(the slight delay is due to me auditing, making sure I haven't missed any higher ranks...
this is the biggest cut-off split since we lost 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' amongst others in #Let5D0It)
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I'm relistening to my choices for #Let5D0It.
I really loved doing those challenges because 1) I got to irritate a lot of people, 2) I learned that I had an justified interest in music that was really off-kilter to everyone else and 3) Turns out I really like instrumental(ish) popular music
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#TheTwen2ie5
Some provisional numbers:
16 advance lists
plus
70 other posters listed, including those who said they would be playing but are yet to post
86 is in the ballpark of #FearofMu21C and #Let5D0It, which is promising.
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#Ye-Ye-Yeah 60s French pop
9/15 Serge Gainsbourg - La chanson de Prévert
I've chosen a couple of Serge tunes, but no actual Serge yet ... so here's a mellow one, discovered via #Let5D0It
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The others were:
- Back To Black in #FearofMu21C, led by 2 points, finished 9th
- Tutti Frutti in #Let5D0It, led by 2 points, finished 11th.
(three of the other four were led by 'I Feel Love' after Month 1 😇)
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#ALL50RTS #32
Laura Nyro - Stoney End | More Than a New Discovery (1967)
Back in #Let5d0it I was the only one to pick Barbra Streisand's version of this, a bonus pick too.
To show you I've no hard feelings (grrrr) I'm giving you a chance to redeem yourselves, so here's Laura's glorious original.
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21. The Beatles - In My Life (1965)
This was on my list for #Let5D0It until my dad pointed out it was never released as a single. Straight in for this challenge.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcd...
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Total group of death for me - two songs I picked for #Let5D0It and two others I love. Picking Roxy but could go for any of them any other day.
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Day 14
"Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moon Light" by Tiny Tim, from God Bless Tiny Tim (1968)
This was one of the songs I was mad to learn wasn't a single in #Let5D0It. Also I'm a real Tinyhead, know the albums I didn't grok this was from SpongeBob til after I discovered him
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btw had I done #Let5D0it Over Under Sideways Down would have been on the list. That is one of my favorite songs of all time. But I should save that for a yardbirds thread when I post White Summer (prob).
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This is a tricky one, as it was chosen more than once in #Let5D0It, on account of the 1973 release and charting in the US.
I would *much* prefer it for this however. It really felt like a stretch as a "single" but it's a natural fit as B-side and album track.
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I was in exactly the same place with Babe Ruth’s “The Mexican” and left it out of my #Let5D0it list.
And I’ve now gone and convinced myself that I can’t add it to this list! 😭😆
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10. Quarteto Em Cy - Tudo Que Você Podia Ser (from the 1972 self-titled album)
Loads of versions of this song but this is comfortably the best.
Fairly sure it wasn’t a single. Spent ages trying to prove it was for #Let5D0It without success so having it here.
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Probably I'm over-thinking things, but this wasn't on my list for #All50rts because I already voted for it in #Let5D0It due to the existence of a very limited edition release on 7".
www.discogs.com/release/2217...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTi9...
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#ALL50RTS 50 favourite non-singles, chronologically. Day 3.
The Clash - Stay Free (1978)
And one more that *would* have made it into my #Let5D0It list, whereas no Clash single eventually did (see also: "Spanish Bombs").
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#ALL50RTS 50 favourite non-singles, chronologically. Still on the before-my-time / obvious ones:
T. Rex - Cosmic Dancer (1971)
My favourite T. Rex track - none of their actual singles eligible for #Let5D0It came close to making my list, while this one would have been top 10.
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#ALL50RTS 50 favourite non-singles, chronologically. Some token '60s / obvious picks first:
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
My favourite Stones track - I didn't consider any Stones singles for #Let5D0It at the time.
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#LetsDoIt25
#Let5D0It
#UncoolTwo50
#FearofMu21C
#1C000LEST
#ALL50RTS
Arron hosts some of the most engaging - and high maintenance - #MusicChallenge on SM. So if you have enjoyed any of these (and you can afford to do so) please give some money to this worthy cause.
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#OTD in 1964 Roy Orbison releases It’s Over. This came close to making my #Let5D0it list.
youtu.be/-Jm3Tq_q4yU...
Testing scheduled posts with fedica app.
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Too late now but you know what I should've suggested - Samples.
Because I managed to get Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band accepted as a single for #Let5D0It but I'm currently looking at Alphaville's Forever Young for #All50RTS
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If you're following the various info tabs in the #1C000LEST HITLIST, you'll see a nice* symmetry on the 'Survivors' one...
1 #LetsDoIt25 (pre-1954)
11 #Let5D0It (1954-76)
11 #UncoolTwo50 (1977-99)
1 #FearofMu21C (2000-23)
*well, that depends on your era preference, i guess.
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This is what I discovered with #Let5D0It. I tried to be down the line with my choices but discovered that the generation after the event had decided what the canon was.
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I was very surprised "American Girl" didn't make #Let5D0It (not so much surprised about him flailing in the next challenge, talk about vote split hell) but that would explain it
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Queen Bitch and Suffragette City are on my long list. Still WILD to me that the latter was not eligible for #Let5d0it. (Original B-side only later released as an A-side, yes?) And wild it’s not more popular than it is. (78M Spotify plays vs. 631M for “Starman.”)
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another table Year Count Sum of Changes Average Change 1976 18 849 47.17 1984 9 475 52.78 1988 13 432 33.23 2000 12 336 28.00 1927 6 296 49.33 1943 5 292 58.40 1993 6 275 45.83 1971 14 263 18.79 1950 11 249 22.64 2001 19 243 12.79 1986 9 193 21.44
overall stats (ofc pending the top 120, though counterintuitively there's less room for the remaining songs to jump *quite* as much overall, as average remaining rank is around 30) show that 1976 is the best performing #let5d0it year relative to expectation in terms of total & average rise!
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Homer Simpson watching a tripe of Blacula, Blackenstein and the Bunch Black of Blotre Blame "Ooh funky"
My big issue with #All50RTS is I'm a #let5d0it person but my goodness everything you think an obscure track was released at some point as a single. Even if it charted at 82.
Anyway @tomewing.bsky.social we'll all need to discuss what are the best Parliament/Sly Stone/Ohio Players album tracks
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Well, Joan Armatrading fans on #Let5D0It and #1C000LEST:
Richard Ashcroft's been sampling again - with love and affection (and permission!)
youtu.be/a0jxbliRYg0?...
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the 45 edit of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" got some spins out of me during #Let5D0It, but after tracking down hundreds of those singles, my conclusion is that apart from soul-jazz it really was an album-oriented genre
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#MusicChallenge
#1C000LEST
Stats!
#LetsDoIt25: 6 **
#Let5D0It: 27 ****
#UncoolTwo50: 16 ***
#FearOfMu21C: 1
30s: 3 **
40s: 2
50s: 2
60s: 13 *
70s: 16 *****
80s: 9 *
90s: 4
00s: 0
10s: 1
20s: 0
Original challenge position:
1-10: 9 ***
11-50: 12
51-100: 13 ***
101-150: 6
151-200: 3 *
201-250: 7 **
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