Latest news (15th December 2008):

 

Coldplay (Coldplaying) vs. Green Day (Green Day Community)

 

Voting begins 9.15pm (GMT) on Tuesday 16th December

 

VOTING: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/rockoff/index.html

 

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Congratulations; Coldplaying has been chosen by the judging panel to go through to the on-air rounds of the Absolute Rock-Off!

 

Your forum will now go into a playoff against another. The matches will open on Ben Jones’s show over the next week or so, and then Absolute Radio listeners will have a day to vote on their favourite playlist. The winner will then go through to the next round.

 

To find out who you’re up against and when, as well as vote in all of the on-air rounds (including those of your potential rivals), go to http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/rockoff. The playoff list will be added over the next couple of hours once we’ve let everyone know that they’re through.

 

 

 

 

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FINAL SUBMISSION - COMPLETE // LATEST 23RD NOVEMBER 2008

 

1) Coldplay - Politik

2) Radiohead - High And Dry

3) Coldplay - Shiver

4) Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

5) Coldplay - The Scientist

6) U2 - With Or Without You

7) Oasis - Wonderwall

8) Coldplay - Viva La Vida

9) The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

10) Coldplay - Amsterdam

11) The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

12) Coldplay - Lovers In Japan

 

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UPDATE:

 

Brief: The Coldplaying forum needs to collectively submit 12 songs to Absolute Radio for a Coldplaying playlist for the forthcoming Rock-Off Competition, run against other major music forums. We need a mix of 6 Coldplay and 6 non-Coldplay tracks for the playlist, by 23rd November.

 

1) Please vote for all your favourite Coldplay tracks from the shortlist poll list provided... leaving out the ones you do NOT want to be submitted. The highest top 3 tracks from 2006 and earlier will be then be submitted, and also the two highest tracks from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.

 

2) Please choose a wildcard entry - the name of ONE Coldplay track that is not included in the poll - and send it via PM to mimixxx HERE. The Track with the most wildcard votes will become the 6th Coldplay track to be submitted.

 

3) For 6 non-Coldplay tracks, please vote then add your suggestions to this thread.

 

4) All actions above to be done by 20th November 2008 at the latest.

 

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You Internet-dwellers, you like your music. You congregate on band forums to talk about the acts that you like. You’ll argue for ten pages over whether Foo Fighters or Nirvana were better. You'll dedicate threads to your favourite tracks, song meanings and music gossip. In other words, your music knowledge is pretty exceptional.

 

So here’s a serious challenge. We’re trying to find which music forum has the best taste in music. A grandiose claim, you may say… well, yes it is.

 

That’s what this Rock-Off is about. We want you to decide, as a forum, what you think your ultimate playlist would be. It should be a list of 12 songs, with 6 songs from the band your forum is dedicated to. You can only submit one playlist per forum, so you’ll need to battle it out amongst yourselves before your forum administrator submits your playlist.

 

After a selection process to whittle it down to 16 playlists, we’ll then pit forums against each other in rounds of online voting. Represent your forum by coming along to vote!

 

Ever made a mix tape? If the answer is yes, you’ll know that the order of your songs is really important. The same applies to your ultimate playlist… especially when you consider that the winning Rock-Off playlist will be played out in full on a special Absolute Radio show on Monday 22 December at 9pm! Not only that, but the winning forum will receive on-air promotion throughout the show, plus Absolute Radio will dedicate the entire day to that forum’s dedicated artist. Not bad eh?

 

Want to enter? Read some important stuff here.

 

http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/rockoff/index.html

 

Entering

 

The Rock-Off is open to all UK and international internet forums who are dedicated to a music artist.

 

The competition opens at 4.30pm (GMT) on Sunday 9 November 2008.

 

The playlist submitted for entry must be on behalf of the forum, not you as an individual.

 

Only one playlist is permitted from each forum and must be submitted by a forum administrator or moderator. (As part of the entry process, you’ll have to include the forum thread(s) showing the discussion your forum had.)

 

Your playlist has to be made up of 12 songs, with 6 of those from the artist your forum is dedicated to.

 

Your playlist must be submitted via the appropriate page on the Absolute Radio site by 4.30pm (GMT) on Sunday 23 November 2008.

 

All valid playlists that are submitted will be featured on the Absolute Radio website, along with web link to the relevant forum.

 

SelectionAfter the closing date, we’ll look at all the playlists from all the forums, to select those 16 that will make it through to the knock-out stage.

 

Your playlist will be looked at by the Absolute Radio Rock-Off panel – made up of five members of the Absolute Radio team: Ben Jones, Head of Music, Station Producer, Music Editor and Community Manager.

 

As a minimum, your playlist has to be made up of 12 songs, with 6 of those from the artist your forum is dedicated to.

 

Like every good music show, order of the songs is important. Give consideration to this.

 

We also need to see that your playlist is a true forum effort, so make sure plenty of your forum users contribute to a lively discussion in the forum thread you submit with your entry.

 

Taking all these factors into consideration, the panel will then select 16 forum playlists to go into the knock out.

 

Voting

 

Playlists from 16 forums will be selected to take part in the knock-out stage.

 

The knock-out stage will take place over 4 rounds, and will start at 4.30pm (GMT) on Sunday 30 November 2008. Matches will be played between Sundays and Fridays.

 

Winners in each match will be chosen by the public by way of an online vote at absoluteradio.co.uk/rockoff. Each match vote will be open for 23.5 hours, between 9.00pm (GMT) and 8.30pm (GMT) the following day, except matches that run from Sunday-Monday where they will be open for 28 hours, between 4.30pm (GMT) and 8.30pm (GMT) the following day.

Only one vote per person per match is permitted.

 

The winner of each match will be announced on-air at 9.00pm (GMT) Monday-Friday and at 4.30pm (GMT) on Sundays.

 

Prize

 

The forum who submit the winning Rock-Off playlist, as voted for by the Absolute Radio listeners and users, will win a special show Absolute Radio on Monday 22 December 2008 at 9.00pm (GMT).

 

The winning playlist will be played out in full on-air in a show presented by Ben Jones, and the winning forum will receive on-air promotion for their website throughout the show. Absolute Radio will also dedicate the entire day to the winning forum’s dedicated artist.

 

These Rock-Off competition rules are to be used in conjunction with Absolute Radio's standard competition rules. Where there is any conflict, Rock-Off rules take precedence.

thanks! I was contacted by Absolute about this but never got any further info. Now its open I'll start promoting it! :D

 

Everyone stick this in your signatures to link to this thread! :D

 

 

Anyone able to help organise this before we need to submit a collective Coldplaying playlist before 23rd November?

Oooh :wideeyed:

 

I can help :D

ooh, i'll help you mich, if you want! :D

 

and BEN JONES is head of music? like THE BEN JONES? our CPing friend? :stunned: :lol:

that's pretty cool. think we might have an in? :sneaky: :P

Of course I want :D

 

And maybe you're right... :sneaky: :P

A poll for the top 6 Coldplay songs might be a good idea. How we're going to choose another 6 songs I have no idea.

I can suggest music! :wideeyed:

A poll for the top 6 Coldplay songs might be a good idea. How we're going to choose another 6 songs I have no idea.

good idea, previous polls before VLV to give everyone a starting point were as follows

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2895

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35155

The points system seems work well. We could use that as a template and the 6 that come out top are our picks :idea2:

oh cool! if i can help let me know!

good idea, previous polls before VLV to give everyone a starting point were as follows

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2895

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35155

 

should there be a new huge poll like that to pick the songs WITH VLVOD included? :thinking:

 

and i have no idea how to even go about suggesting other artists' songs to pick :freak:. i feel like i can predict what they're going to be generally (a radiohead, an oasis, a muse, etc etc), but i don't know how to go about fairly picking them.

A new poll to include the songs from VLVODAAHF sounds like a good idea!

it wasn't a poll, rather a list submitted by PM

it wasn't a poll, rather a list submitted by PM

 

Oh, sorry, I'm not concentrating. Anyway, whatever it was, I think that would be the best way to work out a list.

not enough time I don't think. That would require someone to organise it, wait for enough lists and then spend time publishing them. And even then it only covers the 6 coldplay songs. Our 12-song playlist needs to be submitted in 9 days :(

Re: picking songs by other artists

 

We could give some suggestions for each artists, like this:

 

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

Oasis - Wonderwall

Radiohead - Creep

Keane - Crystal Ball

 

until we got some suggestions by each artists, and then we'd vote which of them should we choose.

 

Like this:

 

Radiohead poll:

Creep

Idioteque

Karma Police

15 Step

The Bends

 

etc.

Hmm.

 

Well since we've already got the results for pre-VLV Coldplay songs...could we not take the top ten or so of those and then the VLV tracks and put them in a poll. It's a bit of a ghetto way of doing it but since we're short of time and all...?

a massive poll with all four albums songs?????

 

too much?? :thinking:

Ooh, I am a music mad crazy guy, lol, so I will help as much as you need me! :D

 

Here's some of my faves of all time (None Coldplay)

 

Oasis- Wonderwall

Verve- Bittersweet Symphony

Muse- Starlight

Keane- Somewhere Only We Know

Razorlight- America

The Killers- Mr Brightside

Orson- No Tomorrow

Kooks- Naive

Jet- Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Green Day- Boluvard of Broken Dreams

Embrace- Natures Law

Arctic Monkeys- I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

Snow Patrol- Chasing Cars

Athlete- Wires

The Fray- How To Save A Life

Yeah. The Coldplay side will be easy to organise. The other music part will be far more arduous.

That discounts new artists though.

 

Could be a starting point though. Might speed things up :idea2:

update from the organisers ;)

 

(can imagine Ben'll be keen to push the cause of Coldplaying when it comes to selection time too, so no pressure, but come up with a great playlist!)

:lol:

 

No pressure :P

:dozey:

 

but no pressure!!!!!!!!!! :lol: