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The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 7: FOUR LETTER WORDS Poll!
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— 6 August 2023 Tom

This is the Week 7 poll for the League Of Extraordinary Tracks! How do you take part?

FIRST! Go and listen to the songs chosen in the playlist post.

SECOND! Exclude from consideration any that you already knew!

THIRD! Work out which FOUR songs (or up to four) you like best!

FOURTH: VOTE FOR THEM!

This poll will run until Saturday 6PM UK time – plenty of time, but don’t miss out.

Then come back next week for the GRAND FINAL in which our nominators choose songs from 2023.

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E7: FOUR LETTER WORDS!

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 23)

actualee simpson   11 months ago

On her s/t album, Asha Puthli is practically as affected as William Shatner, and about as ambiguously avant about it (similar to Shatner: is it that she's bad or clumsy at being avant, or that it's […]

koganbot   11 months ago

Turns out I first heard Asha Puthli 45 years ago when I bought my first Ornette Coleman album. Is an album I still play, Science Fiction, but I hadn't thought to check the album credits recently. Is […]

koganbot   11 months ago

Listened to the NewJeans EP ASAP, making "ASAP" ineligible. So voted Laura Jean, the 2 Bears, Pinkshift, and Lo-Fi-Fnk. But I thought about Asha Puthli more than the rest combined. Song starts like […]

Mark EC Morris   11 months ago

Voted NewJeans and Neneh Cherry & The Thing – ASAP is to me the best song here, Dirt the most sonically engaging? There's a fair chance I'd heard the Kristin Hersh song before but wouldn't have […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 6: 2008 Poll!
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— 16 July 2023 Tom

LEAGUE OF TRACKS ADMIN!: I’d hoped to only have one skip week on holiday but it looks like that won’t be the case. So we’ll be back with Four Letter Words in two Sundays’ time, and 2023 the week after that. The upshot of that, though, is that I can keep this one open for longer – so I’ve extended it over the weekend. Tell your friends! If you’re a 200-and-h8er tell your enemies too!

This week’s poll takes us back to 2008 – a turbulent year, and a controversial pop poll which led to the “MGMT Clause” to prevent two tracks by the same band meeting in the semi-finals ever again. Today’s poll is however a MGMT-free zone, as our nominators have dug up a bunch of hopefully new-to-you tracks.

As usual, please vote for UP TO FOUR of these songs. And only vote for tracks you DIDN’T PREVIOUSLY KNOW.

To actually hear them all, check out the playlist post

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E6: 2008!

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 32)

Tom   11 months ago

Huge apologies to Martijn whose comment sat in moderation limbo during my entire holiday!

actualee simpson   12 months ago

This was the playlist that grew on me the most over the course of the week, to the point where I sort of regretted my votes by the end, and did a total 180 from my original impression of the […]

koganbot   12 months ago

Btw, it's quite possible (I might even say probable) that the "Desabafo/Deixa eu dizer" remix was made several years later to capitalize on the Marcelo D2 original ("original") being used in 2011 in […]

mondosalvo   12 months ago

Dunno yet who nominated American Music Club, but please accept my condolences. There's a small gap between each of the top 11 and then a colossal chasm before 12th place.

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 5: COVER VERSIONS Poll
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— 9 July 2023 Tom

Into the second half of Season 1, and this week’s theme is COVER VERSIONS. Our learned participants have selected 12 tunes including covers of 3 previous Pollhalla entrants from the main polls, so this should be a close-fought one.

As usual there are only two rules!

Pick UP TO FOUR songs.

DO NOT PICK any track you already knew (in this version!).

Go here for the PLAYLISTS for this week. Good luck all competitors!

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E5: COVER VERSIONS!

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 30)

actualee simpson   12 months ago

I nommed Wanderléa: found a recent "prestige" track of hers from this year and dug through her back catalog. The album has a bunch of covers, and I was tempted to nom "River Deep Mountain High," a […]

Mike Barthel   12 months ago

A billion points for getting me to listen to a King Crimson song!

koganbot   12 months ago

Anyway, me as a young'un trying to grasp concepts like sexism and double standard: "Yes, 'Pushin' Too Hard' for example!" Wanderléa finesses the issue not only by singing in Portuguese but by being […]

koganbot   12 months ago

I probably rate Jagger at his peak as the greatest lyricist ever, and yet I don't think I can tell you much about what the words are to "One Hit (To The Body)" or what the song is about. Should […]

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

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E3: CLOSING TRACKS!

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 56)

actualee simpson   13 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   13 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   13 months ago

Voted Pinky, Bonnie, Just Joans, Free Design.

Son of Mecha Mummy   13 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 2: 2020 Poll
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— 18 June 2023 Tom

Here we go with the second week of the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY TRACKS. Our 12 nominators had the assignment to choose songs from 2020. In the playlist post you can hear what they brought back and here’s where you get to VOTE on them.

As usual you can pick UP TO FOUR tracks but remember the golden rule –

NO VOTING FOR SONGS YOU ALREADY KNEW!

Voting is open until Saturday morning, so take your time. (And tell your friends if you dig this playlist!)

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E2: 2020!

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 52)

Arron Wright   13 months ago

Well, I hold my hands up. Lost that bet :)

actualee simpson   13 months ago

Would love to provide more info on my nom Lembayung Group but they were part of my weekly scan of Spotify music from their new music playlists, where the provenance of Indonesian songs in particular […]

jonathanb   13 months ago

I am its nominator, and hyperpop seems exactly right to me. :) I don't know a whole lot about That Kid, but he has collaborated with LIZ, who is v much in that realm, as well as Ravenna Golden, who […]

Derrick Harder   13 months ago

I nominated Modern Studies for the simple reason that it was the only 2020 album or song I had in my collection that I hadn’t either already nominated in a past poll, or learned about from the […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 1: PLACENAMES Poll
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— 11 June 2023 Tom

Welcome to the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY TRACKS!

Our 12 nominators have each picked a Placename based song for you. There’s a playlist post here (including the link for the Bandcamp only USS Horsewhip track!) but you can also go direct to Spotify or YouTube playlists. Don’t know any of the tracks? That’s the idea! Take your time, listen, discover, and then choose your favourites.

Please pick up to FOUR of your favourites. But remember –

NO CHOOSING A SONG YOU ALREADY KNEW!!

Take your time – it’s up until Saturday morning – and have fun.

Nominators: Week 2’s theme is 2020 and the list of tracks we had in that original poll is here. I need entries for that by Friday night.

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League Of Extraordinary Tracks S1E1: Placenames!

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 41)

Job   13 months ago

Very pleased to see that my entry, Lael Neale's "In Verona", did so well! It's from her new album Star Eaters Delight, which I highly recommend. And if you really want to get into it: her previous […]

Arron Wright   13 months ago

I certainly did - that's what I meant by saying I'd also have picked a Spanish-language song with a very familiar interpolation. (''Bagdad' by Rosalia)

Son of Mecha Mummy   13 months ago

hahaha, yeah, I also heard it.

Tom   13 months ago

Two leaders level going into the final 24 hours of voting!

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