SURLAW reveal - Lassyvission

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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.

Must've missed that. I try to listen to everything in those tournaments, but sometimes the votes are going so fast, if it's up against something I like and know really well, I don't get the chance.

ShaneU

Lazy Eye is one of my favourite 90's songs, was always going to be hard to knock from number one on my list

lassykk

At the end of Round 9 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 49
Lisa Loeb - Stay 46
JJ72 - October Swimmer 45
Pearl Jam - Porch 38
Semisonic - Closing Time 37
Staind - So Far Away 37
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 37
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 35
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 31
Incubus - Megalomaniac 30
Metallica - Hero of the Day 29
Police - The King of Pain 25
Stone Sour - Imperfect 21
Blink 182 - Feeling This 15
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 12
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Tonic - You Wanted More 9
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


Lisa shoots up to second place and is giving JJ72 and Silversun a run for their money

lassykk

Next up it's Sawduck

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

In 9th place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 2 points

In 8th place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 3 points

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

In 6th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 5 points

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

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

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

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

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

lassykk

At the end of Round 10 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
JJ72 - October Swimmer 51
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 49
Semisonic - Closing Time 49
Lisa Loeb - Stay 46
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 45
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 42
Staind - So Far Away 41
Pearl Jam - Porch 40
Metallica - Hero of the Day 32
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 31
Incubus - Megalomaniac 30
Police - The King of Pain 25
Stone Sour - Imperfect 22
Blink 182 - Feeling This 22
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 20
Guster - Happier 10
Blue October - Fear 10
Tonic - You Wanted More 9
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Seven Mary Three - Wait 0


JJ72 move back to the top of the leaderboard again ! Genuinely the most surprising element of this so far has been the love for JJ72 up to now

lassykk

Next up it's Rothko

In 10th place it's Seven Mary Three - Wait - 1 point

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

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

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

In 6th place it's Guster - Happier - 5 points

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

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

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

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

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

Finally some love, albeit only a little, for Seven Mary Three

lassykk

At the end of Round 11 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 61
Semisonic - Closing Time 57
JJ72 - October Swimmer 51
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 48
Pearl Jam - Porch 47
Lisa Loeb - Stay 46
Staind - So Far Away 43
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 42
Metallica - Hero of the Day 42
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 31
Incubus - Megalomaniac 30
Blink 182 - Feeling This 28
Stone Sour - Imperfect 26
Police - The King of Pain 25
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 20
Guster - Happier 15
Blue October - Fear 10
Tonic - You Wanted More 9
Silverchair - Tomorrow 6
Seven Mary Three - Wait 1

lassykk

Next up it's y0ssar1an22

In 10th place it's Seven Mary Three - Wait - 1 point

In 9th place it's Stone Sour - Imperfect - 2 points

In 8th place it's Silverchair - Tomorrow - 3 points

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

In 6th place it's Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody - 5 points

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

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

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

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

In 1st place it's Metallica - Hero of the Day - 12 points

lassykk

At the end of Round 12 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Semisonic - Closing Time 64
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 61
Metallica - Hero of the Day 54
Staind - So Far Away 53
JJ72 - October Swimmer 51
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 48
Pearl Jam - Porch 47
Lisa Loeb - Stay 46
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 42
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 36
Incubus - Megalomaniac 30
Police - The King of Pain 29
Blink 182 - Feeling This 28
Stone Sour - Imperfect 28
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 28
Guster - Happier 15
Tonic - You Wanted More 15
Blue October - Fear 10
Silverchair - Tomorrow 9
Seven Mary Three - Wait 2


We have a new leader and for the first time it's Semisonic - Closing Time. Silversun Pickups close behind though and Metallica making a late charge!

Rothko

Love Lazy Eye. I discovered them when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails and Foo Fighters some years back.

Feeling This was a nice rediscovery for me. Brought me right back to my teenage years.

lassykk

Next up it's phatkev

In 10th place it's Blink 182 - Feeling This - 1 point

In 9th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 2 points

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

In 7th place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 4 points

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

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

In 4th place it's Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Silverchair - Tomorrow - 8 points

In 2nd place it's Police - The King of Pain - 10 points

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

Some more Pearl Jam love - is a late charge coming?

lassykk

Rothko wrote: »

Love Lazy Eye. I discovered them when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails and Foo Fighters some years back.

Feeling This was a nice rediscovery for me. Brought me right back to my teenage years.

That must have been some concert!

