BCB 80s Cup - FINAL STANDINGS
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Right.
Like Tackleberry, I'm packing....
Like Tackleberry, I'm packing....
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Lots of reggae in the 80s.
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fange wrote:Belle Lettre wrote:Shit, forgot to enter. You must all be gutted.
Yes. Yes we are.
I placed quite highly last time
Go goth is my recommendation.
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Jumper K wrote:Lots of reggae in the 80s.
FUCK OFF!!!!
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harvey k-tel wrote:Jumper K wrote:Lots of reggae in the 80s.
FUCK OFF!!!!
Don’t despair, Harv: I’ve been mining the Rick Springfield back catalogue and I’ve hit pure gold!
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Darkness_Fish wrote:clive gash wrote:Nothing to fear there.
I've been scared by everything that Googa's picked in the past.
I am determined not to place last this time, and have made my selections accordingly. Still, expect a few surprises in there.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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List is in.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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Ten lists in and already a fascinating amount of variety in the picks. I'm particularly intrigued by Darkness Fish's selection of songs from Tom Cruise movie soundtracks.
Keep 'em coming, folks!
Keep 'em coming, folks!
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harvey k-tel wrote:Jumper K wrote:Lots of reggae in the 80s.
FUCK OFF!!!!
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clive gash wrote:Nothing to fear there.
Only because I'm not in your group.
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PENK wrote:I'm particularly intrigued by Darkness Fish's selection of songs from Tom Cruise movie soundtracks.
It's a risky business trying to predict what people will like. I think I've got all the right moves, but there's also a chance I'm losin' it. I could come out as the new BCB top gun, become a legend, or it could mean oblivion. Umm something something something mission impossible ghost protocol.
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The safest thing you can do is pick something by a critically approved act, the riskiest thing to do is to pick something that was a reasonable hit, particularly if the act isn't particularly hip.
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GoogaMooga wrote: I am determined not to place last this time, and have made my selections accordingly. Still, expect a few surprises in there.
B.
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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The Modernist wrote:The safest thing you can do is pick something by a critically approved act, the riskiest thing to do is to pick something that was a reasonable hit, particularly if the act isn't particularly hip.
This is BCB. I suspect the board's understanding of what is 'hip' went out-of-date round about 1976. Whatever, I'm sure my Blue Rondo a la Turk selection will do well on its own merits and not down to any fashionability considerations.
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Oh God. Not Blue Rondo A La Turd.....
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the masked man wrote:The Modernist wrote:The safest thing you can do is pick something by a critically approved act, the riskiest thing to do is to pick something that was a reasonable hit, particularly if the act isn't particularly hip.
This is BCB. I suspect the board's understanding of what is 'hip' went out-of-date round about 1976. Whatever, I'm sure my Blue Rondo a la Turk selection will do well on its own merits and not down to any fashionability considerations.
I actually bought " Me and Mr Sanchez".. good record! I just hope it doesn't meet my Animal Nightlife selection.
Disagree a bit with your second sentence. BCB used to be like that, but the demographic has shifted a bit and a kind of indie/ alt rock mindset ( and much more geared to the US than the UK) dominates now, especially in the cups. We saw that in the 90s cup and I'm expecting it in the 80s cup ( it was less evident with the 70s cup because the kind of thing I'm talking about came later)..expect a lot of Sonic Youth or Pixies type stuff.
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I actually bought a couple of Animal Nightlife singles. They had decent tunes, unlike the turgid output of BRALT...
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The Modernist wrote:The safest thing you can do is pick something by a critically approved act, the riskiest thing to do is to pick something that was a reasonable hit, particularly if the act isn't particularly hip.
Exactly why my Shalamar pick killed it in the last 80s Cup.
echolalia wrote: I despise Prefab Sprout. It will be decades before “hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque” is surpassed as the most terrible lyric in pop history. That fucking bastard ruined all three things for me forever.
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Personally, if each tie is a Young Gods or Skinny Puppy versus a Sade or Curiosity Killed The Cat, I’d be delighted. And I also know what I’d be voting for.
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I've just realised I've submitted a load of old shit. I was going to replace some tracks with some cooler tracks I had earmarked ages ago for an 80s cup, but I've come to the realisation that they're shit, too.
Any advice?
Any advice?
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