Boardsies Best Song of the 60s

rainbowtrout

Following on from the best song of the 70s, 80s, 90s and current Noughties competition, here is the sign up for the best song of the 60s.



Do you like rock and roll, surf, motown or folk music? Do you remember the Summer of Love?:P


You can submit 10 songs from 1960 - 1969 to me by PM.

The songs must have been released in Ireland, UK, or USA. I'm going to allow album tracks in this competition/songs that were released as singles but didn't chart, once they were a 60s release.


I'll be taking nominations for 5 or 6 days at least.


Once nominations are in, we will go with the knock out format of the last few threads.


Let the games commence!!

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Will get a list together either tonight (probably the wee hours of the morning) or at some stage tomorrow and get it to you. Huzzah!

Necro

Submitted. How do you all feel about Johnny Cash :pac:

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Necro wrote: »

Submitted. How do you all feel about Johnny Cash :pac:

Please tell me you haven't just submitted 10 Johnny Cash songs...

Necro

Maybe.... :P

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

Submitted. How do you all feel about Johnny Cash :pac:

Well I've got him on my already rather long (and about to get longer) shortlist.

Irish Aris

I just sent mine in.
Not a huge fan or very familiar with the 60's so my selections are a bit. . . basic???:D

trashcan

The correct answer to this is Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks. There, I've just saved you all the bother :cool:

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I feel the '60s is often overlooked by people who think everything was just Elvis and The Beatles, but it has so so many iconic classics. This is by far the hardest list to narrow down. Well over a hundred songs already that I'd love to nominate and I'm still on a trip down memory lane just adding more and more.

My self imposed one track per artist rule is the only thing helping me keep any sort of order. I've nothing on tomorrow though, so gonna take my sweet time with this tonight and just get lost in the music.

Zaph

Deja Boo wrote: »

Did they even write songs in the 60's? Were they all as sadly suicidal as the 70's? (must google - again!)

The chart rule is unfortunate but I'll throw in a couple of nominations.

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Entries submitted, was hard to get it down to 10.

I’m having a great morning doing my research listening to all these songs.

Could I ask one favour though? If others don’t agree then chime in -

Could the votes not count until at least the duration of all the songs in a matches post has passed? For the qualifying round at least. Lots of times in these comps the reason given is they hadn’t heard of the other song but if they listened to it, they might prefer it!

sKeith

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’m having a great morning doing my research listening to all these songs.

Could I ask one favour though? If others don’t agree then chime in -

Could the votes not count until at least the duration of all the songs in a matches post has passed? For the qualifying round at least. Lots of times in these comps the reason given is they hadn’t heard of the other song but if they listened to it, they might prefer it!

tbh, you shouldn't be voting until you have heard both songs and can decide between them, anything else is just messing.

I know. I’ve been listening to all tracks and by the time I’m done, the match has been decided.

Necro

Strawberry Milkshake wrote:

I know. I’ve been listening to all tracks and by the time I’m done, the match has been decided.

Could always just slow the pace down and do it match by match. Tougher on the game runner though tbh, well maybe not tougher but would take longer.

Necro

Necro wrote: »

Could always just slow the pace down and do it match by match. Tougher on the game runner though tbh, well maybe not tougher but would take longer.

That’s why I thought having a no votes counted until rule might be good. If there’s 18 minutes worth of music in a post then votes don’t count till 20 after that time. You could canvass for a track in the meantime to keep the thread busy.

Entry sent and I’ve gone with a theme this time.

Electric Nitwit

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’m having a great morning doing my research listening to all these songs.

Could I ask one favour though? If others don’t agree then chime in -

Could the votes not count until at least the duration of all the songs in a matches post has passed? For the qualifying round at least. Lots of times in these comps the reason given is they hadn’t heard of the other song but if they listened to it, they might prefer it!

Got my noms in, no overthinking!

I definitely agree with the principle. If your reason is "I don't know the other one" you shouldn't vote*

*see also, everyone who voted against Utopia in the TV Shows contest

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Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Got my noms in, no overthinking!

I definitely agree with the principle. If your reason is "I don't know the other one" you shouldn't vote*

*see also, everyone who voted against Utopia in the TV Shows contest

There was a TV contest? Oh no, I would've liked to have taken part in that.

Electric Nitwit

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

There was a TV contest? Oh no, I would've liked to have taken part in that.

It reminded me of The X-Files, in that you could Trust No One

Necro

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote:

There was a TV contest? Oh no, I would've liked to have taken part in that.

I think you'd have been horrified tbh LeVar, Father Ted won :pac:

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Electric Nitwit wrote: »

It reminded me of The X-Files, in that you could Trust No One

I can trust no one on these greatest song contests either, every time I think someone will potentially have my back on a vote they turn around and stab me in the front.

I mean the 2 finalists in the '90s comp were both my nominations, so I'm probably being a tad dramatic, but some of the votes make me want to flip a table.

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Necro wrote: »

I think you'd have been horrified tbh LeVar, Father Ted won :pac:

Look Father Ted is a fine show, but has no business winning a greatest TV show of all-time competition...

Like had people not seen The Wire or Seinfeld or The Sopranos or Bojack Horseman or Breaking Bad or Fawlty Towers or Freaks & Geeks or Only Fools & Horses or the other dozens of shows that would be worthier of such a title...

You're right Necro, I am horrified!!!

sKeith

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Look Father Ted is a fine show, but has no business winning a greatest TV show of all-time competition...

Like had people not seen The Wire or Seinfeld or The Sopranos or Bojack Horseman or Breaking Bad or Fawlty Towers or Freaks & Geeks or Only Fools & Horses or the other dozens of shows that would be worthier of such a title...

You're right Necro, I am horrified!!!

sesame street done quite well.

Necro

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote:

Like had people not seen The Wire or Seinfeld or The Sopranos or Bojack Horseman or Breaking Bad or Fawlty Towers or Freaks & Geeks or Only Fools & Horses or the other dozens of shows that would be worthier of such a title...

Oh god... don't read the thread. Just don't do it. Only Fools and Horses got knocked out by Absolutely Fabulous:pac:

Day Lewin

Done! and ten is not half enough. What a decade for songs.

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Necro wrote: »

Oh god... don't read the thread. Just don't do it. Only Fools and Horses got knocked out by Absolutely Fabulous:pac:

Jesus wept...

Not gonna go anywhere near it - my blood pressure would probably go through the roof.

rainbowtrout

Deleted User wrote: »

The chart rule is unfortunate but I'll throw in a couple of nominations.

No you can submit a song that didn't have major chart success. I've updated the rules for this thread.

The way I see it, if the song is good enough it will go far, and if not it will get knocked out.

rainbowtrout

sKeith wrote: »

tbh, you shouldn't be voting until you have heard both songs and can decide between them, anything else is just messing.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I know. I’ve been listening to all tracks and by the time I’m done, the match has been decided.

Necro wrote: »

Could always just slow the pace down and do it match by match. Tougher on the game runner though tbh, well maybe not tougher but would take longer.

Well a lot of songs are well known so a person doesn't have to listen to all the songs to make a choice, and as Necro said if i was to do it match by match it would take forever, particularly if I put a time limit on each match before voting counts, it would take forever to do one match at a time. I could put in a rule where no votes can be cast until the set of matches are up for five minutes. I presume people will have heard of some of the songs.

ShaneU

My favourite music decade, will send my list in a few hours

Don’t go changing on my account. Was just a thought in my head. I’ve moved onto a measurement dilemma now

Tauriel

Got my list in after realising that some of the songs I wanted to nominate were actually released in the 70s.

Spook_ie

mustang shelly wrote: »

Got my list in after realising that some of the songs I wanted to nominate were actually released in the 70s.

Hope you nominated Mustang Sally there

Tauriel

Spook_ie wrote: »

Hope you nominated Mustang Sally there

I was gonna but decided against it

Spook_ie

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Well a lot of songs are well known so a person doesn't have to listen to all the songs to make a choice, and as Necro said if i was to do it match by match it would take forever, particularly if I put a time limit on each match before voting counts, it would take forever to do one match at a time. I could put in a rule where no votes can be cast until the set of matches are up for five minutes. I presume people will have heard of some of the songs.

Given the speed of voting and the interest in the last couple of the decades you could probably go to more than 5 votes in the first round, maybe 10 and call it by majority after 20-30 mins

rainbowtrout

Spook_ie wrote: »

Given the speed of voting and the interest in the last couple of the decades you could probably go to more than 5 votes in the first round, maybe 10 and call it by majority after 20-30 mins

To be honest, it would never get to 10. Many of the early matches were struggling to get to 5 or 6. If there is a match that has a very obvious winner e.g. Bohemian Rhapsody, the votes pile in and it could win its match twice over, but if it's between two relatively unknown songs/ songs people don't like, some posters abstain and some of the matches limp along.

rainbowtrout

I have now got most of the nominations I think I'm going to get, I got 14 sets of nominations and along with my own it came to 124 songs. So I've chucked in a couple of extra songs to bring it up to 128. So I think I'll just run with a straight Round 1 rather than wait for more entries where I'll only end up with a couple of extra songs for qualifiers.

I intend to run some of the qualifiers tomorrow all going well. So there are 128 songs from 89 different acts so there's quite a wide spread!

Ahh, missed nominations
I'll vote though

rainbowtrout

bubblypop wrote: »

Ahh, missed nominations
I'll vote though

If you still want to nominate some songs, I'll fit them in. I was tied up at work earlier so I didn't get started when I had planned.

rainbowtrout

Just realised some people may not know this competition has started. Currently in Round 1


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