MUSIC LEAGUE IS A FUN GAME WHERE EVERY ROUND YOU PICK OUT SONGS BASED ON A THEMETHEN A PLAYLIST IS CREATEDTHEN YOU VOTE ON THE SONGS VIA UPVOTES AND DOWNVOTES
WHO WANTS TO PLAY MUSIC LEAGUE?
I'll start a ILX league with a basic 5 round game - winners will get to pick the theme of the rounds in the next game.
You can play on mobile or web.
JOIN HERE https://app.musicleague.com/l/ec1767aa53a34d73aa8cbd4f9c5e8aa1/
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 10 October 2024 17:23 (three weeks ago) link
Looks interesting but it seems you need spotify to sign up and I'm not going to use spotify, sorry.
― John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 October 2024 18:37 (three weeks ago) link
Samwell - What What In The Butt
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:12 (three weeks ago) link
exactly! i dont pay for spotify and i still play
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:16 (three weeks ago) link
The Roches - Hammond Song (Arthur Baker "Downtown" rmx)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:20 (three weeks ago) link
lol one of my besties plays this, she is always pissed of at the rest of the comparatively mainstream tastes in her group
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:22 (three weeks ago) link
3 players so far woo!
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:53 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah I’m in. Sounds fun.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:58 (three weeks ago) link
aight i'll do it
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2024 21:00 (three weeks ago) link
we have 4!!!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 11 October 2024 07:32 (three weeks ago) link
SIX!!!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 11 October 2024 17:27 (three weeks ago) link
I HAVE JOINED THUS
― brimstead, Friday, 11 October 2024 17:56 (three weeks ago) link
THIS
Oh I’m so happy
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 11 October 2024 17:56 (three weeks ago) link
Im the one with the Steve Perry avatar
― brimstead, Friday, 11 October 2024 18:14 (three weeks ago) link
this sounds awesome, I'm in
― frogbs, Friday, 11 October 2024 18:55 (three weeks ago) link
i have entered the building
― imago, Friday, 11 October 2024 18:58 (three weeks ago) link
good you're the one I wanna beat
― frogbs, Friday, 11 October 2024 19:01 (three weeks ago) link
I definitely won't be this first round though lol
10! WE HAVE A LEAGUE PEOPLE!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 11 October 2024 19:06 (three weeks ago) link
like a maniac I have my choices set up for the next rounds too
― brimstead, Friday, 11 October 2024 21:36 (three weeks ago) link
It took me a while to work out how to submit my votes. It looks like you're given an allocation of 10 plus points and 2 minus points, which you can distribute amongst the songs however you want, i.e. you can give a song more than 1 plus/minus points, or you can leave a song on 0 points.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 12 October 2024 09:47 (three weeks ago) link
Yah I can change that I’d people want that’s just how my other leagues are
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 12 October 2024 15:39 (three weeks ago) link
It's good this way!
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 12 October 2024 15:56 (three weeks ago) link
The fact that you can give out negative points is gonna tank my chances at ever winning this thing
― frogbs, Saturday, 12 October 2024 16:17 (three weeks ago) link
Jumped aboard too late for Round 1, but I'll be able to play in Round 2.
The chat and comments make for the best part of the leagues. Plus non-algorithmic music discoveries.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 12 October 2024 18:16 (three weeks ago) link
Oof should have disabled downvotes. I feel bad downvoting other people’s noms and there’s nothing I think even warrants them in this round.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 12 October 2024 18:18 (three weeks ago) link
Someone less lazy than me should transcribe the tracklists from the playlists in here for future reference.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 12 October 2024 19:41 (three weeks ago) link
So we have to give two downvotes and also can't give more than three upvotes to any one song? Is that right?
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 12 October 2024 20:51 (three weeks ago) link
No more than 3*
I like downvotes because I’m a hater
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 12 October 2024 22:17 (three weeks ago) link
If only the White Mountain Cooler jingle from 1986 was on Spotify. Damn thing has a "You Give Love A Bad Name"-style chorus intro, a verse, a pre-chorus, and another chorus, all in 30 seconds!? I guess that means that their next commercial was their "New Jersey"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XlpbUVaUY
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Saturday, 12 October 2024 22:49 (three weeks ago) link
I’m lolling a little at the blurb that’s longer than the song it’s describing
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 16:42 (three weeks ago) link
Oh it’s a relief to see my song climb the standings as more votes go in lol
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:20 (three weeks ago) link
lol, this is not the experience I am having
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:54 (three weeks ago) link
I didn't get last place so that's nice
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:56 (three weeks ago) link
One voter remains. What could possibly be riding on it?
