Boardsies Decide - The Greatest Song from 2010s

JohnGreenFan · 12-11-2020 12:03pm

Pearl Jam - Dance of The Clairvoyants YAY
Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin - it's ok but Nay
Regina Spector - All the Rowboats - yay love her voice
Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna - god I couldn't stand this song when it came out. not as bad as I remember though - maybe it was just overplayed! Yay
Neil Young: Love and War - Nay, not a Neil Young fan at all.
Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani - Nobody But You - definite yay, love a bit of gwen stefani and never heard this song before!

Necro · 12-11-2020 1:02pm

I did promise more at lunchtime...

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart (released in US Feb 2010)

Fun.-Some Nights

Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang

Necro · 12-11-2020 1:03pm

Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance

Rag'n'Bone Man - Human

Linkin Park - Castle of Glass

Irish Aris · 12-11-2020 1:25pm

Taio Cruz - a bit on the fence for this one, so I will skip it for now
Big YAYS for Fun., the Bang Bang ladies and Walk The Moon - I nominated all 3 of them
Yay for Rag'n'Bone Man - not my style generally, but I like the percussion rhythm
Yay for Linkin Park - I couldn't decide what song to submit (and ended up not submitting at all) so glad to see something in here

the purple tin · 12-11-2020 1:28pm

Six Nays.

Purgative · 12-11-2020 1:36pm

Taio Cruz - Yay
Fun - Some nights - No not keen
Ariana - Yay

Walk the moon - Nah
Rag & Bone - Yay
Castle of Glass - Yay

Sawduck · 12-11-2020 1:44pm

Yay to all of these
Taio Cruz
Fun - Some nights
Rag & Bone - Yay
Castle of Glass - Yay

Kolido · 12-11-2020 1:46pm

Taio Cruz - Yay, like it
Fun - Nay, vaguely remember hearing this song, its ok but not R1 ok
Ariana - nay, muck

Walk the moon - Yay, not heard this one, I like it
Rag & Bone - Yay, its not bad
Castle of Glass - Nay, I like LP but this is not great.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 1:59pm

Taio Cruz ; Nay
always found it annoying

Fun ; Nay
ugh, never understood why this song was so popular, I don't like fun and they're not fun

Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj ; Yay
had an epic dance off to this once, great tune

Walk The Moon ; Yay
it's fun and memorable

Rag'n'Bone Man ; Yay
love the grit to his voice

Linkin Park ; Yay
not my favourite of theirs, but its still Linkin Park and even their worst song is better than most

tldr version:
Nay to Taio Cruz and fun
Yay to the other four

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 2:06pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Six Nays.

How I picture purple tin in my head in this tournament...

ShaneU · 12-11-2020 2:20pm

/\ Sadly Glenn Danzig's Elvis cover album was released this year and not eligible for this competition

Yay to Walk The Moon and Rag'n'bone man.

Nay to the others

Necro · 12-11-2020 2:23pm

Right I'm gonna be starting this probably Saturday afternoon and we still have a tonne to get through so you're getting 6 more songs today to decide and circa the same amount tomorrow.

The rest (aside from multi noms) will be going into a random draw for placement.

Still accepting entries till tomorrow morning though.

Necro · 12-11-2020 2:25pm

Florence and the Machine-Spectrum

Tones & I - Dance Monkey

Muse - Dead Inside

JohnGreenFan · 12-11-2020 2:25pm

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Nay
Fun. - Some Nights Yay
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang Yay
Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance Yay
Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Yay
Linkin Park - Castle of Glass Yay

Necro · 12-11-2020 2:27pm

One Direction - Little Things

Foster The People-Houdini

Hurts-Wonderful Life

Clarabel · 12-11-2020 2:31pm

Last 6 , yes to everything except one direction

Trigger · 12-11-2020 2:32pm

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart - Nay
Fun. - Some Nights -nay
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang - nay
Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance Yay
Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Yay
Linkin Park - Castle of Glass Yay

ShaneU · 12-11-2020 2:35pm

Florence Yay
Tones and I A MILLION NAYS
Nay to the rest

the purple tin · 12-11-2020 2:37pm

Yay to Muse.
Nay all the rest.

Trigger · 12-11-2020 2:37pm

Yay to Florence Muse and Hurts, nay to the other 3

the purple tin · 12-11-2020 2:38pm

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

How I picture purple tin in my head in this tournament...

