philipphilip99 – The Marconium

Songs With Retro Style

May 19, 2021
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Writer: philipphilip99

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	What I Like About You	The Romantics	ParaMhor
2	Treasure	Bruno Mars	pejepeine
3	Girls, Girls, Girls	Sailor	magicman
4	Bathtime in Clerkenwell	The Real Tuesday Weld	Uncleben
5	Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?	Bud Flanagan	Loud Atlas
6	More, More, More	Carmel	vastariner
7	True	Spandau Ballet	amylee
8	Bloomsday	Samantha Crain	ParaMhor
9	Faraway Look	Yola	severin
10	Rocks	Primal Scream	happyclapper

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Are You Gonna Be My Girl	Jet	SweetHomeAlabama
2	Orange Amber	The Vines	IsabelleForshaw
3	Beautiful Stranger	Madonna	AltraEgo
4	Hold On	Alabama Shakes	swawilg
5	Uptown Girl	Billy Joel	SweetHomeAlabama
6	Come On Home	Everything but the Girl	swawilg
7	That Girl	Noisettes	SweetHomeAlabama
8	I Believe in a Thing Called Love	The Darkness	SweetHomeAlabama
9	Black Country	Black Country Communion	tincanman
10	Dead End Generation	Oxymoron	Carpgate

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Songs About Underwear

Mar. 17, 2021
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Knee Socks	Arctic Monkeys	Loud Atlas
2	Miss Dandys	Bandit Queen	Uncleben
3	Boys in Town	Divinyls	IsabelleForshaw
4	The Ballad of Tom Jones	Space	happyclapper
5	In Spite of Ourselves	John Prine & Iris DeMent	SkippyisaCult
6	Stockings	Suzanne Vega	OliveButler
7	See-Line Woman	Nina Simone	Nicko
8	Mansize	PJ Harvey	happyclapper
9	There Is a City	Hang on the Box	TarquinSpodd
10	Knickerbocker	Fujiya & Miyagi	Shoegazer
11	Equalisation of Trouser and Pant	Fela Kuti	pejepeine
12	The Ladies’ Bras	Jonny Trunk & Wisbey	megadom

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Underwear	Pulp	ToffeeBoy
2	Shiny Stockings	Sarah Vaughan	magicman
3	All That Jazz	Liza Minnelli	IsabelleForshaw
4	Help Me	Joni Mitchell	amylee
5	A Woman (Wearing Bloomers) on a Wheel	The National Youth Girls’ Choir of Great Britain	Loud Atlas
6	These Foolish Things	Bryan Ferry	magicman
7	Miss Freelove ’69	Hoodoo Gurus	IsabelleForshaw
8	Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree	The Move	ShivSidecar
9	Thong Song	Sisqo	amylee
10	Pasties and a G String (At the Two O’Clock Club)	Tom Waits	BanazirGalbasi
11	Black Stockings (For Chelsea)	The Sports	Nicko
12	Birthday	The Sugarcubes	severin

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Songs From or About Italy

Dec. 9, 2020
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	On Days Like These	Matt Monro	severin
2	Nel cimitero di Tucson	Gianfranco & Gian Piero Reverberi	SweetHomeAlabama
3	Assenza	Gianna Nannini	severin
4	500 (Shake, Baby, Shake)	Lush	happyclapper
5	Stop Bajon (Primavera)	Tullio De Piscopo	pejepeine
6	Jukebox	Fred Buscaglione	Pop Off!
7	Tu vuò fa’ l’americano	Renato Carosone	pejepeine
8	Mambo Italiano	Rosemary Clooney	TarquinSpodd
9	Little Italy	Stephen Bishop	ToffeeBoy
10	Scenes from an Italian Restaurant	Billy Joel	ToffeeBoy
11	Roman Road	Super Furry Animals	ShivSidecar
12	L’ombelico del mondo	Jovanotti	Makinavaja

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	What If We Went to Italy	Mary Chapin Carpenter	Loud Atlas
2	Lights of Taormina	Mark Knopfler	Ravi Raman
3	Dirty Talk	Klein & MBO	Uncleben
4	World in Motion	New Order	Noodsy
5	Nel blu, dipinto di blu (Volaré)	Domenico Modugno	SweetHomeAlabama
6	That’s Amore	Dean Martin	IsabelleForshaw
7	Isle of Capri	Frank Sinatra	magicman
8	Vesuvius	Sufjan Stevens	sonofwebcore
9	Echoes from the Canyon	Giuliano Sorgini	Traktor Albatrost
10	Nineteen in Naples	Jonathan Richman	Shoegazer
11	Il sole nella pioggia	Alice	TatankaYotanka
12	Impressioni di settembre	PFM	Daysinscotland

