Archives – 2023 – December  

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 5. 21st CENTURY CHRISTMAS – Polls
Read and comment
— 7 December 2023 Tom

This is the POLL POST for Round 5 of the League Of Extraordinary Tracks – and the theme is 21st Century Christmas records!

Here’s how to vote:

  1. Listen to the 11 tracks in the playlist post
  2. Choose up to FOUR favourites and vote for them below but –
  3. DO NOT VOTE for any tracks you knew before the poll!

That’s all – best of festive luck and thanks as ever to our 11 nominators for their seasonal selections.

30
League Of Extraordinary Tracks S2E5: 21st CENTURY CHRISTMAS

Please pick up to FOUR of these tracks.

DO NOT PICK TRACKS YOU ALREADY KNEW!

Spotify and YouTube playlists in the playlist post.

The poll has expired!

Latest comments (of 19)

Mark G   4 months ago

Do "Replies" work?

Mark G   4 months ago

Looks like my reply got lost... Anyway, no I didn't know anything about theme picking, just picked a fun track from the Hi-5 Christmas album that's become a tradition at our place since the kids […]

Helene Hoffman   4 months ago

Ironically I considered nominating JD McPherson's "Socks" (nixed it because I thought it was a little too structurally similar to "Sinners" the rockabilly song I submitted for R2.) JD co-wrote the […]

Son of Mecha Mummy   4 months ago

Loved the Superimposers track, probably going to see about working that into my Christmas music playlists. Also voted for Irma Thomas, Chilly Gonzales, and Mighty Mark. Only song I had to DQ was […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 5. 21st CENTURY CHRISTMAS – Playlists
Read and comment
— 7 December 2023 Tom

HO HO HO it’s the League Of Tracks CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. As his topic pic, Santa Jel chose “21st Century Christmas Records”, and our 11 nominators have brought the festive goods.

As usual this is the Playlist post, and once you’ve listened to these 11 songs – a compact stocking-full at 36 minutes – you should go vote for your favourites in the POLLS post.

For the first time all 11 tracks are on Spotify as well as YouTube so take your pick!

Our line up is:

  1. GUILLE MILKYWAY AND THE JELLY JAMM SOUND ORCHESTRA – “Holding Hands Around The World”: from the 2012 compilation A Christmas Gift For You From Elefant Records
  2. HI-5 – “…Santa Wear Your Shorts!”: from 2001’s It’s A Hi-5 Christmas
  3. NICOLE ATKINS – “Every Single Christmas”: a 2020 single!
  4. METROPOLE ORKEST ft CARO EMERALD – “Something For Christmas”: from 2017’s MO x Caro Emerald by Grandmono EP
  5. SARAH NIXEY – “Christmas Without You”: a 2012 single!
  6. THE SUPERIMPOSERS – “Chasing Christmas”: from 2011’s Christmas Again! If You Want It EP
  7. MIGHTY MARK – “What I Want For CHRISTMAS”: a 2023 single!
  8. THE X-MISSES – “She Gave Me Hell For Christmas”: from 2018’s Christmas Reminiscences
  9. KACEY MUSGRAVES & LEON BRIDGES – “Present Without A Bow”: from 2016’s A Very Kacey Christmas.
  10. IRMA THOMAS – “Christmas Without The Creole”: from the 2004 compilation Christmas Gumbo
  11. CHILLY GONZALES ft JARVIS COCKER & FEIST – “Snow Is Falling In Manhattan”: from 2020’s A Very Chilly Christmas

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 4. ALL CHANGE! – Results
Read and comment
— 6 December 2023 Tom

A tricky theme caused nominators some difficulty but listeners had less of a problem this week, with a very clear winner in the side projects and line-up changes round.

Third place went to New Order offshoot THE OTHER TWO but! this was in fact a ringer put in by me to replace a missing track so it scores no points (sorry Mark!). So the bronze actually goes to synthpop rivals PROPAGANDA with the song from their difficult second LP. Silver goes to EKKAH, the side project of two Arcadian Kicks members. And the runaway winner this week was V/Z with “Habadash” – a collaboration between Valentina Magaletti (V) and Zongamin (Z) which is also a 2023 jam, always nice to see those do well.

Congratulations to Mondosalvo on snagging those 12 points, which puts him into joint 3rd on the overall leaderboard, while at the top previous sole League Leader Joe Kay is joined by Ed Still. Halfway through and things are still very tight…

Round 5 is our Christmas Special, with 11 21st Century Christmas songs to pick from – that’ll be up later today. Round 6 will be “No, not that one” – tracks which share a title, but nothing else, with a very famous song. Russ Abbott’s “Atmosphere”, your time is now.

Latest comments (of 4)

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup ?   4 months ago

*weeps*

Edward Still   5 months ago

Feel I have been very lucky with three straight 2nd places.Voting Extensions have helped me out more than once!

Helene Hoffman   5 months ago

Fourth straight 4th place/7 pt. finish, lol. Slow and steady wins the race? :) (Will probably still need at least one track that will function as the breakout sprint at the end)

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup ?   5 months ago

My record so far in this league has been shared gold; near bottom; shared silver; near bottom – så I have high hopes for the Christmas round!

The Discourse