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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 21, 2022 20:03:38 GMT 1
Rules: 1. Sign up below, I will leave it open a week or so to see how many entries we get 2. The concept: this version of the contest will be split into 12 rounds, each round is based on a specific theme or genre, when the time comes please send all 12 rounds upfront before the contest starts, I will then post the songs up for everyone to rank/vote on anonymously via PM, after the votes are in I will announce the scores and we will move onto the next round, scores will be cumulative and the ultimate winner will be the one who navigated all the categories the best, just to be clear you don't need to stick with the same artist, you can change artists every round 3. All songs or artists entered have to incorporate some aspect of the rock genre, as we have had pop idol for pop songs, dance idol for dance songs and cover idol for cover versions, here we are looking for rock songs 4. You may not vote on your own song and if you don't vote you get a -30 point penalty 5. In the event people enter the same song I will employ a grid system so everyone has the same chance of getting their first choice entry, in the event of a duplicate I will ask everyone to send at least 2 or 3 songs for each round ranked in order of their preference 6. Songs and Artists already used in other competitions can be used, however I encourage everyone to get creative 7. Any questions ask below, funny enough, when I was looking for the rules I set out in the first Rock Idol, I noticed it was posted up exactly 5 years yesterday! So this is the long awaited return of ROCK IDOL 2 I will give people a week to sign up, so we will say the deadline to sign up is 6pm Friday 29th JulyAs a side note throughout the next week I will reveal the 12 rounds, this way people can get hunting for songs earlier than planned The RoundsROUND 1 - First Impressions Count: In this round enter your favourite opening track from any rock album, if it is track 1 on an album enter it here ROUND 2 - Rock, Paper, Scissors: In this round chose any song from any rock genre that uses either the word Rock, Paper or Scissors in its song title ROUND 3 - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker!: The punk era redefined rock music, by late 1976, acts such as the Ramones and Patti Smith, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and the Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement but this wasn't just a scene that died out in the 80's, punk still permeates through music today with the more recent pop punk and post punk revival genres, so here enter anything punk ROUND 4: Keep It Simple: In this round enter a rock song with only one word in the song title, it's as simple as that. ROUND 5 - Pyramid Stage Round: Playing the pyramid stage at Glastonbury has to be the highlight of any bands career, here enter your favourite live performance from any year at Glastonbury, so think smart because we will be judging this round on the live performance rather than the studio version of the song ROUND 6 - 666 (The Number of the Beast): The Number of the Beast was a defining album for Iron Maiden and throughout rock music numbers have been used in so many great song titles so in this round enter a rock song with a number in the song title ROUND 7 - Life In The Fast Lane: No, not an Eagles themed round! For this round we want all things road related, from the road you drive on, to the vehicles you can drive on a road. This is another word association round so the song title has to be either mention a road/motorway/highway, something to do with driving or have a vehicle element in the song title ROUND 8 - Just The Two Of Us: In this round enter rock songs from 2 piece bands ROUND 9: Death To All But Metal: Metal is a hugely diverse genre with a lot of accessible sub genres from Glam Metal, Nu Metal, Alt Metal, Hair Metal, Industrial Metal, Rap/Funk Metal, Retro Metal, this round unleash your inner metal head ROUND 10 - Why Has It Got To Be So Loud?: In this round enter acoustic versions of rock songs by either the original artist or a cover, you decide? ROUND 11 - Rock Chick Round: There are so many under rated kick ass rock chicks so it’s time we have a category to represent them, in this round enter any song by a rock band fronted by a female ROUND 12 - Movie Soundtrack Round: Select any rock song that features on a movie soundtrack album from the 70s or 80s, which really was a golden age for movie soundtracks Entrants
DazHupinSmurfie Roo ShirebloggerEarl PurpleSmokeyB JordanGreendemonMr. Panda ThorneBig Dan AoNMic1812Raliverpool
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 21, 2022 20:03:58 GMT 1
Customary tag to everyone that either played the last Rock Idol or showed interest in previous contests
Some of the finer details I posted elsewhere but some might've missed
July 16th: Me and Hupin are having a zoom meeting and a few beers to decide on the all important categories, along with a few of the other finer details
July 21st: Pre registration, we will put up the rules in a register your interest post, we will tag the regulars, and give people a week to sign up
July 22nd-July 29th: I will reveal the rounds one at a time
