Starting the top 5 for 13 points is @Rexx with Sia and Chandelier
This shatters the novelty rule, but it’s impossible to ignore greatness when it’s right in front of you. Some would hold her commercial success against her, but I am not one of those someone. Keep swinging, Sia.
Just off the podium for 4th place and 14 points is @6ix with Imogen Heap and Hide and Seek
The English entries are full and plenty. Auto-tune is heavy with this one, but this a cappella song is beautiful and I don’t care a bit.
And for the podium
In with the bronze and 15 points is @JohnnyTruant and Nina Simone with How it Feels to be Free (montreux 1976)
They don’t have the above version on spotify, but here’s the next best thing
When they lyrics come in at 1:20, it takes your breath away. Wish I could be like a bird in the sky. How sweet it would be to find that I could fly. This song practically makes me levitate. It’s joy and hope and beauty and all things this artform can be.
With the silver and 16 points is @beetlejuice and Au Revior Simone with A Violent and Flammable World
Tonight I sleep to dream of a place that’s calling me. And this song would be playing. The internet tells me this was on the soundtrack to the reboot of Twin Peaks a couple of years ago. They made an excellent choice.
And that makes all the gold, and 17 points, go to @microbet and Carole King with You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman - live from Oakland, 1972
I get the impression that this was the first song that immediately popped into your head when you read the category, and one listen tells you why. Voice and anthem for a generation. You make me feel. and win all the points.
Mate, pretty sure you put this category back to front.
Welp. That’s that. Shame on all of you for not submitting Aretha.
My next reveal, for my 3rd and final category, should be early next week. Maybe we can twist Schlitzy’s arm to reconsider his next group before then.
We live in a dream. But who is the dreamer?
dislike button!
Shame that Nina Simone isn’t better known (by me). Amazing talent. Great songwriting. Fabulous musician.
Don’t shoot the messenger!
No cat butthole. Immersion ruined. -5*s
Not unlucky at all. I made my submissions with whoever was going to judge them in mind. I thought this is something you might enjoy. Mistakes were made.
It‘s 70s style psychedelic rock btw and not close to Iron Maiden/Judas Priest at all.
The 12-year-old American girl from the south who is pseudo-emo in me really likes The Pretty Reckless and they were on my shortlist, too. Good to know that wouldn’t have worked out either.
Dammit, a reveal in my timezone’s wheelhouse and I missed it in real time! Still loved it, though, and since me and the missus were up with a bottle of wine it was a fun experience to go through it all at once. I tried to go off the beaten track with my submission (and I’d encourage folks to listen to some of Sudan Archives’ other stuff as well, cuz it’s all a bit different), but nonetheless I think @JohnnyTruant wins my personal scoring of this cat.* That said, I’d never watched/heard that Carol King performance and it was/is terrific and I ain’t mad at the trophy winner.
Another great reveal! Thanks @King_of_NY!
*ETA To be clear I only meant that Nina Simone is a well-known name, so I didn’t consider her, but I’ve never even heard this performance, which is another reason (besides its punch-you-in-the face power and poignance ) that I’d crown it #1 here.
:thumb:
We have similar pseudo-emo 12 year old girls in our basements.
I mean… inside us.
I was so close to choosing Aretha!
Is anyone keeping count?
I do.
1st/2nd Microbet: 1
1st/2nd Rexx: 1
3rd-17th Beetlejuice: 0
3rd-17th cassette: 0
3rd-17th ChrisV: 0
3rd-17th Habsfan09: 0
3rd-17th jalfrezi: 0
3rd-17th JohnnyTruant: 0
3rd-17th LouisCyphre: 0
3rd-17th Master3004: 0
3rd-17th Microbet : 0
3rd-17th Mimosa: 0
3rd-17th Pauwl: 0
3rd-17th pyatnitski: 0
3rd-17th seities: 0
3rd-17th skydiver8: 0
3rd-17th smrk4: 0
If anybody else was close to choosing Aretha and I missed them, please let me know.
Edit: corrected Microbet’s count
lol
lmao i love twin peaks so much. straight from scratching a gross rash with enhanced sound effects to this beautiful song