Sounds like fun. Sorry I'm late to it.
Sounds like fun. Sorry I'm late to it.
I've started to notice as we get into the late 90s and 2000's it's getting more difficult to determine the release date of some songs. Digital downloads became a thing. Sometimes singles were released digitally months before the actual album.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Where does this go?????
Spoiler:
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Here's a question for y'all: Would you like to start the voting process now or prefer to wait until the nomination process is complete? The reason I ask is because as outlined earlier, this will be a very long tournament, but I'm fully dedicated to see it through. However, since it is so long, we can actually start voting on the earlier decades while finalizing the nominees for the 2000s, since it will take us about a month to vote on the polls from the 1940s to the 1990s. The downside being, of course, confusion, and the need to vote in numerous polls in addition to whittling down our list of nominees. I can see pros and cons in both, so wanted to see what others thought. If everyone's okay with taking our time and knocking out the remaining nominations, that's cool. I'm leaning towards that myself, but I can understand if some of you wish we were already voting on these.
P.S.: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony can be nominated when we do 1820-1824
IMHO I think it's best to start voting, only when all the nominations are complete.
I vote to wait until all done with noms.
Sounds good, folks. Since we are nearing the end in Thread #11 and about halfway through Thread #12, the last two threads will be going up Friday morning
I'm also game for waiting until the nominations are complete before we do voting.
Also: I'm finding it hard to nominate much past 2000 since most newer music is junk.
Have you checked out acclaimedmusic.net and tsort.info yet? Very useful sites for looking up songs for a given year.
My hope is for the nominations to be finished by the end of this month or very early next month, because the target start date for the tournament is March 7. The nominations and secondings, however, seem to have slowed a little in the last few days. I'm hoping we can power through these. This doesn't mean I want everyone to second everything in sight and nominate random stuff, but I'm hoping it's not that the more recent music is not as popular as the '80s and '90s, which seemed to generate the most interest, understandably so. There is still a lot of great music of all kinds from the last 15 years to nominate, so hopefully we will be able to do this in the next couple of weeks, if we all put our minds to it. Because then the real fun begins! I've already got the (very numerous) groups set up and it will be a doozy, I can tell you now! Very competitive with pretty much every nomination at least being good if not great. It will be loads of fun. Cannot wait!
I've got tons of stuff to nominate in the current threads. Just need to get a few more people going so I can get them in.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Oh!!
I had not considered that the later eras may bring in the younger Folks!!
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
Since the action has slowed down the last week or two, if nobody minds we'll set the waiting period for seconding at one (1) and keep the waiting period for nominations at two (2). I'll make it official later on today if everyone's okay with it. Just trying to spur some activity and get us closer to voting!
That's fine with me pablo. What would really speed things up is if we could second our own nominations.
How about two nominations in a row?
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
So since nobody minds it, secondings are as of now on a waiting period of one.
But my point is....those of us with limited time online may only get to nominate or second one song per category a week.
The '95-'99 thread filled so fast with nominations it made my head spin. In the '00-'04 thread, we made it over 80 seconded until two very impactful songs (Disturbed's - Down With the Sickness and Drowning Pool's -Bodies) were even mentioned.
(I am no particular fan of either band, but I think the impact of those two songs was worthy of consideration LONG before 80 seconds. To that point, neither song was even nominated. Due to my limited online time,I felt I had to break the rule {I nominated these two in a row} to get such songs even for consideration.)
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.