Balearica Island is a psycho (NSC 234)

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island chills out after shocking everyone (128)

First of all, the new title of the thread doesn't mean I'm taking next edition off. But I'm gonna try to send a type of song I've never sent before, a chillout version of a song I think is beautiful, Aguas Blancas by Sunlounger (who is an alias of Roger Shah, the guy behind the radio show that inspired the nation of ).

Enjoy.

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island moves moves moves in 129 (and spinoff updates)

Just gotta say that if I had known how NSC 128 would turn out, I'd do the hosting myself...

So, Sunlounger isn't getting a lot of points in NSC. In NSC 58, he ended last in the semi, and if everyone had voted in 128, he would have ended last as the PQ in the final as well. A little disappointing of course, especially considering he inspired this nation, but I had a feeling that 7 minutes of chillout might not attract loads of points. I'm very happy for the points it DID get tho.

Next up, I had many different options. The first one I decided to go for turned out to be a remix of a song that had already been in the contest, so that one went to the list of future covers and remixes entries. Then I decided on a different song, but just before confirming, I noticed that the host of 129 is from Manchester, which reminded me of a completely different song, and I decided to send that one instead. And considering there's a nation very inspired by Austria Wien in this contest, I'm a little ashamed that I didn't think of this song earlier. But now is the time. I've been a fan of Manchester United since 1992. This song was made for the 1996 FA Cup final, where Manchester United went on to beat Liverpool 1-0, and made history as becoming the first club to win "The Double" twice in a row. The Manchester United players actually performed this song, and they were Peter Schmeichel, Roy Keane, Gary Neville, David May, Tony Cotton, Gary Pallister, Steve Bruce, David Beckham, Denis Irwin, Andy Cole, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Paul Parker, Brian McClair, Ryan Giggs, Lee Sharpe, Nicky Butt and Eric Cantona. Cantona scored the goal.
And here is the video:

I wanted to send the original video from 1996, but all the videos I found had pretty bad sound quality.

Also, there's been some spinoff action going on lately.
First, the Congrats NSC spinoff, where I was finally able to send Trollheimr's NSC 106 entry, Tuomas Holopainen feat. Johanna Kurkela - A Lifetime of Adventure. Entirely because of Don Rosa. I've always been a huge fan of Donald Duck, and I consider Don Rosa to be the best Donald Duck story maker ever. So when Tuomas Holopainen created an album inspired by him, there was never any doubt, I was buying it. And an official music video with Don Rosa drawing in it, I mean... This HAD to be on my list. And now it finally is.

And there's a new spinoff coming up too, for Industrial music. It wasn't hard finding songs I could send, but it was very hard to decide on just one. In the end, I let a close friend influence me. She had Front 242 - Headhunter as one of her favorite songs when she grew up, and I found a cover of that which I really liked. Made by the same guy who started Combichrist, which I sent to NSC not long ago. This is however not Combichrist, but an earlier project he had, called Icon of Coil. The entry hasn't been officially accepted yet, but if nothing stops it, then this is it:

 

[Keko]

Re: Balearica Island moves moves moves in 129 (and spinoff updates)

Icon of Coil, nice! I was actually considering "Shelter" before going for something more edgyyy.

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island moves moves moves in 129 (and spinoff updates)

Just thought I'd let you know about this:

I just noticed Genre Police has reached 1 million views today. Currently on 1,000,004.

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

New edition, and this time I'm sending the song I was going to send for 129, until my last minute change. And I'm a little surprised that a version of this song haven't been sent already, but maybe that's just because I'm old. Tom's Diner was originally written by Suzanne Vega in 1981, and first released in 1984, and it's been pretty popular ever since, but the version I'm sending was made recently. Giorgio Moroder is a living legend, and at 75 years old, he's still making great music. And he first started releasing music in 1966, when Suzanne Vega was just 7 years old. He made a new version of Tom's Diner earlier this year, with Britney Spears doing the vocals. And I've been a pretty big fan of her since the 90's, so it's great to finally have her representing , even if it's "just" as a featuring artist.

 

[esc87fan]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

It's a good song, but I dread the thought of Britney Spears butchering a true Canadian classic

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

It's a good song, but I dread the thought of Britney Spears butchering a true Canadian classic

Butchering?? I think she's doing a good job on this one. :?

 

[Leaf]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

a true Canadian classic

what makes it so?


