BOARDSIES DECIDE: Best Song Ever By Black/Partly Black Music Act.

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Scores

Bob Marley No Woman No Cry 4-4  Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough
Sun House Death Letter Blues 3-5 Pharrell Williams Happy
Sam & Dave Soul Man 5-3 The Dells Oh What A Night
Mary J. Blige Family Affair 2-6 Chubby Checker The Twist

Voting closes at 2.28pm.

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Round 1
The Temptations My Girl v Prince Kiss

Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown v Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong

Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft v Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze

Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party v Coolio feat. LV Gangsta's Paradise

The Temptations My Girl v Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown v Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft v Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party v Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

Kolido

The Temptations My Girl
Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong

Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

darklighter

Bob Marley No Woman No Cry 4-4 Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough
Sun House Death Letter Blues 3-5 Pharrell Williams Happy
Sam & Dave Soul Man 5-3 The Dells Oh What A Night
Mary J. Blige Family Affair 2-6 Chubby Checker The Twist

Some tough matches for a first round contest!! My choices in bold

the purple tin

The Temptations My Girl
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - baddest man in the whole damn town
Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze - I hate to vote against John Shaft but Purple Haze rules.
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party - Excellent blues number.

darklighter

The Temptations My Girl v Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown v Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft v Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party v Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The Temptations - My Girl ; one of my nominations

Cypress Hill - Hits From the Bong

Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise

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darklighter wrote: »

Some tough matches for a first round contest!!

Whoever wins this competition is going to have to do it the hard way for sure.

8 rounds and a lot of classics.:)

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Results

Bob Marley No Woman No Cry 5-4 Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough
Sun House Death Letter Blues 3-6 Pharrell Williams Happy
Sam & Dave Soul Man 5-4 The Dells Oh What A Night
Mary J. Blige Family Affair 2-7 Chubby Checker The Twist

Billy Ocean gets going...home. That's the end of him.

James Henke, chief curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the help of music writers and critics, selected 500 songs (not only rock songs) that they believed had been most influential in shaping rock and roll.

The Dells Oh What A Night! featured on the list.

Prince Kiss

Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft

Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

Necro

Kolido wrote:

The Temptations My Girl Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

SNAP Kolido
My votes too

The Temptations My Girl
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze -Shaft’s a cool dude he’d appreciate being up against Hendrix.
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party

Zaph

Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party

Necro

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote:

Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

Oooh also this

*Cue Necro strut around the office listening to it*

Declan A Walsh

My votes in bold.

The Temptations My Girl v Prince Kiss - Funky kind of groove to this song and a great tune.

Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown v Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong - ABSTAIN for the moment anyway!

Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft v Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze - Wonderfully psychedelic song, both lyrically and melodically.

Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party v Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise - Hadn't heard it before but it's really cool and beats the other before I even have heard it in full!

I have to admit that I always through Jim Croce was white!

Irish Aris

The Temptations My Girl v Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown v Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft v Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party v Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

the purple tin

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

My votes in bold.



I have to admit that I always through Jim Croce was white!

Same here, and Irena Cara too.

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Scores

The Temptations My Girl 6-4 Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown 5-3 Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft 6-3 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party 4-6 Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise

Voting closes at 3.06pm.

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I have to admit that I always through Jim Croce was white!

Nominated by Lochlan Incalculable Cub. He's the whitest person in the comp who isn't actually white I'd say (Cypress Hill have a white member). I had to check pics on google. :pac:

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Fun Facts

Labi Siffre wrote the song It Must Be Love, famously covered by Madness, who reached Number 4 in the UK charts and Number 33 in the USA in 1983. Labi Siffre also made a cameo appearance in the music video.  His song Something Inside So Strong was covered by Kenny Rogers in 1989 (and became the title track to a hit album) and also by Eternal, amongst others.

I Got The, which featured here and was knocked out by Mississippi Sheiks earlier, has been heavily used by hip hop artists. Artists who have sampled different parts of the song include:

Jay-Z, on the song "Streets Is Watching"
Def Squad, on the 1998 single "Countdown"
Eminem on the 1999 single "My Name Is"
Primal Scream, on the song "Kill All Hippies"
Miguel on the song "Kaleidoscope Dream"
Wu-Tang Clan, on the 1994 single "Can It Be All So Simple".

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

Oooh also this

*Cue Necro strut around the office listening to it*

I love Fun Facts.

Zaph

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I have to admit that I always through Jim Croce was white!

Son of Italian-Americans who were both born in Italy apparently. I'd argue that would make him white, or certainly non-black. Shame, it's a great song.

Declan A Walsh

Zaph wrote: »

Son of Italian-Americans who were both born in Italy apparently. I'd argue that would make him white, or certainly non-black. Shame, it's a great song.

Not sure how he qualifies then, no more than Billy Joel - someone in the nominations thread did not realize that Billy Joel was white!! The latter really took the biscuit though!

Stewart's enquiry!

Kolido

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Not sure how he qualifies then, no more than Billy Joel - someone in the nominations thread did not realize that Billy Joel was white!! The latter really took the biscuit though!

Stewart's enquiry!

I'd forgotten I'd even entered nominees into this.

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Results

The Temptations My Girl 6-4 Prince Kiss
Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown 5-3 Cypress Hill Hits From the Bong
Isaac Hayes Theme From Shaft 6-3 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Let's Pull A Party 4-6 Coolio feat. L.V. Gangsta's Paradise


Fun Fact

Jim Croce might actually be white-make your own minds up and blame Lochlan Incalculable Cub if so. :P

I just looked at some images. He’s Mediterranean alright.

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Round 1
Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy v Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine

Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West  Run This Town v Gloria Jones Tainted Love

Michael Kiwanuka  Cold Little Heart v Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us

Muddy Waters I'm Ready v  Emilia Big Big World 

Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy v Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine
Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kanye West  Run This Town v Gloria Jones Tainted Love
Michael Kiwanuka  Cold Little Heart v Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
Muddy Waters I'm Ready v  Emilia Big Big World 

Zaph

Reberetta wrote: »

Fun Fact

Jim Croce might actually be white

Best Fun Fact so far

Necro

Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kanye West Run This Town - my nom, likely to be smashed though
Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
Abstain on the last