Survival Of The Fittest

I've been waiting for this for a loooong tiiime

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Just since this has come up a couple times in conversation, I think I'd better make note of it here and in the OP. If your song's youtube link is a music video that you would like to strongly recommend that people watch alongside their listen, I will make note of it, but keep in mind that I can't obligate anyone to watch a video if they would prefer to judge the song purely through listening (or if they'd rather go through a spotify playlist).

I hear the crying of birds of whom it used to be said
that they sang and implacable resembled stones
I see flocks of houses munching the pith of the air
factories which sing as birds once sang



==ROUND 1==

Participants:
Paige
Fenris
MethodicalSlacker
Maraoone
Pippi
burnitup
dmboogie
Ohm
Buko
Rugga
Kermit
Inky
Slam

Virtua Mima - Masahiro Ikumi
Triumph (ChopNotSlop) - Wu-Tang Clan & Slim K
Thos Moser - Gupi & Fraxiom (The submitter strongly recommends watching the music video for this song.)
ReDoin - JerryTerry
Cup of Dreams - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Brutus - The Buttress
Happy 13 - Flotation Toy Warning
Hunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli
Peach Plum Pear - Joanna Newsom
Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical
Heart of Hickory - Major Parkinson
Ponyboy - SOPHIE
Where Is The Line? - Björk

Voting ends in three days, on Tuesday, April 7th at 11:59PM EST. Standard rules here, bottom three songs will be eliminated, vote by discord or board pm. Best of luck to the participants!

After a very close contest (seriously, the point difference between songs with incredibly small), the following songs have failed to continue on to the next round:

[+] Eliminated

DISQUALIFIED - Happy 13 - Flotation Toy Warning, submitted by Kermit. It received 71 points, including two 10s and two 8s, as well as a public 12.

12th - Triumph (ChopNotSlop) - Wu-Tang Clan & Slim K, submitted by Buko. It received 41.5 points, including one 12.

11th - Peach Plum Pear - Joanna Newsom, submitted by Maraoone. It received 44 points, including one 8 and one public 8.

All of the remaining songs have passed on to the final round. Round 2 of the semifinals will be up shortly.

In the brightest corner of every eye
We’re expecting the fish of anguish.
In a corner the car of summer
Immobile glorious and forever



==ROUND 2==

Participants:
Irene
Pancapples
Kilmarnock
Laurels
Shiola
Blizzard
Skraal
Murderweasel
Jace
Deamon
Yugi
Zarina
Jilly

Sprawling Idiot Effigy - Nero’s Day at Disneyland
Antiworld - Nina Hagen
Teen Pregnancy - Blank Banshee
I Saw Birds Flocking - Bryan Scary
The Primitives Talk - Zach Hill
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto
Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) - Coil
Atlas - Battles
Whisper - Burn the Ballroom
Chiwawa - Wanko Ni Mero Mero
Fireflies - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Russian - Caravan Palace
Out of the Coma - Comus

Voting ends in three days, on Friday, April 10th at 11:59PM EST. Standard rules here, bottom three songs will be eliminated, vote by discord or board pm. Best of luck to the participants!

The following songs have failed to continue on to the next round:

[+] Eliminated

DISQUALIFIED - Atlas - Battles, submitted by Shiola. It received 85 points, including one 12, two 10s and five 8s.

12th - Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto, submitted by Pancapples. It received 29 points, including one 8.

11th - I Saw Birds Flocking - Bryan Scary, submitted by Jilly. It received 33.5 points, including one 8.

All of the remaining songs have passed on to the final round, which will be up shortly.

No one is sleeping.
But if someone grows too much moss on his temples during the night,
open the stage trapdoors so he can see in the moonlight
the fake goblets, the poison, and the skull of the theaters.



