Music Play" (top ten pop hit, still gets lots of airplay, number one on our Freestyle Dance Songs list) and "Christmas Wrapping" (tons of airplay every holiday season) are way too popular/well-known to be included.

I second both.

pave · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 8:20 pm

i dont think any of these songs are too popular. the idea of that rule was to get rid of Stairway/Hey Jude/Satisfaction type songs, not something like Christmas Wrapping, which sounds vaguely familiar but is far from widely popular.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7274

pave wrote:

i dont think any of these songs are too popular. the idea of that rule was to get rid of Stairway/Hey Jude/Satisfaction type songs, not something like Christmas Wrapping, which sounds vaguely familiar but is far from widely popular.

I second this. I don't know either of these songs. Popular in this context should mean ubiquitous to the average DDDer, not "was a top ten hit in 1976" or whatever.

pave · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 2:40 am

Brett Alan wrote:

I would suggest that "Let The Music Play" (top ten pop hit, still gets lots of airplay, number one on our Freestyle Dance Songs list).

i doubt a lot of people here are familiar with it. i know i'm not. the fact that it tops that list is all the more reason to include it imo. (honestly, i didnt even know that list existed either lol)

Nick · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 6:25 am

Georgi wrote:

pave wrote:

i dont think any of these songs are too popular. the idea of that rule was to get rid of Stairway/Hey Jude/Satisfaction type songs, not something like Christmas Wrapping, which sounds vaguely familiar but is far from widely popular.

I second this. I don't know either of these songs. Popular in this context should mean ubiquitous to the average DDDer, not "was a top ten hit in 1976" or whatever.

I do have a suspicion that Golden Years would have been heard by the vast majority of DDDers though, Georgi. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7274

Nick-ola wrote:

Georgi wrote:

pave wrote:

i dont think any of these songs are too popular. the idea of that rule was to get rid of Stairway/Hey Jude/Satisfaction type songs, not something like Christmas Wrapping, which sounds vaguely familiar but is far from widely popular.

I second this. I don't know either of these songs. Popular in this context should mean ubiquitous to the average DDDer, not "was a top ten hit in 1976" or whatever.

I do have a suspicion that Golden Years would have been heard by the vast majority of DDDers though, Georgi. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

Nah, I agree completely. I just don't want this to turn into a thread of people displaying boring chart info.

Nick · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 6:32 am

Ah, that I do agree with. In another tournie it would be good to have songs we've already heard as well. Album cuts or something.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7274

My thinking on Golden Years was that although it was a popular album cut, it's not Heroes/Space Oddity/Man Who Sold The World level of recognisability, so I thought there would be a decent chunk of people on here who wouldn't know it that well - I wasn't really aware of it until a few months ago, and now it's possibly my favourite Bowie track. Of course, no qualms in changing it - when you've got 2 noms to work with, there are dozens of songs I could have chosen.

ClashWho · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:45 pm **Posts:** 19294

Yeah, I'd say anything commonly found on greatest hits collections of major artists should be off limits.

Deany · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 9:08 am

Steely Dan - Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yEoKT8x-8

Liz Phair - Table For One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iWeyONoo7Y

If any of these are too popular or anything, I have a few back-ups.

seledia · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 9:39 am

PPK - Resurrection
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/PPK+Resurre ... 3LqD?src=5

Vank - Voyeur
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Voyeur+Ferm ... mPwT?src=5

//When or how will the nominations phase ends ?

batman · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 3:32 pm

ClashWho wrote:

Brett Alan wrote:

I would also suggest that it would be a lot of fun, if this works well, to have a future tournament which is *just* remakes of familiar songs, but in unfamiliar ways.

This is a great idea.

I second that emotion

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