Gonna guess. :)

Jamie Cullum: Pointless Nostalgic
Kane: Spirit Boy, Rattlesnake Smile, In the Darkness (is that even the right title?)

How are you?

I almost put Pointless Nostalgic in as my second favourite but decided against it at the last minure.

Spirit Boy's right (and again, In The Darkness was a close second (why yes, I was listening to it when I named _inthedarkness *g*)

I'm feeling... tired right now. My sister was in a car crash last night, she's fine and the kids are fine (well, she has a fractured sternum - thank God for seatbelts - and my nephew has a nasty bruise where his seatbelt pinned him back, but they're okay) I spent most of last night waiting in the A&E department of the local hospital to make sure everything was okay.

Oh my goodness! I'm glad they're okay, even if they do have bumps and bruises to deal with. That's much better than any alternative I can think of.

Heh. I just realized it's three am here. I should go to bed...

Talk to you later!

Hee - go! sleep! And thank you.

That's good then. I've been worrying all day, hoping no-one was too seriously hurt.

They've taken my sister back in for more treatment. Her lung's collapsed and they need to re-inflate it. Everyone seems positive about it though.

Eeehhh, that's not too good then. I hope she's okay.

I also think a seperate award for each 'ship is a good idea. If a certain pairing doesn't get a lot of nominations/votes that's probably better than a not-so-good fic with a popular pairing winning over an amazing fic with an unpopular pairing. Such is the dark and fickle underbelly of the fanfiction voting community. Xander/Spike will probably overrun the whole thing if you don't split up the pairings. :p

I do have to admit to being a little surprised at some of the winners last time. There were a few stories that were just so mind bogglingly good that they should have decimated all competition. But hey, that's how awards usually go. I tend to think that if it isn't the Nobel Prize, it's probably more than a little skewed by who is the most popular, rather than who is actually "the best."

I agree in principle but on the other hand there are categories which, to the best of my knowledge, have had very little or no new fics posted since the last round. Those are the ones which only had two or three nominees anyway they may end up with no new nominations.

Possibly what I could do is at the nominations stage leave it completely open for 'ship fics and then when I compile the nominations to be ready for voting split them at that stage into further categories.

For example - say I get 30 nominations for het pairings (random number - hopefully there will be a lot more than that!). Ten of those are Xander/Buffy, ten are Xander/Faith, five are Xander/Willow, two are for Xander/Anya, two are for Xander/Dawn and one is for Xander/Cordy. From that I'd probably end up with four voting categories - Buffy, Faith, Willow and 'other'. With the same being the case for slash fics.

That would mean the person nominating would have to provide the pairing as well as a link to the fic...

Hmmm, okay I'm actually mulling this over in my head as I type - it could well be the way to go.

Nightswimming's right, Black was one of the tracks I considered but it's not the one I ended up with!

Nope for the guesses, and thanks for the good wishes. Looks like she's going to be okay now.

I'm so sorry to hear about the accident, and am very glad that they are OK :)
Again with the random guesses :)
U2-Where the streets have no name, with or without you
Muse-Time Is Running Out
Franz Ferdinand- Take Me Out
The Killers- Somebody Told Me, Mr Brightside
Kaiser Chiefs- Oh My God
REM- Everybody Hurts,
Snow Patrol-How To Be Dead, Run
LostProphets- Burn Burn, Last Train Home
Green Day - (ah how to choose!) Boulevard..., Holiday, Warning, Longview (I could go on an on)

Ah I've got 5mins before my friend picks me up to go to Edinburgh and I'm nowhere near ready lol.

Thanks - everyone's as okay as can be expected I guess and that's the main thing. :)

You got three right - Take Me Out, Oh My God and Burn Burn

Hope you made it in time to meet your friend!

Muse - Hysteria
Green Day - Paradise

nope. Sorry! wanna try again?

Jamie Cullum - What a difference a day makes (Actually not sure if he's done that or not)

Natasha Bedingfield - These Words

Deacon Blue - Ship called Liberty

Ultravox - Vienna

U2 - Where the streets have no Name and Still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Green Day - Time of your Life

Divine Comedy - The Frog Prince(ess?) or National Express

I would guess at the Snow Patrol one but the songs I had of theirs were another thing I forgot to save when I re-set my computer.

Ohhh, wasn't Grazed Knees a Snow Patrol song? If so, that's what I'm guessing.

Andy

You've got two halves. The song titles are wrong but you've got the right song for Deacon Blue and Green Day - want to guess again or will I just tell you?

See I'm terrible with titles, so if I guessed again I'd probably still get them wrong.

The Deacon Blue is "Dignity" (I almost got really picky with that one but I knew what you meant) and the Green Day one is actualy called "Good Riddance (time of your life)"

That was a mental blank on my part for the Deacon Blue song, I meant dignity (thought I had written dignity in fact) but for some reason wrote liberty instead.

Though thought what I'd written out for the rest of it was actually part of the title.

U2 - Sunday, bloody Sunday.

nope.

:P

Stereophonics - As long as we beat the English.

LOL - no, 'cause I've never actually heard that one. Nope, both the 'phonics songs are on albums and one was a single. (In fact, if memory serves, it may have been their first single - definitely one of the first)

Um... Jamie Cullum - What a difference a day makes? Divine comedy - National Express? Something in the Wood Shed? (I don't know if that's the title or not.

Probably not right though.

Sorry, but no. :(

Ah well, ne'er mind.

*shrugs*

*wanders off to read yet more transcripts*

I'm actually gonna give this a try, even though I have virtually no hope of guessing any:

U2- Stories for Boys, Gloria

Ultravox- New Europeans, Reap the Wild Wind, Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Tori Amos- Cornflake Girl, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Baker Baker


Gabrielle

Ultravox - Dancing... is right. And you're the first person to get the album right for one of the U2 ones (and no, I'm not saying which is it. *g*)

YAY! I got one right! I am so excited!!!

:::dances...without tears in my eyes:::


Gabrielle

Can I guess again?

U2- I Will Follow, The Electric Co.


Gabrielle

I Will Follow is the one. The other's from a later album. :D

YAY!!! I am so happy!!! I could SQUEE!!!!!


Gabrielle

I'm at work and bored so I'll do some guessing..... Although these are more about my favourites from these Artists :op :

The Stereophonics
A Thousand Trees
Local Boy in the Photograph
Same Size Feet
Last of the Big Time Drinkers
Sunny Afternoon (B-Side cover...)

Muse
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Newborn
Plug-in Baby
Feeling Good

The Killers
Mr Brightside
All These Things I've Done
Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll

Snow Patrol
How to be Dead
Chocolate
Spitting Games

*takes a deep breath.....*

The Divine Comedy
Lucy
Gin Soaked Boy
The Pursuit of Happiness
Bad Ambassador
Our Mutual Friend
When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe
Songs of Love
The Happy Goth
Tonight We Fly
Your Daddy's Car
Perfect Lovesong
Frog Princess
Sweden
Geronimo
(and the two that seem to be lots of people's favourites but that I'm not too keen on....)
Certainty of Chance
Everybody Knows (Except You)

You got three. But then with the number of guesses you made that's hardly surprising is it? *g*

"Thousand Trees" for one of the 'phonics ones - because it rocks and still sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear it.

"Chocolate" for one of the Snow Patrol ones - I love every song on Final Straw but the reason this one stands out is because of the video.

"Certainty of Chance" for Divine Comedy - I love how dark it is which is why it won out over Gin Soaked Boy.