Boardsies Greatest Song from the Movies - Live Thread

Purgative

Wow that was really close.


Thanks for all the legwork Kol. Really good fun.

SineadSpears

Kolido wrote: »

Boardsies greatest song from the movies is.....

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget about Me)

I don't know how Rocky didn't end up the winner, but sure....



Edit: I forgot to say, it was great fun regardless of the unwelcome result. So thanks for doing it Kolido!

JP Liz V1

Well that was close

Great tournament Kolido

The winning song was also used in Pitch Perfect

speckle

hey, hey,hey,hey...
Ooh woh,
Lala la la lala la la...

That makes me feel better with Highlander going out so early. Yipee

That being said two damn fine film songs made it to the final and a totally deserved close final vote too.

Thank Kolido for all the hard work.

lala la la... going have that in my head all evening...

SineadSpears

On a personal note: one of MY favourite song's from a movie is Mumford & Sons - The Enemy from Wuthering Heights.
& Wuthering Heights is now on Netflix:)

JP Liz V1

Omackeral

Thanks for a great deal of effort Kol. Really out-do yourself time after time. I have never seen The Breakfast Club but I think I might just check it out in honour of this win.

Hallaz

Although I voted for Stand By Me I felt I was backing the runner up.
It's the song i remember that encouraged me to listen to music from before i was born such was its impact on me.

I've only watched Breakfast Club recently so it didn't have the lasting memory that Stand by Me but it's a very strong winner.

Surprised Eye of the Tiger didn't make it to final or Bee Gees Stayin Alive (marvelous Soundtrack) get further.
Thoroughly engaged on seeing how far some songs were going to get in particular the songs from O Brother Where art thou? and Aladdin.

On a quick search of last 8
4 songs from the 80s
1 each from 60, 70, 90, and 00

Was it the best decade for soundtracks or is it profiling the voters ages?!

Really good choices out there and a few movies i'm now inspired to watch!
and finally well done Kolido, top work.

tusk

Sh1t!

I would have voted the other way if I'd remembered I had nominated it

tusk

oh wait. nevermind.

:pac:

those were votes, and I'm special...

Carry on

Kolido

The winning song was no real surprise, it got by far the highest number of nominations.

I will post a Spotify playlist of the Round 1 songs in the next few days.

Moving on to my next Boardsies Greatest, details will be revealed soon. Choosing the theme will be slightly different

Again, a big thank you to everyone who followed along, here is the table of the multi-nominated songs.

Song | Nominations
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (The Breakfast Club) | 8
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia) | 5
Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz) | 5
Eminem - Lose Yourself (8 Mile) | 4
SteppenWolf - Born to be wild (Easy Rider) | 4
Survivor - Eye of The Tiger (Rocky 3) | 4
Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By (Casablanca) | 3
Kenny Loggins - Footloose (Footloose) | 3
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs) | 3
Yello - Oh Yeah (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) | 3
Audrey Hepburn - Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's) | 2
Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Stand By Me) | 2
Blue Swede - Hooked on a feeling (Reservoir Dogs) | 2
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) | 2
Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme Best That You Can Do (Arthur) | 2
Coolio - Gangster's Paradise (Dangerous Minds) | 2
Duran Duran - View to a Kill (View to a Kill) | 2
Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange (The Lost Boys) | 2
Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight? (The Lion King) | 2
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain (Singing in the Rain) | 2
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Falling Slowly (Once) | 2
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' (Midnight Cowboy) | 2
Hudson Thames - Drive It Like You Stole It (Sing Street) | 2
Irene Cara - Flashdance... What a Feeling (Flashdance) | 2
Jeremy Irons - Be Prepared (The Lion King) | 2
Julie Andrews - The Hills Are Alive (The Sound of Music) | 2
Keala Settle - This Is Me (The Greatest Showman) | 2
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone (Top Gun) | 2
Los Lobos - La Bamba (La Bamba) | 2
Louis Prima and Phil Harris - I Wanna Be Like You (Jungle Book) | 2
Michael Andrews ft Gary Jules - Mad World (Donnie Darko) | 2
Pete Cetera - Glory of love (The Karate Kid Part II) | 2
Pixes - Where is my Mind? (Fight Club) | 2
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) | 2
Sinead O'Connor - You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart (In the Name of the Father) | 2
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Mannequin) | 2
The Commitments - Try a Little Tenderness (The Commitments) | 2
The Commitments - Whiter Shade of Pale (The Commitments) | 2
The Wonders - That Thing You Do! (That Thing You Do!) | 2
U2 - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (Batman Forever) | 2
Underworld - Born Slippy (Trainspotting) | 2
Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth - See You Again (Furious 7) | 2
Kenny Rodgers - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The Big Lebowski) | 2