― imago, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:58 (three weeks ago) link
looks like my song is the one people are the most indifferent to, that's something at least
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:12 (three weeks ago) link
Wow! ILX hates weird Paul!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 21:39 (three weeks ago) link
I thought it was ok, it was just not as good as all the other songs, so I had to downvote it per the rules of this game
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 22:00 (three weeks ago) link
Love it
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 23:38 (three weeks ago) link
(The hater energy)
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 23:39 (three weeks ago) link
Just voted - maybe I needed at least 900 more gecs
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 00:28 (three weeks ago) link
Very interested in the tracklist for round 2! Love grooving.
I’m gonna suck so bad at round 3 I don’t know any britpop music. I don’t even know what can be considered as Britpop besides the obvious things. Are the Stone Roses britpop? Is early The Verve allowed?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 01:04 (three weeks ago) link
I'm not even sure I know what a groove is so I might sit the next one out for fear of making an embarrassing mistake.
Thanks to the first round for "Final Day" which I did not know and which has been haunting my brain for the last few days.
This round made me realize that the short songs I respond to most are the ones where the song itself is in some way about not quite having enough time. Also, I think, why I have always responded more strongly to the Stones cover of "Good Times" than to the Sam Cooke original: the Stones version is shorter, under two minutes, and I think that's one reason it's always given me a more intense feeling of a fleeting golden moment that will not be repeated.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 03:32 (three weeks ago) link
so no one else is waking up every morning with "Bart and Marge, they are in charge" stuck in their head?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 03:34 (three weeks ago) link
Oh you seriously need to get on the Colossal Youth album. It sits on its own plane of existence.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 03:36 (three weeks ago) link
Xpost to lily
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 04:11 (three weeks ago) link
And Lily: I think of groovy music as music with an insistent rhythm that makes you feel like bobbin your head, your body, your mind. don’t overthink it, just groove.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 04:16 (three weeks ago) link
Sorry kurt (//0~~0//) xpsDo we have to allocate all our votes? As did feel bad down voting
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 06:38 (three weeks ago) link
Papa Likes It was a great round to start on - thanks all. Like ledge, I'm pondering what a road trip means to me. I'm just going to take it as good music to be in a car too.
― Alba, Monday, 4 November 2024 12:01 (two days ago) link
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Did not expect the visceral negative reactions to Cats in the Cradle lol
Oh well! I stand by the pick as my dad did love it, and his appreciation of the theme I think informed his attentive parenting. (And I still think it's funny as a pick related to parenting but ymmv) I figure with this stuff to always go with your first instinct and not play to the crowd, although I had no idea the crowd hates him lol
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 4 November 2024 15:27 (two days ago) link
I said my piece on Cats in the Cradle on the league chat but I genuinely enjoy that song and also knew it was going to be targeted by the league for downvotes. I figured the same would happen for my pick but it’s not every day you get to post a world-famous recording done by someone you later shared a stage with.
― DJP, Monday, 4 November 2024 15:41 (two days ago) link
I like “taxi” more, that one was new to me
― brimstead, Monday, 4 November 2024 15:51 (two days ago) link
I avoided making a comment on the tracks I downvoted but having been in the receiving end of it with mine, I actually preferred it when I could read why!
― Alba, Monday, 4 November 2024 16:25 (two days ago) link
I loved both the Harry Chapin tracks, and was utterly baffled by the downvotes, but then he's barely known here in the UK and maybe he carries more baggage elsewhere?
― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 November 2024 17:41 (two days ago) link
Cat's in the Cradle has over time been seen as 70s schmaltz, and then it hit the airwaves again in the 90s when Ugly Kid Joe covered it, so Americans might just be sick of it.
