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Yup. I had to bring it back. Need the soul back for R&B challenge

Poll will be up for 4 Days. If you suggested a song, please vote for something that somebody else suggested.

Let's Stay Together by Al Green

She's Out of My Life by Michael Jackson

All of Me by John Legend

6, 8, 12 by Brian McKnight

If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys

This will be up for 4 days. If you recommended one of these songs, vote for a song you didn't suggest.

Here are the choices:

Purple Rain by Prince

Alright Now by Free

Hot Blooded by Foreigner

Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen

Your Song by Elton John

Silent Lucidity by Queensryche

My Hero by Foo Fighters

Tried to give it a few more days, but it looks like this is what we're going to have. Poll will go up in several hours, and we'll vote on our chalenge songs for July.

First Rock choice:

Silent Lucidity by QueenScryche

Going to be combining all my choices into one post later on.

First R&B song choice:

6 8 12 by Brian McKnight

I'd think Purple Rain would count as Rock. What do I know, though?

Prince is fantastic. I love this song below, but it's not right for an R&B challenge song. Especially for people who aren't used to doing high stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Warner-Bros-Do-Me-Baby/dp/B001QUNB22

Only a 30 second clip there, but it's marvelous. I bought that song a few years ago, but can't seem to find the full version playing on the net anywhere.

Looks like we're going to move things back again. Suggestions will end on the 5th and we'll vote from the 5th to the 9th.

Still no suggestions? What's up? Is everybody trying to take a month off? O.o

I've seen that. It's a completely different technique, but it might be nice to try.

I'll look into it.

Hey all,

I had been thinking about adding a few new genres or categories to our challenge possibilities. Bono brought it up the other day, so I know I'm not alone now. I'm wondering who else is thinking about this.

I've been thinking about certain specialty challenges. These are ones where everybody doesn't have to do the same song. For example, with 4th of July approaching, here in the United States, and this being an international forum, I thought about the idea of a National challenge, where everybody picks a song that has to do with the country they live in. For example, I might do something like Georgia by Ray Charles.

Maybe a celebration challenge that focuses on holidays would be cool too.

Bono already brought up musicals. Does anybody else have any ideas?

Yeah, it's all about trying. The point is to be out of your element, in some shape or form, often. Speaking of that, where's everyone at with this? Who's working on it?

Hey all,

The four days of voting have passed. The genres for this month will be R&B and Rock.

For the next 3 days, you should suggest songs in here. You can suggest two songs for each genre.

After the 3-day period is up, we will open a poll for 4 days. Everyone will vote for a song that they didn't suggest, and that's how we will decide things.

Good feedback. I wanted to throw something up, so I did this all in 10 minutes. I'm not done with it.

Just a few acapella attempts. I intend to record this to music.

Did two with an R&B style and one with a theater/operatic vibe.

The plan is below, everyone. Let's do it 8)

We are now voting for the genres we will be singing in July. We'll be doing two genres again. Voting will be open for 4 days. Voting will close on the 29th in this case.

Voting will open for song selection on the 29th. It will be open for 3 days. This won't be a poll. Everybody can suggest two songs for each genre, just like before. This will end on the 2nd.

Voting for the challenge songs will open on the 2nd, and it will run for 4 days. From July 2nd to July 6th.

The challenge for July will begin on the 6th.

Alright, cool, Bono. Looks like you're the only one who responded, so this is what we're going to do from now on.

I'm always interested in new genre ideas. I think we could use a couple more. Maybe I'll make a topic where everyone can talk about that. Musicals would be great. I also think a holiday music challenge. would be really cool.

Great job so far, everybody! I should be dropping in my stuff in this next week. Also, please go to this topic and see if you're alright with this new challenge schedule:

Hey all,

I thought now would be a good time to suggest how things are going to go down for next month. Being short on time and the fact that people just don't log in every single day sometimes, I think it would be good to make things clear ahead of time, so people know how selection will go down before it's time for selection.

So, what the plan has been is that voting for new genres would  open up on the 26th of the month. July's challenge is meant to start on July 6th. June's challenge also ends on July 6th.

I think the final solution we can use here, so that from now on we can vote for everything, will be this:

Let's open voting on the 25th of the month from now on. Let's open voting on June 25th, which will be for genre selection. We'll be doing two genres again. Voting will be open for 4 days. Voting will close on the 29th in this case.

Voting will open for song selection on the 29th. It will be open for 3 days. This won't be a poll. Everybody can suggest two songs for each genre, just like before. This will end on the 2nd.

Voting for the challenge songs will open on the 2nd, and it will run for 4 days. From July 2nd to July 6th.

The challenge for July will begin on the 6th.

Does everybody think this is good? If not, make it clear. Remember, I am merely the facilitator of these challenges. I try to organize things in a way to try to keep everyone involved.

These are the genres, once again.

R&B

Rock

Country

Blues

Pop

Folk

Jazz
 

Gospel

We did Rock in May. We are currently doing Country and Jazz. That still leaves Blues, Pop, Folk, R&B, and Gospel. Remember, the goal of these challenges is to get everybody doing different things. We want everybody to get out of their element and get them used to doing this stuff. This will allow as many people to get involved as possible, because the people who use this forum don't all listen to the same stuff, and, if the goal is to learn something other than what you're used to, plus still having the chance for your genre(s) of choice to be chosen, we're really including people (and there's also the fact that, for example, if Country is one of the chosen challenge genres, you don't have to sing a Country song like a Country song here. If your favorite genre is Rock or R&B, you can sing the challenge songs in those styles).

Country and Jazz were this month, so they will not be choices for this next month, just like Rock wasn't a choice for June. Rock will be back on the ballot this month. Of course, Rock can be voted in again, but it's also important to note that there are several genres that have yet to receive their first shots. Let's make a solid effort to give everything a chance, folks. If it gets close to Christmas time, and we still have genres that we haven't done yet, things may need to be reevaluated.

So, if everyone is alright with what I proposed up there with the dates, then we will proceed. The topic regarding rules and guidelines will be edited, and this is what we'll go by from now on.. This topic will close on the 25th, and the genre voting topic will go up.

​Wow! Completely unexpected. In Brad's voice: "Anthony's got skills, y'all!".

​Fantastic job! So smooth, my man!

​Wow, Killer. Got the ball rolling already.

What I like is the idea of singing songs I don't know. Especially ones I never heard of before. Getting out of your comfort zone.

This may have some truth to it, but the goal of these challenges is to explore new, challenging things as much as we can. If it was all about turnout, that's what we'd do. It's about doing things we may not have tried under ordinary circumstances. As many people as possible need to feel involved in this though, so that's why there's voting. The random selection thing was only something that happened because people hadn't been posting in here for some days. People just happened to be suggesting the same things on the last day, and I didn't want anyone to feel cut out of it because they happened to not log in on that day. It's very important for people to have as much say in this as possible though, so there will be voting for the genre and the song selection for this July's challenge. Unless people seriously object to that and demand that random selection be used again

​Me as well. I've heard a few Nat songs before, but this one is new to me.

​I know you do, Bono. I was just explaining how things happened. I was going to have to end up typing up that explanation when talking about the whole strategy for selecting July's challenge songs, so it seemed like a good time to get that out of the way.

​Thanks. A lot of credit goes to "Random Thing Picker" for making an impartial decision

That's great. Sounds like Gnee ended up really liking Feeling Good.

​I think you did mention this to me before. You said she was tall.

​Damn right, Elvis. Like Brad might say, "Get er' done!"