Cool I have hair again

Kolido · 12-11-2020 2:40pm

Florence yay, nay to the other 5

Sawduck · 12-11-2020 2:53pm

Yay to these
Florence
Muse
Hurts

JohnGreenFan · 12-11-2020 3:02pm

Yay to Florence and Muse, Nay to Dance Monkey

JohnGreenFan · 12-11-2020 3:04pm

Yay to One Direction / Foster The People / Muse

Purgative · 12-11-2020 3:18pm

Tones & I - Dance Monkey Yay

Other two nah

Purgative · 12-11-2020 3:22pm

One Direction, Hurts & Foster the People

No

Irish Aris · 12-11-2020 3:31pm

ah, lots of my nominations in the last few rounds!!

Yay for Florence, Muse, Foster The People and Hurts
Nay for Tones and I - I don't like the voice of the singer
Undecided on One Direction

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 3:51pm

Florence + The Machine ; Yay
tune

Tones and I ; Yay
only learned the name of this the other day, had a vague familiarity with it prior to that

Muse ; Yay
haven't really kept up with Muse since Black Holes & Revelations, but I'm liking this

One Direction ; Nay
some of their stuff is decent, but this one is boring

Foster The People ; Nay
meh, it's no Pumped Up Kicks now is it?

Hurts ; Nay
'tis a plain jane of a song if ever there was one, so bland I actually forgot it while still listening to it

tldr version ;
Yay to Florence + The Machine, Tones and I, Muse
Nay to One Direction, Foster The People, Hurts

12-11-2020 3:59pm

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart yay

Fun. - Some Nights Yay

Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang nay

Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance nay

Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Yay

Linkin Park - Castle of Glass Yay

12-11-2020 4:03pm

Florence + The Machine ; Yay

Tones and I ; Yay

Muse ; Yay

One Direction ; Nay

Foster The People ; Nay

Hurts ; Nay

12-11-2020 4:04pm

What am I voting for here exactly?
Am I going to have to vote on these songs again?

lassykk · 12-11-2020 4:08pm

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Nay - Not for me

Fun. - Some Nights Yay - Definite yes - did they drop off the face of the earth?

Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang Nay Video is grand on mute though

Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance Yay Enjoyable tune

Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Yay Passable but I didn't mind it

Linkin Park - Castle of Glass Yay My first nomination - not their best track it's no doubt but still better than a lot of what I've heard so far

Florence and the Machine-Spectrum Yay

Tones & I - Dance Monkey Nay What a video though! Almost swung it for me

Muse - Dead Inside Yay Like some Muse tracks but never heard this one before

One Direction - Little Things Nay Had it as a yay as passable until I heard the lyric "You can't go asleep without a cup of tea or something to that effect" - Lyrical magic like that now is too much for me

Foster The People-Houdini Nay

Hurts-Wonderful Life Nay Could take it or leave it

Purgative · 12-11-2020 4:10pm

bubblypop wrote: »

What am I voting for here exactly?
Am I going to have to vote on these songs again?

Just whether they get a pass out of the prelims to Round1 - enough nays and they stay in prelims so yeah you'll vote on them again.

You could skip this round but its a nice "taster".

Necro · 12-11-2020 4:19pm

bubblypop wrote: »

What am I voting for here exactly?
Am I going to have to vote on these songs again?

Purgative wrote: »

Just whether they get a pass out of the prelims to Round1 - enough nays and they stay in prelims so yeah you'll vote on them again.

You could skip this round but its a nice "taster".

Yep, basically what Purgative said.

230 individual songs submitted so far, so this is a sort of... bonus round to make my job in the prelims a bit easier

Necro · 12-11-2020 4:42pm

Current Scores from today's songs:

Song Name Yay Nay
Pearl Jam - Dance of The Clairvoyants 8 1
Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin 5 4
Regina Spector - All the Rowboats 6 1
Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna 6 1
Neil Young: Love and War 1 5
Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani - Nobody But You 5 3
Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart (released in US Feb 2010) 4 6
Fun.-Some Nights 5 6
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj-Bang Bang 4 7
Walk The Moon-Shut Up And Dance 7 4
Rag'n'Bone Man - Human 10 1
Linkin Park - Castle of Glass 8 4
Florence and the Machine-Spectrum 10 2
Tones & I - Dance Monkey 4 8
Muse-Dead Inside 9 4
One Direction - Little Things 1 10
Foster The People-Houdini 3 9
Hurts-Wonderful Life 5 7

A mixed bag. Some are sailing through while others... not so much.

Generous people are putting 10 out of 18 songs straight through to Round 1 as it stands.

12-11-2020 4:42pm

This round is a wonderful opportunity to see songs you love and that are dear to you being shat on by everyone else before the competition even starts officially.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 4:54pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This round is a wonderful opportunity to see songs you love and that are dear to you being shat on by everyone else before the competition even starts officially.

