Survival Of The Fittest

[+] 12th Place

Texhnolyze - Walking Through the Empty Age submitted by Skraal, with 26.5 points

[+] 11th Place

Rush - YYZ submitted by MK Kilmarnock, with 47.5 points

[+] 10th Place

Laurie Anderson - From the Air submitted by Irene, with 57 points.

[+] Advancing

Tina Turner - Proud Mary
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Naked and Famous - Girls Like You
Separate Ways - Freetime
Masaki Matsubara - Silly Crush
Natalia Kills - Wonderland
Murder By Death - Until Morale Improves, The Beatings Will Continue

Round 2



Gadabouts:

Buko
Cactus
Fenris
Maraoone
MethodicalSlacker
Murderweasel
Ohm
Pancapples
Pippin
Polybius
Ruggahissy
Shiola
Yugikun

Trip Tunes:


Still Corners - The Trip
"Driving In An Indie Coming-of-Age Movie Where You Discover Yourselves While On A Road Trip"

The (Hypothetical) Prophets - On the Edge of the White Zone
"Waiting all antsy for a train at the Manhattan airport and getting yelled at by the PA for standing too close to the edge, then getting closer to your destination and receiving helpful tips from an intercom about how not to get ripped off by predatory cabbies. So I guess technically it's airplane (implied)/train/taxi travel all in one song."

Clipping - Run for Your Life
"Running, but not by choice, constantly looking over your shoulder in the middle of the night."

Devin the Dude - Acoustic Levitation
"Walking, trying to gain peace of mind."

Truckfighters - Desert Cruiser
"Driving through the desert."

Kyuss - Gardenia
"Speeding down an empty desert road, head spinning in a haze of sex and weed."

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
"The Frank Family Travels Into The Unknown To Try and Save Themselves From The Nazis"

The Animals - We Gotta Get Outta This Place
"When you're driving around your hometown while unemployed and directionless."

Guster - Satellite
"Taking the long trip to Mars to reconnect with a distant love, who has spent some terribly long, lonely months working on the colony."

Goldfrapp - Happiness
"Biking through town in the spring time."

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
"That feeling when you're on a train and you come out of a tunnel and you look out the window and it feels like you're seeing a new world."

Barns Courtney - You and I
"The feeling of going to any length, travelling as far as it'll take to be with someone."

Dotan - Home
"This is travelling via means of walking back to the place you belong, feeling bittersweet for reasons you can't quite fathom, happy to be returning and yet wistful for where you just came from all the same."

Bonne chance! The deadline for this round is Wednesday, February 26th at midnight EST.

Round 2 Results

[+] 13th Place

The (Hypothetical) Prophets - On the Edge of the White Zone submitted by Murderweasel. It received 11 Points.

[+] 12th Place

Devin the Dude - Acoustic Levitation submitted by Buko. It received 28 Points, including one 10 and a Public 12.

[+] 11th Place

The Animals - We Gotta Get Outta This Place submitted by Polybius. It received 43.5 Points, including one 10.

[+] Advancing

Still Corners - The Trip
Clipping - Run for Your Life
Truckfighters - Desert Cruiser
Kyuss - Gardenia
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
Guster - Satellite
Goldfrapp - Happiness
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Barns Courtney - You and I
Dotan - Home

Stay tuned for the finals, which will be up soon!

Songtest #53 Finals



Packed Up And Ready To Go:

Blizzard
Brackie
Cactus
Cicada
Dmboogie
Emprexx Plush
Fenris
Jace
Jilly
Laurels
Maraoone
MethodicalSlacker
Ohm
Pancapples
Pippin
Ruggahissy
Shiola
TheLordOfAwesome
Yugikun

Drivin' Ditties:

David Bowie - Space Oddity
"Space Travel."

Clipping - Run for Your Life
"Running, but not by choice, constantly looking over your shoulder in the middle of the night."

The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
"Walking 500 miles just to fall down at your door, obviously."

