Boardsies greatest song of the 80s - Live Thread

Necro

A-Ha and Phil Collins must be smited in this next round for their sins against the fallen.

Night folks

Kolido

Kolido wrote: »

Sorry if the thread was going fast, had a lot of matches to get through and there was plenty of folk online.
Here are the songs through to round 2, which we will start tomorrow. Thanks everyone.

And not a Cure song among them. You people..... *shakes head sadly*.

It just occurred to me now that nobody submitted U2's With Or Without You. :eek: For me that's the quintessential U2 song (at least from their eighties output, anyway). Also seems like REM didn't get a look in at all?

Probably hundreds of brilliant tunes that were forgotten about, such is the difficulty of picking just five or ten from a whole decade.

quickbeam

The Cure had more nominations than any other artist. Were they all from you, Khal?

Zaph

Kolido wrote: »

Sorry if the thread was going fast, had a lot of matches to get through and there was plenty of folk online.

Not at all Kolido, it kept us on our toes. Good to get through a big amount quickly, hats off to you for taking on such a mammoth game.

If the voting is early tomorrow I'll miss it unfortunately as I have to be somewhere else. But I'm sure I can trust everyone here to do the right thing when they're voting, can't I? :pac:

Necro

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quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

The Cure had more nominations than any other artist. Were they all from you, Khal?

Definitely not!
Sniff sniff

I have 6 left from my ten nominations so not doing bad at all

quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

The Cure had more nominations than any other artist. Were they all from you, Khal?

I nominated Just Like Heaven, and thought it would do quite well.

Also nominated The Safety Dance, Sledgehammer, Self Control, The Mercy Seat, Running Up That Hill....all of which have been put to the sword.

quickbeam

If my spreadsheeting is correct ....

Artist Nominations
Queen 5
The Cure 5
Madonna 4
Cyndi Lauper 3
Frankie Goes To Hollywood 3
Michael Jackson 3
Prince 3
Talking Heads 3
A Flock of Seagulls 2
A Ha 2
ABBA 2
Blondie 2
Bon Jovi 2
David Bowie 2
Dire Straits 2
Huey Lewis and the News 2
Human League 2
Journey 2
Kenny Loggins 2
Kim Wilde 2
Madness 2
Pet Shop Boys 2
Phil Collins 2
REO Speedwagon 2
Rod Stewart 2
Tears For Fears 2
The Bangles 2
The Jam 2
The Police 2
U2 2
Ultravox 2
Wang Chung 2
Band Aid 1
Beastie Boys 1
Beautiful South 1
Bee Gees 1
Belinda Carisle 1
Big Country 1
Bill Joel 1
Billy Idol 1
Blancmange 1
Bonnie Tyler 1
Boris Gardner 1
Bow Wow Wow 1
Bronski Beat 1
Bros 1
Bruce Springsteen 1
Bryan Adam 1
Cher 1
Climie Fisher 1
Communards 1
Crowded House 1
Culture Club 1
Cutting Crew 1
Debbie Gibson 1
Def Leppard 1
Depeche Mode 1
Dexys Midnight Runners 1
Don Henley 1
Duran Duran 1
Echo & the Bunnymen 1
Edie Brickell 1
Erasure 1
Eric Carmen 1
Europe 1
Eurthymics 1
Fiction Factory 1
Fleetwood Mac 1
Foreigner 1
George Michael 1
Guns'N'Roses 1
Hall & Oates 1
Hall and Oates 1
Heart 1
INXS 1
Irene Cara 1
It's Immaterial 1
J Geils Band 1
Jennifer Rush 1
John Cougar Mellencamp 1
John Waite 1
Joy Division 1
Kate Bush 1
Kim Carnes 1
Landscape 1
Laura Branigan 1
Lionel Richie 1
M|A|R|R|S 1
Men Without Hats 1
Mental As Anything 1
Metallica 1
Motorhead 1
Neil Young 1
Nena 1
Neneh Cherry 1
New Order 1
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1
Nik Kershaw 1
Pat Benetar 1
Paul Kelly 1
Paul Simon 1
Paul Young 1
Peter Gabriel 1
Phil Collins 1
Philip Oakey 1
Pink Floyd 1
Poison 1
Queen & David Bowie 1
Ray Parker Jr 1
Richard Marx 1
Rick Astley 1
Rick Springfield 1
Roxy Music 1
Run DMC & Aerosmith 1
Salt n Pepa 1
Simple Minds 1
Siouxsie & The Banshees 1
Sister Sledge 1
Soft Cell 1
Sonic Youth 1
Spagma 1
Starship 1
Stevie Nicks 1
Sting 1
Survivor 1
Suzanne Vega 1
T’pau 1
Temptation 1
Texas 1
The B 1
The Clash 1
The Cult 1
The Dream Academy 1
The Hooters 1
The Jesus and Mary Chain 1
The La's 1
The Passions 1
The Proclaimers 1
The Smiths 1
The Stone Roses 1
The Waterboys 1
They Might Be Giants 1
Tiffany 1
Till Tuesday 1
Tommy Tutone 1
Tone-Loc 1
Toto 1
Van Halen 1
Violent Femmes 1
Walk the Dinosaur 1
Wax 1
Wham 1
Whitesnake 1
Whitney Houston 1
ZZ Top 1

