A sheep, a werewolf and a walrus walk into a bar.

(02-03-2023, 06:46 PM)ShaneU Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry Creedence and Queen Bey are staying, the deal is off

Well in that case, just for you, going forward I will nominate P!nk songs at every given opportunity... 

(02-03-2023, 04:55 PM)Kol Wrote: [ -> ]I'm considering changing the title of this tournament to 'Fogs greatest song which didn't chart in the top 100 in Ireland, UK, or US and is not an Oasis song'

Only if the songs are less than 5 mins long too, then you have a deal!

(02-03-2023, 06:26 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 06:12 PM)ShaneU Wrote: [ -> ]I motion adding Cranberries, Queen, Nirvana and Pearl Jam to this list

And also Pink and Dermot Kennedy for very different reasons, they're shite.

Throw Bruce Springsteen, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Eminem, and Beyoncé in as well and I'd be in favour of that

I notice none of you mentioned Bon Jovi in case Kol throws a strop and stops running tournaments 😜

(02-03-2023, 07:57 PM)Necro Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 06:26 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]Throw Bruce Springsteen, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Eminem, and Beyoncé in as well and I'd be in favour of that

I notice none of you mentioned Bon Jovi in case Kol throws a strop and stops running tournaments 😜

Oh yeah, I actually forgot about Bon Jovi, even though I don't mind them too much throw them on the banned list too, and maybe Aerosmith because I'm sick of the overrated Walk This Way showing up in things, and Guns N' Roses because they're shite

Hmm, might have to have a little think and get an entry in for this.

Just to add my two cents on the zero tolerance list...I believe that Bowie, Prince and The Foo Fighters also need to be added pronto!

(02-03-2023, 08:48 PM)Tauriel Wrote: [ -> ]Just to add my two cents on the zero tolerance list...I believe that Bowie, Prince and The Foo Fighters also need to be added pronto!

No, they're three amazing acts

(02-03-2023, 08:51 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 08:48 PM)Tauriel Wrote: [ -> ]Just to add my two cents on the zero tolerance list...I believe that Bowie, Prince and The Foo Fighters also need to be added pronto!

No, they're three amazing acts

The Forgotten element means it could include songs that charted reasonably well, provided they were forgotten about...and of course that they are gems (now hidden)! That could happen, for example. if an act's work is dominated by one song, which overshadows everything else - sometimes unjustifiably.

(02-03-2023, 09:04 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]The Forgotten element means it could include songs that charted reasonably well, provided they were forgotten about...and of course that they are gems (now hidden)! That could happen, for example. if an act's work is dominated by one song, which overshadows everything else - sometimes unjustifiably.

There's a song I'm entering that got to number 3 in the 70's. I'd be surprised if many here knew it, you maybe 🤣

(02-03-2023, 08:48 PM)Tauriel Wrote: [ -> ]Hmm, might have to have a little think and get an entry in for this.

Just to add my two cents on the zero tolerance list...I believe that Bowie, Prince and The Foo Fighters also need to be added pronto!

Can't believe no one's mentioned Iris by The Goo Goo dolls for the banned list! Didn't it appear in 17 consecutive walrii, or something crazy like that?

(02-03-2023, 10:01 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Can't believe no one's mentioned Iris by The Goo Goo dolls for the banned list! Didn't it appear in 17 consecutive walrii, or something crazy like that?

Quite the hidden gem, if you ask me 😜

(02-03-2023, 10:04 PM)Necro Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 10:01 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Can't believe no one's mentioned Iris by The Goo Goo dolls for the banned list! Didn't it appear in 17 consecutive walrii, or something crazy like that?

Quite the hidden gem, if you ask me 😜

Even though it isn't a hidden gem, I'd probably give it a vote in this game if it did show up - just in case we need something equally popular in the back pocket to take on the Big Bad Gallagher Brother in Oasis at the Final... 

(02-03-2023, 09:16 PM)ShaneU Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 09:04 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]The Forgotten element means it could include songs that charted reasonably well, provided they were forgotten about...and of course that they are gems (now hidden)! That could happen, for example. if an act's work is dominated by one song, which overshadows everything else - sometimes unjustifiably.

There's a song I'm entering that got to number 3 in the 70's. I'd be surprised if many here knew it, you maybe 🤣

I entered a song that got to Number 3 in the 80s! I think a lot of people are forgetting an important word here.....forgotten (see what I did there?). You may well have heard it before, but it has been forgotten. Actually, it's kind of hard to forget a song if you never heard it before, hidden gem or not!

Entries are in.

All destined to knocked out by ten songs that are much more well known and popular that are also supposedly hidden gems because that person hasn't heard them in ages

(02-03-2023, 10:01 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Can't believe no one's mentioned Iris by The Goo Goo dolls for the banned list! Didn't it appear in 17 consecutive walrii, or something crazy like that?

Was that their biggest well known hit?

