Simon Said (Set my people free) July 2009
This is the Simon said game play thread, a completely new and totally distinct game about finding and sharing great music. All styles and genres are welcome and encouraged. Any similarities to games you may have previously played are purely coincidental.
The game is designed to be an interesting long term no pressure distraction. You should be able to play at your own personal whim. It will be easy to disappear for weeks or months but pick up the game later with no difficulty.
Rules for the Simon said game
The purpose of the game is not to win but to play
It is based on the honor system so competition junkies may not find it fulfilling
The premise is simple
You win points by finding and making good music recommendations within an unspecified website. The boundaries of the game are limited only to the boundaries of the unspecified website. You make recommendations by posting in this and other threads, creating lists, linking to samples etc. In short, the whole of your existence on the unspecified website is included in game play. Consequently, people who don't even know they are playing can possibly win the game (and most likely will do so).
When someone likes your recommendations enough to download songs you've recommended they award points to you by:
1. Downloading the music (one point per track)
2. Creating and posting the downloaded music in a public list titled "Simon said" & indicating which month and year the points are awarded
3. Posting a notice within the game play thread listing the name and number of points awarded
It is extremely important that you create your Simon said list. This allows the rest of us to easily browse through the great music you have found. Including additional information and links back to the source of your find will help others find music they love as well.
As the game play lists for participants begins to grow they will serve as a beacon to folks as they sift through the unspecified website. When you click on a Simon said list you are viewing recommendations that have been vetted by the marketplace of ears.
On the last day of the month the player with the most cumulative points gets to sit in the chair of honor (Throne) for the following month. With this honor the winner receives the privilege of selecting one download that all game participants are honor bound to download and listen. The theory behind this is the winner will select a song that he/she feels is really important or good or simply in need of attention. The benefit to the rest of us is that we spend one download to buy a song we might otherwise have never downloaded and perhaps find some new music to enjoy.
With this winner's privilege also comes responsibilities. The named winner will function as the game play thread host/janitor. The duties are simply to reign over the game play thread. The winner is expected to:
1. Keep the game play thread near the front page so it can easily be found by posting to the thread during lulls in activity
2. Greet and instruct n00bies
3. Render judgments and interpretations on the finer points of game play
4. There are no known glitches at this website but one occurs you should ping the benevolent dictator
5. Keep yourself from becoming some sort of fascist.
The game is designed to be an interesting long term no pressure distraction. You should be able to play at your own personal whim. It will be easy to disappear for weeks or months but pick up the game later with no difficulty.
Rules for the Simon said game
The purpose of the game is not to win but to play
It is based on the honor system so competition junkies may not find it fulfilling
The premise is simple
You win points by finding and making good music recommendations within an unspecified website. The boundaries of the game are limited only to the boundaries of the unspecified website. You make recommendations by posting in this and other threads, creating lists, linking to samples etc. In short, the whole of your existence on the unspecified website is included in game play. Consequently, people who don't even know they are playing can possibly win the game (and most likely will do so).
When someone likes your recommendations enough to download songs you've recommended they award points to you by:
1. Downloading the music (one point per track)
2. Creating and posting the downloaded music in a public list titled "Simon said" & indicating which month and year the points are awarded
3. Posting a notice within the game play thread listing the name and number of points awarded
It is extremely important that you create your Simon said list. This allows the rest of us to easily browse through the great music you have found. Including additional information and links back to the source of your find will help others find music they love as well.
As the game play lists for participants begins to grow they will serve as a beacon to folks as they sift through the unspecified website. When you click on a Simon said list you are viewing recommendations that have been vetted by the marketplace of ears.
On the last day of the month the player with the most cumulative points gets to sit in the chair of honor (Throne) for the following month. With this honor the winner receives the privilege of selecting one download that all game participants are honor bound to download and listen. The theory behind this is the winner will select a song that he/she feels is really important or good or simply in need of attention. The benefit to the rest of us is that we spend one download to buy a song we might otherwise have never downloaded and perhaps find some new music to enjoy.
With this winner's privilege also comes responsibilities. The named winner will function as the game play thread host/janitor. The duties are simply to reign over the game play thread. The winner is expected to:
1. Keep the game play thread near the front page so it can easily be found by posting to the thread during lulls in activity
2. Greet and instruct n00bies
3. Render judgments and interpretations on the finer points of game play
4. There are no known glitches at this website but one occurs you should ping the benevolent dictator
5. Keep yourself from becoming some sort of fascist.
Comments
Well it looks like all we need now is an independence day monarch to get things started. I could appoint myself but that doesn't seem quite right.
