BOARDSIES DECIDE: Best Song Ever By A Black(Or Partly Black) Music Act!

Reberetta · 27-07-2020 7:41pm #1

Welcome to Boardsies decide the best ever song by a black (or partly black!) music act.

Black lives matter-especially in the history of rock 'n' roll; think of all the greats-Chuck Berry, James Brown, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Chef from South Park and last but not least, Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

RULES:

1. Michael Jackson counts as black.
2. Acts that contain only one black member can be submitted e.g. All Saints, Lighthouse Family.
3. No Ku Klux Klan members.

Submit 10 SONGS by black artists to me, Reberetta, via PM, preferably with a youtube link.

The competition will get underway once I receive around 128 songs and I've finished burning down confederate statues with my fellow black panthers.

Get on it!:cool:

JP Liz V1 · 27-07-2020 7:43pm

Black Music Matters

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 27-07-2020 7:57pm

I keep saying I'll never take part in another one of these Boardsies Decides tournaments, because some of the voting decisions that get made along the away make my eyes roll so far back in my head I end up with splitting headaches, but just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in...

I think I just have to accept when I'm nominating that other people are idiots so the overall result don't matter and its just the taking part that's fun...

Necro · 27-07-2020 8:20pm

Entered

27-07-2020 8:52pm

So many great artist and songs to choose from! I’m gonna go with what comes into my head first (already have 4) and not start second guessing my noms.

27-07-2020 9:16pm

I think half the fun of these thread is learning about artists you haven’t heard before
So get searching on Spotify for....MR. TED HAWKINS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfiC8QzEVKc

Zaph · 27-07-2020 10:00pm

Reberetta wrote: »

RULES:

1. Michael Jackson counts as black.
2. Acts that contain only one black member can be submitted e.g. All Saints, Lighthouse Family.
3. No Ku Klux Klan members.

I would like to take issue with rule no. 2. Just because there's a black member of the group doesn't mean that any songs by the Lighthouse Family are acceptable! Other than that I'm looking forward to being disappointed when some hip-hop sh*te wins the competition.

Necro · 27-07-2020 10:02pm

Zaph wrote: »

I would like to take issue with rule no. 2. Just because there's a black member of the group doesn't mean that any songs by the Lighthouse Family are acceptable! Other than that I'm looking forward to being disappointed when some hip-hop sh*te wins the competition.

Zaph · 27-07-2020 10:23pm

27-07-2020 10:37pm

I’m guessing Al Jolson doesn’t qualify then, huh? :P

27-07-2020 11:32pm

I’m in

Reberetta · 29-07-2020 1:48pm

45 songs nominated so far.

29-07-2020 3:34pm

How many duplicate nominations?

Reberetta · 29-07-2020 5:32pm

Only one.

the purple tin · 29-07-2020 8:58pm

If anyone nominates the Lighthouse Family we gonna get medieval on their asses :mad:

Reberetta · 30-07-2020 12:49pm

72 songs nominated now.

Necro · 30-07-2020 12:50pm

the purple tin wrote:

If anyone nominates the Lighthouse Family we gonna get medieval on their asses

*Inserts Catwoman OOPS gif*

:pac:

Sheridan81 · 30-07-2020 2:07pm

Is it wrong if I can't tell if Santana is black or not?

quickbeam · 30-07-2020 2:25pm

Is he Latino?

the purple tin · 30-07-2020 2:32pm

Necro wrote: »

*Inserts Catwoman OOPS gif*

:pac:

:mad:

30-07-2020 4:02pm

the purple tin wrote: »

:mad:

Turn that frown upside down, purple

When you're close to tears remember
Some day it'll all be over
One day 'we're gonna get so high
And though it's darker than December
What's ahead is a different colour
One day 'we're gonna get so high

the purple tin · 30-07-2020 4:42pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Turn that frown upside down, purple

When you're close to tears remember
Some day it'll all be over
One day 'we're gonna get so high
And though it's darker than December
What's ahead is a different colour
One day 'we're gonna get so high

Please, somebody make it stop!

Reberetta · 30-07-2020 7:09pm

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Is it wrong if I can't tell if Santana is black or not?

quickbeam wrote: »

Is he Latino?

Some Latinos would describe themselves as black. I'll let the people decide who is black enough or not!*

*But no Ali G.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 30-07-2020 7:20pm

Reberetta wrote: »

*But no Ali G.

What about when he's doing a song with Shaggy though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iuH2fpbHbg

Kolido · 31-07-2020 9:47am

Billy Joel qualify?

quickbeam · 31-07-2020 9:52am

Er, no. He's white.

Kolido · 31-07-2020 9:57am

quickbeam wrote: »

Er, no. He's white.

I just Googled, he actually is, my whole life I thought he was black :eek:

31-07-2020 10:30am

Oh my

Were you confusing him with Billy Ocean?

Kolido · 31-07-2020 10:35am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Oh my

Were you confusing him with Billy Ocean?

While I have on occasions, not in this case. I really thought the guy who sang the piano man and uptown girl was black.

Zaph · 31-07-2020 11:31am

Kolido wrote: »

I really thought the guy who sang uptown girl was black.

