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The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 4: SHORT SONGS Results!
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— 8 July 2023 Tom

A short playlist and a closely fought poll, with a late charge meaning two players pick up the 12 points this week. As ever, a hearty thankyou to everyone who listened, commented and voted, but especially to the 12 players who are putting their tunes on the chopping block week in week out. Halfway there! Let’s see how things shook out this round:

A single vote was the difference between 3rd and joint-1st place this week – punkers THE MUSLIMS get the bronze. The lead, though, is shared between modern pop favourite PINKPANTHERESS, nominated by ismathers, and singer-songwriter NURIA GRAHAM, picked by League Of Pop juggernaut actualee simpson. At the halfway point he has a 19-point lead but it’s a very closely fought battle for the runners-up place. Let’s see if anything can dent that mighty lead as we head into Cover Versions week…

The Week 6 challenge is a return to 2008. The list of previously nominated tracks from the original 2008 poll is here!

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 4: SHORT SONGS Poll
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— 2 July 2023 Tom

This is the Week 4 poll in the League Of Extraordinary Tracks. This week our nominators were instructed to keep it under 2 minutes with a selection of SHORT SONGS. You can hear what they came up with in the playlist post.

Vote for up to FOUR tracks.

Don’t vote for anything you ALREADY KNEW.

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup ?   24 months ago

O, I miss the days when we were twenty nerds.

actualee simpson   28 months ago

Núria Graham’s album is my second favorite of the year (Kesha had the #1 slot sewn up on first listen, sorry other 2023 albums!). She clicked for me in a similar way Mirah did many years ago (an […]

jonathanb   28 months ago

When Squirrel Nut Zippers came up on the Bird Site polls, I commented "There’s a subset of acts I think of as music for nerds who aren’t music nerds. Characterised by theatricality; quirky subject […]

wmterhaar   28 months ago

I like songs that are a short, aggressive burst of energy (new Gridlink track is out today!), so I vote for the actual punk and grindcore of The Muslims and Heriot (always appreciate it if grindcore […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 4: SHORT SONGS Playlists
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— 2 July 2023 Tom

Hey we’re BACK let’s keep this BRIEF it’s SHORT SONGS here are your PLAYLISTS

(The YOUTUBE playlist is preferred as the Outcasts and Young And Sexy tracks may not be on your regional Spotify)

Go vote on these in the POLL POST.

Origins!

  1. MIRAH – “Gone Sugaring” – from 2000’s You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This
  2. MO TROPER – “I Fall Into Her Arms” – from 2022’s MTV
  3. YOUNG AND SEXY – “Car Bought For A Son” – from 2002’s Stand Up For Your Mother
  4. EMPEROR X – “10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Resettlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don’t Change Color, Kitty)” – from the 2014 EP of the same name
  5. PINKPANTHERESS – “Noticed I Cried” – from 2021’s The Hell With It
  6. DJ RUDE ONE ft RXKNEPHEW – “BB Belt” – from 2023’s The ONEderful Nephew mixtape.
  7. FLY ANAKIN – “No Dough (produced by Madlib)” – from 2022’s Frank.
  8. SPOON – “No You’re Not” – from 1998’s A Series Of Sneks
  9. THE OUTCASTS – “1523 Blair” – a 1967 single on Gallant
  10. THE MUSLIMS – “Call The Cops” – from 2020’s Gentrified Chicken
  11. HERIOT – “Near Vision” – a 2021 single on Church Road
  12. NURIA GRAHAM – “Birdman” – from 2023’s Cyclamen.

A single comment

ajjr82   28 months ago

Favourite one here for me was the Nuria Graham song, I loved the layers of almost drone to it. Always nice to see RxNephew again too.

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 3: CLOSING TRACKS Results!
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— 1 July 2023 Tom

Our third League week is over – as ever I want to thank our players who put their faves up for judgement and our participants who took the time to weigh up that excellent set of album closers (and offer some fine commentary too).

