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....is Dorovo!

Like Frank, he faced elimination in every single match after the first one, since he lost right out of the gate. 8 consecutive winning choices, including the only one of the tournament that had to be sent to my highly technical tie-breaking method. lol And ironically, Stunt and Dorovo faced each other in the opening round and ended up meeting again in the final. Good job, boys.

Dorovo's choices:

Tiamat - A Pocket Sized Sun (loss)
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky (win)
Pineapple Theif - Shoot First (win)
Our Lady Peace - Naveed (win)
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says (win)
Yes - Roundabout (win)
Porcupine Tree - What Happens Now (win)
Modest Mouse - Night On The Sun (win)
Soundgarden - Like Suicide (win)

All in all, 82 songs were posted up in this thing. Hopefully you guys found some good stuff in those and opened some doors to new stuff you hadn't heard before. I know I did. We'll do this again sometime for sure. It was a lot of fun.

Congratulations Dorovo, you certainly earned your 'bragging rights' with a consistent list of song choices

Frankie's Top 5 songs in the tournament were

1. Sigur Ros - Untitled 8 (Jaxx)
2. Gary Numan - Haunted (Blueczarina)
3. Mother Love Bone - Chole Dancer / Crown of Thorns (Pierowmaniac)
4. Elliot - Calm Americans (forgottenandabosrbed)
5. Jimmy Gnecco - Light on the Grave (Blueczarina)

Hey Dorovo, PM me your mailing address...maybe I'll send you something random for winning. Who knows what I'll find laying around here....a broken cell phone? some belly button lint? an old license plate? We can make it the official trophy and you can mail it to whoever wins next. hahaha

Well done Dorovo

Well done, Dorovo. You deserved to win for posting a Porcupine Tree song

I'm listening to Stupid Dream in this moment, really thanks to you!

Did I mention my Dad's favorite band now is PT?

My second favorite band after SP. I can't believed you caused a betrayal

Dad favorite PT / SW songs:

1. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
2. Shesmovedon
3. Harmonie Korine (SW)
4. Start of Something Beautiful
5. Open Car
6. Gravity Eyelids
7. Trains
8. Collapse the Light into Earth
9. Way Out of Here
10. Blackest Eyes

Mine:

1. Anesthetize
2. Time Flies
3. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
4. Russia on Ice
5. Idiot Prayer
6. Sleep Together
7. Normal
8. Fear of a Blank Planet
9. Veneno Para Las Hadas (SW)
10. Drawing The Line

Oh, and just for the record, here's the final finishing order:

19.) Forgottenandabsorbed
18.) Sheepful
17.) Epitome
16.) Dreamelectric
15.) Kjrain12
14.) Yteah
13.) Pug92
12.) Ryon
11.) Glass
10.) Ghostchild
9.) Pierowmaniac
8.) Jaxx
7.) Venison
6.) Strayz11
5.) Fadgey11
4.) Blueczarina
3.) Frankb
2.) Stunt
1.) Dorovo

Edit that:

EG -

19 - 16th Forgottenanabsorbed, Sheepful, Epitome, Dreamelectric

EG? Equally great?

Woo! This was a lot of fun, I discovered some great bands through this. Thanks to all who voted and entered this thing, and thanks to ghost for taking the time to manage it all Why doesn't everyone post all the songs they entered? It would be nice to go through them all on 1 page, some of them I really enjoy

Facing elimination every single round and coming through strong in the end--that was an epic win! Congrats Dorovo!

How about a final roster of all the songs people submitted? I know it's out there, but it would be nice to see them all in one place, get a sense of what people's musical interests are.

well done Dorovo and a thumbs up for you too Ghost for organizing this

venison wrote:
I could make that happen, but it would take WAY more time to compile than I want to spend. lol Every "elimination match" thread has a post by me that tells who was cut and what their choices were.

OK, so I'm totally stupid bored and I'm going to copy and paste everybody's choices.....

19.) Forgottenandabsorbed
-"Calm Americans" by Elliott
-"Existentialism on Prom Night" by Straylight Run

18.) Sheepful
-"Dead Skin Mask" by Slayer
-"Vinternoll 2" by Kent

17.) Epitome
-Hot Water Music - Bleeder
-Stone Sour - Zzyzx Rd.

