Here, post the two artists you would like to “own” for the cup. Based on the demand for teams, the cup will run with either 32 or 64 teams. In the case we only have 32 teams, only the top 8 from the previous cup are guaranteed to return (and their owners have the right to reclaim them). If we get 64, the top 8 becomes the top 16. I will list these teams below and their owners from the last cup. Some owners are no longer part of this forum, so those teams are up for grabs by anyone. I’ve noted that below as well.
If you were the owner of a returning team from the last cup, please indicate if you would like to reclaim them or not, and please only select one other team to own for this cup. Please note that you must submit a list of eight songs that you would like to use for the artist’s matchups. Make sure they are listed in order (i.e. song 1 will be used for the artist’s first match up). In the event of a 32-team cup, the lists will be shortened to 7 and the song listed in the 1st position will be ignored. You are allowed to change the list up until the match up starts. It is not clear yet whether amendments to lists will be public or not. If you fail to submit a list within a week, the artist will be available to the public again.
I will update this post regularly with what teams have been taken and who I need lists from. Also if your name is next to any team listed above and you fail to claim them within a week, they will become available for anyone to take. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.
Teams taken: Jimi Hendrix (Listyguy), Radiohead (ordinaryperson), Pink Floyd (ordinaryperson), Bjork (Sweepstakes Ron), Nina Simone (bonnielaurel), David Bowie (TimmyWing), The Clash (TimmyWing), Neil Young (Honorio), Elvis Costello (Honorio), Bob Dylan (Jirin), Townes Van Zandt* (Jirin), The Beatles (Nick), Nick Cave (notbrianeno), Tom Waits (notbrianeno), Kanye West (hectorthebat), LCD Soundsystem (Nick), Arcade Fire (GucciLittlePiggy), The National (GucciLittlePiggy), Otis Redding (Andre), Talking Heads (Andre), Nick Drake (Listyguy), Stevie Wonder (Toni), Bruce Springsteen (Bang Jan), R.E.M. (Bang Jan), Marvin Gaye (bonnielaurel), Daft Punk (Sweepstakes Ron), Madonna (Maschine_Man)*, Kate Bush (Maschine_Man)*, Leonard Cohen (DocBrown), Wilco (DocBrown), Prince (Toni), The Rolling Stones (hectorthebat)
*Need a list
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I’m taking Jimi again, undecided on my other team at the moment. Here’s my list:
(1- Fire)
2- 1983…A Merman I Should Turn to Be
3- If 6 Was 9
4- Little Wing
5- Hey Joe
6- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
7- Purple Haze
8- All Along the Watchtower
I'll take Pink Floyd
1. See Emily Play
2. Time
3. Arnold Layne
4. Astronomy Domine
5. Us and Them
6. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
7. Comfortably Numb
8. Wish You Were Here
and Radiohead
1. Idioteque
2. No Surprises
3. Reckoner
4. Creep
5. Karma Police
6. Fake Plastic Trees
7. Everything In Its Right Place
8. Paranoid Android
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Sweepstakes Ron wrote:What, exactly, are one's duties as an owner. Do I just pick the songs and that's it, or do I have to maintain a constant presence during the game?
You just decide the songs. You can choose to edit the song list weekly or set it once and leave it throughout.
Maschine_Man wrote:Can I get a run down of how this game works? : )
It's basically the same as the actual World Cup. Artists are put in pools of 4, with each artist having an "owner". The owner decides what song the artist play in each match, but songs can only be used once (exception: tiebreakers). So each artist will play at least three matches, and the top two from each pool at the point advance to the knockout round. If you want more information feel free to ask and/or check out the threads from the previous Cup (which I posted the links to in the other thread).
Nina Simone:
1. I Put a Spell on You
2. Rags and Old Iron
3. Wild Is the Wind
4. Love Me or Leave Me
5. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
6. My Baby Just Cares for Me
7. Mississippi Goddam
8. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
If Nicolas doesn't reclaim Marvin Gaye I would be interested in him. Otherwise I could take Queen from the top 8 or Michael Jackson from the top 16.
I'll take David Bowie:
1. Space Oddity
2. Moonage Daydream
3. Life on Mars?
4. Changes
5. Lady Grinning Soul
6. Starman
7. Sound and Vision
8. Heroes
...and The Clash please:
1. Rock the Casbah
2. Complete Control
3. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
4. Spanish Bombs
5. London Calling
6. White Riot
7. Train in Vain
8. The Guns of Brixton
Neil Young
1. Tired Eyes
2. Like a Hurricane
3. Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)
4. Star of Bethlehem
5. Heart of Gold
6. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
7. Cowgirl in the Sand
8. Mansion on the Hill
9. Ambulance Blues
10. Sail Away
and Elvis Costello
1. Oliver’s Army
2. No Action
3. Brilliant Mistake
4. Shipbuilding
5. Watching the Detectives
6. I Want You
7. So Like Candy
8. Lipstick Vogue
9. Veronica
10. In the Darkest Place (with Burt Bacharach)
Can we make it so you don't see your opponent's choice until after you pick yours? There was a situation in the first cup where people switched songs right before the deadline so their opponents didn't have the opportunity to respond.
I'll reclaim Dylan. And also pick Townes Van Zandt.
Maschine_Man wrote:Can I get a run down of how this game works? : )
It's basically the same as the actual World Cup. Artists are put in pools of 4, with each artist having an "owner". The owner decides what song the artist play in each match, but songs can only be used once (exception: tiebreakers). So each artist will play at least three matches, and the top two from each pool at the point advance to the knockout round. If you want more information feel free to ask and/or check out the threads from the previous Cup (which I posted the links to in the other thread).
Thankyou so much! I searched on this forum "World cup" but only found a cup which only contained world music, and while interesting, was not this.