This version is not too bad, best of luck

 

[esc87fan]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

I've never been a Britney fan to be totally honest

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

This version is not too bad, best of luck

Thanks.

I've never been a Britney fan to be totally honest

Fair enough, but that doesn't mean that everything she touches is horrible, does it? I'm sending this mainly because of Giorgio Moroder tho, Britney singing it was just a bonus to me. And I think Moroder has done some work on her vocals in the song too, tbh. But if you want to hear how bad it CAN be, check out 2Pac's "Dopefiend's Diner". 2Pac couldn't sing, and the story in his version is pretty tragic.

 

[SpZ]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

Well i also have objection against Britney... And I have a hate/love relationship with the original version. Saying that, this version is rather interesting.

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

Well i also have objection against Britney... And I have a hate/love relationship with the original version. Saying that, this version is rather interesting.

So I guess in this case I should hope that two wrongs make one right then...

 

[Paper7]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

My favourite EDM-Projekt (The Soundlovers) made a Cover-Version of this song and i hated it... and i was never a fan of Britney Spears. But yeah... it's Giorgio, maybe he make the difference.

(I never heard the version of GM so far and won't listen to it untill i listen to the semis ^^)


And why should this song be a Canadian classic? She is US-american, it haven't had the most of its success in Canada and was more successfull in other countries it seems to me

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

My favourite EDM-Projekt (The Soundlovers) made a Cover-Version of this song and i hated it... and i was never a fan of Britney Spears. But yeah... it's Giorgio, maybe he make the difference.

(I never heard the version of GM so far and won't listen to it untill i listen to the semis ^^)


And why should this song be a Canadian classic? She is US-american, it haven't had the most of its success in Canada and was more successfull in other countries it seems to me

I hadn't seen this post until now.

I'd heard other versions of Tom's Diner too, and some have been pretty good, but there was something about the Giorgio Moroder version that made me go "I should send this to NSC, because this is really good". And apparently he did make a difference. Thanks for the points.

And that goes to everybody else as well, thank you so much for the points. Tom's Diner won everything in the last edition! Well, except the WL vote, but the WL didn't give Catfight or Genre Police anything either, so not really that surprising. A new points record for , first time over 200 points, but not a new record for semi finals, as both Catfight and Crystallize scored more than Tom's Diner. Still up there tho. I know some would still call the result a fail tho, Orian said anything but a new overall points record would be a fail after the massive hype the song got, but I think his record will stand for a long time.

This means is now suddenly a 2-time NSC winning nation. Who would have thought that just a few months ago? So now (as you all know already) Bal-I TV and the rest of Balearica Island welcomes you all to our sunny island for NSC 131. Decided to not really go for a theme (because I couldn't really come up with one), but I hope everyone enjoys it anyway.

The entry is a hardstyle tribute to the dark side (because there must have been some dark forces involved in the results lately), made by the DopeMonkeys. I've had another Da Tweekaz song on my list for a while, but since I've sent them twice before, I'm putting that on hold for a few more editions. There's more to the hardstyle scene than the Norwegian duo. So, DopeMonkeys from Germany, and their take on The Imperial March is up. As far as I know, nobody has sent any versions of it before, but I hope someone will let me know if it has been. It would suck to have my own entry disqualified when I'm hosting...

Also, we're entering the new spinoff, NSC Covers & Remixes 4. Hosting the NSC isn't going to stop me from taking part in a spinoff I've been waiting for this long. The song is one I was actually going to send to the NSC a few months ago, but I discovered the original version had already been sent by Ugaly, so the Armin van Buuren remix of Ramin Djawadi's Game Of Thrones Theme had to go to a spinoff. And now it gets the chance.

 

[berlyda]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

Also, we're entering the new spinoff, NSC Covers & Remixes 4. Hosting the NSC isn't going to stop me from taking part in a spinoff I've been waiting for this long. The song is one I was actually going to send to the NSC a few months ago, but I discovered the original version had already been sent by Ugaly, so the Armin van Buuren remix of Ramin Djawadi's Game Of Thrones Theme had to go to a spinoff. And now it gets the chance.

I almost entered this, but I'm glad I didn't now

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

I almost entered this, but I'm glad I didn't now

Haha!