I remember watching Feeling This on Kerrang back in the day. Blink 182 have some brilliant songs and perhaps this isn't the best but some really happy memories of it

lassykk

At the end of Round 13 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 68
Semisonic - Closing Time 64
Metallica - Hero of the Day 60
Pearl Jam - Porch 59
JJ72 - October Swimmer 54
Staind - So Far Away 53
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 52
Lisa Loeb - Stay 46
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 44
Police - The King of Pain 39
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 36
Incubus - Megalomaniac 35
Blink 182 - Feeling This 29
Stone Sour - Imperfect 28
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 28
Silverchair - Tomorrow 17
Guster - Happier 15
Tonic - You Wanted More 15
Blue October - Fear 10
Seven Mary Three - Wait 2


And the lead changes again! This isn't staged - It's the order people submitted bar Necro who ended up at the end as I missed his entry in my spreadsheet earlier so they get the casting vote

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Rothko wrote: »

Love Lazy Eye. I discovered them when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails and Foo Fighters some years back.

Marley Park '07? I was at that. Don't think we got there until just before Nine Inch Nails went on, so missed the support acts.

lassykk

Next up it's Deleted User

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

In 9th place it's Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 2 points

In 8th place it's Pearl Jam - Porch - 3 points

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

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

In 5th place it's Seven Mary Three - Wait - 6 points

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

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

In 2nd place it's Semisonic - Closing Time - 10 points

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

Yet again a top spot for Lisa Loeb! No love for Silversun Pickups but 10 points for Semisonic will have a big bearing on the table going into the final round

Rothko

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Marley Park '07? I was at that. Don't think we got there until just before Nine Inch Nails went on, so missed the support acts.

Yeah, that was it. It was my first concert.

lassykk

At the end of Round 14 of the voting the scores are:

Song Score
Semisonic - Closing Time 74
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 68
Pearl Jam - Porch 62
JJ72 - October Swimmer 62
Metallica - Hero of the Day 60
Lisa Loeb - Stay 58
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 57
Staind - So Far Away 53
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 46
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 40
Police - The King of Pain 39
Incubus - Megalomaniac 35
Blink 182 - Feeling This 29
Stone Sour - Imperfect 29
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 28
Silverchair - Tomorrow 17
Blue October - Fear 17
Guster - Happier 15
Tonic - You Wanted More 15
Seven Mary Three - Wait 8


Going into the final round it's between Semisonic and Silversun Pickups for the win with no one else in the running. Necro it's down to you!

lassykk

Finally it's Necro

In 10th place it's Tonic - You Wanted More - 1 point

In 9th place it's Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine - 2 points

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

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

In 6th place it's Guster - Happier - 5 points

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

In 4th place it's Scott Stapp - The Great Divide - 7 points

In 3rd place it's Blue October - Fear - 8 points

So Semisonic have 3 points which means that if Silversun Pickups come 2nd or 1st for Necro they will take the "trophy"!

I absolutely love that Lisa Loeb song. I know it off by heart and it is my favourite shower song In hindsight I should have given Fear my number 2. It's a lovely song.

lassykk

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

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Rothko wrote: »

Yeah, that was it. It was my first concert.

That was a great gig. Never knew Silversun Pickups were support (well if I ever did know, I had long forgotten).

ShaneU

Necro's chance for redemption here after his movie walrus no-show :pac:

lassykk

Deleted User wrote: »

I absolutely love that Lisa Loeb song. I know it off by heart and it is my favourite shower song In hindsight I should have given Fear my number 2. It's a lovely song.

The whole Blue October story is very interesting. The lead singer struggled hugely with substance abuse and mental illness and came out the other side of it.

At his worst their songs were like this:

but progressed through his problems to this:

Think it's a great story he came out the other side of things

Necro

Deleted User wrote:

I absolutely love that Lisa Loeb song. I know it off by heart and it is my favourite shower song In hindsight I should have given Fear my number 2. It's a lovely song.

I thought it was awful (Lisa Loeb) was rock bottom of my list and never moved :pac:

Agreed on Fear though the start was a bit...eh. but given a chance it just grew and grew on me

Necro

ShaneU wrote:

Necro's chance for redemption here after his movie walrus no-show

It's my co host running the first reveal so I cannae do nothing about it :P

lassykk

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

So Necro's lack of love for Silversun Pickups crowns Semisonic as champion of the Kilkenny Lassyvision

lassykk

At the end of the competition the table is

Song Score
Semisonic - Closing Time 77
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 68
JJ72 - October Swimmer 68
Pearl Jam - Porch 62
Metallica - Hero of the Day 60
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 59
Lisa Loeb - Stay 58
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 58
Staind - So Far Away 53
Bad Company - If You Needed Somebody 50
Police - The King of Pain 39
Incubus - Megalomaniac 35
Scott Stapp - The Great Divide 35
Blink 182 - Feeling This 33
Stone Sour - Imperfect 29
Blue October - Fear 25
Guster - Happier 20
Silverchair - Tomorrow 17
Tonic - You Wanted More 16
Seven Mary Three - Wait 8

lassykk

I'm not surprised at all by the bottom 5 but the top end of the table has some surprises for me!

lassykk

lassykk wrote: »

The whole Blue October story is very interesting. The lead singer struggled hugely with substance abuse and mental illness and came out the other side of it.


Think it's a great story he came out the other side of things

The song really resonated with me because of my own dips (plunges) in to darkness. I'm going to listen to some more of them

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Glad someone else gave Avril top spot. Nice one Necro.

Kolido

Well at least 1 of the 4 songs I knew won

Great contest and reveal Lassy, thanks for running.

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Happy enough seeing Closing Time winning. It was definitely the most well known song in the mix, so I suspected it would probably be in with a chance of the crown.

Thanks for running lassykk. Great reveal.

lassykk

Songs that received the most votes

Song No of votes Final Position
Semisonic - Closing Time 12 1
JJ72 - October Swimmer 12 2
Pearl Jam - Porch 10 4
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 10 6
Staind - So Far Away 10 9
Stone Sour - Imperfect 10 15


So Stone Sour were well liked but not loved by anyone!

lassykk

Deleted User wrote: »

The song really resonated with me because of my own dips (plunges) in to darkness. I'm going to listen to some more of them

Hope you are out the other side of them

Semisonic are great. Absolutely love Secret Smile as well. A worthy winner.

Thanks for running the Surlaw Lassy. You introduced me to new music and reminded me of old

Rothko

Very good top two and great that it went down to the final vote as well. Thought that Guster song was good too, little surprised that it didn't get a few more points.

Thanks for running this too, Lassykk.

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Happy enough seeing Closing Time winning. It was definitely the most well known song in the mix, so I suspected it would probably be in with a chance of the crown.

Thanks for running lassykk. Great reveal.

Yep, the most famous song in the mix alright but the second most unpopular song on YouTube did place joint second so wasn't guaranteed

Song No of views (millions) Final Position
Semisonic - Closing Time 89 1
JJ72 - October Swimmer 0.3 2
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 31 2
Pearl Jam - Porch 3 4
Metallica - Hero of the Day 8 5

phatkev

Rothko wrote: »

Love Lazy Eye. I discovered them when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails and Foo Fighters some years back.

Feeling This was a nice rediscovery for me. Brought me right back to my teenage years.

oh snap, I was at that same. I knew I heard the nam somewhere before

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lassykk wrote: »

Yep, the most famous song in the mix alright but the second most unpopular song on YouTube did place joint second so wasn't guaranteed

Song No of views (millions) Final Position
Semisonic - Closing Time 89 1
JJ72 - October Swimmer 0.3 2
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 31 2
Pearl Jam - Porch 3 4
Metallica - Hero of the Day 8 5

Pfft! YouTube Views! Back when JJ72 were knocking about we were all listening to music on CD's or mp3 players or watching it on MTV because they still played music back then.

Get away from me with your YouTube views... :rolleyes:

lassykk

Final statistic from the reveal

Songs that received the most top votes and where they finished

Song Final Position No of Top Votes
Lisa Loeb - Stay 7 4
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 2 3
Semisonic - Closing Time 1 2
Pearl Jam - Porch 4 2
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 7 2
Metallica - Hero of the Day 5 1
Staind - So Far Away 9 1

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Pfft! YouTube Views! Back when JJ72 were knocking about we were all listening to music on CD's or mp3 players or watching it on MTV because they still played music back then.

Get away from me with your YouTube views... :rolleyes:

Lol. The only objective way I could rank them :pac:

lassykk

Must say this was the most enjoyable game I've run and would definitely run again and subject you all to another 20 songs!

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lassykk wrote: »

Lol. The only objective way I could rank them :pac:

Record Sales maybe?

lassykk

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Record Sales maybe?

I'll let you do that research if you fancy it

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Silverchair for the win!

Oh...

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lassykk wrote: »

I'll let you do that research if you fancy it

Nah, I'm alright thanks.

Irish Aris

Thank you for organising lassykk.
It was very interesting with so many songs close to each other for the win until the end!!

Great job lassy, thanks for running. I only knew four of my top ten beforehand, glad to discover the songs by Bad Company and Tonic (even if the latter was among the least popular).

I think I'm up next for SURLAW, I'll try my best to keep up the high standard that yourself, Necro and LeVar have set.

JP Liz V1

I thought I had voted

lassykk

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought I had voted

Was worried there but checked my PMs and definitely didn't get one from you on this