G'day Each,
All results are now in, so see the attachment.
Simon is the clear winner - sorry, no trophy - with Love
Spreads (Stone Roses) which is fine as it's my top allocation. The vote
for this was unusually polarised, with four 12 pointers. Katja (The
Future Heads) was looking a cert for gold at the halfway mark, but did herself
no favours by giving her 12 to Love Spreads, but nevertheless this is a
remarkably successful debut with 3rd and 4th places. Chris 'Hurricane Love'
Phillips is a solid silver with 8 scores averaging 7 points each.
Interestingly (or possibly not), these three also have the
highest combined two-track scores, but this time Katja (98) handsomely leads
Simon (85) and Chris (84).
Pete has most submitter hits with 8 correct, but if we
eliminate local knowledge this drops to 6, level with Simon, leaving Neil on
top with 7. Pete's innovative assignment strategy could mark a new era, with 4
guesses for Chris, 3 for Jasper, Neil and Simon, and 2, 1, or 0 for the rest of
us. Despite unspectacular scoring success, I had the consolation of topping
the unpredictability chart as nobody tagged me for the Machine Head cover of
The Police.
I had great difficulty in the points allocation stakes with
such a variety of good stuff. For example I found that wooden spooner
Johnny Winter, who I'd never heard of, is seriously talented, but I only had 3
points left. I guess these encounters are what it's about.
Enough of this - it's nearly on a par with election
inquests.
If you want me to host another I'm very willing as I've got
a stack of CD -Rs to clear.
We also need to arm-wrestle for theme selection (if we want
to continue with the theme meme).
Some suggestions so far (excluding brown animals) are:
Alphabet (two random letters assigned to each
person, artists to start with these - this excludes the totally free choice
option but is novel)
Not a love song
Steel (you can go off people, Neil!)
Place names
And here's another. Cerys Matthews (Saturday
Guardian's Dr Crotchety), answering a question on suitable music for lakeside
camping, says about water "It's precious stuff and has inspired
countless songs - there's a theory that every album has a reference to it
somewhere."
Dialogue open,
Mick.
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