The Cinerama Cup

    The second group of covers, etc. voted for  'Eurovision' style (see the previous post )... Preliminary Group 2 Larry's  Edinburgh 524 Fidelio Always The Quiet One Meet Cute Nickels And Dimes Back a Bit...Stop You Jane Deer Caught in the Headlights You're Dead Diamonds Are Forever Yesterday Once More Elenore There's a good reason why these songs have gone through this preliminary stage, and I'm sure the panel will be relieved when we get to the 'proper' groups. Dave, for example, found this set 'really difficult to rate, probably because about 7 of them deserved a 0.' Or, a s Kirk put it: 'This is a far weaker set of songs than the first lot and I'd easily give them all zeros if I could. The worst thing about this round was having to listen to some of these more than once to rank them against each other.' Steve M's view: 'When the third "best" song gets on the virtual podium because (as I scribbled down) it has ...

   To streamline the process a little bit, we're going to spend the first couple of posts considering the 25 songs that are either covers, early versions of what became TWP recordings or tracks from the 2015 version of Valentina . The panel were asked for 'Eurovision' style votes (i.e. 12, 10, 8, 7, 6....). The winner from each of these two groups, plus the highest-scoring runner-up, will join the other 61 songs in the first 'proper' stage. Preliminary Group 1 Mystery Date Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) The Girl From the DDR All The Things She Said End Credits Spangle Cita a Ciegues Stop Thief! Mars Sparkles Down On Me The Name of the Game Erinner Dich London The Results Not surprisingly, tracks from  Valentina dominated the bottom half of the table. Whilst most of us admire Gedge's willingness to try something a bit different, it has to be said that the album is not exactly a fan favourite... Inconsequential instrumental 'Cita a Ciegues' (described...

  After spending nine months forensically evaluating the back catalogue of The Wedding Present , it's time to do something similar with Cinerama... The panel of judges is very similar to the TWP one: Mandy and Ali are bowing out, but we welcome Dave, Marc, Derek, Chris, Jona and Phil aboard. Format The process will largely follow the same structure as the TWP Cup, but we are going to have a prelimary stage this time. There are 86 songs (as covered in my And Guess What I Found blog), 25 of which are either cover versions or early versions of what became TWP songs (e.g. 'Always The Quiet One' and 'Edinburgh'). These 25 will go into two preliminary groups of 12/13, which will be voted on 'Eurovision' style (12 / 10 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 points).  The two winners, plus the highest scoring runner-up, will join the remaining 61 tracks in eight groups of eight. The voting in this stage will be similar to stage 2 of the TWP Cup : The panel must award a to...