I think some of us continuously make the mistake of not nominating the lowest common denominator mainstream stuff in these tournaments. I had stopped doing that for a few tournaments because it was a futile exercise in trying to pick slightly more niche songs that as you put it ultimately get "shat all over", but I forgot this time around and veered slightly back off the beaten Top 40 track again, which so far has had less than stellar results. May as well just have nominated 20 Katy Perry songs for all the difference it makes.

Irish Aris · 12-11-2020 4:55pm

Deleted User wrote: »

This round is a wonderful opportunity to see songs you love and that are dear to you being shat on by everyone else before the competition even starts officially.

I decided to nominate some mainstream pop songs for balance.
In this competition I have come to expect indie rock domination, so I thought to try and give some balance.
Based on what I see so far, I reckon most of my nominations won't even make it out of the preliminary round.

Well, C'est La Vie. . . :cool:

Kolido · 12-11-2020 4:55pm

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I think some of us continuously make the mistake of not nominating the lowest common denominator mainstream stuff in these tournaments. I had stopped doing that for a few tournaments because it was a futile exercise in trying to pick slightly more niche songs that as you put it ultimately get "shat all over", but I forgot this time around and veered slightly back off the beaten Top 40 track again, which so far has had less than stellar results. May as well just have nominated 20 Katy Perry songs for all the difference it makes.

I have ya 5% covered

Irish Aris · 12-11-2020 4:59pm

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I think some of us continuously make the mistake of not nominating the lowest common denominator mainstream stuff in these tournaments. I had stopped doing that for a few tournaments because it was a futile exercise in trying to pick slightly more niche songs that as you put it ultimately get "shat all over", but I forgot this time around and veered slightly back off the beaten Top 40 track again, which so far has had less than stellar results. May as well just have nominated 20 Katy Perry songs for all the difference it makes.

I think the more niche songs are better suited to Walrus.
In the greatest of competitions it would be very difficult to get enough people to vote an overall obscure winner.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 5:00pm

Irish Aris wrote: »

I decided to nominate some mainstream pop songs for balance.
In this competition I have come to expect indie rock domination, so I thought to try and give some balance.
Based on what I see so far, I reckon most of my nominations won't even make it out of the preliminary round.

Well, C'est La Vie. . . :cool:

I wasn't suggesting there's anything wrong with mainstream songs at all (I like them as much as the next person), moreso that people more often than not will dismiss anything that doesn't appear in the Top 40 or get constant radio play.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 5:06pm

Irish Aris wrote: »

I think the more niche songs are better suited to Walrus.
In the greatest of competitions it would be very difficult to get enough people to vote an overall obscure winner.

You're right of course, but on the other hand if I vote in a tournament like this and don't discover any new songs along the way (whether they come anywhere close to winning or not) it can all seem a bit pointless. If I come away with a few new songs, it feels more like it was worth the time.

***shrugs***

What do I know though, I'm just a jaded thirtysomething missing live music and gigs a bit too much... Best just to ignore me while I go over her and crawl into the corner and die like the monster I'm perceived to be.

***dramatic sigh***

12-11-2020 5:33pm

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I think some of us continuously make the mistake of not nominating the lowest common denominator mainstream stuff in these tournaments. I had stopped doing that for a few tournaments because it was a futile exercise in trying to pick slightly more niche songs that as you put it ultimately get "shat all over", but I forgot this time around and veered slightly back off the beaten Top 40 track again, which so far has had less than stellar results. May as well just have nominated 20 Katy Perry songs for all the difference it makes.

I thought Troye Sivan - My My My struck a good balance between radio-friendly "mainstream" pop sound and the critic-friendly "serious music" sound (and critics did praise it.)

You lot still hated it anyway.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 5:36pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I thought Troye Sivan - My My My struck a good balance between radio-friendly "mainstream" pop sound and the critic-friendly "serious music" sound (and critics did praise it.)

You lot still hated it anyway.

I couldn't stand that one personally actually, but in a more general sense I wholeheartedly agree with you, despite sh*tting all over your boy Troye.

ShaneU · 12-11-2020 5:38pm

The Pearl Jam song came out January this year

Necro · 12-11-2020 5:39pm

ShaneU wrote: »

The Pearl Jam song came out January this year

Yeah, I was informed of that alright recently - we can remove it from the contest if you like

ShaneU · 12-11-2020 5:40pm

Not fussed just pointing it out

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 12-11-2020 5:43pm

I think it should be made wait until the Greatest Song of the 2020s tournament.

We don't want a repeat of the Bowie fiasco.

Necro · 12-11-2020 5:48pm

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I think it should be made wait until the Greatest Song of the 2020s tournament.

We don't want a repeat of the Bowie fiasco.

Very well, Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants has been disqualified for being too modern

#Notmydecade

Instead I'll post up three more songs from the 10s for y'all to judge

Boardsies Decide - The Greatest Song from 2010s

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