Did I give you 10 votes? I think I did.
yep. Thanks
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Aiming for 6pm.
Having said that, I haven’t checked if all entries have been submitted, so what I’m aiming for might be moot.
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I polled well early too, just to rub it in a bit more when it eventually failed.
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back to dj king spread sheet to study the final round voting trends…dyvinals i hear were once popular
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Nope, not at all.
More often than not, it’s all about what happens around you. Let’s not forget, JohnRain (a past master at this thing) won the damned thing with a fricken Divinyls song, and not an especially good one at that. He got lucky that everyone else in that final plumped for polarising material (either loud & grungey or hard electro) and he went straight down the guts.
I managed to get extremely lucky when the song I posted (a halfway decent, well-recorded cover) was up against a bunch of poxy, grainy footage that looked and sounded like it had been recorded on someone’s phone in the 477th row. There’s no doubt that helped enormously in picking up a lot of stray votes.
More than anything though… it’s just the vibe at the time…
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Just realised my preferred wildcard peaked at #2 in Finland (#1 Billboard US Dance). Leaves me with a more dubious option…
so many options with 12th man, hard to choose
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That was clearly a cure cover band, the guy out front was just some young dude that sounded a bit like Robert Smith. If you’d actually played The Cure I’d definitely have given it 5 votes …
Is that salt? Surely not…
To be fair, that may normally have been the case, but there was a lot of crp in this round as everyone tried to our “I know deeper cuts from the 80s than you do” each other
And it wouldn’t be DJK if it was any other way. I love that everyone tries to reach for something different, and that we all then vote for what we know and get annoyed that no one voted for our “different” track…
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Bump
Valuable bump that one
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See that sexy body go bump bump bump
I’m so confused, people voted overwhelmingly for Dreamworld but they don’t like it. This is all going to end in therapy isn’t it?
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This is entirely it.
Pull out the most obvious pop classic and you draw a round with 3 Madonna and 2 Michael Jackson tracks and the b-side from some industrial metal band from 1974 with a video recorded on super8 and sound that at best was recorded through a microphone dropped in a jug of beer all of a sudden starts picking up votes.
Play a b-side from said industrial metal band and all of a sudden everyone’s voting for an Oils single.
This game is about understanding psychology more than anything else. Hence why I couldn’t win a final even if I had the entire Beatles catalogue to play with…
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This thread is therapy
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I have no idea what’s going on in here 
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Massive battle for the ARIA #1 crown in mid’89, 5 tracks and 5 comebacks
| 26/03/1989 | LIKE A PRAYER | Madonna | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/04/1989 | SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY | Fine Young Cannibals | 2 |
| 16/04/1989 | LIKE A PRAYER | Madonna | 1 |
| 23/04/1989 | SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY | Fine Young Cannibals | 1 |
| 30/04/1989 | LIKE A PRAYER | Madonna | 2 |
| 14/05/1989 | THE LIVING YEARS | Mike & The Mechanics | 1 |
| 21/05/1989 | LIKE A PRAYER | Madonna | 1 |
| 28/05/1989 | ETERNAL FLAME | The Bangles | 1 |
| 4/06/1989 | WIND BENEATH MY WINGS | Bette Midler | 1 |
| 11/06/1989 | ETERNAL FLAME | The Bangles | 1 |
| 18/06/1989 | WIND BENEATH MY WINGS | Bette Midler | 1 |
| 25/06/1989 | ETERNAL FLAME | The Bangles | 1 |
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Leave Better Midler out and that is an all time classic battle