ChannelNo5

Wow missed the whole weekend but delighted with the result. a worthy winner. Thanks for all the work Kolido. That was great fun.

littlevillage

Kolido wrote: »

Boardsies greatest song from the movies is.....

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget about Me) (The Breakfast Club)

Afraid the weekend for me was a beer fueled blurr of big box/little box and big ball/little ball/Oval ball.

Definitely a Worthy winner.

Not one that really occurred to me at the outset. But a song I voted for in several of the earlier rounds without hesitation.

Very surprised that Pixies -Where is my mind? Didn't feature more prominently.

Also perhaps if Sean Connery had been more obliging and kicked the bucket a week earlier.... James Bond theme or Highlander songs might have been more prominent.

Thanks Kolido for doing all the grunt work.

Kolido

I'm going to let you guys decide on the next contest I run if you would like to vote.

Greatest album cover art

or

Greatest movie scene


Appreciate any votes or feedback

tusk

Movie Scene!

Purgative

Kol, I'll join in whatever - I have a gap in my schedule for a couple of weeks. Film clips sounds like a lot of fun and we might all discover some hidden gems.

I can see a couple of problems with the album art thing:


- not such a thing since CDs and down loads.
- I'd have scratch my bonce for albums I owned years ago

Deja Boo

I vote movie scene.... as I don't know any album covers

the purple tin

Film scenes I say

Sawduck

Greatest movie scene would be epic

Purgative

Sawduck wrote: »

Greatest movie scene would be epic

Could be. Could be massive.


- maybe broken down into 4 to 8 categories (I hesitate to say genres)??
- maybe the clip has to be available on YouTube? I don't know are there other possibilities?


Just my 2cents.

SineadSpears

I was gonna say I wouldn't have any nominations for the Art cover at all, but I'd really love anyone in the know, to throw out some nominations with a little explanation about the cover. Could be very interesting & I might learn a thing or two:).


Although the Greatest Movies Scene's seems like it could be a brilliant game.

I'll be ready with my voting card either ways:cool:

Kolido

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I will probably run both anyways but I will probably start with the movie scenes as suggested here.

As Purgative mentioned, clips would need to be on youtube or another free and legal site. Format suggestions welcomed, I will have a nominations thread up by the end of the week.

tusk

I've already got my noms ready

Kolido

Fire them over if you want, add a link though if you can. Same for everyone, PM noms if you have them ready.

Purgative

How many are you looking for Kol?

Kolido

Purgative wrote: »

How many are you looking for Kol?

Let's start with 10 each and see how many we get.

Necro

Sent 5 in from top of my head, will get thinking cap on for the next 5. Trying not to submit the super obvious where possible...

tusk

Link the op here kol so I don't have to go looking for it :pac:

Purgative

Just sent my 10 - all probably obvious cliches (sorry Necro).


Kol if its not in a form you need, let me know.

Necro

Purgative wrote: »

Just sent my 10 - all probably obvious cliches (sorry Necro).


Kol if its not in a form you need, let me know.

No no

I want others to nominate the obvious so I can pick my niche ones :pac: