Amazon exiles discussion

On to Round 2 and hopefully there's still some nuggets out there to be discovered.

The next FIVE themes are:

* Cream Of 2025 - Summer - Round 3
* Cream Of 2025 - Summer - Round 4
* Cream Of 2025 - Summer - Round 5
Theme 467 - Earliest and Latest. Any one song from the first ever album you bought and one from the album you bought most recently - Grimmy (inspired by Sera)
Theme 468 – Theme 468 – Song titles containing a word that has been used by car manufacturers as a model name. For example, viva, fiesta, dart, zephyr, ram, etc. - Derek

New ideas can be added at:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Dk_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVHA...

after Val

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvrNP...

After Tim

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDfUi0...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=clSrYYv...

Even though these appeared on YouTube in 2024, the Colin Self album was released in Feb 2025, and the MAB EP was released Jan 2025.

After Helen:

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-uG...

Just going with one this time. I have a couple I could nominate, but I know that nobody will vote for them, so there really isn’t much point.

After Fishy

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees
The Truth - Blushing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6Q-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppyqc...

After TheFoe

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees
The Truth - Blushing
Brouhaha - Buck65
Beautiful Dark - Diamonds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PAmZ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXXQU...

Here's the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Ten nominations means FOUR votes each this round.

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Blushing - 4
Scara - 3
Bobby L - 2
Diamonds - 1

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six - 3
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees - 2
The Truth - Blushing - 4
Brouhaha - Buck65
Beautiful Dark - Diamonds - 1

After Helen

Little Simz - 4
Buck 65 - 3
Scaramanga 6 - 2
Makeshift Art Bar - 1

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz - 4
Dissimulato - Colin Self
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar - 1
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six - 5
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees - 2
The Truth - Blushing - 4
Brouhaha - Buck65 - 3
Beautiful Dark - Diamonds - 1

After TheFoe

Colin Self - 4
Diamonds - 3
The Scaramanga Six - 2
The Bobby Lees - 1

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Flood - Little Simz - 4
Dissimulato - Colin Self - 4
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar - 1
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six - 7
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees - 3
The Truth - Blushing - 4
Brouhaha - Buck65 - 3
Beautiful Dark - Diamonds - 4

after Val

Stones - 4
Colin Self - 3
The Bobby Lees - 2
Blushing - 1

Everything Must Go - Goose
Zydeco Sont Pas Salés - The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley - 4
Flood - Little Simz - 4
Dissimulato - Colin Self - 7
Birthday Party - Makeshift Art Bar - 1
Serving Suggestion - The Scaramanga Six - 7
Dig Your Hips - The Bobby Lees - 5
The Truth - Blushing - 5
Brouhaha - Buck65 - 3
Beautiful Dark - Diamonds - 4

That's it for another round but with only 6 nominators and 4 voters, I'm wondering if we should be carrying on. I will put up Round 3 but I'm relying on your feedback as to whether we do the full five rounds or cut our losses now.

Tied in 1st place: Both on 7 votes, Helen (Colin Self) and Jim (The Scaramanga Six)
Tied in 2nd place: On 5 votes, TheFoe for both Blushing and The Bobby Lees
Tied in 3rd place: All on 4 votes, Val (The Rolling Stones), Tim (Little Simz) and Sera (Diamonds)
Wooden spoon: Val (Goose)

Must admit I've been thinking these 'cream of' rounds should be only 3 long. The drop-off in participation is quite alarming. For those who do have a fair few tracks they'd like to put up, maybe we could have up to three nominations per round, so a maximum of nine tracks over three rounds rather than ten over five.