Zaph

quickbeam wrote: »

The Cure had more nominations than any other artist. Were they all from you, Khal?

No, one from me as well - Close to Me.

Necro wrote: »

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Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I have 6 left from my ten nominations so not doing bad at all

Same. Surprised that Blue Monday is gone from my nominations, but equally surprised that The Jesus and Mary Chain have made it to round 2.

Kolido

If you count Queens collaboration with Bowie, they have 6, most nominated artist.

Zaph

Kolido wrote: »

If you count Queens collaboration with Bowie, they have 6, most nominated artist.

Do you have stats for the most nominated songs Kolido?

Necro

Deleted User wrote:

Also nominated The Safety Dance, Sledgehammer, Self Control, The Mercy Seat, Running Up That Hill....all of which have been put to the sword.

My picks have been savaged as I look back too, thought it wasn't too bad initially but I've lost about half I think.

Danger Zone and Sweet Child O'Mine hurt the most, particularly the latter being knocked out by that generic poppy sh1te from Aha but ho hum I will have my revenge:pac:

Kolido

Zaph wrote: »

Do you have stats for the most nominated songs Kolido?

I will post that at the end, dont want to influence anything while still playing.

quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

The Cure had more nominations than any other artist. Were they all from you, Khal?

I nominated in between days

Tauriel

I have 4 songs left from my original 10.

mustang shelly

mustang shelly wrote: »

I have 4 songs left from my original 10.

Same.

Won't name them but they had better all get through the next round, or I swear to God I'll.....I'll.....




.....be very sad.

Declan A Walsh

Zaph wrote: »

Not at all Kolido, it kept us on our toes. Good to get through a big amount quickly, hats off to you for taking on such a mammoth game.

If the voting is early tomorrow I'll miss it unfortunately as I have to be somewhere else. But I'm sure I can trust everyone here to do the right thing when they're voting, can't I? :pac:

Don Henley\s Boys of Summer and Wang Chung's Dance Hall Days please!

Electric Nitwit

Awesome work Kol. I've only been able to drop in sporadically but it's great to see it going so well

3/5 of mine made it through and my casualties were knocked out by Summer of 69 and A Kind Of Magic so I can't complain too much

Hoping to be more on it tomorrow, keep you all in line

Zaph

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Don Henley\s Boys of Summer and Wang Chung's Dance Hall Days please! Talking Heads and The Clash

Fixed that for you

Kolido

Spotify playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0aNAtviwfuo22XvKd0EW8A

Kolido

Round 2 will be first to 6

Kolido

R2/Match 1


Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

vs       

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

R2/Match 2


Bryan Adam - Summer of 69

vs       

Prince - Purple Rain

R2/Match 3


Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

vs       

Billy Idol - White Wedding

R2/Match 4


Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

vs       

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Green&Red

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Bryan Adam - Summer of 69
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Karma Chameleon - just like it that little bit more.

Purple Rain - both good songs, but Bryan Adams had much better songs, and Purple Rain is just more epic.

White Wedding - very tough choice, sad to see either go.

Smalltown Boy - can't bear to see that xmas song go any further, so Smalltown boy wins by default for me.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

Kolido wrote:

Bryan Adam - Summer of 69

Kolido wrote:

Billy Idol - White Wedding

Kolido wrote:

Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

Above 4 songs for me as I prefer them

Electric Nitwit

R2/Match 1
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

R2/Match 2
Bryan Adam - Summer of 69

R2/Match 3
Billy Idol - White Wedding

R2/Match 4
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

Gut feel every time

Mam of 4

Whitesnake
Bryan Adams
Billy Idol
Bronski Beat

Sorry , mixed it up as I was writing it .
Love Bronski Beat .

Big Vern

Missed Round 1

Will go with these, my preferred songs in these matches;

R2/Match 1
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

R2/Match 2
Prince - Purple Rain

R2/Match 3
Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere

R2/Match 4
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Siobh73

Culture Club
Prince
Billy Idol
Band Aid