Hopefully the newest name change isn't too confusing for y'all!

Welcome to the first round of The Best of the Best: The Ultimates. Ten acts will compete against each other this week, with what you all have decided are the best songs. Let's see who - and what - is playing this week:



Bruce Springsteen, performing Born to Run



Carly Simon, performing That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be



No Doubt, performing Bathwater



R.E.M., performing It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)



Radiohead, performing Paranoid Android



Culture Club, performing Karma Chameleon



Depeche Mode, performing Enjoy the Silence



Fiona Apple, performing Criminal



Kylie Minogue, performing What Do I Have to Do



Nas, performing NY State of Mind

Now comes the easy/fun part! Listen to all ten songs (whichever order you prefer), comment on them, and rank them. 10 is the song you liked the most, 1 is the song you liked the least.

Rankings/Comments due Wednesday the 8th.

I guess radio-head will keep having to advance thru until AIRBAG gets its chance to shine

WDIHTD! :sucha****inganthem:

And as a reminder, the artists playing next week (the songs in parentheses are ineligible for voting):

The National
Katy Perry
(ineligible: Hot 'n' Cold, Waking Up in Vegas)
The Bee Gees
Chic
The Beach Boys
Bjørk
(ineligible: Big Time Sensuality, Army of Me, It's Oh So Quiet, Hyperballad, Joga, Unison, Pagan Poetry, Triumph of a Heart)
Miranda Lambert
(ineligible: Gunpowder and Lead, Dead Flowers)
Dolly Parton
Beyoncé
(ineligible: Crazy in Love, Check on It, Suga Mama, Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It), Halo, Countdown, End of Time)
Aretha Franklin

Thank supa for that!

FYCs for next week:

Bey

Jealous
No Angel
Irreplaceable
SCHOOLIN' LIFE
Party
Yes
Speechless
Partition
Grown Woman

Bjork

Isobel
All is Full of Love
Declare Independence
You've Been Flirting Again
I Miss You
Venus as a Boy

Miranda

All Kinds of Kinds
Nobody's Fool
Jetstream Song
Desperation
Kerosene
Me and Your Cigarettes

Aretha

You Make Me Feel (A Natural Woman)
Jump to It
Call Me
Since You've Been Gone
Ain't No Way

The Beach Boys

Good Vibrations
Wouldn't It Be Nice
God Only Knows

Miranda has some tough competition next week. Beyoncé and Aretha will fare well, though, or at least I hope so.

I'll have this week's up by tonight. It's signature song galore!!

Only know 3 of these. I'll do this later.

And Rocket needs to play for Bey next week!

Do we post the rankings here?

I'll listen to these later.

Omg I love most of these, will listen to ones I don't know and then try to order them.

I already know R.E.M. will be #1 though, I love that song so much.

Yes.

How has Love On Top not played yet?

I imagine we'll be seeing I Will Always Love You, Jolene, and 9 to 5 for Dolly, but let me FYC Coat of Many Colors.

For Miranda Lambert: The House That Built Me, All Kinds of Kinds, Safe, Oklahoma Sky
NOT: White Liar, Over You, Baggage Claim.

Are we able to participate even if we didn't submit a list of artists? Cause this seems cool.

Absolutely! The more the merrier!

And Mama's Broken Heart!!!

Oh, Ace, I wanted to ask. How is it determined which songs compete in which week?

Lord, I forgot how common it is for 5-6 minute long songs to appear in BOTB.