Cream Of 2022 - Summer - Round 5 - VOTING closed MIDNIGHT Sunday August 14th

[Val]

Last round - for which many will be thankful. I hope Jemma, Collette, Sussex, etc may be able to rejoin us when we move on.

Some sites in case you are stuck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

and

https://genius.com/albums/Genius/2022...

The next 5 themes are:

Theme 349 - "Cross my palm with Gold" - Songs titles that are all about the precious metal. Modern or classics, original, covers & remixes inclusive. - Duke the Fluke
Theme 350 - Firearms - Any song title containing a firearm, eg. gun, pistol, revolver, shotgun, rifle, musket, carbine or a specific make/brand - Helen
Theme 351 - Opposites Attract - Jemma
(for hints try https://forums.digitalspy.com/discuss... )
Theme 352 - Call and response - Any track which features a call and response section between instruments or vocals. The classic example would be Duelling Banjos - Jim
Theme 353 - "Monkey Business" - Song titles featuring either the word monkey or if you prefer, a specific primate species. No apes tho...I'll do those another day! - Duke the Juke

and new themes can be added at:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......

[Val]

Kicking off with some Aussie favourites of mine:

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-g_4...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91Dg...

[Tim]

after Val

#1 is a 'new' old track from Stereolab (ie, previously unreleased)

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLD3Q...
https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com...

[Fishy_Jim]

After Tim:

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jewRH...

[Craig White]

efterfishyjim,

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets

https://youtu.be/670YMraVnyk
https://youtu.be/C8xqZ3nu1Iw

[Helen The Melon]

After him

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets
Meteora - Savage Republic
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgrCtg...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8ld5u...

[TheFoe]

After Helen

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets
Meteora - Savage Republic
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5dK...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zElci...

[Val]

Six posters have been able to find new tunes for us to digest - well done all, especially Helen who feared she didn't have any. There's eleven tracks to find up to four votes and here's the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

plus one Bandcamp track:

https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com...

All votes in by midnight Sunday please.

[Helen The Melon]

Val wrote: "Six posters have been able to find new tunes for us to digest - well done all, especially Helen who feared she didn't have any. There's eleven tracks to find up to four votes and here's the playlis..."

Thank you, Val, but it was just that I didn't think I'd have enough for two noms per round as I was intending to save some of them for the Dec/Jan rounds. Hopefully some more stuff will tickle my fancy in the next 5 months - it's not been a v inspiring year for me music-wise.

Anyway, my votes are here...

Nancy & Lee - 3
P Kelly - 2
Hawks - 1

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly - 2
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor - 1
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 3
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets
Meteora - Savage Republic
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan

[Fishy_Jim]

After Helen:

Stereolab - 3
Savage Republic - 2
Hawksmoor - 1

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly - 2
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab - 3
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor - 2
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 3
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets
Meteora - Savage Republic - 2
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan

[Tim]

after Jim

Nancy & Lee - 4
The Prophets - 3
Savage Republic - 2
Izzy - 1

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly - 2
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab - 3
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor - 2
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 7
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets - 3
Meteora - Savage Republic - 4
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees - 1
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan

[Val]

After Tim

C Duncan - 4
Izzy and The Black Trees - 3
The Prophets - 2
Savage Republic - 1

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly - 2
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab - 3
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor - 2
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 7
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets - 5
Meteora - Savage Republic - 5
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees - 4
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan - 4

[TheFoe]

After Val

The Prophets - 4
Hawksmoor - 3
Izzy - 2
Savage - 1

Northern Rivers - Paul Kelly - 2
1994 - Halfway
Robot Riot - Stereolab - 3
Gridsquares And Redways - Hawksmoor - 5
A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful - Nova Twins
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 7
Man Of The Living Dub - The Prophets - 9
Meteora - Savage Republic - 6
Liberate - Izzy and The Black Trees - 6
Parricide Is Painless - Exek
Alluvium - C Duncan - 4

[Val]

With only 5 voters turning up, it seems we'll all be glad to see the end of "the best of' for the first half of 2022. We'll have to debate the year end rounds nearer the time. perhaps we scale it back to 3 or 4?? Anyway, the podium is not nearly as crowded this week as Tech takes out both gold and silver with 9 votes for The Prophets and 7 for Nancy and Lee. And Helen ties with herself for the bronze with 6 votes for both Savage Republic and Izzy and The Black Trees. Well done the two of you and onwards and (hopefully) upwards with our return to normal programming.

[Craig White]

Jolly good, me........killing it!