The Naked and Famous - Girls Like You
"Travelling back home after a hectic all-night party in your late teens/early 20s where you've had some revelations - about life, about people you know, about just how vast the rest of your life will be as long as you're not tying yourself down into the same routine that has led the world to where it is today; it all wants to make you just want to stare out the window of this vehicle in silence watching the world go by, thinking about everything you can do, but all this newfound inspiration to change your life will probably be gone the moment you get home."

Guster - Satellite
"Taking the long trip to Mars to reconnect with a distant love, who has spent some terribly long, lonely months working on the colony."

Murder By Death - Until Morale Improves, The Beatings Will Continue
"Walking the long, long desert road to go fight the devil."

Truckfighters - Desert Cruiser
"Driving through the desert."

Goldfrapp - Happiness
"Biking through town in the spring time."

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
"That feeling when you're on a train and you come out of a tunnel and you look out the window and it feels like you're seeing a new world."

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
"The Frank Family Travels Into The Unknown To Try and Save Themselves From The Nazis"

Dotan - Home
"This is travelling via means of walking back to the place you belong, feeling bittersweet for reasons you can't quite fathom, happy to be returning and yet wistful for where you just came from all the same."

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
"Making my way downtown."

Separate Ways - Freetime
"Flying to see your S/O and fixating on the trip back away from them instead of the time together in between."

Natalia Kills - Wonderland
"Wandering through a seemingly-utopian fairy-tale-kingdom-esque hidden world in the woods, where wonderous sights and clues that things are not what they seem pop up over the course of the tour."

Tina Turner - Proud Mary
"Sailing away from all your troubles."

Kyuss - Gardenia
"Speeding down an empty desert road, head spinning in a haze of sex and weed."

Barns Courtney - You and I
"The feeling of going to any length, travelling as far as it'll take to be with someone."

Still Corners - The Trip
"Driving In An Indie Coming-of-Age Movie Where You Discover Yourselves While On A Road Trip"

Masaki Matsubara - Silly Crush
"Cruising down a city highway at night going nowhere in particular, but feeling things about stuff nonetheless."

Viel Glück! This deadline for this round is Monday, March 2st. Results will come either that night or the next day.

Final Results

[+] Disqualifications

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton, submitted by Cicada. It received 35 Points including two 10s.

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers, submitted by Jace. It received 44 Points including one 12.

Now, onto the remaining finalists.

[+] 17th Place

Kyuss - Gardenia submitted by Pancapples. It received 15 Points.

[+] 16th Place

Natalia Kills - Wonderland submitted by Blizzard. It received 33 Points including one 12 and one 10.

[+] 15th Place

Tina Turner - Proud Mary submitted by Laurels. It received 38 Points including one 8.

[+] 4th Place

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1949 submitted by Yugikun. It received 65 Points, including two 10s.

[+] 3rd Place

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago submitted by Fenris. It received 68 Points, including two 12s and one 10.

[+] Final Two

Dotan - Home
"This is travelling via means of walking back to the place you belong, feeling bittersweet for reasons you can't quite fathom, happy to be returning and yet wistful for where you just came from all the same."

vs.

Guster - Satellite
"Taking the long trip to Mars to reconnect with a distant love, who has spent some terribly long, lonely months working on the colony."

[+] The Runner-Up

Pippin, who submitted Dotan - Home. It received 72.5 Points, including one 12, one 10, and one 8.

[+] The Winner of the 53rd SOTF Song Contest

Guster - Satellite

Winning with 98 Points, including three 12s, one 10, and three 8s.

Submitted by Shiola.

That's me!

So, I guess I won my own song contest. Well, there's a first for everything I guess! Thanks for all the votes, I honestly stumbled onto this song by happenstance when I was looking at songs for Henry.

...

The chorus has not left my head for at least a week.

Much and all as I'd have a few different theme ideas waiting in the wings, I'm content to let hosting duties fall to Pippin this time around as I'd like a break from hosting.

Thanks for playing, everyone! I look forward to seeing what the next one has in store for us. Happy trails!