MUSIC LEAGUE - a way to gamify your music taste

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

I would give it a go

I signed up and bookmarked the site. A second league sounds fun

I might be kicking out a whole bunch of people if THEY DONT VOTE SOON so there just might be room soon 😅

Then again, considered deliberations are better than hot takes!

If people are kicked out based on scores then I'm going to have to amend my selection strategy

That said, next round should in theory play into my hands. The trick is to choose something where it's not obvious who posted it, lol

I would never kick you out LJ 😘

a promotion and relegation system sounds fun, actually

i did pretty well last round, not so much this round, which makes me solidly mid-table

Feels good to have voted. Tough round! And big playlists are gonna make this challenging to keep up with — I was in a 10-person league and that was hard enough.

Finally voted, didn’t really want to downvote anything!

Ooooooh, my favourite discovery here is making a thrilling late run!

alright alright i voted. it was hard, but not as hard as these funkay grooooves

Sorry to be Johnny Deliberate. 😁 I like to give the list a few full listens each day to absorb the new (to me) tunes before deciding who earns my votes (y'all have some deep mental catalogues of music!)

Same here. I’m not one of those Xgau “i know exactly how i feel about a thing within a minute of encountering it” guys.

i feel like i was a little too mean to the sharon jones song. the daptone aesthetic is mildly annoying to me but it's a good song and performance

"misdemeanor" was my favorite find from this round, it has like six different hooks crammed into one little song. but i really enjoyed the whole thing.

Congrats to ENOCH ROOT for winning the funk round! Current standings:

https://i.imgur.com/zf5bQc5.png

Hi Moka!

Hi mike!

I got lucky in the first round. I don’t think I’ll do too good with britpop and I’ll definitely do bad in the round four but I’ll blame my parents for that one.

Btw BRITPOP votes are open! I don’t think I’d consider many of these as strict britpop but it’s a great playlist once again so no complaints.

I know commenting on the tracks in public before the end of the poll is probably frowned upon, so let's just say that I find myself listening to the [redacted] debut album in full. I'm having a great time

I admit to laughing out loud when I saw the first song

another killer playlist

Maybe I would have had a good run if I had nommed a Black Box Recorder song.

I know commenting on the tracks in public before the end of the poll is probably frowned upon, so let's just say that I find myself listening to the (redacted) debut album in full. I'm having a great time

― imago, Thursday, October 24, 2024 10:32 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you talking about my pick? yeah it's better than I expected

I guess we can definitively say Blur won Blur vs Oasis now

One of these songs was on my own shortlist, so yay for that. Another is from an act who I thought were universally scorned here, so yay again that I'm not the only one who rates them.

Ok curious about which act it is because nothing seems particularly controversial to me.

xxp if Wibbling Rivalry was on Spotify though…

Gomez? xp

voting is tough, i didn't want to be unkind to anything i vaguely liked so i spread them almost as thinly as possible.

Yeah, the number of votes vs players means you gotta make choices.

i did big up some. i'll try and be crueler next time.

Not sure if it's the same for everyone but the Teenage Fanclub song on the playlist is greyed out here in the UK

I was going to pick a Salad song but it showed up as grayed out

the st. etienne song was grayed out for me here in the U.S. but i just went on youtube and listened there
the gomez song also did not play properly on spotify, it would play the first few seconds then go quiet, but that might have been a me problem

spotify sucks! i dont pay for spotify so my playlists are shuffled, i have commercials and grey'd out songs. i look them up on youtube though. the pains i go through for music league!

I'm in the UK and the Teenage Fanclub song is greyed out on the playlist for me, but if I click through to the TF spotify page the full album appears including that song?

If people are listening to the Saint Etienne song on youtube then I think we need full disclosure on whether they're voting based on the album version or the Alan Tarney produced single version, might demand a re-run depending on how badly my song does

if that is your song, I wouldn't be too concerned tbh