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

Zaph

Sam Cooke Wonderful World
Abstain
Bill Withers Lean On Me - this was a cruel match-up
MC Hammer U Can't Touch This

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Ah you lot have no taste!

Not you, LeVar. I like you right now

U Can't Touch This is "meh" at best - listen to it back to back with Rick James' Super Freak though (which it ripped off sampled) and it's pure sh*te.

Declan A Walsh

Zaph wrote: »

Sam Cooke Wonderful World
Abstain
Bill Withers Lean On Me - this was a cruel match-up
MC Hammer U Can't Touch This

At least the last one wasn't difficult!:D

Reberetta

Scores so far

Luther Vandross  Never Too Much 3-4  Sam Cooke Wonderful World
Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Something 3-3 Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate
Bill Withers Lean On Me  5-2 Fats Waller Ain't Misbehaving/Stormy Weather
Commodores  Nightshift  2-6 MC Hammer  U Can't Touch This

I have a feeling my nominations will not go far in this competition and only 2 up so far

Zaph

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

At least the last one wasn't difficult!:D

Declan A Walsh

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I have a feeling my nominations will not go far in this competition and only 2 up so far

What was your other nomination?

Luther Vandross. But he’s up against Sam Cooke so a loss there would be to a worthy opponent.

But MC Hammer vs The Commodores? Jesus wept! They’re even singing about two other amazing artists in Marvin Gaye & Jackie Wilson.

Beechwoodspark

Dr Dre - nuthin but a “g” thang

Marvin Gaye - heard it through the grapevine

Prince - when doves cry

Aretha Franklin - respect

James brown - get up (sex machine)

Chic - he’s the greatest dancer

Beechwood, you have to vote for the matchups in the youtube links.

Reberetta

Most votes after 50 minutes. Last match-ups for tonight, just getting started, more tomorrow.

ROUND 1
Kendrick Lemar King Kunta v Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love

Prince 1999 v Craig David  7 Days

Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) v Stevie Wonder Superstition

2pac Changes v Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta v Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Prince 1999 v Craig David  7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) v Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes v Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Beechwoodspark

Apologies

Luther vandross
Wanna be starting something
Bill withers
Mc hammer

Beechwoodspark

Dre California love
Prince
Stevie wonder
Grandmaster flash

Irish Aris

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta v Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Prince 1999 v Craig David 7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) v Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes v Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Beechwoodspark

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Apologies

Luther vandross
Wanna be starting something
Bill withers
Mc hammer

You spelt The Commodores wrong

JP Liz V1

Luther Vandross  Never Too Much
Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate
Bill Withers Lean On Me  
MC Hammer  U Can't Touch This

JP Liz V1

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta
Prince 1999
Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta
Prince 1999
Stevie Wonder Superstition
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Necro

Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Craig David 7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
2pac Changes

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta ; tough call, I've only recently started listening to Kendrick though and in this instance something relatively new and fresh beats out nostalgia

Prince - 1999 ; this should be a no-brainer for everyone as 1999 is clearly the superior song, but as we all know terrible choices are made constantly in these tournaments

Stevie Wonder - Superstition ; another tough one, really like both, but hard to deny how epic Superstition is

2Pac - Changes ; I feel guilty for not voting 2Pac in the Kendrick Lamar battle, so definitely had to give him the nod here

Reberetta

Scores so far

Luther Vandross  Never Too Much 5-4  Sam Cooke Wonderful World
Bill Withers Lean On Me  7-2 Fats Waller Ain't Misbehaving/Stormy Weather
Commodores  Nightshift  2-8 MC Hammer  U Can't Touch This

Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Something 4-4 Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate

^Next vote wins.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

What time you hoping to start at tomorrow morning Reb?

Zaph

Abstain
Prince 1999
Stevie Wonder Superstition
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Zaph

Reberetta wrote: »

Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Something 4-4 Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate

^Next vote wins.

Just to kill this one, Jacko gets my vote.

the purple tin

I always miss the start. Bummer


Kendrick Lemar King Kunta v Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Prince 1999 v Craig David 7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) v Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes v Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Declan A Walsh

Votes in bold (if I'm not too late!):

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta v Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love - because of the riffs

Prince 1999 v Craig David 7 Days - still has something even if it's not his best. Have to say, though, that's not a bad Craig David song.

Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) v Stevie Wonder Superstition - great disco classic, and it's one of my nominations.

2pac Changes v Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message - Epic rap song - I forgot about that one!

Reberetta

Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Something 5-4 Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate
Kendrick Lemar King Kunta 4-3 Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Prince 1999 7-1 Craig David  7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) 2-6 Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes 3-5 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Reberetta

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

What time you hoping to start at tomorrow morning Reb?

Not sure-sometime after 12pm.

Declan A Walsh

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Dr Dre - nuthin but a “g” thang

Marvin Gaye - heard it through the grapevine

Prince - when doves cry

Aretha Franklin - respect

James brown - get up (sex machine)

Chic - he’s the greatest dancer

Some good tunes there, particularly 2, 4, 5 and 6. Hopefully, some will have nominated them already!

Actually, I nominated the last song except it's not by Chic but by Sister Sledge! It's easy to make that mistake as the musicians are the whole Chic Organisation and the song was written by the two main guys of Chic (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards)! The singers are Sister Sledge and that's who it is attributed to.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Reberetta wrote: »

Not sure-sometime after 12pm.

Sweet. Just making sure I didn't need to start checking too early.