Battle of the Bands VII

Werewolf · #1 01-30-2012, 11:16 PM

Welcome to the seventh edition of the Battle of the Bands! Subject your fellow AOers to your favorite music! Win valuable bragging rights! Be the donkey-headed adversary of humanity!

Rules

The submitted band must have charted no albums on the Billboard 200 or its precursor charts. There are no chart restrictions on the songs themselves. Songs by eligible bands are allowed to have charted on any Billboard chart. The songs may also have appeared on charting compilation albums, such as movie soundtracks. (See wild cards below.)

Cover songs are allowed. However, cover songs are eligible based on the highest charting band to have recorded that song. The original version of a song is not subject to this rule. (See Round 2 below.)

Spoiler:

Bands must not have been submitted to a previous Battle of the Bands. (See Round 6 below.)

As a guideline, submit songs from 1950 or later. As a requirement, a recording must be associated with a performer, not with a composer or a band leader, as often happened in the pre-rock era.

There is no limit to the number of players, but only one screen name per actual person playing.

Spoiler:

Wild Cards

You can submit a band that has charted on the Billboard 200 by using a wild card. There are three wild cards, based on previous rounds of the competition. You may use each wild card once.

Lipman Wild Card: The band may have charted on the Billboard 200, but no higher than #101. There are no additional restrictions on the song.
Punman Wild Card: The band may have charted on the Billboard 200. The song must not be from an album that charted on the Billboard 200. The song must not have charted on a Billboard song chart.
Vividox Wild Card: The band may have charted on the Billboard 200, but no higher than #51. The song must not have charted higher than #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 or its precursor charts.

In other words, the no charting band rule is only required for three of the six weeks.

Spoiler:

Rounds

There are six rounds. Each round will run two weeks, from Monday to the following Sunday. Three rounds are open, and three rounds have themes.

Round 1: Open
Round 2: Cover Songs
You must submit a cover song originally performed by, or also covered by, a band that has charted on the Billboard 200, prior to the recording of your cover. At the host's discretion, a cover of a well-known song that doesn't meet this criterion will be allowed.
Round 3: Open
Round 4: Word To Your Mother
You must submit a song whose title or lyrics includes one of these words, graciously contributed by fellow AOers:
Between, submitted by Bicycle Repair Man
Dog, submitted by ao fan

Spoiler:

Foot, submitted by campbell

Spoiler:

Listen, submitted by frummie

Spoiler:

Round 5: Open
Round 6: Other People’s Bands
You must submit a song recorded by a band previously submitted in any Battle of the Bands, including this one. This band must not be a band for which you’ve ever submitted a song.

Spoiler:

Submissions

Please e-mail songs to rowerewolf (at) gmail (dot) com. Please submit songs in .mp3 format. If you’re submitting a song in any other format, do so early, so that I can try to convert it.

Please include the following information with your submission:
Band Name
Song Name
Songwriter credits
Album name and release date
Wild card used, if any

If multiple people want to submit a band, the earliest submission gets to use it. (An exception will be made for Round 6. The same band can be submitted multiple times, but not the same song.)

Please submit songs by the Friday before the round begins. If songs are submitted in a timely fashion, they will be posted Sunday night to Google docs.

Voting

Each round, you will have votes equal to the number of songs submitted. You may cast up to 4 votes per song. The maximum number of songs you can vote for in a round is 2X/3, rounded up, where X is the number songs submitted that round.

Anyone may listen and vote, even if you don't submit songs. Please do not vote with more than one screen name.

Votes are due by Sunday at 6 PM EST/EDT.

Schedule

Round 1: starts February 13
Round 2: starts February 27
Round 3: starts March 12
Round 4: starts March 26
Round 5: starts April 9
Round 6: starts April 23

Werewolf · #2 01-30-2012, 11:16 PM

Rounds
Round 1 · Round 1 Results
Round 2 · Round 2 Results
Round 3 · Round 3 Results
Round 4 · Round 4 Results
Round 5 · Round 5 Results
Round 6 · Round 6 Results

Participants

Werewolf
Linus
vividox
Oddsox
Super Silver Haze
lipman
Bobo the Clown
evilaustintom
ORLYLOL
Gentle Giant
DyalDragon
llcooljabe
punmanbowler
figure 8
Triweasel

Not Participating
IMP
glassjaws
Abstract Actuary