Antony Green's Take 5 songs:

1. Traffic — The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
2. The Pretenders — Up the Neck
3. Pete Shelley — Telephone Operator
4. Simple Minds — I Travel
5. D:Ream — Things Can Only Get Better

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17769069

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to https://feedbeat.me/@Pe and https://mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:

• Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - [email protected])
• Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - [email protected] )
• Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - [email protected])
• Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - [email protected])
• Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
• Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
• Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
• Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - [email protected])
• Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!

I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/wvzg8d

I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:

• Piped: https://watch.leptons.xyz/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

• Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - [email protected])
• Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - [email protected] )
• Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - [email protected])
• Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - aussie.zone)
• Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
• Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
• Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
• Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - [email protected])
• Flong!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!

Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!

I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/wvzg8d

I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:

• Piped: https://watch.leptons.xyz/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U

The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!

Cheers!

20 years since he died. This is a YouTube doco remembering his life. I remember feeling like I had lost a friend when he died. Was a great Melbourne character and an amazing drummer.

This post is for voting on /c/rage's Lemmyvision 2 song nomination.

Over the past few weeks, our community has submitted nominations, and we have until April 1 to pick a winner. Our Lemmyvision representative, @Gorgritch_umie_killa, has delegated our election to an independent agency, the Aussie.zone Eureka Commission (AEC).

Anyone who has recently commented a few times on aussie.zone before today is allowed to vote. (This includes, for example, some quokk.au users and various Australian Lemmy users on other instances)

This election uses preferential Instant-Runoff Voting^[wiki]^ just like our federal elections. Put simply, this means that if your [1] choice has no chance of election, your vote then runs over to your [2] choice, and so on, so there's no disadvantage in picking an unpopular song you love for your first votes, your vote is not 'wasted' at all. Vote sincerely.

A couple of the nominations weren't released during 2024, we've received confirmation from the organiser that they're allowed!

Here are the entries. Please listen to them all before voting:

• Tanzer - International
• TISM - '70s Football
• Budjera - Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense
• San Cisco - Under The Light (released 2023)
• Amyl and the Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
• Gurridyula - From the river to the sea
• Tom Cardy - Transcendental Cha Cha Cha
• The Wiggles - Friends of Dorothy (released 2025)
• MUDRAT - I HATE RICH CUNTS ^+^ ^live^ ^performance^
• Heleina Zara - Boundaries

Here is the ballot template for you to fill in. Copy and paste it as a new reply to this post, and number ALL boxes from 1 to 10 in order of your choice. [1] is your first preference, [10] is your last preference.

___
**LemmyVision 2 /c/rage Nomination Ballot**

Place a number inside the box next to ALL songs, ranking them from 1 to 10 in order of preference.
```java
[]  Tanzer - International
[]  TISM - ʹ70s Football
[]  Budjera - Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense
[]  San Cisco - Under The Light
[]  Amyl and the Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
[]  Gurridyula - From the river to the sea
[]  Tom Cardy - Transcendental Cha Cha Cha
[]  The Wiggles - Friends of Dorothy
[]  MUDRAT - I HATE RICH CUNTS
[]  Heleina Zara - Boundaries
```
___

The grand event, Lemmyvision 2 is about a week away, which means we need to decide on aussie.zone's winning nomination!

Lots of nominations this year! I've definitely found a few songs i'll be listening to more!

So, we'll have to collate them, and whack em up in some kind of final nominations list to vote on them.

If anybody has an idea for how we should vote for the nominations please say.

I think we should aim to get that post up and nominations voting on by tomorrow night.

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision 2025 here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

It's actually pretty hard to find any recent Australian songs that fit the mould of a Eurovision pop song!

The Queen needs to take the crown

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision 2025 here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

Recording of live performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_SGokVz74

Melbourne zydeco band. I remember dancing to these guys as a kid at the Espy Pub around '88, when the Espy was still a fun working pub for all.

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision 2025 here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision 2025 here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

Visually spectacular, lyricially nonsensical, very much in the vein of Eurovision fodder.

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

(You can find this community’s post about Lemmyvision here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

(You can find this comm's post about Lemmyvision here: https://aussie.zone/post/18201953)

This Time its Personal!

Below is from the Jlai.lu post. The links playing funny buggers.

Hey everyone!

I hope you've had a wonderful year and are ready to discover new music, because the Lemmyvision song contest return now for its second edition! For those not in the loop, read below to learn more about this Lemmy Event:

TL;DR

• From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country’s community on Lemmy about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in this community by makign a new thread.
• On April 2nd, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On April 8th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use [email protected] for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

What is Lemmyvision?

Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).

Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that’s awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.

Last year, an exception was made for the programming.dev Lemmy community to participate by sending a song related to their main interest (they sent a video game soundtrack), if your community does not represent a specific country or language but wants to participate by sending a song related to your instance center of interest, you're welcome to do so! For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone could send a song composed by a Queer person!

How it works:

This post, and the [email protected] community will be open until April 1st, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. Lemmy communities who want to participate have the responsibility to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for the contest. On April 2nd, the songs will be locked in. A playlist will be created to allow you to listen to all of the submitted songs, and communities will be invited to vote on their favourite. The voting is estimated to last for about a week. On April 8th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone’s favourite songs!

I don’t expect countries with a “small” population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don’t have a community and are just a small group of people, or if your country is not even on Lemmy but another platform (Kbin and whatnot), I can make exceptions, just reach out!

Regional languages are welcome as well! Basque, Welsh, Cherokee... You’re welcome to promote a non official language instead!

Song submission:

• Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
• Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your community.
• If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your choice, or a regional language of your choice.
• Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2024).
• Songs must not be international hits^[1]^.
• Submit your songs in their own thread in this community
• Verification will just require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it’s a community (not a single person’s) decision.

[1] this is to prevent drama that happened in the past on Reddit, where Germany sent a Rammstein song and obviously won. It's up to my own appreciation of what international hit means, because it's hard to measure (metrics on youtube or spotify aren't the same), but I'm pretty lenient, just ask me if you're not sure, better to discuss it than argue

Voting:

• Voting will be done through a form created on tally.so.
• I will set up the form near the end of the month, and share it in a new announcement post when the time has come.
• If you're worried about privacy, there will be no questions about personal data, and last year I deleted the form and its results a week after the event was done.

On Federation:

I don’t discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that’s totally fine. Additionally, if you’re on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you’re able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you’re welcome to join us, I’d just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it’s easier to track participations.

Would you like to help?

Last year went really well, and I managed to handle the thing alone. Programming.dev even helped with setting up the playlist! If you’d like to help in any way, please feel free to reach out, I’d love to have as many people as possible involved!!

Cheers!