This thread seems to be headed in the right direction. Thom seems to have a lot of nice recommendations.
So by the power vested in me by this here keyboard I proclaim Thom to be King of Simon Said
I'm off to have me share of outdoor cookin
Linky
I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
Title track
I have three or four Gorka CDs, but this is my favorite and the only one I have that is currently over there.
Mommio - you'd think the "whisper your comments" box would be self-explanatory, but I was interpreting it as a general address box. I did click the BBCode button when I originally inserted the URL, but it didn't work.
I downloaded that Celebrate America I mentioned somewhere earlier and truly amazed myself when I realized I was dancin' around to Old MacDonald Had a Farm - hate to admit that! This really is a very, very fun album. Excellent muscianship. O Susannah and I've Been Working on the Railroad have some really great sax, and This Land Is Your Land is beautifully done. Even Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is nicely done.
JUJ - I'm glad to see there's a way to keep in touch! Been missing you 'over there.'
I'm not sure how the Whisper works -- I think it's like a private message. I'm puzzled. I'm guessing it shows up only to the person addressed? You might want to make sure that post is for everyone so JUJ sees it. Just leave the Whisper box empty to post to the whole community.
Three new Americana/alt.country/Singer Songwriter albums some of you might be interested in.
Chuck Mead, of BR-549 Journeyman's Wager
Slaid Cleaves Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Charlie Robison Beautiful Day This is his divorce album apparently, but sounds pretty upbeat on a quick listen!
@NackerP - madhatter should get credit for the Esquivel rec.
Oh, good heads up. Except they already are. My SFL is shot to hell.
sob
So is it King JUJ or King Thom? Good to see you all, no matter the answer!
Edited for JUJ's eyes. :)
JUJ is allergic, breaks out in hives every time that name comes up.
Linky
And Teddy Pendegrass had many great enduring solo hits after his departure from the group. But artistically, he never attained the level created in this group. Teddy is just a vocalistic beast (think George Foreman and Mike Tyson's love child.)
I got the album with that picture of the group one year for Christmas as a young lad. But this album is a compilation (That is one of my minor disgruntlements with So-Nee mixing and matching original photos with later incarnations) but this album is better than the original. I might encourage you to spring for another download and pickup Be For Real which, inexplicably is not included on your compilation.
There is jazz, blues, soul and a bunch of other shit all mixed together. This music is Gamble and Huff Philly Soul in all its resplendent glory.
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And the bassline in I Miss You is a classic standard that is studied to this day.
All 15 tracks from Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes -- a most excellent recommendation. Some of the songs, of course, are familiar to me. I remember when Teddy Pendergrass was in the auto accident. It was so hard to believe he was paralyzed from the waist down. Thanks, JUJ, for the recommendation.
The full album (Blue Notes and Ballads) comes through in iTunes as Rock. Can you believe it?
I read a post from Katrina, back in april (I think) recommending Bitter:Sweet. Only just got round to downloading Mating Game and am loving it.
11 points to Katrina
Mating Game
edit - hope this link works, thanks mommio - although the BBC button didn't seem to work
As for the links, go back and edit your post. Click the BBC button Underneath the "Enter your comment" box and Voila! Your link now looks like a real link.
Edit: The BBC button did work. I just didn't explain that the submitted post will look right, not your comment box. I just leave the BBCode button selected all the time.
Now for a recommendation:
Eleven Songs by Luka Bloom.
There are 14 tracks, as the final 3 tracks are eMusic only bonuses (sorry, I said it, didn't I?) I have been a fan since he released Riverside, one of my favorite CDs. Alas, his early albums are not available at the site (Warner label). Luka is one of my "companions" on the highway.
Mommio, thanks for pointing out Luka Bloom's 'Eleven Songs.' I very much like his previous albums, 'Keeper of the Flame,' 'Between the Mountain and the Moon,' and 'Innocence,' but had not really investigated 'Eleven Songs' yet. I'll have to do that.
Linky
We're a third of the way through July, and how's everyone doing?
Madhatter - 28
jackedUPjazz - 15
Confused - 14
Katrina - 11
kez - 7
frogkopf - 2
And remember people, have fun (linky - just grab the first track, skip the silly 12 credit remixes)
One of your duties as King of Simon Sed is to identify one track that all game participants are honor bound to download.
However, what with downloads costing a whole lot more there may not be quite as much honor as one would hope.
Linky
Anywho, you gave us the point count for a number of participants but you didn't tell us what you downloaded because of their recommendations.
I am very curious
3 to amclark2 for Bembaya Jazz National's Regard sur le Pass