Awesome! We will reserve David Bowie for you don't worry

Well when it comes to the vote, and it's difficult to decide because you are not familiar with the artists, you would just YouTube a track, try to listen to the whole thing and decide if it is something you might normally like or not. Also if someone goes for a list of predominantly black/doom metal bands and another goes for punk, you decide which of the genres you prefer more or dislike least if neither are your cup of tea.

Yeah, let's see what others have to say first though..

I am not sure exactly how that would work. I think maybe it's better if people went for their favourite individual artists/bands, as opposed to a list of songs, because would you yourself not end up with a list of mostly David Bowie songs? If not everyone here was a big fan of David Bowie, how would you get the vote? And because there are so many "best songs", the chances of losing out on your favourite band/artist cannot really happen, which to me would make the point of the draft a little, well, pointless? Or maybe I have misunderstood you and you could explain that a little more?

Well I think I see what you are saying there but I guess every participant would just try to make a list of 10-15 of their favourite artists, and when it comes to voting it's just a case of deciding whose music taste you prefer and if you don't really like either or are not familair with most of the choices, you could Youtube their "best" tracks and decide if it's something you would enjoy or not. If you think you would enjoy hardly anything from either list, then vote for the list you think you dislike the least or even abstain.

For me personally I enjoy a wide variety of genres/bands but I know what I like and don't like so I don't think voting would be an issue, but some of us will only prefer a certain genre so it makes it harder when voting others for sure..

Anyway let's see what others think first..

I can see your point but then to me, the idea of picking bands is.. you might want Black Sabbath on your list but then someone else grabs it before you, like someone else picked your favourite movie in the horror draft. To think you can still have Black Sabbath but just pick a different song doesn't make that part of the poll seem very competitive or interesting to me.

This is why I don't think it is the same as picking a director. If Alien is my favourite horror movie, I am still not going to pick Ridley Scott because the only other movie I like of his is Blade Runner and most of his other stuff which is non-horror, I couldn't really care less about. But I like pretty much all of Opeth's stuff, you will like most of Sabbath's stuff and I suspect Onyx loves pretty much all of Bowie's stuff. If someone else grabbed Bowie before her, her reaction would be "fuuuuuck!!" instead of "oh, nevermind I will just pick one of his other 100+ odd great songs.."

Yeah, so maybe let's put it to a vote as you suggest. Or, we treat this as a "trial" if you like, so we go with bands first time around, and try for songs next time.. no reason why not.

Hell thinking about it, we could actually still do one with directors, but for general movies of course, not just horror..

Yeah or as Ballz suggests, put up one YT link of the song you feel best represents them.

Yeah I like that idea, to save time .

Oh I do like me a bit of Sibelius and Beethoven, I'd vote for any list with them on .

Looks like there are 8-9 of us interested now, so will do something within the next week or so .

One song link per artist/band you have on the list will suffice. An example of what you consider to be their best song, not whole album. If someone happens to come across something they like, well maybe they will choose to check out more of their stuff and who knows, someone may discover something new they actually enjoy. However, for bands like Queen or artists like David Bowie, most will already be familiar with what they sound like and will either like them, think they are ok or will not like them, so maybe just do it for anything one considers to be a little obscure.

Well if you read some of the other comments, there is some debate over whether it should be a list of bands/artists+songs (so the band/artist can be picked numerous times) or simply just a list of bands/artists than can only be picked once. What dya reckon?

All good points. I'm totally with you.

OK so far we have:

markus-san
OnyxHades
Box_a_Hair
Tromafreak
Znep27
Ballz
Gymnopedie
zed
sfpx
ZombieCPA
Johan_WoW
foz
DerTables

I could swear Vincent was in too but his comment's been deleted, which would've made 14 and requiring another 2. Not sure how the play-off is going work here. Pity nicko is not around, he knows his music more than anyone else here.

Yeah probably towards the end of this month.