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

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  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,312 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Abstain
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Abstain
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy

    Gloria Jones Tainted Love

    Michael Kiwanuka  Cold Little Heart

    Emilia Big Big World 


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Emilia Big Big World


  • Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭TenLeftFingers


    Skin / Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato https://youtu.be/9E9-L9_S3V0


  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Lochlan Incalculable Cub


    Reberetta wrote: »
    Fun Fact

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

    I always had him down as black. Never something I even thought twice about haha


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Michael Kiwanuka Cold Little Heart - my nommy nom nom
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready


  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Lochlan Incalculable Cub


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Abstain - too tough to decide.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,069 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy v Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine - Amazing song from one of my favourite albums of all time.
    Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kanye West Run This Town v Gloria Jones Tainted Love - not as good as the 2 cover versions, still a great song!
    Michael Kiwanuka Cold Little Heart v Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready v Emilia Big Big World


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    We might have to disqualify Jim Croce, reinstate Cyrpess Hill and put them up against someone new who I have in mind, who I couldn't fit into the competition. That'll be the last match of round 1, unless some people object and think Jim Croce qualifies as black.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,069 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Necro wrote: »
    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

    unluck of the draw, Necro, going up against an iconic song. :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Skin / Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato https://youtu.be/9E9-L9_S3V0

    I don't think you quite get the idea! :D


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Irish Aris wrote:
    unluck of the draw, Necro, going up against an iconic song.

    One that arguably the covers are better than the original though ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Michael Kiwanuka Cold Little Heart
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I'm just going to vote for Gloria Jones Tainted Love. Good soul tune.

    Fun fact: she was Marc Bolan's girlfriend.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Necro wrote: »
    One that arguably the covers are better than the original though ;)

    Soft Cell possibly but Gloria Jones>Marilyn Manson.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Scores

    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy 5-1 v Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine
    Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kanye West  Run This Town 1-7 Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Michael Kiwanuka  Cold Little Heart 3-4 Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready 4-2  Emilia Big Big World 

    Voting closes at 4.02pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Round 1
    Alicia Keys Fallin  v Billie Holiday Strange Fruit



    Michael Jackson Man in The Mirror v Will Smith feat. Coko Men In Black



    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E v Chubby Checker Let's Twist Again



    Leon Bridges River v  Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough




    Alicia Keys Fallin  v Billie Holiday Strange Fruit
    Michael Jackson  Man in The Mirror v Will Smith feat. Coko Men In Black
    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E v Chubby Checker Let's Twist Again
    Leon Bridges River v  Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Argh the only acceptable Jacko song I suppose

    Man in the Mirror

    And

    Still D.R.E.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Alicia Keys Fallin ; one of my noms

    Will Smith feat. Coko Men In Black

    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E

    Leon Bridges River


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Fun Facts

    Public Enemy Fight The Power
    A song conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee, who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing.

    Lee produced and directed two music videos for this song. The first featured clips of various scenes from Do the Right Thing. In the second video, Lee opened the video with film from the 1963 March on Washington and transitioned to a staged, massive political rally in Brooklyn called the "Young People's March to End Racial Violence." Extras wearing T-shirts that said "Fight the Power" carried signs featuring Paul Robeson, Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, and other black icons. Tawana Brawley made a cameo appearance. Brawley gained national notoriety in 1987 when, at the age of 15, she accused several police officers and public officials from Wappingers Falls, New York of raping her. The charge was rejected in court, and she instead was sued for supposedly fabricating her story. Jermaine Dupri also made a cameo.

    Chuck D acknowledged that "Fight the Power" is "the most important record that Public Enemy have done".  Critics and publications have also praised "Fight the Power" as one of the greatest songs of all time. In 2001, the song was ranked number 288 in the "Songs of the Century" list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2004, it was ranked number 40 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 322 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2008, it was ranked number one on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. In 2011, Time included the song on its list of the All-TIME 100 Songs. "Fight the Power" is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In September 2011 it topped Time Out's list of the 100 Songs That Changed History, with Matthew Collin, author of This Is Serbia Calling, citing its use by the rebel radio station B92 during the 1991 protests in Belgrade as the reason for its inclusion. Collin explained that, when B92 were banned from broadcasting news of the protests on their station, they circumvented the ban by instead playing "Fight the Power" on heavy rotation to motivate the protestors.

    Lost to Nina Simone Feelin Good.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Michael Kiwanuka Cold Little Heart
    Muddy Waters I'm Ready


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭JohnGreenFan


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭JohnGreenFan


    Alicia Keys Fallin v Billie Holiday Strange Fruit
    Michael Jackson Man in The Mirror v Will Smith feat. Coko Men In Black
    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E v Chubby Checker Let's Twist Again
    Leon Bridges River v Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Alicia Keys Fallin
    Michael Jackson Man in The Mirror
    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E
    Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit <very haunting and beautiful/sad song>

    Michael Jackson - Man in The Mirror <I really can't fúcking stand Will Smith>

    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E <one Twist was enough>

    Leon Bridges - River <first time hearing this, it's quite nice>


  • Registered Users Posts: 86,713 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough
    Pharrell Williams Happy
    Sam & Dave Soul Man
    Mary J. Blige Family Affair


  • Registered Users Posts: 86,713 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Alicia Keys Fallin  
    Will Smith feat. Coko Men In Black
    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E
    Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough


  • Registered Users Posts: 86,713 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine
    Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kanye West  Run This Town
    Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Emilia Big Big World 


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,847 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
    Gloria Jones Tainted Love
    Grover Washingon Jnr. Just The Two Of Us
    Emilia Big Big World


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,847 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Alicia Keys Fallin
    Michael Jackson Man in The Mirror
    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Still D.R.E
    Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye Ain't No Mountain High Enough


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