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Alright, if everyone's okay, I can start the nomination process now!

Most people seem partial to the World Cup idea, so that's the format we go with. A group stage followed by the top two advancing to single-elimination.

Number of songs depends on turnout. I want to get it up to at least 32 but no more than 64. I'll leave the nominating period open all month and see how fast we get to that number.
One nomination per person...with one "unless". If there's still time left over and we have a little bit more or less than 32 songs, you are allowed to nominate another.

Edit: As of 4 August, we have hit 32 songs. Anyone previously nominating is allowed one more song. Tournament begins when we hit 64.

Edit: 64 songs reached. The nominating period is over. Voting starts Thursday!
There are only two rules. No songs listed on AM or from Albums listed on AM, INCLUDING bubbling under. If you're not sure, check the "artist" or "song" tabs on the main page.

Also, this should be implied, but to make it super-duper fair, nothing too new for the last update. In other words, nothing from the past 365 days.

Alright, now that that's clear, we can begin!

Nominees
1) Santa Esmeralda-Don't Let me be Misunderstood http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwiCkU73NA
2) Verlaines-Joed Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EJEm4QYndw
3) Gorillaz and Daley-Doncamatic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwKcXfUmLkk
4) Frank Zappa-Watermelon in Easter Hay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUja5B8ei2U
5) Radiohead-Talk Show Host http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU7sUENatUU
6) Neil Young-Transformer Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eblFQppJfyg
7) Game Theory-Mammoth Gardens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6e2XSSqW_Y
8) Dan Mangan-Road Regrets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hviiGCkVMiY
9) Kobiety-Marcello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RShT_fT-WY
10) Fred Wesley and the JB's-Doin' it To Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRc3DG4ydc
11) Rusted Root-Send me on my Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuV2agQPgps
12) Rivers Cuomo-Longtime Sunshine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMQUBFzxduw
13) The National-Exile Vilify http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Vg2YS-sFE
14) Max Berlin-Elle et Moi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-elQDdfZQOM
15) Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli-Minor Swing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA
16) Aesop Rock-9-5er's Anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWOQHj_o6eo
17) Todd Rundgren-No World Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EUir4qTCE
18) Tantra-Hills of Katmandu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l_Q70I-u4
19) Metallica-Am I Evil? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-HCHCuHMg
20) Edu Lobo-Kyrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25rfzbN5pI
21) Anais Mitchell-Why We Build the Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgiK07Py9M
22) Owen Pallett-The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuzEoIuGNX4
23) Lady Lamb the Beekeeper-Bird Balloons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaWmWTTIF9Y
24) Hymie's Basement-21st Century Pop Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTz8r5OMdg
25) Roy Harper-I Hate the White Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSEVSvDkhw
26) Irma Thomas-Ruler of my Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFTG0W6a6VI
27) White Denim-Some Wild Going Outward http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMhL_u10wo
28) Gotye-Heart's a Mess http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXFJOXvL_A
29) Ricky B-Shake it fo ya Hood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFy_nF5qrg
30) Kashiwa Daisuke-Stella http://youtu.be/NHjHQoxq9O0
31) Astor Piazzola & Roberto Goyeneche - Vuelvo al sur http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDpgHNoWASM
32) Weeping Willows-Blue and Alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-h-sGn2XM
33) Tammi Terrell-All I do is Think about You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqbvX_sYoN0
34) Temper Trap-Fader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPdetZTOx0
35) Eddie Kendricks-Eddie's Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzdmvtxFvg
36) Walk the Moon-Anna Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlIeCJWevCI
37) American Football-Never Meant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXpjL0
38) Capital Cities-Safe and Sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXt2xpc9Cw
39) Box Tops-I Shall be Released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLz985ozQ3M
40) New Radicals - Mother We Just Can't Get Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lbf7inJoec
41) Mayer Hawthorne-A Long Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZZUfn9jJnA
42) Passion Pit - Carried Away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQ5aNrwYcM
43) Gnarls Barkley-Who's gonna Save my Soul? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOz0rxmeWD4
44) Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqqYomcsHAc
45) Nino Rota - O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGGVwtzxpg
46) Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXTGN_St-ho
47) Sia-Buttons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6xyoou3hs4
48) The Tallest Man on Earth - The Gardener http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIjbuVvAX9Q
49) R.E.M. - Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv4nuD7q2uQ
50) The Triffids - Red Pony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxbGh9P_LxY
51) The Nits - In the Dutch Mountains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hHzd5Uo1o
52) Games-Strawberry Skies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5scYXIvAr7w
53) Lord Invader, Macbeth the Great, and the Duke of Iron-Calypso Warrior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QDcfx32Q4
54) Pointer Sisters-Going down Slowly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wovz9dKG7JE
55) Henri Salvador - Dans mon île http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNBxEbK0U0
56) Erik Satie - Gymnopédie 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU
57) Leon Russell-Stranger in a Strange Land http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbk2C4ZmsE
58) Gorillaz, Andre 3000, and James Murphy-DoyaThing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36DCuT1KxM4
59) Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick - Omega http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rWCgj5BZg
60) Jun Togawa - 諦念プシガンガ [Teinen Pushiganga] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-qCcjxtlg
61) Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez-La Wally Aria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLF9TIx6lE
62) Van Morrison-Wonderful Remark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUDmBXuS4s
63) Modest Mouse-Baby Blue Sedan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAzZYxHvEg
64) The Clean-Tally Ho! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkC8W_-a-8