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Songs About the Evening

Sept. 9, 2020
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Evening in Atlantis	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	megadom
2	When the Sun Goes Down	The Ink Spots	Loud Atlas
3	Twilight Time	The Platters	SweetHomeAlabama
4	Music for Evenings	Young Marble Giants	megadom
5	Civil Twilight	The Weakerthans	Uncleben
6	Raymond Chandler Evening	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	megadom
7	One Evening	Feist	swawilg
8	Late in the Evening	Paul Simon	SweetHomeAlabama
9	Hot Stuff	Donna Summer	OliveButler
10	I Know a Place	Petula Clark	SweetHomeAlabama
11	I Like to Go Back in the Evening	Jack Jackson & His Orchestra	severin
12	Vespers	John Zorn	megadom
13	Evening Falls	Enya	Makinavaja
14	Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard	Eels	megadom

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	In the Evening	Led Zeppelin	swawilg
2	Melodie au crépuscule	Django Reinhardt	BanazirGalbasi
3	Half a World Away	R.E.M.	AltraEgo
4	Evening	Julie London	OliveButler
5	Don’t Fence Me In	Roy Rogers	IsabelleForshaw
6	The Gloaming	Seth Lakeman	Ravi Raman
7	Claudy Banks	Shirley Collins & the Albion Band	SkippyisaCult
8	Beechwood Park	The Zombies	TatankaYotanka
9	Darkest Dreaming	David Sylvian	ParaMhor
10	Passage at Dusk	Geoffrey Oryema	Nicko
11	Girl Don’t Come	Sandie Shaw	attwilightlarks
12	Coles Corner	Richard Hawley	florian7
13	Sunset	The xx	megadom
14	Evening Star	Roy Harper	ShivSidecar
15	Evening	Jimmy Witherspoon	Nicko

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Songs About Being Fat

Aug. 5, 2020
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Short Fat Fannie	Larry Williams	IsabelleForshaw
2	Mister Five by Five	Jimmy Rushing	Nicko
3	Fattie Bum-Bum	Carl Malcolm	Suzi
4	Brick House	Commodores	amylee
5	Fatty Patty	Lee Pickett & the Screamers	IsabelleForshaw
6	Built for Comfort	Howlin’ Wolf	sonofwebcore
7	Fat Boy	Billy Stewart	SweetHomeAlabama
8	All About That Bass	Postmodern Jukebox	Uncleben
9	Whole Lotta Rosie	AC/DC	Ravi Raman
10	Curvaceous Needs	Katzenjammer	Suzi

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Perfect 10	The Beautiful South	ToffeeBoy
2	Kiss My Fat Ass	Sheppard	IsabelleForshaw
3	Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others	The Smiths	Uncleben
4	Big Boned Gal	k.d. lang	ParaMhor
5	Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style	Bull Moose Jackson	swawilg
6	Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (with No Big Fat Woman)	Joe Tex	bishbosh
7	Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-A-Lot	amylee
8	Fat Man	Myron Lee & the Caddies	ShivSidecar
9	So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed	Ernest Tubb	TarquinSpodd
10	Happy Being Fat	Big Dee Irwin	OliveButler

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Songs About Hollywood

Apr. 22, 2020
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	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Hollywood	Erykah Badu	swawilg
2	Hollywood	Guy Clark	treefrogdemon
3	Hollywood Hopeful	Loudon Wainwright III	megadom
4	Little Hollywood Girl	The Everly Brothers	treefrogdemon
5	Hollywood	Lana Del Rey	megadom
6	Hollywood	Brigitte Fontaine	Pop Off!
7	Hollywood Nights	Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	Suzi
8	Red Dust	Screen 3	ShivSidecar
9	Sunset Boulevard	Terry Callier	Nicko
10	Hollywood Lawn	Jenny Lewis	TarquinSpodd
11	Hollywood	Codeine Velvet Club	Leaveitallbehind
12	Say Goodbye to Hollywood	Billy Joel	Marconius7

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Semi-Fraudulent Direct-from-Hollywood Overture	Frank Zappa	sonofwebcore
2	Hollywood Dreaming	Father’s Children	Nicko
3	Sunset Grill	Don Henley	IsabelleForshaw
4	Hollywood Dreaming	The Puppini Sisters	Pop Off!
5	Hollywood Seven	Jon English	IsabelleForshaw
6	Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)	Thin Lizzy	megadom
7	Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign	Dory Previn	barbryn
8	Holly Would	Jackie DeShannon	ShivSidecar
9	Ain’t Nobody Straight in L.A.	The Miracles	magicman
10	Dedicated to Bobby Jameson	Ariel Pink	Uncleben
11	Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings	Father John Misty	megadom
12	Hollywood Ending	Sleater-Kinney	megadom

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Songs About the Colour White