(04-03-2023, 06:28 PM)jp liz v1 Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2023, 10:01 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Can't believe no one's mentioned Iris by The Goo Goo dolls for the banned list! Didn't it appear in 17 consecutive walrii, or something crazy like that?

Was that their biggest well known hit?

Ah yeah, by miles

It's definitely not a Hidden Gem anyway.

(04-03-2023, 06:34 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]It's definitely not a Hidden Gem anyway.

Well, maybe we'll just have to let the voters be the judge of that...

#IrisForTheWin

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

(04-03-2023, 06:54 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-03-2023, 06:34 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]It's definitely not a Hidden Gem anyway.

Well, maybe we'll just have to let the voters be the judge of that...

#IrisForTheWin

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

It certainly isn't hidden!

(04-03-2023, 07:24 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-03-2023, 06:54 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]Well, maybe we'll just have to let the voters be the judge of that...

#IrisForTheWin

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

It certainly isn't hidden!

But I and many others here forgot it existed for so many years, so it was hidden to most of us... 

(04-03-2023, 07:26 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-03-2023, 07:24 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]It certainly isn't hidden!

But I and many others here forgot it existed for so many years, so it was hidden to most of us... 

I genuinely can't remember what it sounds like now!

Probably says more about my memory than the sold though 🤣

In, what I consider "hidden gems" and sorry no Oasis or Goaty Jazz

Got my hidden gems in

60 songs in so far, if you have more please send them in

(07-03-2023, 10:00 PM)Kol Wrote: [ -> ]60 songs in so far, if you have more please send them in

Even if you submitted 10 songs already? @Kol

(07-03-2023, 10:02 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-03-2023, 10:00 PM)Kol Wrote: [ -> ]60 songs in so far, if you have more please send them in

Even if you submitted 10 songs already? @Kol

I havent submitted any yet, so lets say we have 70

I think Declan was asking if he could send in more 😜

(07-03-2023, 10:10 PM)Necro Wrote: [ -> ]I think Declan was asking if he could send in more 😜

That's right....and I just have! Please ignore if necessary! I did throw in a few 70s and 90s this time, though!

I'll try get a few in but might not be until tomorrow night.

We have 96 songs competing for the Greatest hidden gem and it all starts now

Round 1 will see 3 songs battle it out in each match with the 2 advancing to the next round
You can vote for 2 songs in each match

Since most of these songs you will be hearing for the first time, I will post 4 matches per day in round 1 and see how we get on

R1/M1

Foreigner - That Was Yesterday
GOAT - Under No Nation
GOAT - Let It Burn





R1/M2

GOAT - Run To Your Mama
Michael Franks - When Sly Calls
Shane McGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted





R1/M3

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing
GOAT - Let It Bleed
The Chills - Monolith





R1/M4

Vandenberg - Friday Night
Al Stewart - Time Passages
GOAT - Goat Jam

Foreigner - That Was Yesterday vs GOAT - Under No Nation vs GOAT - Let It Burn

GOAT - Run To Your Mama vs Michael Franks - When Sly Calls vs Shane McGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing vs GOAT - Let It Bleed vs The Chills - Monolith

Vandenberg - Friday Night vs Al Stewart - Time Passages vs GOAT - Goat Jam

GOAT - Under No Nation
GOAT - Let It Burn

GOAT - Run To Your Mama
Michael Franks - When Sly Calls

GOAT - Let It Bleed
The Chills - Monolith

Vandenberg - Friday Night
GOAT - Goat Jam

GOAT - Under No Nation
GOAT - Let It Burn

GOAT - Run To Your Mama
Michael Franks - When Sly Calls

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing
GOAT - Let It Bleed

Vandenberg - Friday Night
Al Stewart - Time Passages

Shane McGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted
Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing
Foreigner - That Was Yesterday
GOAT - Under No Nation
Vandenberg - Friday Night
Alf Stewart - Time Passages
GOAT - Run To Your Mama

Foreigner - That Was Yesterday

Michael Franks - When Sly Calls
Shane McGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing
The Chills - Monolith

Vandenberg - Friday Night
Al Stewart - Time Passages

mmm. . . generally underwhelmed from the offers today, only one song that I really like.

Foreigner - That Was Yesterday - not a big fan of Foreigner, this is one of their better songs
GOAT - Under No Nation - mixed feelings about GOAT, this is the only song that I liked

Shane McGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted - vote for Sinead, I don't like McGowan's voice in general
(didn't like the other 2 in this match. Michael Franks would be something I may have listened to back in the day but really grew out of that sound)

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing - fantastic song, kudos to whoever nominated this. Suzanne Vega in the 80s and early 90s wrote some great music.
The Chills - Monolith - not a huge fan, just that the GOAT song in this match was my least favourite of theirs

Vandenberg - Friday Night - nice standard 80s hair rock
GOAT - Goat Jam - something that it would be interesting to see live and for it to keep an going for a bit longer.

I'm rotfl at GOAT entries    ye really went for it