That would have annoyed me a bit if you did tho, but... I have other songs waiting to be entered in these spinoffs, so I guess Armin would have had to wait until the 5th covers and remixes spinoff if you sent this. So in 2017, or something.

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island knows the power of the dark side (+ voting stats)

In addition to finding new entries, and working on hosting the next NSC, I was recently inspired by Orian and his Rumian points charts. And I've seen others doing the same too. So here are the points going to and from in the finals since the debut in NSC 42.

Points given
Points received
Red boxes means failed to vote.
The 4 editions I've skipped are removed.

And some stats (because I think statistics are fun):

Points given:
Most finals: 65 - Calypso, 62 - Waloria, 61 - Pigeon Island, 59 - Hypjø, 53 - Zaprya, 51 - Kostanovia
Most votes from BI: 41 - Zaprya, 28 - Fervorosia, 25 - Pigeon Island, 21 - Cydoni-Gibberia, Noizeland, Waiting Iist of Shelley & Nici
Most 12s: 7 - Fervorosia, 5 - Cydoni-Gibberia, 4 - Prasia, 3 - Emsfrõnt, Paper & INK, Prasia
Most 10s: 4 - Noizeland, Viola Per Sempre, Zaprya, 3 - Bacchus, Cydoni-Gibberia, Emsfrõnt, Fervorosia, New Acadia, Vedatistan, Zechonia
Most 8s: 5 - Bacchus, 3 - Comino, Emsfrõnt, Fervorosia, Roseland, Zaprya, Zombira
Most 0s: 52 - Calypso, 44 - Waloria, 40 - Hypjø, 37 - Perryfornia, 36 - Pigeon Island, 35 - Comino, Doire, 34 - Kostanovia, Reym-L-Dneurb
Most total points: 251 - Zaprya, 192 - Fervorosia, 157 - Pigeon Island, 151 - Cydoni-Gibberia, 134 - Emsfrõnt
Most finals while remaining on 0: 4 - Jéru, Leonesia & St. Lotus, Sillycone Valley, 3 - Gematria
Highest final/vote percentage: 100 - Disqualified, Il-Bidu, Mysticland, Neajlovia, 88 - SR Indiria
Lowest final/vote percentage (excl. 0): 4 - Zumkotzen, 7 - Aspirinia

Points received:
Voting in most BI finals: 23 (all) - Calypso, Cydoni-Gibberia, Fervorosia, Halito, QuiénDQ, Ugaly, Waiting List, Waloria, Zombira
Most votes to BI: 15 - Cydoni-Gibberia, Rumia, 14 - Prasia, 12 - Halito, Ugaly
Most 12s: 5 - Arjastan, 3 - ChessLand, Dal Riata, Halito, Prasia, Rumia, Zechonia
Most 10s: 4 - Ugaly, Waiting List, 3 - Cydoni-Gibberia, Luxona, Prasia, QuiénDQ
Most 8s: 4 - Halito, Zombira, 3 - Cherniya, Noizeland
Most 0s: 21 - Calypso, Comino, 20 - Hypjø, Waloria
Most total points: 106 - Prasia, 95 - Cydoni-Gibberia, 92 - Arjastan, 90 - Halito, Ugaly, Zombira
Most finals - never points: 20 - Hypjø, 10 - Cefiya, 5 - Lyapunovia
Highest final/vote percentage: 100 - Aimūlli, Disqualified, Genext, Spila, Vegetaria, 90 - Arjastan, 86 - Luxona
Lowest final/vote percentage (excl. 0): 5 - Comino, 7 - Anselmsmumonia, Kostanovia, Mooseland

I miss Arjastan.
And I wonder if I'll ever get a point in a final from Hypjø.

 

[Paper7]

Re: Balearica Island sits in the diner

I hadn't seen this post until now.

I'd heard other versions of Tom's Diner too, and some have been pretty good, but there was something about the Giorgio Moroder version that made me go "I should send this to NSC, because this is really good". And apparently he did make a difference. Thanks for the points.

Yes, he did ^^

And you couldn't have seen my posting untill you opened the last page of thread... something strange happened and it wasn't shown in the forum overview, that i made a posting here

 

[Morty]

Re: Balearica Island knows the power of the dark side (+ voting stats)

Strange... Better late than never tho.

 

[strajker]

Re: Balearica Island knows the power of the dark side (+ voting stats)

While I'd severely prefer the original Imperial March, this is good too.