I choose Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1. The Mercy Seat
2. Loverman
3. O Children
4. Red Right Hand
5. Deanna
6. Avalanche
7. Into My Arms
8. The Ship Song
and Tom Waits
1. Way Down In The Hole
2. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
3. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
4. Tango Till They're Sore
5. Who Are You This Time
6. Clap Hands
7. In The Neighborhood
8. Anywhere I Lay My Head
I've decided to nix the "top 8/16" must return rule. So any team can be taken by anyone, so long as they haven't been taken already.
Honorio wrote:Can I choose...
Neil Young
1. Tired Eyes
2. Like a Hurricane
3. Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)
4. Star of Bethlehem
5. Heart of Gold
6. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
7. Cowgirl in the Sand
8. Mansion on the Hill
9. Ambulance Blues
10. Sail Away
and Elvis Costello
1. Oliver’s Army
2. No Action
3. Brilliant Mistake
4. Shipbuilding
5. Watching the Detectives
6. I Want You
7. So Like Candy
8. Lipstick Vogue
9. Veronica
10. In the Darkest Place (with Burt Bacharach)
You only need 8 songs.
Jirin wrote:Can we make it so you don't see your opponent's choice until after you pick yours? There was a situation in the first cup where people switched songs right before the deadline so their opponents didn't have the opportunity to respond.
I'll reclaim Dylan. And also pick Townes Van Zandt.
I'm considering this or some other method for the cup this year.
1. Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
2. All I Want
3. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
4. I Can Change
5. Dance Yrself Clean
6. Losing My Edge
7. Someone Great
8. All My Friends
Arcade Fire:
1. Intervention
2. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
3. Suburban War
4. Afterlife
5. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
6. Rebellion (Lies)
7. Reflektor
8. Wake Up
The National:
1. This Is the Last Time
2. Terrible Love
3. Daughters of the SoHo Riots
4. Afraid of Everyone
5. I Need My Girl
6. Bloodbuzz Ohio
7. Fake Empire
8. England
edit: Just curious, what does the flame next to this topic mean? I've never understood what those icons mean.
I just wanted to be one of those ghosts
You thought that you could forget
And then I haunt you via the rear view mirror
On a long drive from the back seat...
Talking Heads:
1. Road To Nowhere
2. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
3. Life During Wartime
4. Take Me To The River
5. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
6. Burning Down The House
7. Psycho Killer
8. Once in a Lifetime
and Otis Redding:
1. Pain In My Heart
2. Respect
3. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
4. These Arms Of Mine
5. Tramp
6. Try a Little Tenderness
7. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
8. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
My second team shall be Nick Drake:
(1- Time Had Told Me)
2- Things Behind the Sun
3- From the Morning
4- Hazy Jane II
5- Cello Song
6- Three Hours
7- Pink Moon
8- River Man
1. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
2. Badlands
3. Brilliant Disguise
4. The River
5. Born in the U.S.A.
6. Jungleland
7. Thunder Road
8. Born to Run
And R.E.M.
1. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
2. Orange Crush
3. Fall on Me
4. Everybody Hurts
5. The One I Love
6. It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
7. Radio Free Europe
8. Losing My Religion
"The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body."
1. Got to Give It Up, Part 1
2. It Takes Two (& Kim Weston)
3. Trouble Man
4. Ain't No Mountain High Enough (& Tammi Terrell)
5. Let's Get It On
6. Sexual Healing
7. I Heard It through the Grapevine
8. What's Going On
Here's Jirin's Bob Dylan list:
Tangled Up In Blue
Knockin On Heaven's Door
It's Alright Ma
Hurricane
I Shall Be Released
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Like A Rolling Stone
I think we need more women in this game, so I'll choose Madonna and Kate Bush. I'll think about songs at work today and post the lists at the end
edit: wait are there enough spots?
edit 2:
Kate Bush
1. Sat In Your Lap
2. Army Dreamers
3. Babooshka
4. The Big Sky
5. The Sensual World
6. Hounds Of Love
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Madonna
1. Hung Up
2. Like A Virgin
3. Nothing Really Matters
4. Vogue
5. Frozen
6. Express Yourself
7. Ray Of Light
8. Like A Prayer
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Maschine_Man wrote:I think we need more women in this game, so I'll choose Madonna and Kate Bush. I'll think about songs at work today and post the lists at the end
So if I'm reading your OP correctly, if hectorthebat and Toni take a second team, there are two remaining spots?
I'll take Leonard Cohen and Wilco
Leonard Cohen
1. Who by Fire
2. Chelsea Hotel #2
3. First We Take Manhattan
4. Closing Time
5. Dance Me to the End of Love
6. Sisters of Mercy
7. Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye
8. Suzanne
and for M. Tweedy & co.
1. Hotel Arizona
2. California Stars (w. Billy Bragg)
3. Jesus, Etc.
4. At Least That's What You Said
5. Wilco (The Song)
6. You Never Know
7. Ashes of American Flags
8. One Sunday Morning (2012 Live)
Don't understand soccer (football) either. Am I doing this right?
Sorry, didn't read the rules properly and realise I needed two teams! Ok, since they've not been taken, I'll take the Stones:
1 Time Is On My Side
2 Satisfaction
3 Beast of Burden
4 Angie
5 Wild Horses
6 You Can't Always Get What You Want
7 Paint it, Black
8 Sympathy for the Devil
You guys didn't actually HAVE to take a second team, but since you have anyway, we now have 32 teams. The pools and schedules will be up soon in a new thread!
1. For The Sake Of The Song (Self titled album version)
2. Lungs
3. Waiting Around To Die
4. Pancho & Lefty
5. To Live Is To Fly
6. If I Needed You
7. She Came And She Touched Me
8. Tecumseh Valley
