MUSIC LEAGUE - a way to gamify your music taste

MUSIC LEAGUE IS A FUN GAME WHERE EVERY ROUND YOU PICK OUT SONGS BASED ON A THEME
THEN A PLAYLIST IS CREATED
THEN YOU VOTE ON THE SONGS VIA UPVOTES AND DOWNVOTES

WHO WANTS TO PLAY MUSIC LEAGUE?

I'll start a ILX league with a basic 5 round game - winners will get to pick the theme of the rounds in the next game.

You can play on mobile or web.

JOIN HERE https://app.musicleague.com/l/ec1767aa53a34d73aa8cbd4f9c5e8aa1/

Looks interesting but it seems you need spotify to sign up and I'm not going to use spotify, sorry.

Samwell - What What In The Butt

exactly! i dont pay for spotify and i still play

The Roches - Hammond Song (Arthur Baker "Downtown" rmx)

lol one of my besties plays this, she is always pissed of at the rest of the comparatively mainstream tastes in her group

3 players so far woo!

Yeah I’m in. Sounds fun.

aight i'll do it

we have 4!!!

SIX!!!

I HAVE JOINED THUS

THIS

Oh I’m so happy

Im the one with the Steve Perry avatar

this sounds awesome, I'm in

i have entered the building

good you're the one I wanna beat

I definitely won't be this first round though lol

10! WE HAVE A LEAGUE PEOPLE!

like a maniac I have my choices set up for the next rounds too

It took me a while to work out how to submit my votes. It looks like you're given an allocation of 10 plus points and 2 minus points, which you can distribute amongst the songs however you want, i.e. you can give a song more than 1 plus/minus points, or you can leave a song on 0 points.

Yah I can change that I’d people want that’s just how my other leagues are

It's good this way!

The fact that you can give out negative points is gonna tank my chances at ever winning this thing

Jumped aboard too late for Round 1, but I'll be able to play in Round 2.

The chat and comments make for the best part of the leagues. Plus non-algorithmic music discoveries.

Oof should have disabled downvotes. I feel bad downvoting other people’s noms and there’s nothing I think even warrants them in this round.

Someone less lazy than me should transcribe the tracklists from the playlists in here for future reference.

So we have to give two downvotes and also can't give more than three upvotes to any one song? Is that right?

No more than 3*

I like downvotes because I’m a hater

If only the White Mountain Cooler jingle from 1986 was on Spotify. Damn thing has a "You Give Love A Bad Name"-style chorus intro, a verse, a pre-chorus, and another chorus, all in 30 seconds!? I guess that means that their next commercial was their "New Jersey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XlpbUVaUY

I’m lolling a little at the blurb that’s longer than the song it’s describing

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

Oh it’s a relief to see my song climb the standings as more votes go in lol

lol, this is not the experience I am having

I didn't get last place so that's nice

One voter remains. What could possibly be riding on it?

looks like my song is the one people are the most indifferent to, that's something at least

Wow! ILX hates weird Paul!

I thought it was ok, it was just not as good as all the other songs, so I had to downvote it per the rules of this game

Love it

(The hater energy)

Just voted - maybe I needed at least 900 more gecs

Very interested in the tracklist for round 2! Love grooving.

I’m gonna suck so bad at round 3 I don’t know any britpop music. I don’t even know what can be considered as Britpop besides the obvious things. Are the Stone Roses britpop? Is early The Verve allowed?

I'm not even sure I know what a groove is so I might sit the next one out for fear of making an embarrassing mistake.

Thanks to the first round for "Final Day" which I did not know and which has been haunting my brain for the last few days.

This round made me realize that the short songs I respond to most are the ones where the song itself is in some way about not quite having enough time. Also, I think, why I have always responded more strongly to the Stones cover of "Good Times" than to the Sam Cooke original: the Stones version is shorter, under two minutes, and I think that's one reason it's always given me a more intense feeling of a fleeting golden moment that will not be repeated.

so no one else is waking up every morning with "Bart and Marge, they are in charge" stuck in their head?

Oh you seriously need to get on the Colossal Youth album. It sits on its own plane of existence.

Xpost to lily

And Lily: I think of groovy music as music with an insistent rhythm that makes you feel like bobbin your head, your body, your mind. don’t overthink it, just groove.

Sorry kurt (//0~~0//) xps

Do we have to allocate all our votes? As did feel bad down voting

Congrats winners!!!! Fun times

Hey!! Thanks everyone! Wasn't playing to win and I think I honestly just got lucky by winning the first round. I thought the rest of my picks wouldn't be that well received but was pleasantly surprised they did ok and loved reading your comments on every result. Found some great new music along the way too.

I think I'm not very good at picking good ideas for a playlist but let's do this. I have 2 ideas which aren't mindblowing but could produce some good playlists and I'm thinking doing a genre specific one too (as round 3: britpop was this first time).

