If you're coming up with 10 great things to show someone don't you think of the greatest one first usually?

That is indeed the one karma sent me!

I do not know enough songs in categories with bonuses.

It inspired fleetwood Mac’s Song albatross which inspired the Beatles song Sun King.

JM3-rand-by-youtube-search is your frand in that case.

But, c'mon - you know all about the time limit bonus cats: <1960 and 1960-1980 are completely in your expertise. And then - not that you don't have candidates for other cats - eg there must be plenty of USSR "Asian" (other side of the Urals) artists/records across those two periods you could use (eg, I'm pretty sure anyone living in Novisibirsk when making a record would count per fnord's clarifications in the signup thread)... & you certainly are well on top of

• Significant Classical components
• Intrumental
• Non English Vocals

How hard is all of that? Eg, do

	time	time	classical
non-eng voc
instr
east-USSR

or

	time	time	east-USSR
non-eng voc
instr
classical

Resubmit and delete all Italian songs ime

This is wrong. I internet search before going to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmrOHxS_cK0&t=103

And we're off the ground, good job on the first category

Quite curious what you'll think of some of those songs.

Constructing the entry was quite fun, iirc I backed my way into having to submit a folk/soul song

Had a lot of fun putting the entry together, had me properly flicking through my playlists to fit the categories! Glad you enjoyed the MCM, I enjoyed rediscovering it when I was trying to find a good fit for that cat!

My order from best to worst of the first round (my track excluded)


1. The Avalanches - Because I'm Me (I always liked this much more than fnord did .. I still think it's pretty decent, though I haven't heard it much in the interim)
2. Oliver Mtukudzi - Tozeza Baba (maybe I give "this kind of thing" too much slack, he's nowhere near some of the better Zimbabwe artists from his period, but I can't diss it too much - and I kinda like his gruff vocal style)
3. The Seatbelts - Space Lion (haven't seen the film, so not influenced by that, maybe a bit meandering)
4. tricot - Ochansensu-su (not as good when I was able to listen all the way through as I had hoped/it seemed hinted at. there are bits and pieces that it might be possible assemble into something good - I'll follow fnord's hint and look up some of their other tracks later. and it is decently racous. but overall a little disappointing)
5. Mad Capsule Markets - Tribe (the version submitted is notably worse, imo, than the remix. too rockist for me, but not terrible, and the remix version, at least, is bearable)
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6. Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk (epitome of meh. I guess in a minor way culturally interesting to see what was on offer literally besides rawk in the late 50s in the US)
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7. Yes - Then (I hate "Yes". I hate everything they ever did. Nuke it from orbit. This fits right in to my understanding of them.)
8. Roger Glover & Guests - Love Is All (late sub-(late)-Beatles pap. Just garbage. At least this sort of thing was shortly thereafter washed away by punk.* *caveat: "Just Like Punk Never Happened".)
9. Rhiannon Giddens - At The Purchaser's Option (I'm not going to be a fan of this kind of thing any day of the week, so :shrug: )
10. Toto Cutugno - L'Italiano (good grief)

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good work everyone, see you all next Sunday for Round 2

This might be the case, working a bunch of overtime right now (in addition to all the normal family stuff) which is leaving me wiped at night during the week.

Reveal when you've got time and energy

Completely understand if it takes a while

Yeah, this. It certainly took me long enough to minimally get in an entry.

This means I should prolly start listening from the bottom of this list.

when I saw you had posted in this thread I hoped you had bought us a game of Boggle to play whilst we wait.

possible order for you to listen in:

Thinking of possible ways to create a Boggle Walrus.

your grid is made up of things like:

Solo Artist	One Word Band Name	North American	4+ Members in Group
1980s	Lead Singer Older than 50	2+ Guitars	Male & Female Members
Band no longer together	Piano Involved	Male Singer	Song shorter than 3 mins
Asian	Brass Instrument	European	2000s

and each thing you submit has to satisfy everything in a chain of at least 4 and you get bonus points for longer chains

I might seriously do this.

think more about the grid though because I just threw up the first things that came into my head

That's the plan.

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Hmmm, scoring would need to be adjusted bc giving someone 11 points for a terrible song that fits 8 categories seems bad.