I’ll give They Might Be Giants the final word.
Well, some of us died, per the “In Memoriam” thread. But not many.
Truth.
When I’m in time to nominate some songs in these threads as they whoosh by, I’ve been nominating a lot of songs from the current millennium. But I’m certainly not surprised that they get few votes.
Obviously, songs that are well known have a significant advantage, and songs that have been around for a long time have a better chance of being well known.
I don’t expect anyone to take the time to listen to all the nominated songs before voting (although if anyone does, I salute you for going well above and beyond the call of duty). But that means that good songs get unjustly neglected because not enough people are familiar with them. Oh well, what are you gonna do?
Yeah, I’m having fun anyway.
Yeah, but there was a reason those songs were hits.
But I am adding a few to my music list.
Yep.
That’s entirely why I’ve adopted the nomination strategy I have for the last few polls (not that it makes a lick of difference overall, but sometimes you have to just take a stand)
What’s your strategy?
I’ve been trying to privilege more recent stuff–but I’m also not nearly as avid a music-listener as I was in my teenage years, so there’s not nearly as much stuff that I know.
And then in voting I’m often a goober and miss voting for things that I myself nominated.
Female singers only, song released in the last decade.
I started out nominated my usual old favourites (which in my case means 80s indie and post-punk, not 60s and 70s dinosaur rock) and by poll 3 or so I was starting to feel stupid, because even though I still love me some old stuff, what I actually listen to now is not that. So I started posting only stuff from my current playlists, leaving out the men.
I vote for my own noms first, then whatever of the other stuff I like best.
Vote how you want, but I would like to remind you of the title (and intention) of each thread.
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Like I said:
I only post things I absolutely love. “best” is too fuzzy a concept for me. I have a very broad music taste, so some filter is necessary. This is the one I chose.
Maybe this deserves a post in that “falling out of love with things” thread.
I’ve noticed that the thread titles and final polls ask for “the best song,” but the narrowing-down polls ask for “your favorite.” Deliberate?
In any case, my approach has been a mixture of subjective and objective: I’ve tried to consider both how well I, personally, like songs and how good I think they are objectively (or how much “general appeal” I think they have).
Good point. I’m going to change the wording on one or the other.
I think I’ll go with your favorite vs. best.
In any event, I’m glad that (almost) all of us are keeping it light and not taking any of this too seriously.
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