Let’s see who takes away the SPOILS this time:

In third place it’s Puerto Rico’s ILE with her more delicate approach to the art of the album closer. In second place we have that most closerish of closers, GREET DEATH’s 9 minute epic. But the winner is PINKY-ANN-RIHAL and their 1985 Hindi new wave disco smash “Tu Aaja”. Which means a second 12 points for actualee simpson who now has 32 out of a possible 36. Is the competition over before it’s even started? Come back tomorrow for the SHORT SONGS playlists and poll to find out.

Meanwhile our players have their Week 5 orders already – it’s going to be Cover Versions again!

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vinnycrackers   28 months ago

Also (der) you can log into Twitter.com on your phone INSTEAD of the app and it also seems to work just fine.

vinnycrackers   28 months ago

It does work on my Mac laptop just perfectly its just the app thats broken as I understand it. Of course I don't carry it around for mindless scrolling......

j_e_l   28 months ago

Mine is pretty much gone - gonna see if using a PC works later

Tom   28 months ago

Mine was fucked yesterday but seems back to normal now (tho maybe only until I hit my “limit”) - still planning on starting the ancient polls tomorrow but we will see.

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 3: CLOSING TRACKS Poll
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— 25 June 2023 Tom

This is the Week 3 poll in the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY TRACKS. Our 12 brave nominators have voyaged to the ends of the earth several records to find CLOSING TRACKS for you to hear. Listen to their selections in the playlist post and then vote (and comment) away!

THE RULES!

Vote for up to four tracks.

Do not vote for tracks you already knew

[ays_poll id=101]

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actualee simpson   28 months ago

Voted Lupe, Gowns, Free Design, Tzusing, very tough calls all around. Pinky-Ann-Rihal is a group I didn’t know before hearing them featured on this Cornershop song this year: https://m.youtube […]

jonathanb   28 months ago

Voted: Just Joans, Black Sabbath, Greet Death, Lupe Fiasco. Some thoughts: I like the part of the Tzusing track where it turns into a Nine Inch Nails instrumental; it almost made me wonder what […]

koganbot   28 months ago

Voted Pinky, Bonnie, Just Joans, Free Design.

Son of Mecha Mummy   28 months ago

As the Free Design nominator, I was amused to check and find out that they have in fact been polled one time... and it was in the actual Album Closers poll, with "Dorian Benediction." They're just […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 3: CLOSING TRACKS Playlists
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— 25 June 2023 Tom

Hello again! Week 3 of the League Of Extraordinary Tracks revisits our February 2022 CLOSING TRACKS poll. All these songs end their LPs which makes for a slightly odd mix! But (I think) a good ‘un. As a reminder the rule is that you can’t vote for TRACKS you know already – doesn’t matter if you know the artist already, it’s the track that counts.

This is a single playlist but because of the general closery-ness I mentally arranged it into two sides of a C60 tape.

You can – indeed you should! – vote on these in the poll post.

  1. PINKY ANN RIHAL – “Tu Aaja” (1985’s Tere Liye (Hindi Disco))
  2. ILE – “De Luna” (2019’s Almadura)
  3. KRONOS QUARTET – “El Sinaloense – Dance Mix” (2002’s Nuevo)
  4. TZUSING – “Residual Stress” (2023’s 绿帽 Green Hat)
  5. MEL STONE – “Rose Quartz” (2023’s Princess)
  6. GREET DEATH – “New Hell” (2019’s New Hell)
  1. THE JUST JOANS – “What Do We Do Now?” (2012’s Buckfast Bottles In The Rain)
  2. LUPE FIASCO ft RXMN & SALIM – “More Than My Heart” (2017’s Drogas Light)
  3. BONNIE RAITT – “The Bed I Made” (2005’s Souls Alive)
  4. THE FREE DESIGN – “That’s All, People” (1970’s Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love)
  5. BLACK SABBATH – “Over And Over” (1981’s Mob Rules)
  6. GOWNS – “Cherylee” (2007’s Red State)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jDEVbAopTk&list=PLph2T7U38Cb8uiKyPBC7WpKVGUUDpPd0o&index=25

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