Oct. 30, 2019
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)	Marty Robbins	ajostu
2	White Horses	Jacky	9hairs9knots
3	White Bird	It’s a Beautiful Day	9hairs9knots
4	The White Tent, the Raft	Jane Siberry	TatankaYotanka
5	White Train	The dB’s	ShivSidecar
6	White Valiant	The Mutton Birds	Djinnjaha
7	White Socks / Flip-Flops	Super Furry Animals	happyclapper
8	White Keys	Chilly Gonzales	megadom
9	White Star Liner	Public Service Broadcasting	Suzi
10	White City	Day One	Alison Dempster

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	White Lightnin’	The Big Bopper	BanazirGalbasi
2	Unbearably White	Vampire Weekend	magicman
3	Into White	Cat Stevens/Yusuf	ajostu
4	White Lines	Six60	Djinnjaha
5	White Punks on Dope	The Tubes	megadom
6	White Belly	Belly	Derek Bum
7	White	Ken Nordine	BanazirGalbasi
8	White	The Cult	Bethnoir
9	White Horse	Laid Back	Pop Off!
10	White Overalls	La Düsseldorf	Uncleben

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Songs With Notable Key Changes

Oct. 9, 2019
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Stand	R.E.M.	MussoliniHeadkick
2	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	ParaMhor
3	Se telefonado	Mina	pejepeine
4	Love on Top	Beyoncé	magicman
5	If I Fell	The Beatles	megadom
6	Still Crazy After All These Years	Paul Simon	Suzi
7	Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye	Ella Fitzgerald	Daysinscotland
8	The Lark	Linda Lewis	pejepeine
9	Up – Up and Away	The 5th Dimension	magicman
10	Dizzy	Tommy Roe	ShivSidecar

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Hawaii Five-O	The Ventures	Uncleben
2	And She Was	Talking Heads	IsabelleForshaw
3	Don’t Sleep in the Subway	Petula Clark	magicman
4	Take My Breath Away	Berlin	Makinavaja
5	Politik	Coldplay	Noodsy
6	Fire in My Heart	Super Furry Animals	happyclapper
7	All Mine	Portishead	happyclapper
8	Hang ‘Em High	Booker T. & the M.G.’s	megadom
9	More Than a Feeling	Boston	ShivSidecar
10	All About Love	Peter and the Test Tube Babies	Carpgate

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Songs From Birmingham and the Black Country

May 15, 2019
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A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	I Must Be Mad	The Craig	ShivSidecar
2	We’re So Cool	Au Pairs	ParaMhor
3	Pouk Hill	Slade	TatankaYotanka
4	I Can’t Find Brummagem	Jon Wilks	vastariner
5	A Day in the Night	The Lilac Time	ParaMhor
6	Slow Blue	Fashion	AltraEgo
7	Sing to the Moon	Laura Mvula	severin
8	Plan B	Dexys Midnight Runners	Carpgate
9	The Osmonds	Denim	vanwolf2
10	The Riverboat Song	Ocean Colour Scene	attwilightlarks

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Rules and Regulations	We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It!!	vanwolf2
2	Moving On Up (On the Right Side)	Beverley Knight	pejepeine
3	God’s Footballer	Billy Bragg	megadom
4	Gimme Some Lovin’	The Spencer Davis Group	OliveButler
5	Can’t Get Used to Losing You	The Beat	vastariner
6	Blackberry Way	The Move	severin
7	Ordinary World	Duran Duran	AltraEgo
8	Across the Border	Electric Light Orchestra	magicman
9	Inside Out	The Mighty Lemon Drops	ParaMhor
10	Bloom	Victories at Sea	vanwolf2

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Bright Songs With Dark Topics

May 16, 2018
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Writer: philipphilip99
At: The Song Bar

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Celebration	Young Fresh Fellows	SweetHomeAlabama
2	You Got to Move	Reverend Gary Davis	tincanman
3	Girlfriend in a Coma	The Smiths	barbryn
4	Hearts & Crosses	Heavenly	uneasy listening
5	Suki, Suki, Daisuki	Jun Togawa	TarquinSpodd
6	I Love Pop Music	Ben Lee	SweetHomeAlabama
7	Chillout Tent	The Hold Steady	DarceysDad
8	The Right Profile	The Clash	AlBahooky
9	Lost Horizons	Gin Blossoms	amylee
10	Crash	The Primitives	SweetHomeAlabama

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	I Feel So Good	Richard Thompson	SweetHomeAlabama
2	I Was a Kamikaze Pilot	Hoodoo Gurus	Uncleben
3	So What	P!nk	outoftheblue
4	This Is America	Childish Gambino	DiscoMonster
5	Someone Keeps Moving My Chair	They Might Be Giants	SweetHomeAlabama
6	Going to Hell	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Skydog7
7	Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth	The Dandy Warhols	ShivSidecar
8	Cat o’ Nine	The Mighty Diamonds	Nicko
9	Amplifier	The dB’s	ShivSidecar
10	Going Down to Liverpool	Katrina and the Waves	amylee

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