I'm nominating "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Santa Esmeralda

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwiCkU73NA

The Verlaines - Joed Out

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I nominate: Gorillaz feat. Daley - Doncamatic

I'd like to nominate Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa. I saw that Joe's Garage Act 1 is bubbling under but this particular track is off Acts 2 & 3, and frankly one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard. Great main riff as well.

Radiohead-Talk Show Host

Transformer Man by Neil Young.

Game Theory - Mammoth Gardens

David Bowie - Yassassin is my choice.

Thanks for the revival of this game, it was funny.

Dan Mangan - Road Regrets

Kobiety - Marcello

I'll nominate "Doin' It To Death" by Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s (James Brown) from 1973.

Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way

"Longtime Sunshine" by Rivers Cuomo from the album Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

OK, I shall nominate one myself now.

The National-Exile Vilify was pretty much the song that inspired the whole tournament!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Vg2YS-sFE


And Ron, I checked Doncamatic, and since it was only on a reissue of Plastic Beach, it counts!

Same with "Talk Show Host", released only on a collector's edition of The Bends

Romain wrote:David Bowie - Yassassin is my choice.

Thanks for the revival of this game, it was funny.

You're gonna have to back this up.

It's from Lodger, which is listed on AM.

Unless it's from a re-release, it doesn't count.

whuntva wrote:

Romain wrote:David Bowie - Yassassin is my choice.

Thanks for the revival of this game, it was funny.

You're gonna have to back this up.

It's from Lodger, which is listed on AM.

Unless it's from a re-release, it doesn't count.

OK, I choose :

Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli

Aesop Rock- 9-5er's Anthem

Todd Rundgren - No World Order 1.1
starting at 6:43

Very happy to see this return!

My nomination is for Tantra - "The Hills of Katmandu", the greatest disco song of all time, clicking it at over 16 minutes!

I want to increase the intensity a bit. This was the B-Side to "Creeping Death" and originally issued on 'Garage Inc' and then on a re-issue of 'Kill 'Em All' so it should be eligible.

I nominate Metallica --- "Am I Evil?"

whuntva, could you please change the link for Tantra? Sorry I didn't post it originally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l_Q70I-u4

There are so many that I wish were included on AM: Part Time Punks (Television Personalities), Tally Ho (The Clean), Last Kind Word Blues (Geeshie Wiley). However, I nominate Kyrie by Edu Lobo, a manically delightful song from an undeservedly obscure artist.

Bruce, I forgive you for your Bing . . . uh, binge in the other thread. The J.B.'s are great!

Moonbeam wrote:whuntva, could you please change the link for Tantra? Sorry I didn't post it originally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l_Q70I-u4

Link fixed. Thank you for that, Moonbeam!

whuntva wrote:

Moonbeam wrote:whuntva, could you please change the link for Tantra? Sorry I didn't post it originally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l_Q70I-u4

Link fixed. Thank you for that, Moonbeam!

