[LedZep]

The long overdue tournament is here! We're a bit late to the 2020 (and even 2021) party, but we had that much more time to revisit our favourite songs.

The spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/...sp=sharing


First, some boring rulebook stuff.

- we'll keep it short and sweet with 64 songs
- time limit is 20 minutes, there's no point in nominating anything longer imo
- no restrictions like "1 per artist", what y'all nominate is what you get
- every user can nominate 3 songs, but they mustn't all be from the same year. So 2 2020 songs and 1 from 2021 or the other way around.
- the overall number of 2020 and 2021 songs must be equal, so I'll keep track of that in this thread. At some point, all 32 slots for a year will be taken. For example, 2020 has 1 empty slot and 2022 has 5. User X nominates 1 2020 song and 2 2021 songs. The count is now 2020 - 0 remaining and 2021 - 3 remaining. The next user can only pick 2 songs from 2021. The user after that can obviously only pick the 1 remaining 2021 song.
- deadline is the 2nd of April. If we don't have 64 nominees at 23:59 GMT on the 2nd of April, you're allowed to choose 1 additional song until both years have 32 nominees. Let the fastest BEA forum regular win!
- singles released in 2020 which appear on 2021 releases are eligible for both years
- tournament will be classic bracket style with a fully randomized 1st round matchups. If your 2 songs end up facing each other in the first round, that's too bad 😄
- in the case of a tie, we'll extend the deadline (probably 2 days, but this is subject to change). If that fails, the tiebreaker is the number of votes for respective songs in the tournament up to that point. The next tiebreaker is fewer nominees left in the tournament, as in the song by user with less songs left in the tourney at that point will progress. When all else fails, we'll flip a coin, I guess.


The format for nominations should be:

YEAR
band - song


2020 songs (0 remaining):

Clipping - Enlacing (LedZep)
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (LedZep)
Innocence Mission - I’m Always On Your Side (Repo)
Dua Lipa - Physical (Repo)
Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Mommy Dearest (A Eulogy) (travelful)
Lil Ugly Mane - Headboard (travelful)
Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie (EyeKanFly)
The Lovely Eggs - You Can Go Now (LittleM1971)
Jessie Ware - Spotlight (Hayden)
Ash Fure - Shiver Lung (Streams)
Ball Park Music - Cherub (Purplepash)
We Are Only Human Once - Do You Know Her? (Topic version) (cestuneblague)
Jean Dawson - Power Freaks (cestuneblague)
Rina Sawayama - Tokyo Love Hotel (Gowi)
Adrianne Lenker - anything (Mercury)
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still (Mercury)
Ka - Sins of the Father (kokkinos)
Jon Batiste - We Are (kokkinos)
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain - Sakhi (craola)
Kuru - Typo (SuedeSwede)
Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End (BozoTyrannus)
Bob Dylan - I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You (BozoTyrannus)
Taylor Swift - August (theblueboy)
Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul (theblueboy)
Shawn Mendes - Higher (DommeDamian)
Gorillaz - Desole (DommeDamian)
Todd Edwards - Inspire Me (extended version) (Luigii)
Kestrels - Feels Like The End (dihansse)
MJ Cole - Knocking (Heathcliff)
Luttrell - Lucky Ones (Leaving Laurel Remix) (Heathcliff)
SAULT - Wildfires (RoundTheBend)
Bang La Decks & Wiwek - GQOM (musicoed)


2021 songs (0 remaining):

Japanese Breakfast - Paprika (LedZep)
Faye Webster - Better Distractions (Repo)
Pink Siifu - Bussin' (Cold) (travelful)
Mdou Moctar - Ya Habibti (EyeKanFly)
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive (EyeKanFly)
Horsegirl - Ballroom Dance Scene (LittleM1971)
The Golden Dregs - Ultimate Fighting Champion (LittleM1971)
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Back To Oz (Hayden)
Japanese Breakfast - Posing In Bondage (Hayden)
Patrick Shiroishi - The Long Bright Dark (Streams)
Zachary Ward & Ben Roidl-Ward - Arb (Streams)
Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam (Purplepash)
Pond - Pink Lunettes (Purplepash)
Yeule- Friendly Machine (cestuneblague)
Wolf Alice - Smile (Gowi)
The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (Gowi)
Low - Days Like These (Mercury)
Ye - Jesus Lord (kokkinos)
Dakh Daughters - Rozy (craola)
Jaubi - Zari (craola)
Yeat - Sorry Bout That (SuedeSwede)
Fax Gang - Reality / Dreams (SuedeSwede)
St. Vincent - My Baby Wants a Baby (BozoTyrannus)
Little Simz - Point and Kill (theblueboy)
Mogwai - To The Bin My Friend Tonight We Vacate Earth (DommeDamian)
Little Simz - Protect My Energy (Luigii)
Genesis Owusu - Waitin On You (Luigii)
Civic - Hollywood Nights In Hamburg (dihansse)
Aeon Station - Fade (dihansse)
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Heathcliff)
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To (Komorebi-D)
Squid - Narrator (Komorebi-D)
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Overall chart
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2020s

[LedZep]

I'll start

2020
clipping - Enlacing

2021
Lil Nas X - Industry Baby
Japanese Breakfast - Paprika
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Overall chart
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2020s

[mickilennial]

why not 2 songs for each year then

[LedZep]

[Repo]

2021 - Faye Webster - In A Good Way

[travelful]

2020:
Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Mommy Dearest (A Eulogy)

2021:
Lil Ugly Mane - Headboard
Pink Siifu - Bussin' (Cold)


Shoutout to LedZep for selecting Paprika before I did (and hosting the tourny)!
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Griselda, by Fashion Rebels
2020's Hip-Hop
2020's Country

[EyeKanFly]

Awesome, thanks for running the show LedZep!

2020:
Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie

2021:
Mdou Moctar - Ya Habibti
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive


There's so many more that I hope others will pick, honestly anything from Afrique Victime would be great, "Ya Habibti" just happens to be my favorite.

Any rules about restricting number of songs by the same artist/from the same album?
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51 Washington, D.C. albums!

[LittleM1971]

2020:

The Lovely Eggs - You Can Go Now

2021:

Horsegirl - Ballroom Dance Scene
The Golden Dregs - Ultimate Fighting Champion

[Hayden]

Kinda odd, but... sure.

2020—
Jessie Ware - Spotlight

2021—
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Back To Oz
Japanese Breakfast - Posing In Bondage

*with a side note that I'll nominate Genesis Owusu's No Looking Back if someone wants to dib either of those 2021 tracks.
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Doubles & Conch

[Streams]

'21
Patrick Shiroishi - "The Long Bright Dark"
Zachary Ward & Ben Roidl-Ward - "Arb"

'20
Ash Fure - "Shiver Lung"

Would love to nominate Patricia Bosshard's "Reflets" for '21 but I would have to share my copy as it's not available for streaming - let me know if this is cool and I might swap something out.