16.) Dreamelectric
-Maps - To The Sky
-Mew - Special

15.) Kjrain12
-Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky (loss)
-The Beatles - I Am the Walrus (win)
-Play it Cool - Super Furry Animals (loss)

14.) Yteah
-Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends (win)
-Coheed & Cambria - Devil in Jersey City (loss)
-My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words (loss)

13.) Pug92
-The Cure: Boys Don't Cry (win)
-White Stripes: Little Cream Soda (loss)
-Green Day - Minority (loss)

12.) Ryon
-Death Cab For Cutie - Why You'd Want To Live Here (loss)
-Modest Mouse - Talkin' Shit About A Pretty Sunset (win)
-Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (win)
-Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love (loss)

11.) Glass
-Radiohead - High & Dry (win)
-**Forfeit** (no song submitted - loss)
-Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret (win)
-Verdena - Phantastica (loss)

10.) Ghostchild
-Tweak Bird - Lights in Lines (win)
-Mastodon - Capillarian Crest (loss)
-Hum - I'd Like Your Hair Long (win)
-Primus - Tragedy's A-Comin' (loss)

9.) Pierowmaniac
-The Cure - 100 Years (win)
-Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (win)
-AC/DC - Back In Black (loss)
-Alice In Chains/Chris Cornell - Right Turn (loss)

8.) Jaxx
-Sigur Ros - Untitled 8 (win)
-The Joy Formidable - Whirring (win)
-Arcade Fire - Sprawl (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (win)
-Anthony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone (loss)
-Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me (loss)

7.) Venison
-Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station (win)
-Kaki King - Yellowcake (loss)
-Joy Division - Transmission (win)
-Sonic Youth - Death To Our Friends (win)
-Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin' (loss)

6.) Strayz1
-Silversun Pickups - 3 seed (win)
-My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (win)
-Hum - Little Dipper (win)
-Friendly Fires - Paris (loss)
-Amusement Parks On Fire - Venosa (loss)

5.) Fadgey11
-The Strokes - Someday (win)
-The Beatles - Hey Jude (win)
-The White Stripes - We're Going To Be Friends (win)
-Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (win)
-The Greenhornes - Saying Goodbye (loss)
-The Raconteurs - Hold Up (loss)

4.) Blueczarina
-Radiohead - The Amazing Sounds of Orgy (win)
-Cruel Black Dove - War Son (win)
-Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (loss)
-Jimmy Gnecco - Light On The Grave (win)
-Gary Numan - Haunted (win)
-Earshot - Headstrong (loss)

3.) Frankb
-John Butler Trio - Take (loss)
-Marilyn Manson - Great Big White World (win)
-Unkle - Lonely Soul (win)
-The Superjesus - Down Again (win)
-Youth Group - See Saw (win)
-Vast - Here (win)
-The Tea Party - Psychopomp (loss)

2.) Stunt
-Slint - Washer (win)
-Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (win)
-Lostprophets - The Light That Shines Twice As Bright (win)
-TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (win)
-Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs (win)
-The Beatles - Long, Long, Long (loss)
-The Cure - Fascination Street (loss)

1.) Dorovo
-Tiamat - A Pocket Sized Sun (loss)
-Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky (win)
-Pineapple Theif - Shoot First (win)
-Our Lady Peace - Naveed (win)
-Jane's Addiction - Jane Says (win)
-Yes - Roundabout (win)
-Porcupine Tree - What Happens Now (win)
-Modest Mouse - Night On The Sun (win)
-Soundgarden - Like Suicide (win)

ghostchild wrote:
Congrats on the win. I think I enjoyed every one of your choices. And thanks for pulling this off Ghost

Yeah, I think we need to give Ghostchild a big hand for putting so much time and effort into bringing this community together in a way that we can all enjoy. You're the best man.

Big congrats to Dorovo!

and a big thanks to GhostChild!!



This was alot of fun guys. And now Oceania is almost here! What would we have done without this little competition?

Great job Dorovo!

Looking back on my songs, I could have picked better.