My votes are in. Goodluck and godspeed.
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Typical Sheedy lie!
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Ok Peeps,
The final votes are in, the spreadsheet has been updated and the word doc completed.
When do you want me to do the reveal?
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Let’s not drag this out longer then it needs to
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True…but it goes better if there are people around
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[in Ian Chappell voice]
“Uh…yes, I’m here Richie…”
Will be offline for a few hours from 5.30-ish…
Anyone else out there?
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Grand final day?
6 tonight?
Midnight my time. Which is in 17 minutes…
IT’S TIME!
Ah fark it…I’ll just do it now and get it over and done with.
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I’m leaving for work in fifteen minutes or so.
Good luck, everyone.
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So those of you who have run a Blonde DJ know that it involves a reasonable amount of work to get it all organised.
Clearly I felt that this one had been too easy (what’s that you say?..do you have rocks in your head?) as I came up with the brilliant idea that has been the final round of Blonde DJ 15.
What a great way to shake up the competition a bit…get the finalists to blind nominate a genre for one of their (unknown) competitors.
I even told everyone that they needed to pick genres that were reasonably mainstream….simple enough I thought.
And that was when I found out what the saying “It’s like herding cats sometimes” really means.
Reasonably Mainstream Genres apparently include things such as:
- The DJ must play a song by BIFF, Melbourne’s most notorious garage skate outfit.
- How about ‘mumble rap’
- "any band who played st 924 Gillman in California "
- “straight edge”
- anyone who has played the corner hotel
Now as @BAAKKEERRRR (rudely) pointed out the other day, I am somewhat old…but I’ll be damned if any of those particular topics would pass the “ Reasonably Mainstream Genres” test…and so they were rejected.
Which brought us to the 12 genres that passed the swoodley reasonably mainstream genre test:
- Dubstep
- Film Score
- House Music
- Novelty Music
- 90s Australian Rock
- Hip Hop
- Shoegaze
- Electro
- Artists Who Wear Masks (may not be an actual genre but it was an interesting option)
- EDM
- New Wave
- West Coast Rap Pre 2000s
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Our twelve intrepid finalists welcomed the test of their music knowledge (well, there was a whinge or two to be honest) and proceeded to come up with the twelve outstanding…no, I can’t say that…twelve pieces of music…some really good (whether you realised it or not) and some not so good that were then voted upon by one and all (except me of course) to produce the Blonde DJ 15 Winner who will be revealed in the following posts.
DJs and their songs as follows:
| AVanderScreamer | Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) - Introduction Theme (Film Score) |
|---|---|
| chewy_boy | Pale Saints - Sight of You (Shoegaze) |
| Crazy_Bomber | Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Novelty Music) |
| cummy_scant | deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt (Artists who wear masks) |
| hambo | Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (House Music) |
| ivan | Joelistics - Days (Hip Hop) |
| mrjez | Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics (West Coast Rap Pre 2000) |
| Preliminary_Point2 | Custard - Pack Yr Suitcases (90s Australian Rock) |
| Split_Infinity | Burial & Four Tet - Nova (Dubstep) |
| Strewth | The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (EDM) |
| swoodley | The Cure - The Baby Screams (New Wave) |
| tinhillterror | Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt (Electro) |
So strap in and enjoy the ride.
PS: Thanks to Bakes, Klawdy and Peos for their help with getting the final round organised. I really appreciate your help guys.
PPS: And a huge round of applause should also be given to Mr Paul_Peos for his outstanding AI Caricatures and summaries of some of the longer term BDJ participants. They sure seemed to go down well with everyone.
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So now it’s time to reveal the votes:
Sweet baby Jesus… I can’t even muster enthusiasm to dump on this rum lot.
5 votes: Custard - Pack Yr Suitcases
(Odd time signatures, random keyboard solo, sub 3 minutes, Bluey’s Dad… all of what I said when I posted it about a week ago in another music thread)
4 votes: The Cure - The Baby Screams
(Not a great example of The Cure IMO… sounds like a Let’s Go To Bed retread)
3 votes: Deadmaus ft somebody or other - The Veldt
(Completely vanilla electro-pop a la Empire Of The Sun, but inoffensive enough)
2 votes: KLF - Last Train To Wherever
(Have never liked this particularly)
1 vote: Alan Sherman - Hello etc.
(Just because it wasn’t as ghastly, bland or boring as the rest)
Who would have known…a set of random tunes from random genres has broken our resident curmudgeon. Bakes couldn’t get it up to give one of his memorable dissertations outlining the problem with the various songs.
But he is first with the votes
PP2 gets the 5 to go straight to the lead followed by swoodley on 4 followed by cummy (3), Strewth (2) and Crazy (1)
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My problem with this round is it’s not really on a level playing field, certain genres have zero hope. #saltyasfck
5 - Burial & Four Tet - Nova (Dubstep)
Does this actually qualify as dubstep?
4 - deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt (Artists who wear masks)
3 - The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (EDM)
2 - The Cure - The Baby Screams (New Wave)
1 - Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) - Introduction Theme (Film Score)
Thanks for the comp mate
Crazy is next with his votes together with a side of salt.
Immediately questions the validity of the song that he gave 5 votes to (lol) which is Split’s entry and gets him off the mark. 4 votes to Deadmau5 puts cummy into the lead on 7, 3 for KLF moves Strewth to 5 whilst swoodley gets another 2 for The Cure and that puts him up to 6. Avander gets 1 for his film score entry.
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Final Round Votes
5 - deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt
4 - Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
3 - Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) - Introduction Theme
2 - Burial & Four Tet - Nova
1 - Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
Thank you Swoodley
5 votes to the dead rodent extends cummy’s lead as he moved to on 12. Jez breaks through for his first votes with 4, another 3 for Avander takes him to 4, Split gets 2 to move to 7 and Crazy gets the final vote to move to 2.
Thanks Swoods, excellent round.
5 votes The KLF (an oldie but a goodie)
4 votes Blackalicious
3 votes The Cure
2 votes Deadmau5
1 vote Allan Sherman (it deserved at least one vote)
Hoffy sends her votes through with a minimum of fuss.
Top votes to Strewth’s KLF entry takes him to 10 (2nd player into double figures), Jez gets another 4 votes to take him to 8, 3 more to swoodley’s Cure entry takes him to 9, cummy gets another 2 to move to 14 and Crazy gets another vote to move to 3.
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