VII JOANNA NEWSOM SONG TOURNAMENT 2017
RESULTS FROM ROUND ONE D
Pair 169 : Cassiopeia 1 - 1 No Provenance
Pair 170 : Does Not Suffice (In California, Refrain) 1.5 - 0.5 Make Hay
Pair 171 : Through The Trees [RF/LM] 2 - 0 Another Disaster [P]
Pair 172 : Wake Up Instead [P] 1 - 0 Intermission (aka I The Province) [P]
Pair 173 : Spooks [JG, GC, DG, JN] 2 - 0 The French Lieutenant Dreams [JN/TF]
Pair 174 : Ill Pearls [NC] 0 - 0 France [PG/JN/TF]
Pair 175 : Amour Fou [V] 1 - 0 R.U. In [P]
Pair 176 : untitled (from One Piece From The Middle) [P] 1 - 0 About Me [P]
Pair 177 : If I Were [VB] 2 - 0 We Are A Crowd [LI]
Pair 178 : The Things I Say 1 - 1 Leaving The City
Pair 179 : Sympathy [GS] 2 - 0 7 Minutes In Heaven [MOB/JN]
Pair 180 : Kindness Be Conceived [TG] 1 - 1 Prepared Harp Improv./Untitled Harp Music
Pair 181 : Dreams [DB/JN/V] 1 - 0 Orange Peter [P]
Pair 182 : The Book Of Right-On 2 - 0 We Are The Doctor [P]
Pair 183 : The Wheel [BC] 1 - 0 Happy Birthday To You
Pair 184 : Yarn And Glue 1.5 - 0.5 No Style [P]
Pair 185 : Inflammatory Writ 2 - 0 Eleven Continents [RF/LM]
Pair 186 : Ribbon Bows 1 - 1 Sprout And The Bean
Pair 187 : Autumn 2 - 0 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
Pair 188 : Flying A Kite 2 - 0 This Side Of The Blue
Pair 189 : Beautiful Child 1 - 1 Little Wing
Pair 190 : Bring Me Down [GS] 2 - 0 He Needs Me
Pair 191 : Rock Bottom Riser [S] 1 - 1 The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
Pair 192 : Amerilie [V] 2 - 0 One Horse [P]
Pair 193 : Bridges And Balloons 1 - 1 Occident
Pair 194 : Sycamore [BC] 1 - 0 Setting The Bushes On Fire [NC]
Pair 195 : Shame [DB/V/JN+friends] 1 - 1 Instrumental 1999
Pair 196 : Picture [RP/JN] 2 - 0 Lifetime [RF/LM]
Pair 197 : Life's A Happy Song Finale [M] 1 - 0 Nonrum Nonproblem [NC]
Pair 198 : Good Heart, Money And Rain [MB] 2 - 0 Ras Trent [LI]
Pair 199 : Same Old Man 2 - 0 Ring The Living Bell [JN/S/WW]
Pair 200 : Do You Know Who You Are? [GS] 2 - 0 Swift Nude [P]
Pair 201 : You And Me, Bess 1 - 1 What We Have Known
Pair 202 : Never Come Home [P] 1 - 0 The Muppet Show Theme [M]
Pair 203 : Esme 2 - 0 Albatross
Pair 204 : Jackrabbits 2 - 0 River Guard [BC]
Pair 205 : Franks Vs Frank [NC] 1 - 1 You & Me [KB]
Pair 206 : The Hawk Feeds You To Feed Itself [NC] 1 - 0 Nuflesh, Old Thirst [NC]
Pair 207 : Another Day [RH/JN] 2 - 0 Against The Sky [VB]
Pair 208 : The Orchard [PG/JN/TF] 2 - 0 If You Can Afford It [P]
Pair 209 : The Fray 2 - 0 Angel
Pair 210 : Pow Strikes Pow Implosion [NC] 1 - 0 Rice Precipitation [NC]
Pair 211 : Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes 2 - 0 Don't Make Things [P]
Pair 212 : Erin 1.5 - 0.5 On A Good Day
Pair 213 : Mountain & Bear [KB] 2 - 0 Get Wolf Boy And Get In Context [NC]
Pair 214 : Man’s Road 2 - 0 Tom Bombadil
Pair 215 : The Honey, The Power, The Light [GS] 2 - 0 Secret [P]
Pair 216 : Mountain [GS] 1.5 - 0.5 Little Picture Of You [KB]
Pair 217 : Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie 1 - 1 ’81
Pair 218 : The Man Who Ran The Town [HS/JN] 2 - 0 Exit (aka Orderly Manor) [P]
Pair 219 : Under The Paving Stones, The Beach! [JG, CG, CD, JN] 1 - 1 Colleen
Pair 220 : Oh Canada [P] 1 - 0 Let Go [P]
Pair 221 : Three Little Babes 2 - 0 Our Anniversary [S]
Pair 222 : This Is Just To Say 1 - 0 Roots [DB/V/JN/E/SN]
Pair 223 : I'm Already Gone (aka Already Gone) [P] 1 - 0 Colorchains Of Inner Space [NC]
Pair 224 : Hear Me Marching [P] 1 - 0 The Conversation [P]
For the first time ever, there was one group / pair with no voter casting a vote - namely Pair 174. I regard this as different to a tie, even one of ½ point each, and have decided to treat it as a loss for both songs. Ignoring the erroneous pairing 45 in Round One A (it was replaced by 45a in Round One B), here is the summary of all songs' performances in Round One (A-D).
TABLE OF RESULTS: ROUND ONE (A-D)
Classification Method
i) One point is awarded for each pairing won, ½ point for each draw/tie, and 0 for each loss, and as there were four sets of pairings (A-D), the maximum is 4 points.
ii) I have also calculated a "merit score", as follows:
in each pairing, determine what percentage of points was awarded to each song: if it was 2 votes to 0, or 1-0, this was 100% to the winning song, and 0% to the loser; 1½-½ is 75%-25%; and 1-1 or ½-½ is 50%-50%. (As already mentioned, the solitary 0-0 is treated as 0%-0%). The percentage awarded to each song in the pairing is multiplied by the points of the opponent song (as calculated by (i) above), and for every song, the total of the four such calculation gives the "merit score". The idea is to reward results more highly against better rated songs than lower ones.
Songs are ordered first by (i) Points, and then as a tie breaker, by (ii) Merit Score.
Any songs level on both criteria are awarded equal positions (but listed below in the order of their "per milles" score from previous JNSTs).
Position Points Merit Song Title
001 4.0 8.500 Erin
002 3.5 8.250 Flying A Kite
003 3.5 7.750 Occident
=04 3.5 7.250 Esme
=04 3.5 7.250 Ribbon Bows
006 3.5 7.000 ’81
=07 3.5 6.750 Bridges And Balloons
=07 3.5 6.750 Sprout And The Bean
009 3.5 5.750 Autumn
010 3.0 8.000 What We Have Known
011 3.0 7.000 Cassiopeia
012 3.0 6.375 The Fray
013 3.0 6.250 The Things I Say
=14 3.0 6.000 On A Good Day
=14 3.0 6.000 No Provenance
=14 3.0 6.000 Does Not Suffice (In California, Refrain)
=14 3.0 6.000 You And Me, Bess
=14 3.0 6.000 The Book Of Right-On
=14 3.0 6.000 The Man Who Ran The Town [HS/JN]
=14 3.0 6.000 Man’s Road
021 3.0 5.875 Same Old Man
=22 3.0 5.500 Leaving The City
=22 3.0 5.500 Another Day [RH/JN]
024 3.0 5.250 Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
=25 3.0 5.000 Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes
=25 3.0 5.000 Jackrabbits
=25 3.0 5.000 Inflammatory Writ
=25 3.0 5.000 Three Little Babes
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029 3.0 4.500 Yarn And Glue
=30 2.5 5.250 Instrumental 1999
=30 2.5 5.250 Prepared Harp Improv./Untitled Harp Music
=30 2.5 5.250 Shame [DB/V/JN+friends]
=30 2.5 5.250 Picture [RP/JN]
034 2.5 5.000 This Side Of The Blue
035 2.5 4.500 The Honey, The Power, The Light [GS]
=36 2.5 4.250 The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
=36 2.5 4.250 Rock Bottom Riser [S]
=36 2.5 4.250 Kindness Be Conceived [TG]
=39 2.5 4.000 Albatross
=39 2.5 4.000 Bring Me Down [GS]
=41 2.5 3.750 Sycamore [BC]
=41 2.5 3.750 Do You Know Who You Are? [GS]
043 2.0 5.750 No Style [P]
044 2.0 4.250 Make Hay
045 2.0 4.000 Exit (aka Orderly Manor) [P]
046 2.0 3.750 Under The Paving Stones, The Beach! [JG, CG, CD, JN]
047 2.0 3.250 Beautiful Child
=48 2.0 3.000 Colleen
=48 2.0 3.000 Tom Bombadil
=48 2.0 3.000 Our Anniversary [S]
=48 2.0 3.000 Eleven Continents [RF/LM]
=48 2.0 3.000 Don't Make Things [P]
=48 2.0 3.000 The Wheel [BC]
054 2.0 2.750 Little Wing
=55 2.0 2.500 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
=55 2.0 2.500 Against The Sky [VB]
=55 2.0 2.500 Angel
=55 2.0 2.500 untitled (from One Piece From The Middle) [P]
=59 2.0 2.000 Ring The Living Bell [JN/S/WW]
=59 2.0 2.000 Never Come Home [P]
=59 2.0 2.000 I'm Already Gone (aka Already Gone) [P]
=59 2.0 2.000 Hear Me Marching [P]
=63 2.0 1.500 Sympathy [GS]
=63 2.0 1.500 Oh Canada [P]
=63 2.0 1.500 Amerilie [V]
=66 2.0 1.000 We Are The Doctor [P]
=66 2.0 1.000 River Guard [BC]
=66 2.0 1.000 Amour Fou [V]
=66 2.0 1.000 This Is Just To Say
=66 2.0 1.000 Through The Trees [RF/LM]
=66 2.0 1.000 Wake Up Instead [P]
=66 2.0 1.000 The Orchard [PG/JN/TF]
073 2.0 0.750 Mountain [GS]
074 1.5 3.750 He Needs Me
075 1.5 2.250 Lifetime [RF/LM]
=76 1.5 2.000 Swift Nude [P]
=76 1.5 2.000 Setting The Bushes On Fire [NC]
078 1.5 1.750 Good Heart, Money And Rain [MB]
079 1.5 1.500 Secret [P]
080 1.5 1.250 Spooks [JG, GC, DG, JN]
=81 1.5 0.750 If I Were [VB]
=81 1.5 0.750 You & Me [KB]
=81 1.5 0.750 Franks Vs Frank [NC]
=81 1.5 0.750 Dreams [DB/JN/V]
=85 1.0 2.500 If You Can Afford It [P]
=85 1.0 2.500 One Horse [P]
087 1.0 2.250 Another Disaster [P]
=88 1.0 2.000 The Conversation [P]
=88 1.0 2.000 Let Go [P]
090 1.0 1.500 Little Picture Of You [KB]
=91 1.0 1.000 Intermission (aka I The Province) [P]
=91 1.0 1.000 Happy Birthday To You
=91 1.0 1.000 About Me [P]
=91 1.0 1.000 Roots [DB/V/JN/E/SN]
=91 1.0 1.000 R.U. In [P]
=91 1.0 1.000 7 Minutes In Heaven [MOB/JN]
=97 1.0 0.000 Life's A Happy Song Finale [M]
=97 1.0 0.000 Colorchains Of Inner Space [NC]
=97 1.0 0.000 Mountain & Bear [KB]
=97 1.0 0.000 The Muppet Show Theme [M]
=97 1.0 0.000 Pow Strikes Pow Implosion [NC]
=97 1.0 0.000 The Hawk Feeds You To Feed Itself [NC]
=103 0.5 0.75 Ras Trent [LI]
=103 0.5 0.75 We Are A Crowd [LI]
=105 0.5 0.25 Orange Peter [P]
=105 0.5 0.25 The French Lieutenant Dreams [JN/TF]
=107 0.0 0.00 Ill Pearls [NC]
=107 0.0 0.00 France [PG/JN/TF]
=107 0.0 0.00 Nuflesh, Old Thirst [NC]
=107 0.0 0.00 Rice Precipitation [NC]
=107 0.0 0.00 Get Wolf Boy And Get In Context [NC]
=107 0.0 0.00 Nonrum Nonproblem [NC]
Comments
The top 28 (those above the dotted line) qualify for Round Two. This was unfortunate for Yarn And Glue, which ended with 3 points, but just lost out to the group immediately above it on the Merit Score tie break.
Joanna's very first released recording, Erin, came out on top - perhaps surprisingly, but certainly deserved, being the only song to win all four of its pairings.
Had the table been compiled using "total percentage points received in each pairing) ie the first part of the calculation in (ii) above), exactly the same 28 songs would have qualified, in almost the same order.
Had Merit Score alone been used, then the top 24 above would still have qualified, but Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes, Jackrabbits, Inflammatory Writ, and Three Little babes would have lost out. One of these places would have gone to No Style, and I would have had to find another tie-breaker to select the other three from this group of four: Instrumental 1999, Prepared Harp Improv./Untitled Harp Music, Shame [DB/V/JN+friends], and Picture [RP/JN]. This would have increased the number of collaborations that qualified from just two (The Man Who Ran The Town [HS/JN] and Another Day [RH/JN]) to four or five.
Five songs have qualified whose per milles score prior to JNST7 suggested they would not do so, namely The Man Who Ran The Town [HS/JN], Man’s Road, Same Old Man (a special case, as it's early low showings were based on a lo-fi live recording, but which has now been properly recorded on Divers), Another Day [RH/JN], and the somewhat divisive Three Little Babes. The five 'favourites' who have thus missed out were Yarn And Glue and Instrumental 1999 (just, in these two cases), This Side Of The Blue (which was half-a-dozen places down), and two that trailled in around 50th - Colleen and You Will Not Take My Heart Alive, the lowest placed of Joanna's officially released solo recordings.
The first pairings for Round Two will be posted very soon. Twelve of the exempted songs will come into the mix at this stage (a further 12 will come in at Round Three). The first group of 12 contains:
A Pin-Light Bent
Anecdotes
Divers
Easy
"En Gallop" (aka En Gallop!)
Good Intentions Paving Company
Goose Eggs
Peach, Plum, Pear
Soft As Chalk
Swansea
Time, As A Symptom
Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne