SURLAW reveal - Lassyvission

lassykk

Hello and welcome to the reveal of my SURLAW - Lassyvission

The reveal will be starting between 7.15 - 7.30 depending on when the little ones go down!

There were actually 14 not 16 entries as previously thought as I clearly can't count the columns in a spreadsheet!

Anyway the entrants are

Myself
s1ippy
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Irish Aris
Kolido
ShaneU
Gru
Homer J. Fong
sKeith
Sawduck
Rothko
y0ssar1an22
phatkev
Persepoly

I will be revealing in the order of entry so will our late overnight entrant Persepoly have a deciding vote or will it be settled long before hand?

Tune in later to find out

lassykk

A reminder of the songs chosen:

Pearl Jam - Porch

Staind - So Far Away

Blink 182 - Feeling This

Guster - Happier

Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine

lassykk

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

Blue October - Fear

Seven Mary Three - Wait

Metallica - Hero of the Day

Semisonic - Closing Time

lassykk

Incubus - Megalomaniac

Police - The King of Pain

Stone Sour - Imperfect

Silverchair - Tomorrow

Not on Spotify!JJ72 - October Swimmer

lassykk

Lisa Loeb - Stay

Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water

Scott Stapp - The Great Divide

Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody

Tonic - You Wanted More

lassykk

If we get a bit of chat going on this later on I'd be interested to hear if any of the songs were new to people and if you discovered any new bands/songs that you will listen to in future

I promise not to get offended if you hated any of the tracks, even if it's the Pearl Jam one

lassykk

Oh and if anyone does see this today and wants to enter I'll accept late entries up till 7pm

Necro

Did you miss my entries lassy

I think I still have the PM if you need it

lassykk

Necro wrote: »

Did you miss my entries lassy

I think I still have the PM if you need it

Hey, I'm really sorry I don't know how I didn't add your entry to the list!

I even replied to your pm but managed to not update my spreadsheet.

You know have the honour of possibly casting the deciding vote as you will be the last to be revealed as my spreadsheet is all set up so I've added you to the end.

Thanks for letting me know.

I've checked my PMs now and I don't believe I missed anyone else

lassykk

lassykk wrote: »

If we get a bit of chat going on this later on I'd be interested to hear if any of the songs were new to people and if you discovered any new bands/songs that you will listen to in future

I promise not to get offended if you hated any of the tracks, even if it's the Pearl Jam one

There is one song in my picks that I had heard before and completely forgotten about. Thanks to your Surlaw I can't stop listening to it

Kolido

Most of the songs were new to me. One specific song I really liked. Had heard of the act but Im not familiar with them, I hope to check them out some more.

Electric Nitwit

I'd hope to have time for a late entry but I won't manage it now. I'll follow along later though

Silverchair for the win!

s1ippy

I really need this today! Music to drag me out of the depths. Can't wait.

lassykk

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There is one song in my picks that I had heard before and completely forgotten about. Thanks to your Surlaw I can't stop listening to it

Glad you rediscovered it look forward to finding out what it is during the reveal!

Rothko

I've heard about half of these before but I couple of nice discoveries (and rediscoveries) too.

The interesting thing about this one is that I don't think there's an obvious or really predictable winner.

lassykk

Rothko wrote: »

I've heard about half of these before but I couple of nice discoveries (and rediscoveries) too.

The interesting thing about this one is that I don't think there's an obvious or really predictable winner.

Tried to avoid any classics so it wouldn't be too predictable

lassykk

So I'm a little bit ahead of time which is highly unusual but just said I'd start of with a few songs that just missed the cut for this.

Corey Taylor - Have you Ever Seen the Rain

Absolutely love this song but as he's the lead singer in Stone Sour I thought it might be a bit too similar to Imperfect. I also couldn't find it on Spotify but I left JJ72 in so I could have left this in I guess

Netwon Faulkner - Dream Catch Me

A one hit wonder that gets a lot of air time on my Spotify playlist. Think it's particularly catchy

The Offspring - Want You Bad

Like a lot of The Offspring's hits but this one is particularly catchy

lassykk

So for the results of the host nation.

The Kilkenny vote is as follows

In 10th place it's Blue October - Fear - 1 point

In 9th place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 2 points

In 8th place it's Tonic - You Wanted More - 3 points

In 7th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 4 points

In 6th place it's Blink 182 - Feeling This - 5 points

In 5th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 6 points

In 4th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 10 points

In 1st place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 12 points

Anyone who has followed the 90s band thread Kolido ran will know my love of Pearl Jam so I don't think this is any shock. I tried to pick a song that some at least would be unfamiliar with a I think Porch is just a brilliant track

Incubus have some unreal songs and I have only gotten back into the lately but Megalomaniac would be my favourite track despite others being more famous.

Silversun Pickups I only discovered very recently and must say they are excellent. Very similar in sound to Smashing Pumpkins on some songs and this is a particularly good track.

lassykk

Now for the first entrant proper and it's Sl1ppy who was lightning fast getting their votes in

In 10th place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 1 point

In 9th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 2 points

In 8th place it's Scott Stapp - The Great Divide - 3 points

In 7th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 4 points

In 6th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 5 points

In 5th place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 6 points

In 4th place it's Guster - Happier - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Police - The King of Pain - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 10 points

In 1st place it's Staind - So Far Away - 12 points

Top spot goes to Staind - I found it very hard to give this track no points as I absolutely love it and I think one of the hardest parts of this was actually ranking a list of my favourite songs!

lassykk

At the end of Round 2 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Pearl Jam - Porch 22
Staind - So Far Away 22
Incubus - Megalomaniac 21
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 19
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 17
Stone Sour - Imperfect 14
JJ72 - October Swimmer 12
Blink 182 - Feeling This 12
Guster - Happier 9
Police - The King of Pain 8
Semisonic - Closing Time 8
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 4
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 2
Blue October - Fear 1
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 0
Lisa Loeb - Stay 0
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0
Metallica - Hero of the Day 0
Silverchair - Tomorrow 0

lassykk

Next up it's Also Staring LeVar Burton

In 10th place it's Scott Stapp - The Great Divide - 1 point

In 9th place it's Guster - Happier - 2 points

In 8th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 3 points

In 7th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 4 points

In 6th place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 5 points

In 5th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 6 points

In 4th place it's Blink 182 - Feeling This - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Staind - So Far Away - 10 points

In 1st place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 12 points

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Your Round 2 scoreboard is wrong - think that's after Round 3

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Your Round 2 scoreboard is wrong - think that's after Round 3

Is it wrong?

12 points for top then 10, 8 and so on?

lassykk

Porch got top from me and second from S1ippy so that's 22

lassykk

At the end of Round 3 of the voting the scores are (I hope!):

Song Score
Pearl Jam - Porch 22
Staind - So Far Away 22
Incubus - Megalomaniac 21
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 19
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 17
Stone Sour - Imperfect 14
JJ72 - October Swimmer 12
Blink 182 - Feeling This 12
Guster - Happier 9
Police - The King of Pain 8
Semisonic - Closing Time 8
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 4
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 2
Blue October - Fear 1
Metallica - Hero of the Day 0
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 0
Lisa Loeb - Stay 0
Silverchair - Tomorrow 0
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0

Also Starring LeVar Burton

My Top 10 didn't change too much after the first listen. Avril Lavigne and Staind were always the top 2 spots. Was familiar with nearly all the bands already, and a good few of the songs.

I enjoyed all 20 songs. Porch was probably the one I liked least overall. I like the handful of Pearl Jam stuff I do know, but didn't think Porch was in the same ballpark.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

lassykk wrote: »

Is it wrong?

12 points for top then 10, 8 and so on?

Look at the two scoreboards you posted - they're identical. You jumped the gun a bit on the first one and were already including my scores.

I wasn't questioning the maths

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Look at the two scoreboards you posted - they're identical. You jumped the gun a bit on the first one and were already including my scores.

You are of course correct!

Apologies - I blame my spreadsheet

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

My Top 10 didn't change too much after the first listen. Avril Lavigne and Staind were always the top 2 spots. Was familiar with nearly all the bands already, and a good few of the songs.

I enjoyed all 20 songs. Porch was probably the one I liked least overall. I like the handful of Pearl Jam stuff I do know, but didn't think Porch was in the same ballpark.

Two very different songs 1 & 2!

Porch is definitely not one of their better known songs but I personally really like it. Didn't make their greatest hits album even.

lassykk

Next up it's Irish Aris

In 10th place it's Staind - So Far Away - 1 point

In 9th place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 2 points

In 8th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 3 points

In 7th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 4 points

In 6th place it's Blue October - Fear - 5 points

In 5th place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 6 points

In 4th place it's Police - The King of Pain - 7 points

In 3rd place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 10 points

In 1st place it's Lisa Loeb - Stay - 12 points

lassykk

At the end of Round 4 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Pearl Jam - Porch 32
Staind - So Far Away 23
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 22
Incubus - Megalomaniac 21
JJ72 - October Swimmer 20
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 17
Police - The King of Pain 15
Stone Sour - Imperfect 14
Blink 182 - Feeling This 12
Semisonic - Closing Time 12
Lisa Loeb - Stay 12
Guster - Happier 9
Blue October - Fear 6
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 6
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 4
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 4
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Metallica - Hero of the Day 0
Silverchair - Tomorrow 0
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0



Pearl Jam move into a slight lead but it's early days

No love yet for Metallica, Silverchar (sorry EN) or Seven Mary Three (the least famous band in the mix I'd say)

lassykk

Next up it's Kolido

In 10th place it's Guster - Happier - 1 point

In 9th place it's Staind - So Far Away - 2 points

In 8th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 3 points

In 7th place it's Blue October - Fear - 4 points

In 6th place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 5 points

In 5th place it's Silverchair - Tomorrow - 6 points

In 4th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 10 points

In 1st place it's Lisa Loeb - Stay - 12 points

Two maximums for Lisa Loeb in a row. Not my usual genre of song but something about this song is really catchy and clearly others feel the same (or it was the least annoying option )

lassykk

At the end of Round 5 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Pearl Jam - Porch 32
JJ72 - October Swimmer 27
Staind - So Far Away 25
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 25
Lisa Loeb - Stay 24
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 22
Incubus - Megalomaniac 21
Police - The King of Pain 15
Semisonic - Closing Time 15
Stone Sour - Imperfect 14
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 14
Blink 182 - Feeling This 12
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 6
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Metallica - Hero of the Day 5
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 4
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


JJ72 amazingly high up considering their limited success in the early 2000s

Lisa Loeb shooting up the rankings too after her two maximums

lassykk

Next up it's ShaneU

In 10th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 1 point

In 9th place it's Lisa Loeb - Stay - 2 points

In 8th place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 3 points

In 7th place it's Staind - So Far Away - 4 points

In 6th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 5 points

In 5th place it's Scott Stapp - The Great Divide - 6 points

In 4th place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 7 points

In 3rd place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 10 points

In 1st place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 12 points

lassykk

At the end of Round 6 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 37
JJ72 - October Swimmer 35
Pearl Jam - Porch 32
Staind - So Far Away 29
Lisa Loeb - Stay 26
Incubus - Megalomaniac 24
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 22
Semisonic - Closing Time 20
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 16
Police - The King of Pain 15
Stone Sour - Imperfect 15
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 14
Blink 182 - Feeling This 12
Metallica - Hero of the Day 12
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 10
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


And with that we have a new leader - Silversun Pickups take up the mantle after the love for Pearl Jam tapers off.

lassykk

Next up it's Gru

In 10th place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 1 point

In 9th place it's Staind - So Far Away - 2 points

In 8th place it's Blink 182 - Feeling This - 3 points

In 7th place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 4 points

In 6th place it's Police - The King of Pain - 5 points

In 5th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 6 points

In 4th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 10 points

In 1st place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 12 points

lassykk

At the end of Round 7 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
JJ72 - October Swimmer 41
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 37
Pearl Jam - Porch 33
Semisonic - Closing Time 32
Staind - So Far Away 31
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 29
Incubus - Megalomaniac 28
Lisa Loeb - Stay 26
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 24
Metallica - Hero of the Day 22
Police - The King of Pain 20
Stone Sour - Imperfect 15
Blink 182 - Feeling This 15
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 14
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 10
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Tonic - You Wanted More 3
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


JJ72 move into the lead and are the only song to have received points from every vote so far!

An interesting mix of music I must say. Staind though. I remember buying their album and listening to Its Been Awhile over and over again in my delayed "teenage" angst.

lassykk

Next up it's Deleted User

In 10th place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 1 point

In 9th place it's Incubus - Megalomaniac - 2 points

In 8th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 3 points

In 7th place it's JJ72 - October Swimmer - 4 points

In 6th place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 5 points

In 5th place it's Tonic - You Wanted More - 6 points

In 4th place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Lisa Loeb - Stay - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 10 points

In 1st place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 12 points

Kolido

Love that Lisa Loeb song, it was my no. 1 before I even listened to the others.

My main love is 80s rock, I moved onto dance music in the 90 so skipped the whole grunge scene. Was never a fan of Pearl Jam but do like a few of their songs.

Im a big Metallica fan but thats not one of their better songs for me, though I scored it high enough.

lassykk

Deleted User wrote: »

An interesting mix of music I must say. Staind though. I remember buying their album and listening to Its Been Awhile over and over again in my delayed "teenage" angst.

Interesting is a polite word for it. My friends think I have an appalling taste. Yep Staind are definitely one for the teenage angst years alright

lassykk

Kolido wrote: »

Love that Lisa Loeb song, it was my no. 1 before I even listened to the others.

My main love is 80s rock, I moved onto dance music in the 90 so skipped the whole grunge scene. Was never a fan of Pearl Jam but do like a few of their songs.

Im a big Metallica fan but thats not one of their better songs for me, though I scored it high enough.

I don't know why I like it so much I must admit but as mentioned in my Walrus I have a soft spot for one hit wonders!

My era is 90s/00s rock and was never into the dance scene.

I was going to put up The Unforgiven or One from Metallica but I really like the intro to Hero of the Day so that got the nod

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Great to see Silversun Pickups racking up some serious points; Lazy Eye was the discovery of the comp for me. I had heard one of their other songs before and had been meaning to check them out properly.

lassykk

At the end of Round 8 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 49
JJ72 - October Swimmer 45
Semisonic - Closing Time 37
Pearl Jam - Porch 34
Lisa Loeb - Stay 34
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 34
Staind - So Far Away 31
Incubus - Megalomaniac 30
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 29
Metallica - Hero of the Day 22
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 21
Police - The King of Pain 20
Stone Sour - Imperfect 18
Blink 182 - Feeling This 15
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 10
Tonic - You Wanted More 9
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


At the midway point Silversun Pickups hold a slender lead from JJ72 but it can all change quickly!

Kolido

lassykk wrote: »

I don't know why I like it so much I must admit but as mentioned in my Walrus I have a soft spot for one hit wonders!

My era is 90s/00s rock and was never into the dance scene.

I was going to put up The Unforgiven or One from Metallica but I really like the intro to Hero of the Day so that got the nod

Either of those Metallica songs would have scored 2nd place for me.

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Great to see Silversun Pickups racking up some serious points; Lazy Eye was the discovery of the comp for me. I had heard one of their other songs before and had been meaning to check them out properly.

I think it came up for me as a YouTube recommendation and that's how I discovered them. I had never heard of them before a few months ago

I discovered Guster, Blue October, Tonic & Seven Mary Three through Spotify radio based on my main playlist which I regularly listen to too

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Great to see Silversun Pickups racking up some serious points; Lazy Eye was the discovery of the comp for me. I had heard one of their other songs before and had been meaning to check them out properly.

Lazy Eye was one of my nominations for best song of the Noughties. Can't remember what it went up against but I don't think anybody else voted for it.

lassykk

Next up it's sKeith

In 10th place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 1 point

In 9th place it's Scott Stapp - The Great Divide - 2 points

In 8th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 3 points

In 7th place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 4 points

In 6th place it's Police - The King of Pain - 5 points

In 5th place it's Staind - So Far Away - 6 points

In 4th place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 10 points

In 1st place it's Lisa Loeb - Stay - 12 points

Another maximum for Lisa - she really is a love her or hate her type of gal as she's had more maximums than anyone else but also had five zeros

Kolido

Btw, Bad Company are the band Im going to check out some more of, find of the contest for me.

lassykk

Deleted User wrote: »

Lazy Eye was one of my nominations for best song of the Noughties. Can't remember what it went up against but I don't think anybody else voted for it.

I struggle hugely on those competitions to listen to songs I don't know and have my vote still count as they run so fast. Definitely would have gotten a vote from me against almost anything

lassykk

Kolido wrote: »

Btw, Bad Company are the band Im going to check out some more of, find of the contest for me.

I know it's a cheesy song and sort of power ballady but I really like it - they have some more famous tracks too which I didn't know either