I've never heard the Jurgen Koppers mix that was in the original link you posted, although the credits for the version I'm after do list him as the mixer, so it may have been ok! Will have to listen.

Anais Mitchell - The Wall.

Sorry, I can't stop nominating Anais Mitchell for things.

Is that "Why we Build the Wall"? That's the only link I could find for that title and artist.

If you want to be specific, please provide a link.

McJagger wrote:Bruce, I forgive you for your Bing . . . uh, binge in the other thread. The J.B.'s are great!

It's my favorite JB record, and my favorite record of the last 50 years. And it was not featured in the movie (Get On Up) that we just saw tonight. Very good movie, but it's more about him as a person than about the music.

Here's what my girlfriend wrote about the movie in another forum:

It was a very impressionistic movie, jumped around different periods of his life, very haunting scenes of his childhood but no idea how much truth there is to them. Reminded me of those "foreign films" I used to go see when I was a teenager...you expect the 40-year-old Brown to step out of a limo but it's the little boy in coveralls instead, that sort of thing.

As for the music, all the way home we kept naming JB hits and other favorites of ours that weren't in the movie. I mean *all* the way home, that's how many significant omissions there were. Those of you who don't care for his 70s material, don't worry...."Get On The Good Foot" and "Funky President" and "Papa Don't Take No Mess" and "Hot Pants" and "Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothing" and "Doin' It To Death" are not in the movie either. Bruce claims to have heard "The Payback" playing in the background but I didn't.

The acting was very good. Chadwick Boseman looked, moved, and sounded (talking) a great deal like JB and his lip-synching was perfect.

If you were a JB fan the movie is well worth seeing...it will make you want to go home and listen to all the real JB music you've got.

DianeE

Chilton wrote:Max Berlin - Elle et moi

That's a great song.

OK, so among the 20 or so eligible songs in my top 200 of all time, I only see 3 standing a little chance. So my runners-up are Ben Harper - Forgiven and Devo - Huboon Stomp but my pick is :

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuzEoIuGNX4

I have 3 I could take from my top 10 and I chose:
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Bird Balloons

My favorite song of last year (and since it was released in february 2013 it qualifies). A very weird song, with vocals that unashamedly go everywhere, whether singer Aly Spaltro can reach it or not. I love how the song in 6 minutes changes mood a few times, but somehow manages to make sense as a whole. It's the turmoil of emotions that follow a break-up on which Bob Dylan or Adele have based a complete album, mixed in to one single song. It opens and ends in an explosion of guitars signalling anger and confusing and somehow manages to get to a resigned melancholy right in the middle. The instrumentation, the colorful and weird lyrics and vocal touches like the sudden short screams and the fake laugh at the end all fall into place somehow. What I like the most however, is how fearless it is. For some reason it's one of those songs that I imagine you would be almost ashamed of of performing it for an audience, because of the range of emotions and the strange raw quality of the singing. Would love to see this live once.
I also admit that I can fully understand if this is an acquired taste and won't get too far.

Hymie's Basement - 21th Century Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTz8r5OMdg

Roy Harper - I Hate The White Man

This notorious song springs from the same observations about human behaviour as “With God On Our Side”. But while Dylan’s song is cerebral and distanced by his taking the moral high ground, Harpers response is down in the fray where reason submits to emotion: Confused, angry, and riddled with existential uncertainty. Sure, the lyric can be critically shredded, but John Lennon demonstrated in his life that he didn’t believe in ‘no possessions’ and John Lydon really didn’t want anarchy. Harper doesn’t really hate the white man, but this song viscerally communicates the anguish of observing man’s inhumanity to man and not wanting any part of it while not allowing oneself the luxury of pretending to be entirely above it all.

I nominate "Ruler of My Heart" by Irma Thomas.

youtube only has live versions.

I'll go with White Denim's "Some Wild Going Outward".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMhL_u10wo

It was a touch choice between some Australian bands (I figure I should represent) but I'm going to have to go with:

Hearts A Mess - Gotye
Much better than Somebody imo

antonius wrote:

Chilton wrote:Max Berlin - Elle et moi

That's a great song.