(I like it but even I'm sick of hearing it by now)
― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2024 17:43 (two days ago) link
Yeah, my high school history teacher tried to get us into Harry Chapin, so it's just forever uncool in a way that say, Fairport Convention (who I didn't grow up with), never will be.
― enochroot, Monday, 4 November 2024 17:48 (two days ago) link
I don't remember ever hearing it before, but I took against it instantly. Something cloying about it and I like a lot of 70s schmaltz
― Alba, Monday, 4 November 2024 18:07 (two days ago) link
My dad was a fiend for 70s acoustic singer-songwriters so I got to hear it all, including Don MacLean deep cuts
― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2024 18:09 (two days ago) link
i have an affinity for certain kinds of schmaltz but the tone of the lyrics (especially the DO YOU SEE!?! turn at the end) and chapin's voice really turn me off CITC. the little instrumental refrain is nice. and it was smart to write the lyrics from the perspective of the shitty dad instead of the son.
i'm thinking i might opt out of the next league, it's been really fun but i find the time crunch of it a little stressful
― na (NA), Monday, 4 November 2024 18:16 (two days ago) link
had to upvote Cat's in the Cradle, my kids are 9 and 7 and that shit makes me emotional now
― frogbs, Monday, 4 November 2024 18:21 (two days ago) link
There is something extremely special about watching an a capella group struggle their way to sing the CITC harmonies through stifled giggles while the soloist stares blankly into space, unable to remember a so glad lyric to the last verse
― DJP, Monday, 4 November 2024 18:43 (two days ago) link
My child ...uh...came home Other dayMumble mumbleBits of clay
― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2024 18:46 (two days ago) link
Yeah I loved the Chapin tracks. Guess it's a matter of exposure. The really tough justice was done to the novelty track though, that was an instant hit of nostalgic joy
― imago, Monday, 4 November 2024 18:50 (two days ago) link
I expected the punishment I received. If I’d been playing to compete I would have chosen “Kodachrome” for my mom, but the writeup wouldn’t have been as keen.
― dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 4 November 2024 19:08 (two days ago) link
Loved both the write up and the song itself for Gimme Dat Ding (i played it for my kids yesterday), and was a little surprised it did so poorly. But I guess you've gotta downvote something, and schmaltz and novelty are easier to rationalize?
― enochroot, Monday, 4 November 2024 20:07 (two days ago) link
I love goofy old stuff like that, would never had heard it outside this league I imagine!
― brimstead, Monday, 4 November 2024 20:31 (two days ago) link
QUESTIONS - how do you guys want to do the next league? Was this too many people? Would more be too many? Was the amount of downvotes/upvotes ok?
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 4 November 2024 20:40 (two days ago) link
More would be too many. 25 is already a lot. But it’s manageable for me. My previous league was smaller and tight-knit, so there was a lotta pressure to provide a decent writeup for every vote (and tbh that’s the best part of this game for me. I especially love the catty ones).16 up is tight for 25 songs but I do like that it makes you make choices. 3 down is lots
― dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 4 November 2024 21:00 (two days ago) link
25 is a good number, it's enough to have a good amount of diversity but not so much that I can't listen to the playlist a couple of times before voting. For upvotes/downvotes I don't really care too much, I think I can adjust to whatever most people think is good.
― silverfish, Monday, 4 November 2024 21:43 (two days ago) link
The downvotes aren't fun to hand out, but it seems like an essential part of the gameplay dynamic.
In fact, it'd be fun to see categories with rules on when you have to use downvotes (automatic downvote if you've ever heard the song before, automatic downvote if someone else picked a song in the same language, etc).
25 players is a lot. If there are enough people waiting to get in, maybe we should split the league in half?
― enochroot, Monday, 4 November 2024 22:57 (two days ago) link
The current formula works just right for me. It makes for tough choices, but in a good way. 25 players is also plenty.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 November 2024 23:33 (two days ago) link
Also, I think it’s OK to mix familiar songs with new discoveries, and given the geographic divide it’s different to know what is and isn’t familiar to others. Case in point: Blur’s Girls & Boys in the Britpop round. My first thought: urgh, not this obvious old cliche (in the UK, it’s uber canonical). My second thought, on working through the playlist: fair enough, it still has merit. Whereas the geographic opposite may well have been true for my Bobbie Gentry pick in the last round.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 November 2024 23:40 (two days ago) link
Oh for fuck's sake, thought I had an extra day for this
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 09:03 (yesterday) link
oh well, post it here for the slagging.
i'm happy with all the current numbers.
