MUSIC LEAGUE - a way to gamify your music taste

Love it

(The hater energy)

Just voted - maybe I needed at least 900 more gecs

Very interested in the tracklist for round 2! Love grooving.

I’m gonna suck so bad at round 3 I don’t know any britpop music. I don’t even know what can be considered as Britpop besides the obvious things. Are the Stone Roses britpop? Is early The Verve allowed?

I'm not even sure I know what a groove is so I might sit the next one out for fear of making an embarrassing mistake.

Thanks to the first round for "Final Day" which I did not know and which has been haunting my brain for the last few days.

This round made me realize that the short songs I respond to most are the ones where the song itself is in some way about not quite having enough time. Also, I think, why I have always responded more strongly to the Stones cover of "Good Times" than to the Sam Cooke original: the Stones version is shorter, under two minutes, and I think that's one reason it's always given me a more intense feeling of a fleeting golden moment that will not be repeated.

so no one else is waking up every morning with "Bart and Marge, they are in charge" stuck in their head?

Oh you seriously need to get on the Colossal Youth album. It sits on its own plane of existence.

Xpost to lily

And Lily: I think of groovy music as music with an insistent rhythm that makes you feel like bobbin your head, your body, your mind. don’t overthink it, just groove.

Sorry kurt (//0~~0//) xps

Do we have to allocate all our votes? As did feel bad down voting

good you're the one I wanna beat

― frogbs, Friday, 11 October 2024 19:01 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

hee hee

i dont know any britpop either! you dont gotta allocate nuthin!

Just joined! I miss my old league (which fell apart when two of the members broke up w/each other). ILX oughtta put me in my place.

I’m a fan of downvotes & collegial hater energy — catty takedowns of other folks’ picks were always fun to read. Or to write.

yeah, I'm going to use a very broad definition of britpop for my pick I think

if my picks tend to be obscure, its just because I myself would prefer hearing new-to-me in this but it’s all good

new-to-me songs

welcome, HD!

I'm not even sure I know what a groove is so I might sit the next one out for fear of making an embarrassing mistake.

groove is "in the heart," some may say

welcome, HD!

I think Britpop's a good call for Round 3, as it's such a reviled genre here, which makes digging out some worthwhile tunes an interesting challenge.

The question is, are we limiting ourselves to the initial 'Britpop' years

I mean, I'm happy to. Got some ideas yknow

Looks like it's full.. can we expand the league size by a few heads?

sure

i signed up for this yesterday

Really looking forward to hearing the round 2 selections

Playlist really grooves. I hate that I have to downvote because I love every track.

People came with their A-game on this playlist, wow

I know. Forget about Britpop, we should make round 3 more of this. It’s great.

wait how long do you have to submit a song? I'm locked out already :/

I'm gonna have to listen to this one a bunch of times before voting, all very good and most of it I don't know.

yall kicked out the jams

wait how long do you have to submit a song? I'm locked out already :/

― frogbs

I think it gave 48 hours to submit a song after the last round ended.

I hate that I have to downvote because I love every track

At least downvoting will be easier next round

Just joined, can’t submit a song either atm

we're in the voting stage for Get Funky so new people will have to wait until the Britpop submissions open up next week

there's lots of good stuff in this playlist that is unfortunately going to get no votes from me, there's just too many amazing songs to be able to spread votes around fairly

I'm in, getting funky.

I added more points and one more downvote since more people joined

Yeah, cheers for adding one more downvote 🙃

But yeah, that bit's probably the hardest, especially in this round.

oh so do you have to use all your votes, including downvotes?

yes you can use up to 3 votes a song

For the record, this is the KMFDM song I ultimately decided against:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD0gYbzM90

tbf thats p fonkay

God damn, y'all Music Leaguers did not disappoint! Almost half the list are songs I'd not heard before, which is why I joined such a league - show me great tracks I somehow missed in my 49 years!

Can the league admin open it up to more players? Or is that not possible once a league is underway?

No spoilers but has anyone else who's voted looked at the results so far?

Oof

posting some sort of boredoms/oranssi pazuzu psych-noise kosmische meltdown to the 'get funky' thread may sound like a completely hopeless enterprise, but someone's got to do it

groovypanda your support (based on the unbroken run of minusings briefly reversing when you voted) has been noted ofc. a real one

We are at 25 players right now which makes a really long playlist! I’m going to have one more round to see how that pans out before opening up to more players

Maybe we can start a second league for new players and those that want a second league to join?

LETS GET THOSE VOTES IN

Not a bad round idea. Submit a song from one of the nyt 30 greatest living American songwriters

Much harder to figure out if there's a songwriter living or dead "acceptable to both Whiney and d-40"

better idea would be 'greatest living american songwriters' without reference to the nyt list

wait are we finally getting user ufo in this

yes oh excellent

i did music league with some acquaintances who have mostly terrible taste so i really need some relief

[insert imago looking at the camera like jim in the office]

Just over 13 hours left for any stragglers to join in time for the first round

https://app.musicleague.com/l/bce29a613a8c4a3f869602831a40b221

i haven't been active on ilx recently but have wanted to do one of these for ages so hope you don't mind me joining a little late

go for it!