For the next tourney...

I'll skip telling for whom I'm going to vote. If you've been keeping up with my posts, you should know. It seems that '80s one hit wonders was the decided topic for what was going to come next. I'll create this post just so we can discuss how we're going to establish what songs shall be chosen. Does A Flock of Seagulls' I Ran (So Far Away) count? Flock did have another small, albeit not as successful, hit with Space Age Love Song. What is a one-hit wonder? A group/artist with only one top forty hit? A group/artist only known for their one song?

And how are we to decide songs? Should everybody involved pitch in their five (ten?) favorites to Donna and the sixteen (or thirty-two or sixty-four or eight or however many) with the most votes get seeded properly? Since the Beatles bracket is coming to a close we should discuss this so we can smoothly transition into this deal.

Comments

[R.C. Meyers]

Here's a starter list to refresh your memories: http://blog.vh1.com/2009-04-01/100-greatest-one-hit-wonders-of-the-80s-read-the-list-2/

[andrewz]

If we're going the tourney route with this, we could actually create a true 64-song bracket -- but that might be quite laborious.

[R.C. Meyers]

Donna suggested 64 when I talked to her on second floor today. I'd also be more than happy to arrange the brackets and seeding and whatnot since you all have jobs and I'm a college kid with too much time on his hands.

[Donna]

I think a 64-song tournament is pretty do-able. Unlike the actual bball tourney, the rounds don't have to be so spread out, so it would happen faster. And unlike the Beatles, you're not dealing with whole albums, just songs you probably already know from 5 seconds of listening on YouTube.

I'd suggest using an MTV/VH1 type ranked list as the starting point, with the ability to lobby the selection committee for bumping out duds and bumping in your favorites. We'll figure out a process if that seems like a reasonable thing to everyone. I would like to see a little more campus participation - anyone have friends outside the Library/Foundation to recruit?

[Annie]

I could invite friends from the Biology Dept --