The 414 version is one of my most played tracks in iTunes. Thus I've been picking it for Arron's challenges since the original #Uncool50. I'm probably the only person taking it for #THETENX5 so its status wrt compliance is moot.
studio version
esethevooduupeople.bandcamp.com/track/up-in-...
#THETENX5
🚨 11 points 🚨
35. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta (2015)
Although I would love to claim I'm a longstanding Kendick fan, I was only introduced to King Kunta's swaggering braggadocio through its inclusion on the #Uncool50 playlist. A real find.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK7...
Hey, remember #Uncool50? Here's my song 51 from way back then! It missed out on #FearOfMu21c too because of all the new music I'd heard since then, but now you too can hear what I was actually listening to in 2012.
#theTenX5 #33
"Default"
Django Django
Jan 12 🇬🇧
youtu.be/DDjpOrlfh0Y
NK❌12 P✔️ single✔️
(what this also tells you us that the 10s winner as per #Uncool50 and #FearofMu21C does NOT have more than one pick as yet... because its title has no letters in it)
Previous Challenge Eves:
30 Sep 23 #FearofMu21C, the first C21 challenge, first on Bluesky and start of 'Project 1000'
30 Sep 22 #Uncool50, the original Twitter challenge
30 Sep 21 #LettersPlayPop: songs with 1 to 31 letters in the title (have that one for free, challenge-runners!).
#ALL50RTS
On 1st October 2022, Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' took the lead in #Uncool50, and never relinquished it.
She won by 59 points.
She remained undefeated in People's Pop Polls.
She defended her title in #UncoolTwo50.
But, earlier this year, something strange happened...
#ALL50RTS TOP 100 COUNTDOWN DAY 17
Nice symmetry... just as in #Uncool50 three years ago, only the top 20 have 100+ points.
Starting with:
20.
SOFT CELL (1/1)
'SEX DWARF'
UK 1981
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
100 points (2 HMs, no ties)
UK 13/54
1981 1/3
1980s 4/25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGc...
#ALL50RTS
73.
SIMPLE MINDS (2/2)
'THEME FOR GREAT CITIES'
UK 1981
Sister Feelings Call
60 points
No rank; loses to no.72 on SVQ
UK 42/54
1981 3/3
1980s 17/25
I'm guessing this (2/2) may surprise a few people (who weren't around for original #Uncool50).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJDx...
Dull admin note: I'm not able to post for a few days, so my remaining #Uncool50 entries have been sent to our administrator. The songs are unlikely to alter the result. I'll post them publicly when I'm back at a keyboard, probably on tuesday.
Oh wow! I picked 'Spinning Away' in both #Uncool50 and #UncoolTwo50, thinking that the 'Europe' release listed on Discogs would include UK. THIS MEANS WE HAVE TO COMPLETELY REDO #1C000LEST FROM THE BEGINNING
I haven't even begun on a list! I think the last #Uncool50 kind of inspired a drought in me.
5th in U250 though.
it was the original #Song51 in #Uncool50... so yes I am equally stunned by its popularity on here. Certainly if Kim Deal at Primavera was anything to go by, the kids prefer Gigantic!
(I say "all-time record", 9 x 11 actually ties 'Atmosphere' by Joy Division in the first run of #Uncool50).
#1C000LEST
By the way, both 'Levi Stubbs' Tears' and 'Relax' finished in the original #Uncool50 (1977 - 2022) Top 100 on Twitter, only to fall short of the #UncoolTwo60 (1977 - 1999) Top 250, in astonishing scenes last autumn.
The other 20-pointer is
Oasis, 'Don't Look Back In Anger'...
#1c000lest
#MusicChallenge
My second 12-point pick. You all knew this was coming:
2️⃣ Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" (1986).
If this is Gabriel's only entry in the finale, I'm giving it a bigger boost than last time (11 points in my #Uncool50). This one is personal.
youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q
This is the song that has everything. Well, it does have almost nine minutes to fill.
⭐️ 11 points ⭐️
#1C000LEST #4
💿 The Perfect Kiss [12"] - New Order
🗓️ May '85 / UK#46
🎛️ I "tactically" picked another New Order song for #Uncool50 - a mistake. No tactics this time round!
🎞️ youtu.be/x3XW6NLILqo
I can't decide whether this is heartbroken or joyous. Powers right through the pain and comes out the other side stronger.