You mean it's not a Westlife song? :eek:

Necro · 31-07-2020 11:33am

I think we should let Kol nominate Billy Joel

quickbeam · 31-07-2020 11:35am

Necro wrote: »

I think we should let Kol nominate Billy Joel

I'd vote for him. I love Billy Joel. He's an amazing artist.

Just not black.

In fairness to Kolido (though I'm still laughing hours later), he does look a *bit* black, and in the the River of Dreams video a little *bit more* black than even normal.

Zaph · 31-07-2020 11:37am

Necro wrote: »

I think we should let Kol nominate Billy Joel

But in the true spirit of the long and distinguished history of Irish people acting the maggot when it comes to internet voting, we'd then be obliged to make sure Billy Joel won the whole thing.

Necro · 31-07-2020 11:38am

Zaph wrote: »

But in the true spirit of the long and distinguished history of Irish people acting the maggot when it comes to internet voting, we'd then be obliged to make sure Billy Joel won the while thing.

Kind of like Father Ted winning Best TV Show?

quickbeam · 31-07-2020 11:42am

Not just on Boards. Remember A Nation Once Again winning best song ever?

Necro · 31-07-2020 11:43am

quickbeam wrote: »

Not just on Boards. Remember A Nation Once Again winning best song ever?

:pac: It's not even the Wolfe Tones best song

Zaph · 31-07-2020 11:47am

It goes all the way back to Ronnie O'Brien leading the Time Magazine Person of the Century vote in 1999, until the powers that be decided that he was a "frivolous candidate" and removed him. The online forums associated with that poll were my first experience of discussion sites, and probably to this day still the most entertaining.

For those who've never heard of Ronnie O'Brien, he was a young guy from Bray who somehow ended up signing for Juventus, although he never actually played for them. Went on to have a decent career playing in the States.

JP Liz V1 · 31-07-2020 12:13pm

Kolido wrote: »

While I have on occasions, not in this case. I really thought the guy who sang the piano man and uptown girl was black.

ROTFL

JP Liz V1 · 31-07-2020 3:12pm

quickbeam wrote: »

I'd vote for him. I love Billy Joel. He's an amazing artist.

Just not black.

In fairness to Kolido (though I'm still laughing hours later), he does look a *bit* black, and in the the River of Dreams video a little *bit more* black than even normal.

Tom Jones should qualify too then

Irish Aris · 31-07-2020 6:11pm

ok, songs send.

I was seriously tempted to submit 10 Prince songs, but I decided it was an overkill and I settled for 2.

But I couldn't resist the temptation of a joke entry :P:D:pac:

31-07-2020 6:36pm

All my entries are amazing. I will be very disappointed in all of you if you don’t let me win.

Reberetta · 31-07-2020 7:01pm

Up to around 100 songs now.

the purple tin · 31-07-2020 8:03pm

I you let Billy Joel enter, it is the thin end of the wedge! Who will be next Barry Manilow? :eek:

Reberetta · 01-08-2020 3:25pm

No one has selected anything from Will Smith's back catalogue of classics. You people are a continual disappointment to me.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 01-08-2020 3:39pm

Reberetta wrote: »

No one has selected anything from Will Smith's back catalogue of classics. You people are a continual disappointment to me.

I did seriously consider Will 2K, Wild Wild West, and Summertime... and if I had had more of 10 nominations, one of them would've most likely made the cut.

If you wanna just throw those three in to the mix anyway, I wouldn't object...

Reberetta · 01-08-2020 3:59pm

I might throw in a few preliminary rounds for the final four places in the draw, featuring classic songs that weren't nominated. The Fresh Prince will be in the mix one way or another.

In the meantime, keep the submissions coming folks.

Declan A Walsh · 01-08-2020 10:28pm

Reberetta wrote: »

No one has selected anything from Will Smith's back catalogue of classics. You people are a continual disappointment to me.

I actually initially had a song by him in my list of ten before I submitted it, but then I remembered another song I wanted in the list more!

My selection is just pure class and there is something wrong with the voters if they are not voted for.

When will the nominations close and the voting start?

Depending on when it is, I may have to sit it out and just hope that people give my class songs a listen and realize their true worth...and obviously vote for them!

the purple tin · 01-08-2020 10:35pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I actually initially had a song by him in my list of ten before I submitted it, but then I remembered another song I wanted in the list more!

My selection is just pure class and there is something wrong with the voters if they are not voted for.

When will the nominations close and the voting start?

Depending on when it is, I may have to sit it out and just hope that people give my class songs a listen and realize their true worth...and obviously vote for them!

:pac:

Zaph · 01-08-2020 11:33pm

I'll be shocked if any of my songs make it to round two. Well there's one that might, but I expect carnage among the rest. Have you people no taste? :pac:

Necro · 01-08-2020 11:43pm

Zaph wrote:

I'll be shocked if any of my songs make it to round two. Well there's one that might, but I expect carnage among the rest. Have you people no taste?

Oh I can think of one that might do well. B Goode now Zaph :P

Reberetta · 02-08-2020 2:44pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

When will the nominations close and the voting start?

Depending on when it is, I may have to sit it out and just hope that people give my class songs a listen and realize their true worth...and obviously vote for them!

When will you be unavailable? I can run it when it suits you, I don't mind.

Around 115 songs nominated now.

BOARDSIES DECIDE: Best Song Ever By A Black(Or Partly Black) Music Act!

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