Email. I haven’t found a form-based method that’s as straightforward for this particular purpose, and for this comp I’m all about going with what’s simplest for me to deal with.
“… wanted to write a game for ‘Eleanor Rigby’, … the only song I got that I ever heard of was ‘The Hustle’.”
“(deletes Eleanor Rigby from playlist)”
“A real coincidence is that I was listening to Eleanor Rigby as I read this thread …”
“I’m going to submit a playlist full of Kate Bush songs …”
So much for discovering exciting new artists. I hope some playlists contain songs that have been released in the past two decades! Hold on a minute … checking my submissions … Paul Evans and the Curls … The Dixie Cups … Guess I better turn on a modern music station myself.
Neil
Well I hope exciting new artists for you to discover doesn’t necessarily mean released in the past two decades! I went aggressively hipster-obscure with most of my non-Kate Bush selections and some of them are very old. And there’s something worthwhile about introducing “Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat” to some unsuspecting victim.
I may or may not graph release dates once this is all said and done. (Based on what I’m seeing thus far, I’d expect the main cluster to be in the 90s-00s.)
I’m a bit concerned (not least with my own playlist submission) that this will go down as the “musical sadism” compo.
Thank your lucky stars I wasn’t able to find a YouTube clip of the Piltdown Man “Klingon opera” bit from Tubular Bells, side 2. But oh, I looked.
Is this what you’re referring to? (I prefer the original version to this 2003 rerecording but I could only find takedown notices of that on the 'Tube.)
That is indeed the guttural intonation I was referring to. I knew there were some revised versions of it from Mr. Oldfield’s subsequent returns to the same well, but I wanted the original! This is admittedly pretty effective at capturing the spirit of the first take.
But if I had included it I would be apologising to the person assigned it, rather than apologising for omitting it!