WORLD CUP OF MUSICAL TASTE!

[Lemon Bloody Cola]

I took today as the opportunity to relive a fun past time I had as a young'un in the days before the internet. I'd draw bits of paper out of a hat and make up imaginary football/wrestling tournments. Later on I'd do them with favourite songs of a specific artist etc. I made one today in regards my favourite artists.. and you should too!

You will need.
1) the top 32 most played artists on your Lastfm or other playrecording device
2) a random number generator like www.random.org/
3) perhaps a real football world cup fixture list to use as a guide uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/fixtures-results/

Basically take the 8 most played as "seeds" and play them at the fore of eight "groups" and then use the random generator to fill out the groups with the rest.

Then put the groups in the your order of preference from those artists. The top two from each go on to the next round. From there on it's knock out and you pick your favourite out of the two options, allocate a "score " if you like indicating your level of preference in each match.


Here's mine.

Group A
1) The Beach Boys
2) Leonard Cohen
3) Florence+The Machine
4) Metric

Group B
1) Daniel Johnston
2) El Perro Del Mar
3) Sonic Youth
4) Red House Painters

Group C
1) The Smiths/Morrissey
2) Super Furry Animals
3) Neil Young
4) Blue Roses

Group D
1) Belle and Sebastian
2) Teenage Fanclub
3) XTC
4) Cocteau Twins

Group E
1) The Magnetic Fields
2) The Smashing Pumpkins
3) Heavenly
4) Stina Nordanstam

Group F
1) Kate Bush
2) Prefab Sprout
3) Otis Redding
4) Throwing Muses

Group G
1) Saint Etienne
2) The Auteurs
3) Orange Juice
4) Prince

Group H
1) Scott Walker
2) Regina Spektor
3) David Bowie
4) Fleetwood Mac


LAST 16
The Beach Boys 3- 0 El Perro Del Mar
Leonard Cohen 1- 0 Daniel Johnson
The Smiths/Morrissey 4- 1 Teenage Fanclub
Belle and Sebastian 3-2 Super Furry Animals
The Magnetic Fields 1- 1 Prefab Sprout
(Prefab Sprout won on pens)
Kate Bush 2-2 Smashing Pumpkins
(Kate Bush won on pens)
Saint Etienne 2-0 Regina Spektor
Scott Walker 1- 0 The Auteurs

Quarter Finals
Kate Bush 3-0 Prefab Sprout
Beach Boys 1-0 Leonard Cohen
Belle and Sebastian 2-1 The Smiths/Morrissey
Scott Walker 0-0 Saint Etienne
(Scott Walker won on pens)

Semi Finals
Kate Bush 1- 2 Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian 2- 0 Scott Walker

Third place play off
Scott Walker 3-1 Kate Bush

Final
Belle and Sebastian 4-3 Beach Boys


Belle and Sebastian win!


As you can tell I get A LOT of sex.

[Lemon Bloody Cola]

Hey I just thought SILLY ME. We can do a collective Wolfboard one using polls over the next few weeks? The only problem is I have no idea how we'd whittle down a shortlist of the wolfboard's 32 favourite artists. Would be kinda fun though.

[mimicry]

It could be possible that we just suggest our top Last.fm artist, and if it's already been suggested then go down our list. If that makes any sense.

Also I am too lazy to do one for myself, but I admire your dedication.

[husbandwifeheroin]

I like Clare's idea. My top artist is PW, but he'd obv be in it, so my next most played is IAMX.

[Rhiflect]

I'll check my top played on WMP later. I like this cool idea, nice one Joshwa.

Also, I love Making Plans for Nigel by XTC

[lastgoodbye]

Let's do a collective one, yeah!

Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett would be my most played by far, with 5,600 plays, and next down (excluding P.Dubz) comes Kanye West, Kate Bush, Arcade Fire and Damien Rice, who are all virtually tied in the 1,200's and 1,300's. So to save trouble maybe I should just bags Owen as my top one.

[helwin tins]

Smashing Pumpkins!

[Lawrence]

I started doing this but gave up.

If we're representing I nominate Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst. Theyre my second most played behind Patrick

[mimicry]

haha, I guess this is going to be the best of everyone's second most played! We may as well put PW down as a freebie. My #2 artist is Pulp. (PW is first, duh)

[adder]

I love this! My second most played (after PW) is Brand New

[helwin tins]

ha, sp are actually my first most played. i'm a maverick.

[Rhiflect]

Yeah, disregarding Pdubz, I think mine is (oddly) Los Campesinos!

[Lemon Bloody Cola]

Why don't I just slap everyone who's mentioned here in, eh?

1) Patrick Wolf
2) IAMX
3) Final Fantasy/Owen Pallet
4) Kanye West
5) Kate Bush
6) Arcade Fire
7) Damien Rice
8) Smashing Pumpkins
9) Bright Eyes
10) Pulp
11) Brand New
12) Los Campesinos
13) Belle and Sebastian (mine)
14) Paolo Nutini
15) Rufus Wainwright

[autobusas]

This is cool! I love world cup!
My most played artist is of course Patrick, so I will have to choose Paoli Nutini

[choolin firth]

My top played isn't Patrick either! It is, shock horror, Rufus Wainwright. Add him to the list, Josh, even though I know it pains you

[husbandwifeheroin]

IAMX, Josh. Not IMAX. haha.

[Lemon Bloody Cola]

haha it doesn't pain me if I don't have to listen to him sing.

We've had this discussion before Chool, haha I like Rufus' music and general ethos, I just can't get past the voice ) : My loss I guess.

Also it couldn't possibly pain me more than Bright Eyes being on there... (sorry Lawrence!)

[mimicry]

Not going to lie, I used to be very anti-Bright Eyes but then I realized I'm actually just very anti "First Day of My Life". (It all started because Danger Mouse did a remix of Easy/Lucky/Free that's pretty gold.)

[papilioulysses]

top is patrick. but second morrissey and third kristeen young.

[naaaat]

I don't think my last.fm's a tremendously accurate way of measuring my taste as I still can't work it properly But anyway, my top one's The Answering Machine (who I love anyway!), with Wolf in second!