― french cricket in the usa (ledge), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 11:20 (yesterday) link
i mean i don't drive, my last serious road trip was in 2013 and it also literally represented the breakup of my marriage (we had agreed to break up but we had to make it back across Europe together first), of the few CDs we brought with us the most vividly burnt-into-my-mind are an Astronauts compilation and Wire's Send Ultimate. so in the spirit of a marriage and perhaps a world plummeting headlong to its demise down the Autobahn, here's https://open.spotify.com/track/2DstWDWEOUMeaVPHzZR8mx?si=86204d106040428a
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 11:37 (yesterday) link
^it's a shame, this would have done bits probably
This driving playlist is the best! So many good choices and new discoveries. You delivered once again ilm.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 13:39 (yesterday) link
― imago,
This is a sad song for a sad story. Shame you didn’t make it in time to participate. While it doesn’t quite work as highway music for me - I usually like my highway music to be either soft and textured or repetitive, so I don’t get too distracted, and this is neither - I would have voted for it if only because it challenges what road trip music is.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 13:46 (yesterday) link
Aw :)
I'm dutifully listening to the playlist...might post some takes...albeit unable to see the write-ups. Feel like this round is a bit less story-dependent (he says, having made his own quasi-submission entirely dependent on the story)
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 13:48 (yesterday) link
weirdly this is my favorite round of songs yet, and yet most of these would NOT work for me on a road trip (a lot of them are so relaxing to me they'd contribute to me feeling sleepy). still voting on the quality of song only, but it is kinda fascinating because people's needs on a road trip are so different, so that is why this round is fun.
― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 15:17 (yesterday) link
Oh FFS. It's put the wrong song in from me (which I'm prepared to admit was user error as did it quickly in Tenerife airport yesterday)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 15:41 (yesterday) link
now having fun trying to predict which one is yours
― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 15:42 (yesterday) link
I tacked on that Astronauts track to the end of my playlist for this. Will give it an imaginary up or down vote.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 15:45 (yesterday) link
It's the right group but not even from the same album xpThink it's Spotify's search engine as it's the next track that comes up when you put "Group Track" into search and I guess my fat fucking fingers then clicked the wrong oneBollocks
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 15:52 (yesterday) link
This playlist has 3 tracks that were, at various times of my life, my favorite song (one of them being from the Muppets, which I have not heard in at least 3 decades).
It messes with my mind that the playlist concludes with a song from Nebraska, followed by a song whose album cover is a solid imitation of Nebraska
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 17:16 (yesterday) link
Yeah the fake Nebraska album cover after the real Nebraska one made me chuckle when I was playing it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 17:34 (yesterday) link
Playlist contains one song that I can’t seem to find via Tidal (unit moebius track), though they have every other EP in that series. Also Tidal’s search function is terrible, when looking up the Dave Dudley song it suggested a re-recorded version on an Outlaw Country comp with a stars-and-bars cover.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 17:49 (yesterday) link
Here you go: https://bunker-panzerkreuz.bandcamp.com/track/panta-rhei
― pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 18:55 (yesterday) link
Thank you!
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 19:39 (yesterday) link
You won’t be saying that by the 16th minute tbf
― pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 20:09 (yesterday) link
Im gotta be honest I'm loving the uk interpretation of a road trip song
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 20:44 (yesterday) link
Should have a side vote here on most outlandish interpretation of a road trip song
― Alba, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:19 (yesterday) link
Is the US vs UK thing something like "we're doing this for days, let's make it loud & fun!" vs. "we're doing this for hours, ugh, let's hypnotise ourselves to get it over with asap"
― french cricket in the usa (ledge), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:37 (yesterday) link
I just interpreted the category as stuff I enjoy listening to while driving long distances.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:44 (yesterday) link
if you're going to drive for days, you're going to need both loud and fun and hypnotising at various times
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:47 (yesterday) link
You just made me realize that honest answer would have been to submit a podcast episode in this round.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:57 (yesterday) link
Lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 01:31 (six hours ago) link