Song Contest 44 - Votes

[Kublai Khan]

Is this the video game one?

[Kublai Khan]

Oh, I'd prefer it not to be video game.

[Kublai Khan]

No such thing as a good mashup song anyways.

[Kublai Khan]

Also going to enter amazing video game music

No such thing as amazing video game music.

[Kublai Khan]

Also going to enter amazing video game music

No such thing as amazing video game music.

Well, there's divided opinion on that score.

Boring. Dull. Boring. Ugh. No. ...thefuck, you think this is good? Yuck. Yanni composed it.

[Kublai Khan]

Also going to enter amazing video game music

No such thing as amazing video game music.

you will vote for my video game music

Depends. Is it an RC car hitting bottles in a parking garage?

[Kublai Khan]

fuckit, Blues Rock

You just got my 12.

Depending on if it's more blues than rock.

[Kublai Khan]

Hey guys.

I'm cheating.

So if you guys do Video Game Music.

I'm technically in the running.

You should be able to know what I mean by now, or when you see my selection.

bahahahahahaha

Not enough to be JUST mainstream, right?

What, is he doing an EA Sports track?

[Kublai Khan]

What, is he doing an EA Sports track?

How extremely funny that you mentioned this.

What I'm entering is coincidentally from a FIFA game, but that's not why I'm entering it, I'm a fan of the band and two of the songs from this band had already been entered.

Eh. Pre-emptively giving it no points then. Multiple entries from the same band will hurt the contest overall.

Also giving no points to any Pain of Salvation entry.

[Kublai Khan]

Post-grunge = Worst genre

I'll listen to post-grunge over klezmer anyday.

[Kublai Khan]

Post-grunge = Worst genre

I'll listen to post-grunge over klezmer anyday.

[Kublai Khan]

Yeah KK wtf is klezmer anyways?

What pacman said. Hebrew folk music. Similar to German Oompah music which is almost equally shitty.

(Why did I double post?)

[Kublai Khan]

hippsters

hipster + hippy = hippster?

[Kublai Khan]

Okay can someone explain it to me then because I don't get it. >.>

We spend weeks preening over how great our taste in music is and how everyone else's sucks, then we rabble when the results are late, then we cry in our beers as he place on the right hand side of the results.

[Kublai Khan]

Oh and HELLO NEW ENTRANTS

Seriously. SIX new entrants this contest.

Damn immigrants, stealing good entry spots from hard-working SC natives.

[Kublai Khan]

Oh and HELLO NEW ENTRANTS

Seriously. SIX new entrants this contest.

Damn immigrants, stealing good entry spots from hard-working SC natives.

yeah i hope i don't get cut

oh wait

Dammit JD. Your position in the Top 5 only means you only like incredibly marketable and/or mainstream music. My shitty record means I am a

pure

music listener who likes universally despised (and therefore awesome) "music".

Or something.

*slinks off*

[Kublai Khan]

Oh today I found out my friend now listens to only "post-hardcore." She can't even explain what it is.

Sounds like she might not know what it is.

Following the emergence of Punk Rock in the late 70s, bands began to expand upon its aesthetic of 'loud, hard, and fast' musical and vocal technique. Mixing together elements of their forebearers from Hardcore Punk (largely Black Flag and Dead Kennedys), Experimental Rock bands like The Velvet Underground and The Residents, with a helping of the sounds of its close cousins in Noise Rock and Emo, Post-Hardcore has undergone a continual expansion and shifting in what constitutes its musical identity.

Post-Hardcore can be considered to have begun in earnest in the Mid-80s. These bands were based on Hardcore Punk's aggression and dynamics, but many of them expanded it through longer and more complex arrangements with an ebb and flow of building tension and release both in the music and vocals. Notable bands of this early era are Big Black, Hüsker Dü, and Minutemen.

Soon after, a second wave of Post-Hardcore emerged. In addition to the traditional influences, this owed an equal debt to the addition of Post-Punk bands like Television and Wire, with a sprinkling of Dub, Funk, or Jazz-Rock. Some bands, Fugazi for instance, have straddled both styles.

Post-Hardcore today encompasses both of these previous incarnations, and has incorporated what can be considered a third-wave set of artists who took cues from first-wave bands, and added an aggressive mix with Emo, known as Screamo. Envy and Off Minor are good examples of this style.

[Kublai Khan]

post-grunge

Post-grunge is a derivative of Grunge that emerged in the mid-1990s with bands such as Live, Bush, and Foo Fighters. Although it adopted the vocal style, angsty lyrics, and "dirty" guitar sound of grunge, the songwriting placed more emphasis on creating a commercially acceptable sound. It therefore downplayed the more noisy and abrasive elements of the genre and emphasized pop hooks and more conventional song structures. It became one of the leading popular music genres from the mid-90s to the mid-00s, particularly following the death of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain in 1994. In the late '90s and early '00s, the genre reached its peak in popularity with the rise of such bands as Creed and Nickelback.

[Kublai Khan]

this is video games
you already lost

I'm going to kill you all

if this is true

you have until monday to fix your entry

Unless you plan to fix it to a video game song. In which case you should just cancel your entry altogether.

And destroy your iPod and delete all your music. Snap your CDs. Stomp your tapes. Crush your 8-Track. Drown your MiniDisc. Melt your vinyl.

Then brainwash yourself and forget video games even exist.

[Kublai Khan]

Who's DH?

It's the guy that hits in place of the pitcher in the rotation.

[Kublai Khan]

Rab-

Oh yeah and pictures are coming after class.

Damn.

[Kublai Khan]

I've already heard 15 of the tracks and I haven't clicked a single link.

[Kublai Khan]

Ireland is getting a lot of points from me.

Scotland is getting even more.

WTF? Why? Do you yearn to be standing in the canned vegetable aisle of any random grocery store?

[Kublai Khan]

Ort gives Heart big points in the middle of a "I HATE MAINSTREAM SHIT!" rant? WTF?

[Kublai Khan]

Ort gives Heart big points in the middle of a "I HATE MAINSTREAM SHIT!" rant? WTF?

I've never heard of Heart.

(EDIT: This post brought to you by CDB, the Universal Barometer of Mainstream.)

Over their four-decade career, Heart has had chart successes with songs in genres ranging from hard rock and metal to folk rock. To date, Heart has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Heart was ranked #57 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

i don't really trust you as a barometer anymore, CDB.

[Kublai Khan]

It's over Hiraki. I'm going to contact DH and ask him to reveal Fugi's votes in the thread for everyone to see.

[Kublai Khan]

[Kublai Khan]

sigur ros is snoozy pseudo-babble

FTFY

() is a good album, actually...

[Kublai Khan]

I don't understand how to vote.. I'm entered in the contest, do I just say "i vote for X"?

Voting begins immediately and will run until 6:00 PM EDT (GMT-5) on

Wednesday, November 16th

. Results will be announced in thread. Please submit your votes in the following format:

12 - Country 1
10 - Country 2
8 - Country 3
7 - Country 4
6 - Country 5
5 - Country 6
4 - Country 7
3 - Country 8
2 - Country 9
1 - Country 10

As always, failure to vote will result in a 20 point penalty, so make sure to get those votes in! Remember that you cannot vote for yourself, and do not under any circumstances vote in song titles or artist names.

Keep in mind that those who have not entered are still eligible (and encouraged) to vote.

Thanks to everyone who has entered, and good luck to you all!

submit your votes = PM them to the Song Contest account.

[Kublai Khan]

DAMMIT KUBLAI

That's right, you've been helped-bitched.

[Kublai Khan]

Belgium - Pokemon Black/White - Zzzzzzzz....
Bhutan - Final Fantasy - CN Tower is a much better song.
Brazil - Ko Otani - Zzzzzzzzzzzzz........
Canada - Kansas - Hey look! Either someone hangs out in a dive bar playing the jukebox and has no idea that newer music exists or they are busking for easy cheap points
Chile - Placebo - Ugh. This song is so over-played that I actually enjoy a live version of it less because it doesn't sound exactly how I expect it to, thus making it jarring.
Denmark - BT - This song is utterly devoid of emotion. BT mind as well be singing about his grocery list instead of random quotations from select "Sorry We're Breaking Up!" Hallmark cards. BONUS: YouTube thinks that I should listen to the Nazi German Anthem after listening to this.
England - Angel Cascarino - Hmm.. I appreciate what you've put up and I think that if you could have benefited from the same production and engineering that most of the rest of these songs benefit from, you'd be right up there.
Finland - Something A La Mode - Innovative. Mixing the pretentiousness of baroque with the obnoxiousness of phat beatz.
France - Future of the Left - Damn. Simple, dumb, & catchy. You win this round, JD.
Germany - Marina and the Diamonds - Ugh. I hate when people troll these contests.
Guatemala - My Chemical Romance - Why are they so angry at me? Why are they trying to hurt me ears?
Ireland - Damien Rice - Seems like he would apologized if you actually noticed his music playing.
Israel - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - 9823754
italy - No Doubt - "Hey ska always does well in these contests.. Isn't No Doubt considered a ska band for some retarded reason?"
Laos - Them Crooked Vultures - I want to hate this for being SO MAINSTREAM.. but it's Queens of the Stone Age + Led Zep, so it's awesome.
Macedonia - The Format - I get it. They're pre-ruining their songs before Glee can get to them.
Mali - Afro Celt Sound System - Typical celtic roundy-round dancing music.
Palestine - The Heavy - KIA MAKES SHITTY CARS.
Peru - Motion City Soundtrack - Songs about first crushes are so emo.
Scotland - Sixpence None The Richer - TROLLED!
Swaziland - Martha Argerich - pretentious.
Sweden - Cloudkicker - hate, etc...
Switzerland - Holy Fuck - Why dit start at 20 secs?
Tristan da Cunha - Matt Uelmen - Hey, it's sonic wallpaper.
Turkey - Heart - Big bag of meh.
Vatican City - ZZ Top - I got denied entry into this contest and you didn't even bother to try to find something good and original? You're worse than the video game nerds.

[Kublai Khan]

ZZ Top plays county fairs, sorry

[Kublai Khan]

Eh, I put hateful/sarcastic comments on everyone because that's how I preen.

But I did narrow it down to 10 vote-getters in just the first listen-through... which is a record, I think.

Now I just have to decide on an order.

[Kublai Khan]

ALSO KK THERE AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH PLAYING COUNTY FAIRS

Only has-beens play county fairs, Amrun.

[Kublai Khan]

but waxing in years

aka "has-beens".

Live In Texas was only 3 years ago and it kicked a lot of ass

well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister
but boring stories of glory days

[Kublai Khan]

Switzerland - Holy Fuck - Why dit start at 20 secs?

If you were that curious you could have just started from the beginning of the video and realized the song didn't start until the 20 second mark, so I linked to that to save everyone some time.

Yeah, I checked back and I figured out the reason.. I guess I was angered at the idea that someone was being respectful and considerate. Caught me totally off-guard.

[Kublai Khan]

Swaziland - Martha Argerich - pretentious.

Gotta be fucking kidding me.

Nope. Every classical entry gets an automatic zero and a pretentious review. I'm trying to discourage classical entries. They are trite.

[Kublai Khan]

There's nothing wrong with classical music, I feel it's a pretentious thing to enter into the song contest. I've made it clear that I will never give any points to any classical piece or video game music (or klezmer). If people insist on continuing to enter such music then they give up their right to act all pissy about it.

And there's definitely nothing wrong with jazz music. I love jazz. More jazz should be entered.

[Kublai Khan]

Metalcore

A combination of Hardcore Punk and Metal that began to take shape during the mid 1990s. What differentiates Metalcore from other combinations of Metal and Hardcore Punk, such as Crossover Thrash, is the emphasis on breakdowns and greater use of dissonance.

This term is used to describe the style of the 'first wave' of Metalcore bands which shared their Hardcore Punk and Metal influences fairly equally such as Integrity and Earth Crisis. Converge continues to play this style.

The Metalcore bands from the early and mid 00s that brought the genre to a more mainstream audience are said instead to play Melodic Metalcore, because of the increased influence of Melodic Death Metal and frequent use of clean vocals.

[Kublai Khan]

Oh, and <3 to Johhog and Junpei. You guys rule.

Pfft...

[Kublai Khan]

Hey, I'm thanking

some of

my voters