⭐️ 11 points ⭐️
#1C000LEST #5
💿 Knowing Me, Knowing You - ABBA
🗓️ Feb '79 / UK#1
🎛️ My first pick for #Uncool50, and now almost the last for #1C000LEST.
🎞️ youtu.be/iUrzicaiRLU
Hadn’t voted for this before as a) the Pets had multiple appearances in my #Uncool50 and #UncoolTwo50 lists and b) I thought/hoped this could get in tactically. And then @tomewing.bsky.social’s review at the end of the latter poll reminded me that all that was the logic of a numpty and I was wrong.
They tried pretending a dance is just a dance. But you see-
#1C000LEST #10
💿 Let the Music Play [12" version] - Shannon
🗓️ Sep '83 / UK#14
🎛️ Insanely, this was not the only world-changing female dance pop groove I forgot for #Uncool50 [v1]. But it came back to me again...
🔊 youtu.be/DEFapFx5eGw
#1C000LEST
1️⃣0️⃣
Taylor Swift
Anti-Hero
21.10.22
Uk No. 1
My happiest discovery of this whole #Uncool50 journey. This is the track that dragged me in. So odd, so triumphant. Saw her last year in the best concert I have ever been to. She really is exceptional. ❤️❤️❤️
Goes like a piledriver. A powerhammer. A bulldozer. She's not dancing on her own, she's on a construction site.
#1C000LEST #14
💿 Dancing On My Own - Robyn
🗓️ Apr '10 / UK#8
🎛️ And it's certainly built up for me, after I didn't even consider it for #Uncool50. Monumental.
🔊 youtu.be/WMth6xZlVJU
I could have picked Pump Up the Volume or Paid in Full; they're both bangers. But this goes like a train.
#1C000LEST #17
💿 Theme from S-Express - S-Express
🗓️ Apr '88 / UK#1
🎛️ Another tune that's gone up in my estimation from #Uncool50 (unpicked) to #UncoolTwo50 to now.
🎞️ youtu.be/IpeRShWMdYM
It's been a long time. I shouldn't have left you out.
#1C000LEST #21
💿 Try Again - Aaliyah
🗓️ Jul 00 / UK#5
🎛️ Insanely, this was not the only world-changing female dance pop groove I forgot for #Uncool50 [v1]. But if at first you don't succeed...
🎞️ youtu.be/qTA0RuZoIxM
Anyway, would have made my #Uncool50 if I could have found it!
Think I can only quote @sonofmechamummy.bsky.social here:
"a rampaging kaiju ... and then there's just *more* of it."
#1C000LEST #24
💿 Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
🗓️ Jun '98 / UK#5
🎛️ The first of only two(!) 90s songs that made my #Uncool50, #UncoolTwo50 and now #1C000LEST.
🎞️ youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g
Kids is now almost 18. And it's taken me that long to realise MGMT *aren't* singing "Enjoy yourself". I'm growing up.
#1C000LEST #25
💿 Kids - MGMT
🗓️ Oct '08 / UK#16
🎛️ Even though I've clearly never listened to it, a near-miss for #Uncool50 but an easy choice for #FearOfMu21C.
🎞️ youtu.be/fe4EK4HSPkI
#1C000LEST
Total songs still on zero points:
135
Split as follows:
#LetsDoIt25 94
#Let5D0It 12
#UncoolTwo50 3 (including one of the original Top 20 from #Uncool50, which is somewhat bizarre)
#FearofMu21C 20
Six of those songs finished in challenge Top 50s:
Pre-1954 - 4
2000-2023 - 2
Clues are:
- One of the Top 20 from original #Uncool50 (and IIRC, the one which cost someone the win in the prediction contest)
- One closely associated with a cultural figure who died earlier this year
- One by an artist with two points-scorers in the 2000s, which interpolates a LDI qualifier
I wanted to kick off my original #Uncool50 with this. But it was BANNED*! So instead I made sure I launched my #Let5D0It with it. And you're damn sure it's ready to go for #1C000LEST too!
#1C000LEST #28
💿 Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
🗓️ Feb '76
🎛️ *Because it was released too soon.
🔊 youtu.be/skdE0KAFCEA
#1C000LEST Day 22
“And so it came to pass that the playas took their final places, making ready the events that were to come.”
29 NO DIGGITY by BLACKSTREET ft DR DRE & QUEEN PEN
Play on playas: championed this almost solo in the original #Uncool50, not stopping now.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL9...
