MCVI: Results

1) Musical Goodness (91 pt)
2) Minor Key (76 pt)
3) Yesterday Was Easy (69 pt)
4) Mixtape (56 pt)
5) Pettys Island (55 pt)

1) Mixtape (7 votes)
a very close second…2) Relax with Singing Birds (6 votes)

1) Minor Key
2) Musical Goodness
3) Yesterday Was Easy

 

• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Nancy Sinatra & Little Toy Gun – Honeyhoney [twins!][2:45]Olly Olly Oxen Free
• Pop Goes the World! – Men Without Hats [rockstar][talking][80s!][message] Musical Goodness
  3 POINTS
• Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien Edith Piaf [foreign] Box of Matches
• Lightening Rod Guster [opening credits][wildcard] Pettys Island
• Talk Talk Talk Talk [bridge][high school][80s!][dance] Mixtape
• The Cold, The Dark and the Silence Sea Wolf [melancholy] Minor Key
• They are Night Zombies!! They are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh! Sufjan Stevens [obscure title] CRAP
  2 POINTS
• Casino Queen Wilco [cowbell][favorite][2:45] Emily’s (Play)list
• Different Stars Trespassers William [melancholy][obscure band name] Musical Goodness
• If It Feels Good Do It Sloan [fortune cookie][anthem][talking] Stuffed with Goodness
• Love Plus One Haircut 100 [80s!] Emily’s (Play)list
• This and That Michael Penn [high school] Musical Goodness
• Unsatisfied The Replacements [one word title][melancholy] Mixtape
  — BEST SONG/QUALIFIER MATCH UP + —
  3 POINTS
• This is the One – Stone Roses [high school][love song][80s!][favorite][anthem][wildcard] Yesterday Was Easy
  2 POINTS
• Daddy needs a Drink – Drive-by-Truckers [fortune cookie][place]Warm Beer and Cold Women
• Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War – Paul Simon [obscure title][gone solo][bridge]Telegraphic Valve
  — BEST SONGS —
  3 POINTS
• Come Around – M.I.A. Minor Key

• I Lust U – Neon Neon (feat. Cate Lebon) Yesterday Was Easy/You’ve Got No Future Kid
• If You’re Into It – Bret McKenzie & Jemaine Clement (FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS) I Think I Like You/Yesterday was Easy
• Golden Skans – Klaxons Yesterday Was Easy
• London Crawling – Rialto Musical Goodness
• Mambo Sun (Remastered LP Version) T.Rex I Think I Like You
• Slow Show The National Olly Olly Oxen Free/Yesterday Was Easy
• The Engine Driver Colin Meloy Emily’s (Play)list

 

These are songs that got 2+ votes but the song votes were across the three song categories. They deserve a mention.

• Emily’s (Play)list Fortune & Fame The K. G. B. [rockstar][wildcard]
• Emily’s (Play)list You Can Make it if you Try Sly and the Family Stone [fortune cookie][#6]
• Minor Key Melody Day Caribou [coherence]
• Pettys Island Cuts You Up Peter Murphy [bridge][high school][80s!]
• Saturn’s Sunset She Will Have Her Way Neil Finn
• Stuffed with Goodness Handle With Care Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins [bridge][gone solo][cover][cowbell]
• Telegraphic Valve Foux du Fafa Flight of the Conchords [foreign][laugh][talking]
• Telegraphic Valve Sin City Beck with Emmylou Harris [cover][place][not 4/4]
• Warm Beer and Cold Women Exquisitely Bored Pete Townsend [place]
• Yesterday Was Easy Divine (Midnight Luggernauts remix) Sebastien Teller [new release]