==FINAL ROUND==

Participants:
Irene
Blizzard
Kilmarnock
Jace
Deamon
Yugi
Zarina
Paige
Laurels
Skraal
Murderweasel
Fenris
MethodicalSlacker
Pippi
burnitup
dmboogie
Ohm
Rugga
Jace
Inky
Slam

Virtua Mima - Masahiro Ikumi
Thos Moser - Gupi & Fraxiom (The submitter strongly recommends watching the music video for this song.)
ReDoin - JerryTerry
Cup of Dreams - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
The Primitives Talk - Zach Hill
Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical
Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) - Coil
Whisper - Burn the Ballroom
Out of the Coma - Comus
Chiwawa - Wanko Ni Mero Mero
Fireflies - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Brutus - The Buttress
Hunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli
Antiworld - Nina Hagen
Heart of Hickory - Major Parkinson
Ponyboy - SOPHIE
Where Is The Line? - Björk
Sprawling Idiot Effigy - Nero’s Day at Disneyland
Teen Pregnancy - Black Banshee
Russian - Caravan Palace


Voting ends in three days, on Monday, April 13th at 11:59PM EST. Standard rules here, vote by discord or board pm. Best of luck to the participants!

Alright, deadline is hit and all votes have been received, gonna start tallying up the results.

20th place to 16th place:

[+] 20

Thos Moser - Gupi & Fraxiom, submitted by dmboogie, which received 32 points, including two 12s

[+] 19

The Primitives Talk - Zach Hill, submitted by Deamon, which received 37 points, including one 10 and one 8

[+] 18

Fireflies - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, submitted by Yugi, which received 39 points, including one 10

[+] 17

Cup of Dreams - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, submitted by MethodicalSlacker, which received 40 points, including three 10s and two 8s

[+] 16

Virtua Mima - Masahiro Ikumi, submitted by Slam, which received 41 points, including one 10 and one 8

15th place to 11th place:

[+] 15

ReDoin - JerryTerry, submitted by Pippi, which received 43 points, including one 8

[+] 14

Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical, submitted by burnitup, which received 46 points, including one 12

[+] 13

Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) - Coil, submitted by Skraal, which received 50 points, including one 12, one 10 and one 8

[+] 12

Chiwawa - Wanko Ni Mero Mero, submitted by Kilmarnock, which received 51 points, including one 12 and one 10

[+] 11

Ponyboy - SOPHIE, submitted by Rugga, which received 53 points, including two 12s

[+] the final ten, in no particular order

Hunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli
Antiworld - Nina Hagen
Where Is The Line? - Björk
Whisper - Burn the Ballroom
Teen Pregnancy - Blank Banshee
Heart of Hickory - Major Parkinson
Sprawling Idiot Effigy · Nero's Day At Disneyland
Russian - Caravan Palace
Brutus - The Buttress
Out of the Coma - Comus

10th place to 6th place:

[+] 10

Teen Pregnancy - Blank Banshee, submitted by Laurels, which received 54 points, including two 12s

[+] 9

Antiworld - Nina Hagen, submitted by MurderWeasel, which received 55 points, including one 10 and one 8

[+] 8

Where Is The Line? - Björk , submitted by Inky, which received 59 points, including one 12 and one 10

[+] 7

Whisper - Burn the Ballroom, submitted by Blizzard, which received 59 points, including two 12s and one 10
(tie broken by greater number of 12s)

[+] 6

Russian - Caravan Palace, submitted by Jace, which received 62 points, including one 12 and three 10s

[+] top five

Hunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli
Heart of Hickory - Major Parkinson
Sprawling Idiot Effigy · Nero's Day At Disneyland
Brutus - The Buttress
Out of the Coma - Comus

[+] 5

Out of the Coma - Comus, submitted by Irene, which received 65 points, including two 12s

[+] 4

Sprawling Idiot Effigy · Nero's Day At Disneyland, submitted by Zarina, which received 74 points, including one 12 and two 8s

[+] 3

Hunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli, submitted by Fenris, which received 87 points, including three 10s and one 8

[+] the final two

Brutus - The Buttress
Heart of Hickory - Major Parkinson

Statistics

[+] Image and Poetry Credits

Signup Post:
Image: The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali

Semifinals Round 1:
Poem: The Manless Society - Pierre Unik
Image: Golconda - Rene Magritte

Semifinals Round 2:
Poem: Max Ernst - Paul Eluard
Image: The Ribbon of Extremes - Yves Tanguy

Finals:
Poem: Sleepless City - Federico García Lorca
Image: The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali