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Boardsies Decide - Best Noughties Song - Tournament Thread

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  • #302
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,198 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Is Teenage Dirtbag a dark horse for the title...?


  • #303
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,085 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Greenday - Waiting 5-1 The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa 0-5 Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
    Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi 0-5 Muse - Uprising
    Ben Folds-Rockin The Suburbs 5-3 Trash Fashion-It's A Rave Dave

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  • #304
    Necro
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    Back tomorrow with more folks.

    For reals this time :pac:

    We'll finish up the qualifiers fairly quickly anyways

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  • #305
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Necro wrote: »
    Back tomorrow with more folks.

    For reals this time :pac:

    We'll finish up the qualifiers fairly quickly anyways

    What time you thinking of starting?


  • #306
    Necro
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    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Is Teenage Dirtbag a dark horse for the title...?

    I think it will take something really really good to knock it out tbh

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  • #307
    Necro
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    khalessi wrote: »
    What time you thinking of starting?

    Probably about 11 or so.

    Late one planned, watching the Royal Rumble tonight :D

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  • #308
    Mabel Ambitious Farmhouse
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Mabel Ambitious Farmhouse


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Is Teenage Dirtbag a dark horse for the title...?

    Nah, the pretentious music lovers (of Muse and Arctic Monkeys) that love going to 'gigs' will see it one of them does.


  • #309
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,466 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Is Teenage Dirtbag a dark horse for the title...?

    No, I'd say something that had multiple nominations will be....I'm calling Mr. Brightside now.


  • #310
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    How am I the only one who nominated Teenage Dirtbag by the way? I very nearly didn't, thinking someone else definitely would have it in the mix.


  • #311
    Electric Nitwit
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    No, I'd say something that had multiple nominations will be....I'm calling Mr. Brightside now.

    Has to be the bookies favourite, but I think it'll stumble along the way...


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  • #312
    Necro
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    Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote:
    How am I the only one who nominated Teenage Dirtbag by the way? I very nearly didn't, thinking someone else definitely would have it in the mix.

    I was shocked too tbh, expected it to get at least two or three.

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  • #313
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Nah, the pretentious music lovers (of Muse and Arctic Monkeys) that love going to 'gigs' will see it one of them does.

    Hey, I like muse & Arctic Monkeys, I am not 'pretentious '
    & I actually voted for wheatus in that round.


  • #314
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    No, I'd say something that had multiple nominations will be....I'm calling Mr. Brightside now.

    Hope its not even in the running. They had at least 4 better singles, and wouldn't even peg any of those as a winner.

    Linkin Park for the win!!!


  • #315
    Electric Nitwit
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Nah, the pretentious music lovers (of Muse and Arctic Monkeys) that love going to 'gigs' will see it one of them does.

    Yeah, damn hipsters with their makey-uppy words like 'gigs'. Music lovers ruin music for everyone else


  • #316
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,198 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    To fill your music needs for the rest of the evening, don't forget the album cover quiz to end all album cover quizzes!

    Album Covers PEEHS 2: PEEHS Harder


  • #317
    [Deleted User]
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    3 of my nominations already gone, 3 qualified, 4 yet to appear.

    The three I lost were Sweetness, Crystalised and Lazy Eye- the latter two went out to decent tunes in fairness but Sweetness losing to Katy Perry is just unacceptable. :mad:

    Good going Necro, cheers for all the organising.


  • #318
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    3 of my nominations already gone, 3 qualified, 4 yet to appear.

    The three I lost were Sweetness, Crystalised and Lazy Eye- the latter two went out to decent tunes in fairness but Sweetness losing to Katy Perry is just unacceptable. :mad:

    Good going Necro, cheers for all the organising.

    Would've liked to see Sweetness advance myself. 'Twas another one that had made the shortlist for me.

    I'm also very glad I put The Verve - Love Is Noise in for your Walrus as I suspect that may have helped it gather 1 or 2 votes here today, especially as I was MIA for that match myself.


  • #319
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,676 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    I would have nommed avril myself there so glad i didnt with it getting trounced so easily

    Hope we see Elbow - One Day Like This, Incubus - Warning, Some Gorillaz stuff along the way in the coming days :)

    Catching up on this though has made me reailse some songs i should have nommed for the 90's like Hunger Strike from Temple of the Dog and Stone Temple Pilots Plush. Songs that you just dig out of your brain along the way lol



    Really sad to see the Postal Service go too. That was a fantastic nomination whoever sent that in!