I second this.

A great discovery. Thanks Chilton. You make my day.

This game could use some more hip hop, preferably of the Southern variety. With that in mind, here's my entry:

Ricky B. - "Shake It fo Ya Hood"

What is the stance on songs nominated in Unacclaimed 1.0? I believe one of mine (Curtis Mayfield's "Right on for the Darkness") made the finals, though I don't think the winner was ever resolved. (It was against Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", so I would have been fine with either winner, as those are 2 of the greatest songs ever recorded.)

If we can re-nominate, I'd like to add Lou Christie's orchestral pop classic "Paint America Love":

http://youtu.be/nzPY6denjHc

If not, I'd like to nominate the massive epic "Stella", by Kashiwa Daisuke. It's a combination of modern classical minimalism with electronic glitch, but is much more accessible than all of that sounds. Give it a little time to sink in, because it was a life-changer for me:

http://youtu.be/NHjHQoxq9O0

Maschine_Man wrote:It was a touch choice between some Australian bands (I figure I should represent) but I'm going to have to go with:

Hearts A Mess - Gotye

It warms my heart to see this nominated.

It's in my personal Top 100. I actually knew this song before Gotye was popular. And I'm US!

Thank you, sir!

And sonofsamiam, Nothing from 1.0 is eligible. Just all new songs here. I will count the second song you listed.

sonofsamiam wrote: If not, I'd like to nominate the massive epic "Stella", by Kashiwa Daisuke. It's a combination of modern classical minimalism with electronic glitch, but is much more accessible than all of that sounds. Give it a little time to sink in, because it was a life-changer for me:

http://youtu.be/NHjHQoxq9O0

It's practically unfair to choose this as your song, it's too perfect. I'm honestly astounded it's not listed anywhere on this site, it's brought me to full-bodied tears before.

Also, I must say, I've honestly enjoyed listening to the songs I've been introduced to in this thread more than I have any other source for a long, long time. Some really breathtaking pieces all around.

I nominate:
Astor Piazzola & Roberto Goyeneche - Vuelvo al sur
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDpgHNoWASM )

sonofsamiam wrote:What is the stance on songs nominated in Unacclaimed 1.0? I believe one of mine (Curtis Mayfield's "Right on for the Darkness") made the finals, though I don't think the winner was ever resolved. (It was against Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", so I would have been fine with either winner, as those are 2 of the greatest songs ever recorded.)

Any date for this final yet?

whuntva wrote:And sonofsamiam, Nothing from 1.0 is eligible. Just all new songs here. I will count the second song you listed.

Is list available somewhere?

Anyway, my nomination is Weeping Willows - Blue and Alone

Henrik wrote:

sonofsamiam wrote:What is the stance on songs nominated in Unacclaimed 1.0? I believe one of mine (Curtis Mayfield's "Right on for the Darkness") made the finals, though I don't think the winner was ever resolved. (It was against Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", so I would have been fine with either winner, as those are 2 of the greatest songs ever recorded.)

Any date for this final yet?

It was assumed "Sinnerman" won because it got more votes in the all-time poll and just recently made the AM Top 6000.

Henrik wrote:

whuntva wrote:And sonofsamiam, Nothing from 1.0 is eligible. Just all new songs here. I will count the second song you listed.

Is list available somewhere?

As a matter of fact, it is: http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/ ... 0&cmd=show

Also, your vote was #32. This means anyone who previously nominated a song is allowed one more.

But to Jirin

21) Anais Mitchell-Why We Build the Wall (needs confirmation from Jirin)

When I say I need confirmation, I need you to tell me this is the song you want or provide a link to the song you actually wanted. The title you gave was shorter than the one I could find.

Thanks for the turnout! We're doing great!

whuntva wrote:Also, your vote was #32. This means anyone who previously nominated a song is allowed one more

Alright then! My second nomination is Tammi Terrell - All I Do Is Think About You

Henrik wrote:

whuntva wrote:Also, your vote was #32. This means anyone who previously nominated a song is allowed one more

Alright then! My second nomination is Tammi Terrell - All I Do Is Think About You

Nice one.

My second nomination is:

Eddie's Love - Eddie Kendricks