Might steal one of these suggestions tbh. I like some of the ideas so far.

Just mailed my suggested rounds through.

Ditto

Just waiting on Groovy Panda - if they aren’t into
It I’ll ask the next winner etc

*rubs hands in 13th place*

What happens next?

- we will take a little break and I’ll invite yall to the next one. No pressure to join.

- top 3 get to pick the next leagues rounds.

― kurt schwitterz, Friday, November 8, 2024 10:39 AM bookmarkflaglink

I hope I don't miss signups for the next round (if any open spots are available, that is)

Just waiting on Groovy Panda

Sent my suggestions yesterday morning. And you replied lol 🤷‍♂️😂

Actually just checked and it was Saturday morning

oh ok! Mike I didn't get yours can you send again?

That's weird - it must have gone straight to your Spam folder. I'll try again now.

Got it!

Let me know if you all got an invite to the new league!

I did not

I didn’t either

I re- sent them.

VC - it won’t let me invite you so join here!

https://app.musicleague.com/l/638d683609f34eed8a068fd01442395c

I did

Got it that time

NOTE: Two of the winners picked a "covers" round so I made the executive decision to add the sibling round

thanks kurt! just joined

NOTE: Two of the winners picked a "covers" round so I made the executive decision to add the sibling round

― kurt schwitterz

lol, that was a last minute thing. I was thinking of proposing instead a "teenage self-portrait" round where you'd have to pick songs you loved when you were 13-15 and Mike picked a very similar idea with the "child's play" round.

I don't think I've got an invite - where should it show up? I checked the music league page and the email account associated with my Spotify account.

Oh sorry, I missed the link above. Have joined now.

Open to newbies?

Joined using that link cheers

There's still seven slots open, can anyone join or is it just for people who played the previous league?

Let’s wait for the previous rounds players to join first then I’ll announce if there’s any empty spots here.

To those that have not submitted yet - PLEASE WAIT UNTIL EVERYONE HAS JOINED! We don’t want to get it started too early

OK, thanks! A large league can be unwieldy, but this one has the ILM engagement a lot of the other leagues don't have. Would rather have a commented -1 than an empty +1.

I'm in, thanks!

I'm in!

Oh sorry, I didn't see that we were supposed to wait.

Who is missing

Let me check

Still missing:

hetdronkenschip
naamme
Kallen Law

I'd just post the link here and open it to anyone who wants to join at this point

I’ll give em til end of day the day 😁

I show your post at 10:38 PM, so is that another hour and a half?

im in hollywood baby

UK server's time, my bad. :)

One open spot! Come join the gang!

https://app.musicleague.com/l/638d683609f34eed8a068fd01442395c

The next round might be a tough one for me, it's not a genre name that has ever shaped the way I think about music, I'm not sure I've ever even come across it outside of ilm.

is it just a sound, or an era? would tracks from the 90s or later count?

Yes lots of PowerPop from the 90s like teenage fan club but it’s prime was 70s/80s

If you believe pitchfork:

Why has no one thought to better organize the institution of power pop? Ever since Big Star chimed in with their #1 Record, bands of all stripes—the pop group with a shreddy guitarist, the pivoting mid-career punks, the shoegaze band going sober—have gathered loosely under this jubilant banner to pay tribute to broken hearts through hooks and harmonies. At some point, an intrepid fan could have borrowed from the various committees that oversee ska and emo and split power pop into waves, or at the very least adopted a post- or a nü- prefix along the way to divide a genre that’s collected bands since the Nixon era, from the Raspberries to the Go-Gos to Superchunk to the New Pornographers.

And looking ahead to R3, I'm assuming "songs that make you feel cool" is implying ones that make you feel hip/down with your fellow kids rather than literally cold?

Also loving that this league will still be going into next year

Groovypanda: yeah it’s not music about cold temperatures but that might be interesting as a concept tbh.

I guess everybody has a different definition of what would make somebody feel cool. For me it isn’t necessarily music that makes you feel hip with the fellow kids, but rather music that hypes me up when trying to achieve something. Music that makes me go “I’m totally going to nail this”.

I’ll give an IRL example: back when I was in highschool there was a semester where T. Rex was the artist that always made me feel like the coolest mf when listening to it. Twice when I was vibing to it while listening on my headphones, I was asked what I was listening to and when I gave them the headphones they definitely didn’t make me feel hip. It was more in the line of “moka, this is lame, why are you listening to this old people music?”. Didn’t stop me from feeling cool when listening to it.

The way certain hip hop music makes me feel tough while driving and I'm probably the least tough person of all the people I know. Or how certain electronic music makes me feel hedonistic and reckless but I'm actually a very self-governed person.

Great posts. Thanks Moka :)

Waiting on 4 people and the round starts in 15 hours! Get your songs in!