July 29th: By the registration deadline I will have posted up all of the categories so everyone can start finding their songs ready to send
August 6th: Deadline to send the songs, say 6PM
August 7th: Rock Idol 2 starts
Most likely 5 days to vote, 12 rounds, details to be confirmed closer to the time but based on that we are looking at something like
ROUND 1: August 7th-11th ROUND 2: August 12th-16th ROUND 3: August 17th-21st ROUND 4: August 22nd-26th ROUND 5: August 27th-1st September ROUND 6: September 1st-6th ROUND 7: September 7th-12th ROUND 8: September 13th-18th ROUND 9 September 19th-24th ROUND 10 September 25th-29th ROUND 11 September 30th-5th October ROUND 12 October 6th-10th
Points scoring system depends on how many entries we get
ROCK IDOL 1 SONGS USED
AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna To Rock'n'Roll) America -A Horse With No Name Andrew WK - Party Hard Animals – House of The Rising Sun Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Hood On The Dancefloor At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor Beatles - Hey Jude Belinda Carlisle - Nobody Owns Me Biffy Clyro – God and Satan Black Keys - Lonely Boy Blondie - Picture This Blondie – Atomic Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper Blur - Popscene Blur - Song 2 Blur - Theres No Other Way Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer Bon Jovi – Runaway Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap Brand New – The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows Bruce Springsteen – Badlands Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's Only Love Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69 CCR - Bad Moon Rising CCR - Fortunate Son Cher - One By One Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode Chvrches – Gun Codeine Velvet Club – Vanity Kills Cold - When Angels Fly Coldplay – Clocks Dandy Warhols - Godless Dandy Warhols - Get Off David Bowie - Aladdin Sane David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes David Bowie – Life on Mars? David Bowie – Rebel Rebel David Bowie – Starman Delays - Nearer Than Heaven Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Godhopping Dr Feelgood – Roxette Elastica - Connection Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio Feeder – Come Back Around Feeder – Just A Day Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon Foo Fighters - The Pretender Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger Funeral For A Friend - She Drove Me To Daytime Television Furniture - Brilliant Mind Garbage - We Never Tell Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine Hanoi Rocks - Don't You Ever Leave Me Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat INXS & Jimmy Barnes – Good Times Idlewild – Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) James - Sit Down James - Waltzing Along James – Sometimes Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Jimmy Eat World - Big Casino Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God Kasabian - Cutt Off Kids In Glass Houses - Easy Tiger Killing Joke - Love Like Blood Led Zeppelin – Stairway to heaven Lightning Seeds – Change Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest Linkin Park vs Jay Z – Numb/Encore Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird Madness - Our House Mando Diao - God Knows Manic Street Preachers - There By The Grace of God Manic Street Preachers ft Nina Persson - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Manic Street Preachers – A design for life Martha & Muffins - Echo Beach Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Maximo Park – Our Velocity Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf and Cher – Dead Ringer For Love Mercury Rev – Nite + Fog Metallica - Fade To Black Metric - Youth Without Youth Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod Muse – Feeling Good My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na) My Life Story – Duchess Mystery Jets – Show Me The Light Nirvana – Polly Nirvana – Smells like teen spirit Oasis - Champagne Supernova Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis – Live Forever Oasis – Morning Glory Oasis – Rock 'N 'Roll Star Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train Of Monster and Men - Little talks Our Last Night – Skyfall Paul Weller - Wild Wood Pearl Jam – Black Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond Pink Floyd vs BeeGees - Stayin' Alive In The Wall Placebo – Post Blue Prince - Let's Go Crazy Prince - When Doves Cry Pulp - Common People Pure Love - Bury My Bones Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure Queen – 39 REM - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville REM - Begin The Begin REM - Can't Get There From Here REM - Fall On Me REM - Finest Worksong REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) REM - Orange Crush REM - Pop Song 89 REM - The One I Love REM – I Believe REM – King of Birds REM – Stand REM – These Days Radiohead – Lucky Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud Rolling Stones - Paint It Black Rolling Stones – 19th Nervous Breakdown Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug Roxy Music - Virginia Plain Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane Screaming Eagles – All The Way Skunk Anansie - Secretly Smashing Pumpkins – Siva Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Sparks - Beat The Clock Squeeze - Cool For Cats Stereophonics – Dakota Suede - She's In Fashion Suede – Animal Nitrate Sweet – Blockbuster Sweet – Little Willy T-Rex - Children Of The Revolution T-Rex - Get It On T-Rex - Metal Guru Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere Tenacious D – Tribute The Associates - Party Fears Two The B-52's – Rock Lobster The Bluetones - Carry Me Home The Boo Radleys - Find The Answer Within The Bouncing Souls - Better Things The Cardigans – My Favourite Game The Coral - Dreaming Of You The Coral - Simon Diamond The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary The Cure - In Between Days The Damned – Eloise The Delgados - Under Canvas Under Wraps The Distillers - Hall Of Mirrors The Doors - People Are Strange The Doors- Break On Through (to the Other Side) The Honeycombs - Have I The Right The La’s – There She Goes The Monkees – Daydream Believer The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies – Debaser The Skids - Into The Valley The Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog The Vaccines - Teenage Icon The Vines - Don't Listen To The Radio The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army The Who – Substitute The Wonderstuff - The Size Of A Cow Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant Travis - The Humpty Dumpty Love Song Twin Atlantic - Yes I Was Drunk Van Halen - Why Can’t This Be Love? Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl Visage - Fade To Grey YES - Owner Of A Lonely Heart Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion Zombies - Time Of The Season
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Post by Smurfie on Jul 21, 2022 20:07:31 GMT 1
I’m in!
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Post by Roo. on Jul 21, 2022 20:20:35 GMT 1
Me me me me me!
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 21, 2022 20:23:02 GMT 1
Yes please, if you'll have me.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 21, 2022 20:23:38 GMT 1
Yes I will sign up
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jul 21, 2022 20:23:40 GMT 1
I'll pass this time but I'll still vote
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 21, 2022 20:25:23 GMT 1
I would certainly wish to take part, please
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Post by Jordan on Jul 21, 2022 20:28:33 GMT 1
I'm dubious of my chances of doing well, but certain I'd have a blast anyway. I'm in!
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 21, 2022 20:46:19 GMT 1
It will run into the festivals towards the end but that will just reduce my listening time.
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Post by greendemon on Jul 21, 2022 20:54:05 GMT 1
I'm in, so ready for this!
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Post by Panda on Jul 21, 2022 21:30:14 GMT 1
This sounds like a lot of fun so I will provisionally sign up if there is space. My only reservation is the timeframe as once the football season starts, my free time will be much more limited.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 21, 2022 21:51:12 GMT 1
Will mark you down, by the end of next week we will have final numbers and the rounds up so you can decide then if you want to take part
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2022 22:03:20 GMT 1
So in probably my favourite genre these days
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Post by o on Jul 21, 2022 22:29:48 GMT 1
I'll pass this time but I'll still vote Ditto, time to step aside for other people to play.
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TheThorne
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2022 23:15:47 GMT 1
I'll pass this time but I'll still vote Ditto, time to step aside for other people to play. I might do that for time machine
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Post by -Big Dan- on Jul 21, 2022 23:34:26 GMT 1
Sure, I'll play!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 22, 2022 11:32:32 GMT 1
UPDATE: So far 12 in, 1 maybe so enough to run a contest already, would like a few more so everyone is welcome even if i didnt think of tagging you
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 22, 2022 11:33:35 GMT 1
*ROUND 1 THEME INCOMING*
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 22, 2022 11:48:54 GMT 1
ROUND 1 - First Impressions Count: In this round enter your favourite opening track from any rock album, if it is track 1 on an album enter it here We have all been there, we buy a new album, not knowing what an album sounds like, often hearing it for the very first time, silence! anticipation! then track 1 bursts into life and that is often our first impression of a band, their sound, the new direction they are going in. So after me and Hupin did a bit of digging we found the quality and diversity of opening tracks on albums to be so impressive it had to go in the pot as an idea, often track one is a lead single or a defining piece of music so in this round we want you to relive them moments and what better round to have this category than round 1 *as these go up feel free to start looking for possible songs, but don't send them until all 12 rounds are up
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