  • #320
    ShaneU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,072 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Rikand wrote: »


    Really sad to see the Postal Service go too. That was a fantastic nomination whoever sent that in!
    That was me, unlucky draw


  • #321
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    Rikand wrote: »
    Hope we see Elbow - One Day Like This, Incubus - Warning, Some Gorillaz stuff along the way in the coming days :)

    Definitely at least one Gorillaz song in the mix anyway.


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  • #322
    Irish Aris
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    Damn, I was out all day and missed all the action!!

    7 of my nominations appeared already - only 2 went through, in fairness the only 2 that I expected they have a chance to progress a couple of rounds.
    I will be online tomorrow morning so I will be able to vote in a few - but then I will be at meetings at work in the afternoon.

    And I will admit - many songs that I didn't know in these nominations!!! Time to discover some music!!


  • #323
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,410 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Necro wrote: »
    Greenday - Waiting 5-1 The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa 0-5 Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
    Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi 0-5 Muse - Uprising
    Ben Folds-Rockin The Suburbs 5-3 Trash Fashion-It's A Rave Dave

    First appearance of any of mine and both out first time. Wasn't really expecting one of them to progress anyway, and the other came up against the might of Teenage Dirtbag, so it was never going to win. Oh well, 8 more to go...
    Rikand wrote: »
    Hope we see Elbow - One Day Like This

    Got you covered there :)


  • #324
    [Deleted User]
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    4 nominations mentioned. 3 through (kasabian - fire, Eminem - the real Slim shady & Amy Winehouse - Valerie.)

    I’ve lost Jay Z ft Alicia Keys - Empire State of mind.


  • #325
    [Deleted User]
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    Zaph wrote: »
    First appearance of any of mine and both out first time. Wasn't really expecting one of them to progress anyway, and the other came up against the might of Teenage Dirtbag, so it was never going to win. Oh well, 8 more to go...

    Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth? I totally forgot about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was a nice blast from the past to be reminded of them. They had some good tunes, your man's voice is definitely an acquired taste though!

    The one I thought would be my most "indulgent" nomination (i.e. personal favourite nobody else would vote for) actually made it through, was very pleasantly surprised!


  • #326
    rainbowtrout
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    Deleted User wrote: »

    The one I thought would be my most "indulgent" nomination (i.e. personal favourite nobody else would vote for) actually made it through, was very pleasantly surprised!

    Want to know what this is now!


  • #327
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,410 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth? I totally forgot about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was a nice blast from the past to be reminded of them. They had some good tunes, your man's voice is definitely an acquired taste though!

    Yeah, you either love him or hate him, and I suspected that most people would either not know them or hate him. :D


  • #328
    [Deleted User]
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Want to know what this is now!
    We Share Our Mother's Health.

    I absolutely adore it but my gut feeling was that anyone not already a fan of The Knife would just find it noisy and/or baffling....which it is, but in the best possible way!
    :cool:
    Heartbeats
    would have been a much safer choice....but where's the fun in that? :pac:


  • #329
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    I've listened to all the songs I didn't know so far and I can say only The xx song stood out to me.

    Who knew It's A Rave Dave would only have one nomination and go out in the qualifiers? I guess everyone just assumed that others would nominate it. Oh well, the shoo-in bites the dust, so I guess anything can happen now.


  • #330
    [Deleted User]
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    Sheridan81 wrote: »
    I've listened to all the songs I didn't know so far and I can say only The xx song stood out to me.

    I thought Crystalised would have gotten more love, just happened to come up against one of Oasis's strongest songs. Glad you liked it anyway.
    Who knew It's A Rave Dave would only have one nomination and go out in the qualifiers? I guess everyone just assumed that others would nominate it. Oh well, the shoo-in bites the dust, so I guess anything can happen now.

    An absolute fix, people knew it was going to win if it progressed so tactically voted against it to save their own nominations from being destroyed. Shameless stuff altogether. :(


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  • #331
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    We Share Our Mother's Health.

    I absolutely adore it but my gut feeling was that anyone not already a fan of The Knife would just find it noisy and/or baffling....which it is, but in the best possible way!
    :cool:
    Heartbeats
    would have been a much safer choice....but where's the fun in that? :pac:

    I was very happy to see it. Will be even happier if I see the safe choice you didn't nom. I didn't get a chance to get my noms in and that's the only song I was concerned about. Hope someone else chose it.


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