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29/6/2019 9:11 pm  #1


Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

4 numbers from 1 to 20 please.

 

30/6/2019 6:09 am  #2


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

9, 12, 15 and 19

 

01/7/2019 9:44 am  #3


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Thanks for the numbers GiT.

The 11th game of Round 1 witnessed a close contest eventually won by the Radiohead track "How To Disappear Completely". This victory will ensure it's progression into the next Round of the competition. The three tracks eliminated from the tournament at this juncture are 'Everything I Own' by Bread, 'Time' by Dennis Wilson and 'As Time Goes By' by Frank Sinatra.

Round 1/Game 12 -

David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
https://youtu.be/sG_Eklk-syk
Released - 1983
Written By - Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian
Songs Background - 'Forbidden Colours' is a 1983 song written by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the film 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'. The title of the song is taken from Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's 1953 novel 'Forbidden Colours' , although not directly related to the film, both works include exploration of supressed homosexual urges, set during a Japanese concentration camp, housing British POW's during WWII.

V's

Underworld - Eventually But (Spud's Letter To Gail)
https://youtu.be/WxAm9OyRr34
Released - 27th January 2017
Witten By - Underworld 
Songs Background - The track was written especially for the cinematic sequel to Trainspotting. In T2 this track is used during the scene the character 'Spud Murphy' is compiling a suicide note penned to his long suffering ex-partner 'Gail'. The letter is read out in the scene and the track by Scottish Actor Ewen Bremner, who plays the character of Spud.

V's

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
https://youtu.be/k4M53xndqiU
Released - July 1975
Written By - Stevie Nicks
Songs Background - Nicks says she wrote this song while contemplating going back to school or continuing on professionally with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham
. Their album 'Buckingham Nicks' had been dropped by Polydor Records before they could release a follow up. She wrote the song while visiting Aspen, Colorado, sitting in someone's living room "looking out at the Rocky Mountains pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us ... at that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways".

The song has later taken to be meant as a tale of getting older and losing those around us, one by one.

V's

Julee Cruise - Falling
https://youtu.be/D2WlryiZ3dA
Released - 12th September 1989
Written By - David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti
Songs Background - "Falling"
is a song by the American Dream Pop singer Julee Cruise. It is the lead single and second track from her debut studio album, 'Floating In The Night' (1989). Featuring music composed by Angelo Badalamentiand lyrics written by David Lynch, an instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series 'Twin Peaks' and it's Showtime revival.

Twin Peaks gained a cult following after its original broadcast in April 1990, and "Falling" subsequently charted in 14 countries worldwide between 1990 and 1992, including Australia, where it reached No. 1 in April 1991. The instrumental version of the song, performed by Badalamenti, won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 32nd Grammy Awards.

Voting Closes Tomorrow (Tuesday 2nd July) at 9AM
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Tracks Eliminated - Round 1 -

1. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
2. Randy Newman - Dexter's Tune
3. Ralph McTell - Streets Of London
4. Gerry Rafferty - Mary Skeffington
5. Nina Simeone - Feelings
6. Neil Young - Birds
7. Don McLean - Vincent
8. Ray Charles and Betty Carter - Ev'ry Time We say Goodbye
9. Randy Crawford - Almaz
10. Red House Painters - Katy Song
11. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
11. Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again
12. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
13. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
14. The Kinks - Some Mother's Son
15. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
16. Christy Moore - Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)
17. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
18. Stevie Wonder - Lately
19. Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings
20. The Beautiful South - Old Red Eyes Is Back
21. Judee Sill - The Kiss
22. Buffy Sainte Marie - Until It's Time For You To Go
23. Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute
24. Wilco - On And On And On
25. Pink Floyd - Coming Back to Life
26. George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses
27. The Corries - The Green Fields of France
28. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
29. Badfinger - Without You
30. Dennis Wilson - Time
31. Bread - Everything I Own
32. Frank Sinatra - As Time Goes By
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Tracks Through Round 1 -

1. The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself

2. Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind
3. Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves
4. Roy Orbison - Crying
5. Johnny Cash - Hurt
6. Carole King - You've Got a Friend
7. Glenn Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
8. Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
9. Neil Young - Philadelphia
10. The Smiths - Asleep
11. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

 

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01/7/2019 10:03 am  #4


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Julee Cruse

 

01/7/2019 6:42 pm  #5


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Fleetwood Mac please

 

01/7/2019 7:42 pm  #6


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

This is a tough one for me.

Forbidden Colours

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01/7/2019 11:27 pm  #7


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto, please Tek.

 

02/7/2019 1:48 am  #8


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Underworld


Yeah yeah Industrial Estate
 

02/7/2019 4:00 am  #9


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Landslide

 

02/7/2019 5:40 pm  #10


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Score Update - 

Fleetwood Mac - 2
David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - 2
Underworld - 1
Julee Cruise - 1

Will wait until Lifesanocean and Arabchanter have voted to call it.

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02/7/2019 10:26 pm  #11


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

Tek wrote:

Score Update - 

Fleetwood Mac - 2
David Sylvian2 & Ryuichi Sakamoto - 2
Underworld - 1
Julee Cruise - 1

Will wait until Lifesanocean and Arabchanter have voted to call it.

Sorry I'm late, David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto, please.
 


I don't know a lot, but I know what I like!
 

03/7/2019 1:03 am  #12


Re: Most Emotional Track Ever - Round 1/Game 12

arabchanter wrote:

Tek wrote:

Score Update - 

Fleetwood Mac - 2
David Sylvian2 & Ryuichi Sakamoto - 2
Underworld - 1
Julee Cruise - 1

Will wait until Lifesanocean and Arabchanter have voted to call it.

Sorry I'm late, David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto, please.
 

No problems Mr C. That'll do us for this tie 🖒

Full Time - 

David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - 3
Fleetwood Mac - 2
Underworld - 1
Julee Cruise - 1
 

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